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Colleen Moore was almost kept out of pictures by an amusing oddity — she has one blue eye and one brown eye. Just like a bull pup.
^HE IMPERFECTIONS of stars are not usually blazoned forth. It seems to be the gen
eral idea that the public wants to believe that motion picture players are physically, mentally and morally perfect; at least, that is the theory the gentle press agent works upon.
But when two or three praiseslingers are gathered together, after . five o'clock has struck and allegiance is temporarily suspended, with the old pipes drawing well, strange and weird tales mingle 1 with the smoke. Not all the "honestly-now" stuff is of the poison-pen variety; much of it gives you a new respect for the people who are laboring under difficulties which the public never guesses at, and for which it makes no allowances.
ITJ) ummies and stunt artists relieve the high salaried stars of all possible hazardous risks, but they can not take them all. Actors seem more self-conscious of their imperfections than the average person and thus the public is 48
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Are we down-hearted? No ! say movie stars who have successfully overcome tremendous physical handicaps.
cheated out of many extremely interesting bit of news, for fear it might hurt an actor's popularity. But the public is composed of human beings, sympathetic in the main, and warm-hearted. Fans would much rather know when an actor has been injured, and glory in the spunk which has made him overcome this immense handicap, than to be told that he wears lavender silk pajamas and that he smokes monogrammed cigarettes — which he doesn't.
nd why shouldn't the millions who saw "The
Prisoner of Zenda" know that the stunningly beautiful brunette, Lois Lee, Xf^l^i, who played the part
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™ u 01 Countess Helga, * was in a plaster cast for many weeks after that picture was finished? Lois was told that she had a tubercular spot on her spine, and that an operation would be necessary. A piece of shin bone was removed and appliqued upon the spine, and all Lois had to do to overcome her little handicap was to lie on her face without moving an inch for many, many weeks. And right in the' midst of this little private Hades of hers, the doctors discovered that she would have to have an operation on an old appendicitis wound. And she did !
Probably eveiyone knows what a chance Elliott Dexter took with his popularity when he had to stay out of pictures two years, because of illness brought on by overwork. But did -he let Fate jinx him? He did not! He hobbled back to work and is again sitting on the world. He has a particular penchant in pictures for loving Gloria Swanson in vain. Masculine fandom will admit that he had something to live for, when they look at the picture on t h i s page.
And just when Mabel Normand was getting all fat and well-fed-look
Irene Castle is being kept out of pictures by a broken collarbone. Irene turned the misfortune of short haii?, Inecessitated by an att a c k of fever, into a fashion.