Screenland (Nov 1929-Apr 1930)

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She isn't totally beautiful now. Frankly, she never dressed in the fad clothing of the day. She wore those coats with a little fur around the neck and cuffs and pockets on each side. She had plain, sweet dresses any mother can make. She always looked immaculate. One wondered, being so plain, how she was discovered by Erich von Strohcim and rescued from comedies for the lead in "The Wedding March." The von Stroheim discovery! That almost ruined her. She was in the same class with many another 'find.' She received great masses of publicity before she appeared. Before ever seeing her on the screen, thousands of people wrote her on the strength of her pictures and stories in newspapers and magazines. Everyone developed his idea of her until a totally different actress was expected. Fay Wray might have fared worse than the others. The public read and waited for long over a year for von Stroheim's discovery. Finally she appeared in "The Street of Sin" and "The Legion of the Condemned." Some persons may have been disappointed in the girl who was not much different from their own daughters. Until recently, Fay Wray was the quiet girl in the background at the studio. She did take her work rather seriously. So, sweetly, apologetically and definitely she kept away from the public and the press. Her mother was not of the usual motion picture variety. But she protected Fay from the world. It was always her decision that overbalanced her daughter's. Then, suddenly, when one called at the Wray home almost any evening: "Fay has gone to the beach for dinner. She is going to a theater afterward and won't be home until late." Then it became known that the dashing John Monk Saunders was escorting Fay Wray to very exclusive parties and dinner dances. Now, John Monk Saunders is the type of person none would think ever paid much attention to quiet, shy girls. He is now in his late twenties. He holds the undisputed record for being the best-dressed, best-looking writer in Hollywood. He was a Rhodes scholar. He has degrees from the best colleges. He has traveled over the world. He always had known women of the ultra-smart world — lovely, gracious, charming and posted on every trend of fashion. Saunders drives high-powered open roadsters. He is intensely interested in flying. He writes intelligent novels. He is the author of the original story for "Wings." He had been rumored engaged to several of Hollywood's actresses, famous as heart-breakers. During production of "The First Kiss" in Maryland, Saunders managed to find business in Washington and suddenly dropped down to Chesapeake Bay and married Fay W ray. The news was a shock to Hollywood. Gossips wondered how long it would last — this romance of the sweet girl and the handsome writer. When she returned, she hadn't changed very much. She had vacations between pictures. When Florence Vidor went to Europe, the Saunders leased her home and the little Wray girl became mistress of the lovely Vidor mansion with its spacious grounds, restful rooms and tennis courts. During her vacations, she spent many hours with her husband: absorbing his ways of thinking, looking at life from a different angle, learning about the various parts of the world. Saunders is an expert tennis player. So he taught Fay the game every day of her vacations. They went riding. She drove his fast cars. She read his books. Gradually she changed. She managed her home wisely. There is a housekeeper and a cook but Fay manages all the menus and main items of the home. She learned to decide matters entirely by herself. On the screen, "The Four Feathers" noted a small change in Mrs. John Monk Saunders. Along came George Bancroft's "Thunderbolt," which was also Josef von Sternberg's first talking picture. And Fay Wray was cast as Ritzy, the underworld girl of undecided morals. And she played it! She bobbed her hair, sleeked it down. She wore tight-fitting gowns; furs that fell off one shoulder. Critics liked Fay Wray. The picture was a success, record-breakingly so. And Fay Wray vacationed again at her home with her husband. She loves him. There is no doubt about that. And unconsciously, she absorbed more ideas from him. He is very quiet and very kind. Her change was the result of association with her husband, who brought out hidden qualities in her personality. A new contract was signed between Paramount and Fay Wray. People at the studio were a little surprised because they still did not know the newest Fay Wray very well. Now and then, she poses for publicity pictures. She looks like a vivacious and charming college girl, in this stage of her change. She comes to the studio in harmonising sport clothes. She wears blue which brings out the color of her eyes. Yellow and orange accentuate her slightly tanned complexion. Directors, executives and writers stop to talk to Fay Wray — not she to talk to them. But even now, she is not seen in the gayest of places. She will always do things in moderation. All her life Fay Wray has been rather charming, but it was in a sweet, plain sort of a way. To describe her easily as she is today is to tell you a few things she doesn't do. She doesn't nonchalantly breeze into the studio restaurant and seat herself at a large table of men. She's never late for an appointment, once she has made it. She doesn't keep up a steady stream of conversation about nothing in particular. She doesn't try to see how many people can be kept running all over the studio for her convenience. She's sparkling, yet not one of the quiet girls who suddenly decides to become a cocktail-shaking flapper. In short, Fay Wray's association with her husband has been as sunlight to a flower. She has unfolded into a charming, sophisticated girl. But remember. Fay Wray isn't through yet! In fact, she's just begun. And she'll never stop.