Screenland (Sept 1922–Feb 1923)

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tunity, these screen stars have become famous. I do not believe anybody would turn around in the street to look at Pola Negri. Yet who is there will deny she is beautiful? But it is the beauty of piquancy, of quick mentality, of temperament, which has won her fame as a beauty. She has probably the most expressive face on the screen. So, you see, my goodness was really all vanity." It Worked for Lois Lee Ji uat it worked for Miss Lee is evidenced by the fact that she won a beauty contest that brought her to California. And yet— can even tb Beauty Can Be Cultivated interesting instance is that of Lois Lee, who recently played a role in "The Prisoner of Zenda," Lois as a little girl was considered homely. But she wanted — Oh, how she did want to be beautiful ! She had two humpy spots in her spine, her hair was straight, her face too long, her nose too large, her mouth nothing to brag of. Her -eyes were large, but she says they were quite expressionless. "Then I heard somewhere that if you hold beautiful thoughts all the time, you will grow to look that wav," said Lois. "I began reading beautiful verse and thinking kindly of people. I wouldn't let my temper fly for fear it would spoil my looks. Many a .socalled beauty owes her charm to her clothes. In t h e heartstakes race, the animated clothes horse invariably noses in ahead of the girl who wouldmake some man-a-good Mary Pickford had neither beauty, personality nor c u r Is a dozen years ago. She acquired the lovely curls to cover the defect of large ears. "The lovely woman is no happier than the plain woman," says Mary. "Work and accomplishment are the only things that bring happi most beautiful thoughts straighten a retrousse nose or a multi-fold chin? Or does any amount of gray matter make up for the intoxicating power felt by the woman who knows she is beautiful? As Rube Goldberg said: "Beauty is only skin deep— but, then, what are you, a cannibal?" ' ' < . •■ ,47