Screenland (Nov 1939–Apr 1940)

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Consequently it's infinitely easier to like her — no trick at all, really. While she, warmed by the knowledge that she is liked, is far happier. Don't let an antagonistic attitude, born of an inferiority complex, erect barriers which people must hurdle before they can get to you. Miriam Hopkins is rated as especially likeable by her own groups in Hollywood and in New York. And since it is only with these groups that Miriam wishes to be likeable — being far too intense an individual to care about anybody and everybody — it is clear enough that Miriam has a very definite quality of attraction. Actually the secret of Miriam's charm is her refusal to expect too much. Whenever someone she knows is criticized Miriam invariably will say: "So what! I never expected her to be kind or considerate. She's amusing and she's stimulating. You can't have everything." Miriam admits, frankly, that it wasn't always thus. Not so long ago, like most of us, she expected those she liked, those who were her friends, to measure up in every way. And when they didn't do this she was disillusioned and disappointed and depressed — she felt she had been let down. 'And," she says, "worse yet, I would bring about a rift between myself and the person who had let me down because in a dozen little intangible ways I would let him know things weren't the same between us. I would act a trifle cool or a trifle hurt or a trifle independent. And usually, having behaved in what was a perfectly normal manner for him, he would have no idea what it was all about. "After I had lost the friendship of several people I really admired and whom I wanted to keep in my life I began to get sense. I began to realize that you aire attracted to different people for different reasons and you mustn't expect all the charms and virtues from anyone. In other words, if someone is kind and considerate let that be enough. And if someone else is witty and amusing don't expect him to be at your door with offers of help' the minute you are in trouble. For if you do this you'll frequently be disappointed and in time you'll grow distrustful and bitter and no one will like you or want you around." That Hopkins girl has brains under her corn-silk hair. We do well to remember what she says, to remember to : Accept different people for what they are. Make sure we don't ask people who originally attracted us because they were stimulating to play the Good Samaritan — not their natural role at all — in odd moments. Then there's Phyllis Brooks, Phyllis who picked off Cary Grant while at least two dozen beautiful glamor girls stood by wondering why their best technique had failed them so miserably. For there are times when being likeable not only insures your popularity and general happiness but contributes to the success of your love life too. When Phyllis was growing up her mother gave her a beautiful present. She taught her observation. "Phyllis," she said to her, "watch the boys and girls and the ladies and gentlemen who are popular and tell me what quality you think they have in common." Phyllis watched for a long time. Then she told her mother the one thing she thought all popular people had in common, different though they might be in other ways, was a knack of making those around them seem important, a knack of drawing people out. "Exactly !" said Mrs. Brooks, wellpleased. "Exactly, Phyllis. When you help others to be at ease and to be successful socially they like you. And when people like you, you're popular. And when you're popular your life is good and you are happy. So ! Go on from there !" Phyllis went on from there, and very successfully too. And all the time she continued to observe and mark the attitude of others and the results of their attitude. Not so long ago Noel Coward, of all people, who was Cary Grant's house guest, was the object of Phyllis' observation. "Noel," she says, "could have the center of the stage every minute. And he would enjoy the center of the stage every minute for he has fine enthusiasm and an instinctive showmanship. But he's too smart, too clever, too understanding, to monopolize all attention or even the major portion of it. He performs just enough to make you feel his personality. Then he sets about to listen to others, to discover what they think about things and how they feel." She laughed. "When I knew I was to meet Noel I prepared to be an audience, to sit back and listen, and to be entertained. Instead I was surprised to find myself talking, appearing smarter than I am usually and more amusing too. Noel drew me out by being intent upon everything I said, by . laughing appreciatively if I was even a little funny, and so on. Act bored and blase," Phyllis concluded, "and soon enough you'll have ample reason to be both of those things — for you'll stifle those around you and get nothing from them in return." In other words, if you would be likeable : ■ Encourage others to express their ideas, to tell their funny stories, even to do their card tricks, if they do card tricks. For when you draw people out, when you help them give a good performance they feel warmly towards you. Take a vote in Hollywood — among stars, directors, stage-hands, members of the press, and studio workers — as to who is the most likeable ' girl in the film colony and again and again you'll hear the same See with what confidence red-headed Ann Gwynne is facing life? And no wonder, when Universal gives her such choice pictures as "Charlie McCarthy, Detective," with Bergen. 92 SCREENLAND