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SCREENLAND
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Maude Turner Cordon, below, came to pictures from the stage in silent days, and is still going strongasagrandedame.
Triumphant
Here's to the grand old girls of the screen! This is their story
Beryl Mercer has forged ahead. You liked her in "Seven Days' Leave," "East Lynne," and "The Public Enemy."
Claire McDowell, right, plays one of the two mother roles in "An American Tragedy" — and you remember her in "Ben Hur."
OH, YES, of course, Hollywood is crazy about Youth — but we have our incomparable Marie Dressier and Polly Moran as well. And ihey are not the only veterans who are winning triumphant success later in life. You have read in Marie's own biography in this magazine, how she snatched victory from defeat less than a year ago.
It was in 191 3, after a hectic vaudeville career, that Polly hit Hollywood and pictures, for Mack Sennett. But it wasn't until Al Christie starred Marie and Polly together that M. G. M. realized their hilarious possibilities, and now these two make many younger and more beautiful screen charmers green with envy.
See, too, how Beryl Mercer has forged ahead. Beryl with her fat, dumpy little figure and her amazing capacity for wistful misery. Beryl was born in Spain, but mamma was English, hence a long stage career in Britain. A successful stage role in New York in 1914, Theatre Guild work there, and then Hollywood. "Three Live ( rhosts" established her in talkies, and since then there have been good parts for Beryl. She's a gem as a funny cockney woman, as witness her in "Seven Days' Leave." Marvellous in tender mother roles — comedy and tragedy come equally easy to her. You'll see her next in "The Public Enemy," and soon in "Right You Are If
Maude Eburne was a stage success for twen ty th ree years. She was a screen hit in "The Bat Whispers."
Helen Ware, left, came to Hollywood as a coach for talkies. But now she is winning laurels as a character actress.
Of course you all know Louise Dresser, right, famous in "The Goosewoman," and now in "Roped In."
Lucy Beaumont, above, is one of the most charming of screen "mothers."
You Think You Are," if the wish of her life comes true. Beryl has a young daughter, a Pekingese dog, a modest apartment in Hollywood, and a nice comfy bankaccount, thank you.
Or lovely Louise Dresser, of "The Goosewoman" fame — just signed with Paramount to co-star with Dick Arlen in "Roped In." Louise is an Indiana girl who once wrote ballads and sold 'em. Played in "Peck's Bad Boy" at 14, and thereafter made a success in stage and vaudeville productions for 16 years. Breaking into pictures was hard, though, and it wasn't until "The Goosewoman" that her talents were really acclaimed here. Louise has gone along triumphantly ever since. She's in "Lightnin' " with Will Rogers — glories in her age — and expects to reach her best success after fifty.
I love to see these old dears successful and blithely confident. Still, it isn't a good idea for every nice older woman to hop oft to Hollywood. Most of these vie