Screenland (May-Oct 1931)

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She sank gratefully into the chair by her desk. The door into the next office opened and Samuel Hoffenstein, brilliant young poet-turned-scenarist, stuck his head in for a moment's chat. All along the corridor were offices occupied by mature, famous writers of whom this terribly young person had suddenly become contemporary. Yet she wasn't bewildered — just weary. I think she would have liked to run home and be a little girl again. "Now I've started all .this, I have to keep it up. I can't ever go back." She paused, as she often does in mid-idea, her eyes wandering to space as if she had forgotten where she was and what she was saying. After a moment, she recollected herself and went on. "Not that I really want to go back, I guess. I sound ungrateful, but I'm not. Such wonderful things have happened to Presenting the movie version of "God's Gift to Women" — or Frank Fay all dressed up for his new picture of that title. me and they're exactly the things I wanted to happen. Only now that they have, there's nothing more to want, no," she added more brightly, "that's not quite true. There's Europe. I've always wanted to go there." This adolescent who is already reduced to wanting a trip to Europe in lieu of any more proportionate desire, was born in Tennessee and, as a child, played with literature rather than dolls. "I was sort of weakly," she explained, in her plaintive little voice, "always having measles or whooping cough or pneumonia or something. And, not being able to play outdoors with other children. I spent most of my time reading. And then writing. Long, elaborate stories about love and tragedy and divorce and all. They were very funny." Prolific, if nothing else, Carman continued to write, having determined that literature was to be her aim and destiny. "My mother always told me I could do anything I wanted with my life and she'd help me. She's a grand person. She was quite a belle when she was a girl and always wanted to go on the stage. But you know how Southern people are. Her family wouldn't let her and she determined that her daughter would choose her own career freely. When I said I wanted to be a writer, she was so pleased — after she married, she had written verse, under the name of Dinantha Mills." When Carman was fifteen, evidences of genuine talent began to appear in the theses which had heretofore been like the usual literary efforts of childhood. An interested friend, sensing the embryonic ability now becoming apparent, suggested that she abandon love triangles and such until she knew something about them and write on a subject with which she was familiar. "1 had just come home from boardingschool in Nashville for summer vacation, so I decided to write a boarding-school story. A novel — I'm not awfully interested in the short story form. "We have a house up in the mountains where we spend the summers — a sweet old place with big stone fireplaces, away up among hills and trees. I love it. It's so quiet and peaceful. And it's a perfect place to work in. so all summer I worked on my novel — 'Schoolgirl.' Then, in the autumn. Mother sent it to Horace Liveright, the publisher." That November saw her sixteenth birthday. A month later, while she was decorating her Christmas tree on Christmas Eve, a wire came from the Liveright offices notifying her that "Schoolgirl" had been accepted for publication. "And I guess probably that was the nicest Christmas present I ever had. I was terribly thrilled." Her eyes shone with the recollection of that first, fine thrill. A year later, after being news-interest throughout the country because of her book's place among the best-sellers, she began work on her second novel. Also, in collaboration with A. W. Pezet, on the dramatization of "Schoolgirl." Last September, after the appearance of "Beau Lover" on the book-stands. Paramount signed her to a writing contract, to begin after the opening of "Schoolgirl" on Broadway. The play opened on November twentieth, Carman's birthday. The fates, you see, are still indulgent of her youth-^dressing up her attainments in the guise of presents for a good little girl. In December, she came to Hollywood with her mother. And now look at her. Small wonder she can't quite get her breath. "I alwavs thought I'd like to act," she