Screenland (May–Oct 1927)

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By ■ Media Mistley And when Molly O'Day smiles, your own heart skips a beat and you look into a pair of hasel eyes, fringed with long dark lashes and reflect that if Ireland never produced anything but lovely women it would merit a place in the sun. Of course Molly wasn't born in Ire' land; but she is a direct descendant of the Celtic race and her mother was a singer with a remark' able voice. She surrendered a five year con' tract with Met' ropolitan Opera in New York to marry and become the mother of ten children — six boys and four ;irls. Which gives to the world little Molly O'Day with a saucy face that just invites — well, admiration. Full red lips, a rounded throat, wavy dark hair, and teeth like the proverbial pearls and you get a mental picture of the sort of girls that spring from the royal line of Kings in the Emerald Isle. I met Molly at the First National Studio during Christmas week, just after she had signed a long term contract and had received her first role — leading woman with Richard Barthelmess in his starring picture, "The Patent Leather CC Molly in her pretty dr ess which she wears in "The Patent Leather Kid" with Richard Barthelmess. Kid". Isn't that the luck of the Irish with a vengeance! No wonder that Molly O'Day was almost speechless at first; but when she had re' gained her wind, she became voluble enough and told me in a breath all that I have been writing about her mother and her new en' gagement. (Cont. on page 77) 57