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Madeleine with Maisie, her Sealyham. The blonde star of "The Thirty Nine Steps" has signed a new Hollywood pact.
English
Candid close-up of Madeleine Carroll, lovely transatlantic star, returns to Hollywood
By Hettie Crimstead
IN LONDON we call her the English Rose, for Madeleine Carroll's is such an essentially Saxon type of beauty. Honey-gold hair waving softly off her forehead, wide sea-blue eyes, clearly cut features, a slimly curving figure and a gently pleasant smile. She is always serene — nobody has even seen her lose that quiet poise — and she is as charming to the elevator boy as to the chief of the studio executive.
Hollywood interviewers find her a curious problem. She welcomes them delightfully — there is nothing in the least "temperamental" about Madeleine — offers them the most comfortable chair and pours tea in the lustre china of her favorite blue that she brought with her from England. All their questions she answers with cheerful courtesy and they eventually depart convinced that
Madeleine Carroll is an attractively natural girl with perfect manners but not knowing any more of her character, her real ideas, or her outlook on life than before they met her.
For just as the rose stands always sweetly fragrant but only unfolds its petals in the sunshine, so Madeleine only blossoms out when she is with her friends. Beneath that smiling gracious exterior she hides an exceedingly fine and sensitive nature. She is never her real self with strangers, for feeling deeply, she is subconsciously afraid of being misunderstood and her nervousness takes the form of inner reserve. She (Continued on page 80)