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SELECT PICTURES MAGAZINE Page 3 Constance Talmadge, Portrayer of “Regular” American Girls S ELECT PICTURES does not believe in making a perfectly “regular” American girl into a would-be vampire or any of the other all-too-familiar exotics of the screen. Constance Talmadge is an American girl, every inch of her; eighteen years old, pretty, high-spirited and fancy free; accordingly, in all her Select Star Series productions, which to date include “Scandal,” “The Honeymoon,” and now “The Studio Girl,” her roles called for the characterization of an arch young person just like herself—to wit, an Ameri- can girl, every inch of her, eighteen years old, pretty, high- spirited and fancy free. And movie audiences who know that the greatest art in acting is to portray that type which the actress naturally is without any affectation—these audi- ences have been universally charmed with the performances of this young screen star and have also acclaimed the judg- ment of the Select casting staff in their choice of scenarios for her. The things that happen to the girls in her stories are recognized by American film fans as incidents which might ningly. transpire in the lives of their own girl relatives and friends. Mr. Charles Giblyn, who has so ably directed Miss Tal- madge’s Select Star Series releases to date, recently made this point in speaking of her productions: “The stage is supposed to ‘hold the mirror up to nature’; too often the screen has held the mirror up to nightmares. Half of the scenario writers appear to regard the orgy as the great cen- tral fact in life. They are getting too far from the soil. Not in the reek of disordered lives, but in the simple authen- tic facts of the small community groups lie the basic truths of existence. “Miss Talmadge’s pictures show the drama in the lives of the sort of people everyone knows. The notable success of ‘Scandal’ and ‘The Honeymoon’ prove the demand for such stories; they are a pleasant reaction from the story of the vampire and the woman with a past.” Now especially, audiences need the mental relaxation of clean “homey” comedies to take their minds off the world- wide catastrophe and to lighten their hearts. And that’s just what Constance Talmadge does—effectively and win-