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By ALMA WHITAKER
_AVE YOU a little Couccuckoo in your home?
Oh, but, my dears, you should have ! If you could only see what they are doing for us here m Hollywood! , ,
Emile Coue, that wonderful Frenchman, who wrote the marvel
been stolen from us? And now Dr. Coue says that a well-trained imagination can do just anything for a fellow.
"Day by day, in every way, I am growing better and better.'' Imagine how comforting this assurance is, now that the country is
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b "Da? ov day 'in every way, T am taut reasoning, give yonr intellect^ groS hetty'and better!"5 That holiday, close your eyes and mn
is dear Dr. Ooue's word for us, by which our little group of serious thinkers here in Hollywood is profiting so much.
mur your little credo ecstatically. Give your imagination a free rein; just let it meander around the triumphant human perfections that
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tungcan sTfor yourself what a "better and betterness" entails, and plelsant doctrine this is. Dr. Coue then blissfully await results, doesn't lay down any embarrassing laws regarding "will power" or the domination of the intellect over one's physical weaknesses. No, sir, this benefactor insists that the imagination, not the intellect, guides us wheresoever we go.
J^ow, if there is one thing that we Screenlanders pride ourselves upon, it is our imagination. How else could we give out proper interviews about the wonderful new contracts that we are considering, or the family heirloom pearls that have
fVERYBODY is doing it in Hollywood.
Maurice Tourneur, for instance,
having successfully banished all
memory of Woman, Lorna Boone
and any apprehensions he may
have harbored as to the merits of his
The Christian, murmurs fondly to
himself all over the United Studios
lot, "Day by day . . ." etc. Where
imagination is bliss, it is folly to be
intellectual.
Walter Hiers has just proved one
Gloria Swanson doubtless says her Coue credo on a rosary or pearls. And we're sure she doesn't stop at the twenty recommended by Dr. Coue.
of the most successful advocates of , the Coue doctrine. He has just landed snugly in the shoes left vacant by Wally Reid. <
And when you read the inspiring headlines to the effect that Cecil De Mille is about to film the ten Commandments, possibly answering Ambassador Harvey's disconcerting query as to whether women have souls (as well as bodies) —we simply cannot conceive of Mr. De Mille concentrating solely on pouls— you may gather that Cecil is Coue-ing himself for the mighty task Day by day, in every way, Cecil is getting better and better.
C B could, if one were intrusive, possibly be found lying luxuriously in a downy bed with silken down coverlet and rose-spun pajamas most any chilly morning, murmuring over and over again the soft, inodious dulcet lines with their intoxicating rhythm, lazihy counting off knots in a string of baby ribbon. For this is the system auto-sug0.ested — give your imagination a little pleasant kindergarten training each morning before rising,
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