Screenland (Nov 1935-Apr 1936)

/ o r February 19 3 6 of eluding the family and meeting that young man after I was through singing at the church social. Or wondering what I could do to make that dress look just a little different for some party or other! I'm afraid that my belief in the theory that 'all work and no play makes Jill a dull girl' wasn't shared by my parents. But Roma was always there, making excuses, taking my side. She took my side even though she wasn't as much interested in adventure as I was. "Of course, she has always been the scholar of the family, the real student. Her grasp of musical technique was more secure, more fundamental than mine. "But even more important than all that was the feeling of confidence it gave me to know that Roma believed in me. It did more than chase away the blues — those moments of hopeless melancholy that everyone gets who is pursuing some artistic goal. Her devotion to my career, to the career she had literally handed over to me when she might have had it herself! That was always a spur to my ambition. I knew that to repay her I would have to justify every hope she had for my success. So I really workfed twice as hard as I might have otherwise. "Finally when I was started my sister married and went to live in Italy. I was terribly busy, of course. Auditions, concerts, radio and then — opera ! It was rather a mad whirl and there were many moments when I felt quite lost. Quite like a puzzle that has just been spilled helter-skelter from its box! I was very much in need of some one to whom I could turn for a bit of honest advice, for some sincere and unbiased criticism. I needed companionship — love. "Well, I found even that. There he stands !" She leaned back in her chair and waved proudly in the direction of a cloud of pipe smoke which was Frank Chapman. She grinned. "You see how outrageously lucky I've been!" She has been fortunate, of course. Usually genius has to struggle forward alone. A great talent has a way of inspiring envy and hatred in others. If it's painting, other artists are delighted to pronounce your masterpiece a hopeless smear. If it's writing, bookworms gnaw contemptuously at your ink-smeared soul. Great actors spend half their time extracting from their quivering egos the barbs tossed by outraged rivals. Singers seldom find life a lilting melody. A career among the grace notes is frequently a process of hurdling the discordant jibes of others. If, in spite of all this, one still shines with stellar radiance the light is likely to be as chill and forbidding as it is bright. But here is Gladys Swarthout! Perhaps she's the exception that proves the rule. Perhaps it is because her struggle up the ladder of fame has not been lonesome that she shines with a light as warm and friendly as it is steady and sure. She's had help. She admits it. She likes to admit that there have been two people who have assisted her immeasurably. Roma and Frank — two people who are the most unselfish, the most considerate in all the world, she thinks. But no matter how convincingly she puts it, no matter how earnestly she pleads, no matter about the dark insistence of her glance — it hasn't all been luck ! It hasn't all been due to the beneficial, the happy influence that her sister and her husband have had upon her. After all, she is the sole owner of a rich and interesting personality. A lovely voice. A beauty that presages a new deal for the opera-going public. A graciousness that has all Hollywood standing on its ear ! 67 Screenland's Crossword Puzzle By Alma Talley ACROSS 1. The wife the farmer took 6. The lover in "Anna Karenina" 11. Actor whom Adrienne Ames married 16. To worship 17. Spry 18. Where Tibhett and Grace Moore used to sing 19. Star of "Splendor" 21. Girl's name 22. "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" 23. Ever, contraction 24. Lawless outbreak 26. A metal 28. To allow 29. To please 31. Mrs. Irving Thalberg 33. Withered 34. Not hard 36. Film in which Helen Gaha gan starred 37. Small children 39. Depart 41. A bird's home 43. Island 44. Ruby Keeler's husband 46. Star of "Let 'Em Have It" 48. Frequently 52. Reside 54. Narrow inlet 55. Title of nobility 56. River (Spanish) 57. Featured actor in "Break of Hearts" 60. Star of "Magnificent Obses sion" 61. Leading actor in "Dante's Inferno" 63. Upon 64. College official 66. Uncommon 68. Featured actor in "Thunder In the Night" (nickname) 69. Sums up 70. A cereal 73. Color 75. Leading man in "The Last Outpost' ' 77. Star of "Metropolitan" 80. To drop (as rubbish) 83. Carpenter's tool 84. Solitary 85. Trench, surrounding a castle or town 87. 90. 92. 94. 95. 97. 98. 99. What a sheep would say in a talkie Actress who wowed us in "Escapade" To knock Featured actor in "No More Ladies" Wilful setting on fire The earth Kinds Movie tryouts To come into 100. Impudent (slang) 10. 11. 12, 13 14. 15. 20. 22. 25. 27. 30, 32. 33. 35. 38. 39. 40. 42. 43 44. 45. 47, 49 DOWN "The Frisco Kid" Good-bye Famous woman writer Silkworm What you let fall at picture Pa's wife Children's marbles Free from Featured actress i Inferno" That man Piece of money Monkey Popular girls Command Flavor Fogs Fortified places Exclamation Note of the scale Crawford's new husband Exclamation To boil slowly Marsh Every star dreads getting this way The knockout from Sweden Constellation Heroine of "Here's To Romance" Interior Heroine in "Music Is Magic" Comedian famous for his spectacles To put down Remote 50. Prefix, meaning three 51. Indefinite period of time 53. Epoch 58. His new one is "Rose Marie" 59. The color of a star's lipstick 61. Prefix, meaning three 62. Tear 65. Featured actress in "Page Miss Glory" 67. Flower essence 69. Star famed for historic roles 70. Heroine of "The Dark Angel" 71. College degree 72. "Our Little Girl" 74. Fleshy roots 75. Jeweler's measure 76. Conscious of 78. Preposition 79. Toward 81. Markets 82. Comedy actress in "Thanks A Million" 84. Part of an eyeglass 86. To fling 89. Negative adverb 91. What many actors say they work for 93. Large snake 95. You and I 96. Physician's title (abbrev.) Answer to Last Month's Puzzle sad Dante's 0 E JHL or HI mr 0 0 T □ B E I E Y E GUHffl GIL Ml