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Ironized Yeast Co., Inc., Dept. 264, Atlanta, Ga. mance, or marriage; she insists that marriage has no place in her immediate plans ; but she talked freely of her friendship with Franchot Tone. Franchot probably understands Joan better than anyone. They speak French together, read plays, attend all the symphony concerts, swim in her new pool, go dancing in the bright spots and frankly hold hands during the weepy scenes at picture shows. They are both diligently studying voice under Signor Otto Morando and spend many evenings practicing their lessons together. With sweet pride Joan said, "Signor Morando says that Franchot has accomplished in one year of intensive study — he takes two lessons every day — what usually requires three. There is no limit to where his voice may carry him, for he has developed great power. I'm sure grand opera is ahead of Franchot. "I have no such voice," she added. "I'm studying to aid me with my dialogue and of course, to be able to sing on the screen whenever the need comes up. I may have a musical soon. I'd love it." You see how it is, you can't separate Joan Crawford from her career — it always keeps popping up although I was trying to tell about the girl, not the actress. Born with rhythm in her body and also with an intense determination to do something, to be somebody, it was inevitable that Joan should turn to the stage. It was on New Year's Day, 1925, that she received the wire summoning her to Hollywood and the screen, and she has been with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio ever since, just recently signing a splendid new contract for three more years. Something like a year ago, the Metro executive Harry Rapf told me, "I don't know to this day what I saw in that wide SCREENLAND eyed little girl that convinced me she was made of star material. There was something very compelling, very different, and she intrigued my interest. Her absolute co-operation in developing the qualities that make a successful screen star is responsible for her success. She is a hard worker. Once given the opportunity, she pushed right ahead. She hasn't yet reached the top. She is destined to become a great dramatic actress." Success hasn't spoiled Joan because she sincerely and honestly believes she hasn't gone very far yet, so she's doing no shouting. There is a long road ahead of her before she reaches the goal she has set for herself. "I know it means hard work and many sacrifices, but I'll reach it," said Joan, straightening herself as if she were marching into battle. "I've been credited with succeeding through hard work alone. I like to feel I had some talent to start with and that through hard, persistent effort I've developed my abilities. "I want a chance at versatility in my roles ; one learns only by doing. I can't get my studio to believe I can play anything but ultra-modern girls, wearing Adrian's lovely clothes. But look at Norma Shearer; she's modern to her little finger tips, and see what she did in costume drama. "I'm not asking to portray Camille, La Tosca, or the other women of classic drama — yet! But I want above all other things in "the world a chance to play Joan of Arc — George Bernard Shaw's version. And I want this, oh, terribly!" This then, is a glimpse of the girl behind the gardenias — a very real, a very honest Joan. Impulsive, generous to a fault, who loves kitchens and gingham frocks — yet at the height of her career yearns to portray that glorious character of French history ! Life Begins Again at Fifty Continued from page 31 time. "All right then. Don't believe me !" I'd have been a simpleton _ not to. Despite a certain Fieldsian whimsicality of gesture and expression, he had been both earnest and convincing. "Only don't get me wrong," he warned. "I'm not squawkin'. I've had as many breaks as the law allows, and more than the next fellow. If you got stuck on the top rung all your life, you'd miss out on a lot of healthy exercise. I'm thanktul to be startin' out again at fifty instead of finishin' at forty-nine. And that's a funny thing," he mused. "Now I look back, I got started at just about ten and twenty and thirty and forty, too. Oh it might have been eleven or thirty-nine— I wouldn't want to hang for the difference — but you get the point. "I ran away from home at eleven and never went back till I was earnin' good monev. At twenty I was playin' the Winter Garden in Berlin— my first European engagement. A doctor told me I had consumption. 'Go to Milan,' he said, 'and eat raw wine.' Raw wine — ever hear that one?— he meant grapes. 'Eat raw wine,' he says, 'or you'll die,' Well, I couldn't afford' to go to Milan and eat raw wine or cooked, either, so I stayed where I was. "More than twenty years later I was bothered with indigestion, and went to a doctor friend of mine in New York. He put the fluoroscope on me. " 'Hey, Bill,' he says, all excited. 'About twenty years ago you had consumption.' " 'Am I O. K. now ?' I ask him. " 'Sure,' he says. "The scars are all dry.' Lilian Harvey, Europe-bound, after a long Hollywood sojourn as a star in American pictures, boards a plane at Los Angeles smartly garbed in a tailored suit with divided skirt.