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broken collar bone, which is mending slowly. And speaking of Irene Castle reminds us of the neat way in which she overcame a real handicap and created a new style at the same time.
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jj.BBNE, at the height of her popularity as a dancer, along with her husband, Vernon Castle, suddenly discovered that she was losing all her beautiful brown hair after an attack of fever. She went to a famous New York wig-maker and he advised her to cut it short, and to take scalp treatments. She would not have it shingled as he advised, but submitted to a bobbed haircut. The "new style" took the country by storm, and the rage of that particular storm is just dying out
Reacting to Colleen Moore s delightful vivacity on the screen, one
Little Lois Lee, whom you saw as Countess Helgam The Prisoner of Zenda, had to lie flat on her face in a plaster cast for many weeks, just after she had made her first real success in pictures.
Photo by Evans
Lila Lee is a real heroine. Poor Lila is naturally plump, and has to diet unremittingly to .retain that slender grace.
would never think of handicaps in relation to her. But the fact remains that Colleen was almost kept out of pictures by an amusing oddity— she has one blue eye and one brown eye. " It was a long time before she could convince a director that a close-up of her would not be spoiled by this i difference in color. The cameraman has to watch lights and shadows pretty closely to get those expressive orbs to look like mates.
Alec Francis, veteran character actor, labors under the same difficulty— one of his eyes is blue,
the other brown. . . „ , ,
Speaking of minor handicaps, Gloria Swanson had to overcome two difficulties before she attained her place in the sun. She was too short for the stately role* in which her director wishes to cast her, and her height had to be built up, by means of extremely high heels and towering coiffures. Her other apparent handicap has been turned into an asset. When Gloria was first con.ide ed or stardom, the powers-that-be at Lasky's decided she would have to call in i plastic surgery expert and let him carve her
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