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I LIKE people who do silly things," admitted Helen Chandler. "They make me feel better, because I always seem to be doing the wrong thing myself somehow. And then I get bawled out by somebody, even though the practical thing is apt to be so stuffy !"
Remembering Miss Chandler's engaging portrayal of the delightful little Nikki in "The Last Flight," I had expected to find in the real Helen some of Nikki's appealing qualities. What I had hoped to encounter was a somewhat bemused, somewhat sad, somewhat gay young lady, demure yet unconventional, "nice" yet impertinent, and above all supremely off-hand about things.
And I was quite right — for that's Helen Chandler !
Hers is a face not easily fitted into any of the prevailing types of beauty. You wonder what the large blue eyes
can be seeing with that far, far distant look ; what adversaries the chin, almost absurdly defiant, is tilted against ; what the irreverent mouth is getting ready to smile over. And, as she talks, you discover in her a pleasantly casual outlook that enables her to avoid the mistake of taking anything too seriously.
This was at tea during a visit to New York, and Helen Chandler, movie actress, chose the creamiest and plumpest of all the available pastries, biting into it with a cheerful disdain for all the dietary taboos ever heard of.
"I remember the terribly, terribly impressive opening of 'Outward Bound,' " she pursued. "It was my first important picture, and I got all dressed up swell, and sailed through the crowd and down the aisle like a real lady. Was it my fault if the theatre was hot, and I fell fast asleep fifteen minutes after the picture started? I don't go to openings any more — I sleep better at home.
"And then one time, when I started working in a lot of pictures and making money, I thought how nice it would be to become an investor, and have certificates,
They seem to like Helen for onewoman pictures
By Mortimer Franklin
Helen Chandler was a stage actress at eight, and a sensation at fifteen. Now you meet her in a picture no matter which way you turn — and she's apt to be the only girl around!
and be somebody. That was sensible, wasn't it? So I put everything I had into the Guarantee Building and Loan Company in Los Angeles, and some smart man in the company ran away with all of it and ten million other dollars. But the joke's on him — I still have the certificates !"
Somehow, as is apt to happen during interviews, we got around to the subject of Helen's home life in Hollywood with Cyril Hume, her author husband.
"We keep sort of to ourselves," said Helen. "You see, we both work pretty hard all day, and when night comes it seems like a good idea to renew our old acquaintance. Our house is up on a hill outside the town, so there aren't many neighbors dropping in. Cy and I like the other picture people, but we like each other better. Is that too fantastic, our not mingling with the crowd and still being in love with each other?"
When I assured her that it was, on the contrary, quite refreshing, she took heart, and presently I was being scolded for having appeared (Continued on page 116)