Screenland (Sept 1922–Feb 1923)

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"If my career should ever clash with the care of my baby, Suzanne, I should give up the career without a qualm," says Florence Vidor. r*»ssraei a a a assistant director, or was recently, though hus % bands circulate out here so ^ that you can't always be ^ sure — ' Priscilla Dean and Wheeler Oakman, the Tommy Meighans, Wanda and Burt Hawley, Doris May (Mrs. Wallace MacDonald), or Mae Murray, who answers also to "Mrs. Robert Leonard" but not to "Mother." "What will they havewhen their dav in the spotlight is done?" asks first place in the affections Dorothy Phillips. "I do not mean g^w^^ mother to criticize any one. But, speaking in general terms, I cannot see how any married woman can find real happiness without children. When I retire, the hollow mockery of a fame ended could not compensate me for. a childless home. I've learned to pass up the tinsel, to • search for realities, for rock-bound essentials, for only by building upon a firm foundation can any woman be sure of happiness. That's why," her eyes blazing, "I wouldn't give up my little girl for all the star-contracts in the world." Intensely ambitious, coldly calcu Q) fro-. m©mifWDxs© tating the childless women, with little 'Marcno peeping cunningwho could enjoy motherhood ly through the polished window, or but will not. are like climb .-kidding along in their low-necked ing arbutus in their tenacious speedsters with a fluffy Pom or a clinging to their upward ferocious bulldog-guardian occupyspiral sacrificing so much ing the seat beside them, that is human and natural And so the question is raised in and lovable upon the shrine many Hollywood homes and finds of the great god Success, various answers. Some stars vote who grants their whims for for babies— and others for dogs or a little while but laughs eter monkeys. Some claim that children nally up his sleeve, knowing but broaden the expression of their full well that he is only a talents, while others assert that P-od of paste "kiddies and career do not mix." * You can see them of a What do you think? Is your adlate afternoon motoring miration for your favorite star lesdown the Boulevard in sened because she prefers babies to their exquisitely ap dogs? Or would you prefer to think of her as a beautiful, irresistible woman whose only care lies in keeping herself beautiful and irresistible? After all, it is inevitably you, Mr. and Mrs. Audiences and all your little Audiences, who must answer the question that is agitating Hollywood: babies or monkeys? Irene Castle, who is said to have started the monkey craze among film stars, has had no less than seven pet monkeys, beside these three dogsIrene's mother makes just the dearest little clothes for the monkeys . . . silk ones for Sunday and gingham ones for every day. limousines, No monkey or pedigreed Pom ousts little Billy from