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Sweet and lovely Betty would look right at home whipping up biscuits or taking a roast out of the oven. Still she was as glamourous as Chanel No. 5, and was the sixth pillar of our House Of The Seven Garbos. I, of course, was the seventh, but that can wait until later. Some of the girls were making progress, others were going out too much with the local glamour boys and losing interest. But we were being educated, we were learning, for we were young and had a lot to learn from the complicated realm of striving and ambition that is Hollywood. We learned to laugh at hard luck, to cry softly so as not to upset the others, and to fight and not hurt our opponents. I remember the time Ruth Roman waited for two weeks before she was informed by wire that the part was hers and to report for work the following morning. On that big day we all rose early to help Ruthie prepare for her important chance. We saw to it that she was carefully and beautifully attired and made up, and each one of us offered her some small article of clothing or a piece of earnest advice. When she returned late that night none of us knew who she was. It was then that she told us her part consisted of having the zanier member of a comedy team douse her completely in mud. Let them cover you with mud, we laughed, someday you'll be covered in ermine, and throw a little mud yourself. And maybe as the star of the picture. I soon had my chance, too, and landed a small part in "The Story Of Doctor Wassell." They took out half my dialogue, which left me a remainder of only one line. I wasn't too discouraged however: though a screen career had seemed like fun, deep in my heart my one desire was to write. I decided that being a movie star wasn't for me, and left that wonderful house to move to New York. I have since become a press agent, and my first book, "How To Meet A Millionaire," is coming off the presses this year. And the other day when I was asked by Screenland to do a story on the House Of The Seven Garbos, I realized that my "day" had really arrived. The years had gone by and I had known success, but the true confirmation was writing about those lovely girls who have since become celebrities in their own right. Let's look in again and see what happened to them. And I think you'll share my belief that God is good and tries to help those who help themselves, when you see the results. Our gay little Deannie Best eventually met a wealthy, handsome businessman, and happily gave up her string of Romeos for a quiet life and a delightful house in Beverly Hills. Producer Hal Wallis sensed the glint of talent through the beauty of Kristine Miller, and signed her to a long-term contract. She has been in several pictures, and is well on her way to success. Betty Cargle also got her wish when I introduced her to a young war correspondent in New York. She married the man who is known far and wide for his brilliant articles and his name is Collie Small. They are expecting a gift from the stork, and Betty presides over a Park Avenue apartment, and a dachshund named "Alimony." Karen Gaylord married actor Don Maguire. She helps her husband out on his weekly television show, and does all the cooking between times at their home in Bel Aire estates. So Karen has her cake and eats it, too. Ruth Roman made a smash hit in "The Champion," got fine notices in "The Window," "Beyond The Forest" and "Always Leave Them Laughing," and has been picked as being the biggest discovery since Bette Davis. "She skyrocketed to fame," I read in the journals, and I have to chuckle to myself, for I know that it took years of hard work and devotion to make her the fine actress she is. Ruthie never played opposite Tyrone Power, her idol, but since she has achieved her real dream . . . that of becoming a top notch actress . . maybe that chance will come. But I can't help but wonder, how much it will mean — now. Linda Christian, of course, is happily married to Ty and has given up her career because she is so content and busy being Mrs. Power. Lesson From Lili Continued from page 45 and the Boul' Mich — in Paris, that is, not Chicago — she has told the American public, which always goes for such stuff, that "American men know less about love than a high school boy in France." Now, says Lili, she shouldn't have said American men, but men in Hollywood! That's one reason why she thinks the love scene.i in our movies are such "steenkers." {And from now on we'll drop the accent so you don't get bored with the whole thing.) Censorship, she holds, is another contributing factor to the lack of realism in American films generally and love scenes in particular. "Here pictures are made to reach everybody. They are censored so that supposedly they won't hurt anybody. If love scenes are stereotyped and dull, the censors think they won't give adolescents any bad ideas. Yet those same adolescents are allowed to grow up faster here than anywhere in Europe because their parents bend over backwards to be 'modern' and broadminded," says Lili. "In everything else, sex is overemphasized to American youngsters, especially to girls. They wear makeup and dark polish too young, they go out on dates too young. They wear high heels and mature styles too soon. Boys have 66