Screenland (Nov 1930-Apr 1931)

for February 1931 119 The Munson Line Continued from page 83 should really be prefaced with a description of what was in Ona's girlish life from the time she learned to toddle onwards. It would be pleasant and romantic, wouldn't it, to have Ona tell us that instead of learning to walk, as a child, she learned to dance? But it would be a fib, and anyway who would believe it? Dancing came soon enough, and at the age of eight years, Ona felt herself ripe for Broadway. She penned a letter to the firm of Klaw and Erlanger, and in the neatest and the most impressive scrawl at her command, informed these gentlemen that at a word from them she was ready, there and then, to leave Portland, Oregon, and home, come East and replace Ruth Chatterton in "Daddy Long Legs." P. S. She didn't get the job. During her school days, she continued to practice dancing. Her parents — the family name is YYolcott and Ona is a direct descendant of Oliver Wolcott, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence— refused to let her perform publicly, feeling that it was in bad taste to show off their child. Little Ona by this time felt that the Ziegfeld Roof was the most desirable spot in the world, and New York the place she must storm. It was hard for her mother to consent to let her only child come to New York to spend the summer studying dancing under a dancing virtuoso. But the consent was given ; mother felt she would have Ona back by Fall. Ona had her own ideas. Never, she told herself, would she -eturn to Portland before she — and millions of others — had seen her name incandescent on the marquees of Broadway's popular theaters. While she was gaining terpsichorean proficiency under Tarasoft, in his ballet school, a visitor approached her after class work. It was none other than Gus Edwards, discoverer of child prodigies for the stage and screen. She appeared in his revue in two specialty darffces. George White saw her and was so impressed that he asked her to understudy Ann Pennington and do several dances with him in his siiow. A few years later she was given the title role in his first musical comedy, "Manhattan Mary." The electric lights V Kay Francis, as she appeared one night recently when Los Angeles had a brief season of grand opera. were hers, and she was free to return for a visit to the home folks in Portland. Ona likes Hollywood. She can be seen, while there, enjoying herself at the Mayfair and the Embassy, just as in New York she is a frequenter of the smart Casino. Both in New York and in Hollywood she has a reputation as a considerate and tactful hostess, a girl who doesn't look like an actress, whose principal asset is her natural charm. But to her, New York is home, and she will probably be flitting between these far-flung outposts as long as she remains in pictures. Anita Page in tricky sweater and cap, all ready for a vacation trip to the mountains. Ona is the author of two, as yet unproduced plays, which she feels will have to be translated into a foreign language and then re-translated into English before producers will look at them. Since coming to New York seven years ago, she has taken a dancing lesson every day of her life. She is a past mistress of ballroom, toe, tap, acrobatic and musical comedy dancing ; only the Harlem 'snakehips' dance stumps her and she is resigned to her limitation in this form of serpentine shimmy. She is overjoyed with her picture work. It doesn't seem likely she will ever grow blase at having a chair bearing her name on the studio set. She has no intention to buy a home or an apartment ; her reason is that there are too many beautiful ones to be leased, and a stage or screen star never knows when her plans will take her elsewhere. There is always the possibility that she may take it into her head to go globe-trotting. Havana — not because of its wild night life, but despite it — she adores. She spent a year with her mother bicycling through Europe, and likes Switzerland on the strength of its cheeses, England on the strength of its weak tea, France on the strength of its impossible coffee, and Italy on the strength of never having been there. She has done many things, you see, been places, and hasn't yet stopped experimenting with the adventure of living. She admits to one secret ambition, and is resolved to consummate it : sometime she must referee a professional prize fight ! 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