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On the other hand, if I feel about ninety, and sit in moody silence, I think I merit that privilege, no less than the man at the service station who does and says what he pleases when his work is oyer. For the moment, I am not considering the times that we make public appearances and expect to receive attention. Docs that sound conceited? I don't mean it that way. I mean when we are urged to make personal appearances, we hope, down in our hearts, that we are important enough to the public that a fuss will be made over us. It this doesn't happen, it means that our drawing power has diminished and producers may value us accordingly, so don't let anybody fool vou when they say they do not like this attention. We are not stupid enough not to want it, no matter how embarrassing or inconvenient it may be. I won't speak of my own personal appearances, but I am reminded right now of the recent trip of Dick Powell, when he appeared at the larger theatres in the East. So eager were the crowds to get some souvenir, that they almost left him unclothed. He started out with six dollar handkerchiefs in his coat pocket, but as they were removed one after the other, he rushed down to a store after the next performance and bought himself several hundred cheap handkerchiefs. Of course, we can imagine that he was furious, and yet I have an idea that he couldn't help enjoying the fact that the women were so crazy about him. We are every one just human after all, and all share the same emotions. I do resent having every writer I meet question me about how many women I have loved. A bank president is not any better banker, nor anv worse, for having been engaged three times or for never having _ been engaged. Why should it mean more in an actor's life? Any man who reaches maturity and has never imagined himself in love is a funny sort of man. 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If we say we love our wife and all other attachments are of the past and completely forgotten, they feel we are a little selfish and they look around for some other player who admits he can love a dozen women at once. You see, we have our Scylla and Charybdis, top, and we are caught if we do or if we don't. But seriously, I do not think my past is any concern of the public. If there were anything in it that indicates obstacles overcome, the knowledge of which would be an inspiration to some one else, then I think it should be told, but it should be told for that reason only. One of the things that I am particular about is telling the truth. I was taught it from my youth. My father always said anyone who would lie would steal. Now, when I am asked a lot of personal questions, I feel if I answer them at all, I must answer them truthfully. If I don't answer, they get the information elsewhere and it looks so little like the facts that it makes me feel I will answer all next time — no matter whom I offend. The space is so limited, a writer never explains all we say and invariably we are misunderstood. So, I still prefer the method of Maude Adams. Her public liked the illusion and wanted to remember her only in the parts she played. I would like to do some really great characterizations and be remembered by those, rather than the color of sox I wear. Do you think I can? Here's to Youth Continued from page 33 IS YOUR HAIR DRY? Too frequent permane,nts. outdoor sports or going without your hat tend to dry and streak your hair. Ladies and gentlemen remedy this fault quickly at home with ROSOIL. Complete instructions on care of hair and scalp with 6 month supply of ROSOIL now only 50c in coin or stamps. 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On this particular day Jackie was pretty much taken up with a new pair of rollerskates— "stream-lined." He was itching to give them a real try-out. At the time he was doing an engagement at Loew s Theatre in Jersey City. There is a big. broad concreted space there, but Jackie couldn't skate— the crowds pressed so closely about him when he tried it that the only way he could get any action out of the "stream-liners," would be to plow right through masses of young humanity— and Tackie wouldn't do that. "I dont' mind the work," he assured me. "But after the work I wish they would let me get in a little play." New York is a big town and there's plenty in the town that Jackie would like to take in. "I am making out better this time than when we came to New York about two years ago, though," he added. "I've been to see the Statue of Liberty, went right up to the crown. That's as high as you can climb inside the statue. "When we came here before, nobody was supposed to know about it. Coming East on the train mother kept telling me about all the places we would see. Well, we arrived in New York at nine o'clock in the morning, and were immediately taken about visiting people in offices and such places, and we got to the hotel at nine that night. There was no fun in that!" Though the personal appearance tour involved four shows a day, demanding that Tackie leave his hotel at noon and remain at the theatre until near midnight, he assured me he enjoyed doing the stage appearances. "It's easy, easier than pictures, he said. " "I like working with George Jessel. Jessel appeared with him at the Paramount in New York and also in Jersey City. "You don't do the same thing all the time. We kid each other, and it's fun." Jackie sat astride a chair, his forearms folded over its back and cradling his chin, the chair tilted forward at what seemed to me a precarious angle. It was a stimulating visit, the more so because of little intimacies of real life that crept into the conversation at unexpected intervals. This was "allowance day," and Jackie reminded his mother she owed him the sum of one dollar. "I think it should be only fifty cents, shouldn't it? I gave you fifty cents last night," Mrs. Bigelow reminded her son. Jackie leaned forward— how^ he kept that chair from toppling I don't know. "Oh," he said. "A chiseler. eh! Why, I worked on that radio like the dickens last night, got it working, and the half-dollar was my pav for that, wasn't it?" Mrs. Bigelow admitted defeat with a burst of laughter, allowed the accuracy, and justice,