Silver Screen (Nov 1930-Oct 1931)

Silver Screen for February 1931 57 A Bad Girl Makes Good [Cor. -inued from page 27] not very long ago. "I had been spending the week-end visiting friends at Southampton and arrived in town early Monday morning just in time to check in on my new job. Everything went very smoothly all day and I was just congratulating myself on my quick adaptability when six dresses were reported missing from the racks. Of course, no one accused me BUT ... I was a new girl ... I had arrived that morning with a valise . . . the evidence was all against me. If I had stolen the entire store I couldn't have felt — nor looked — more guilty. I was so embarrassed I never went back. I'm sure to this day they suspect me of 'taking ways'. Right about this time Kay fell in love again. This time with Allan Ryan, Jr., of the Social Register Ryans. They became engaged and Kay flashed a solitaire large enough to illuminate Madison Square Garden. But Allan and his family objected to Kay's continuing her career. And Kay was just beginning to become really interested in it. Besides, she knew that she could never stand the boredom of a Park Avenue macron's life. So she returned the ring (which is not according to Lorelei Lee a'tall, a'tall!) and took up bachelor girl quarters with her two friends, Lois Long, the present Mrs. Peter Arno and Katherine Swan, now on the scenario staff of Paramount Pictures. They didn't live in Greenwich Village but they were poor and struggling "artists" just the same — their combined earnings just managing to meet the monthly rent. Lois and "Swannie" were always trying to marry Kay off to a dozen or more of the millionaires who wore off the welcome on her doormat every night. Neither of tbem had much confidence in her acting ability and felt that with her beauty, a brilliant marriage was her metier. All this happened B. T. (before talkies) so pictures never occurred to any of them. Long before, Kay had taken a silent test for the vamp role in "SorroAvs of Satan". She wore a blonde wig. The result was enough to make Kay vow that she would never appear on the screen again. Instead, she went to Cincinnati and joined Stuart Walker's stock company, the kindergarten of all first-grade players. After serving a rigid apprenticeship of two seasons, Kay returned to Broadway and appeared in "Crime" with Kay Johnson, Chester Morris and James Rennie and in "Elmer, the Great", wicli Walter Huston. TT WAS during the run of this piaj i;hat Paramount was combing the town for someone to play the female menace in "Gentlemen of the Press". Kay was approached for a test. She turned it down in polite, albeit no uncertain, terms. Her unfailing memory recalled all too vividly the nightmare of her first test! Paramount pleaded and cajoled and Kay hedged with all sorts of excuses — broken ankles, sprained ribs and even housemaid's knee. It was Walter Huston's persuasive powers that finally won her over. She appeared in "Gentlemen of the Press", vamping with sound. When Kay first went to Hollywood, she was determined to save her money. She rented a small bungalow in Beverly Hills. A colored maid, Ida, was her only accessory. Other actresses returned to Broadway flat broke. Not Kay! In less than a year she had saved a tidy sum. She still lives in the same bungalow and still has the same maid, although her living expenses have since been increased by one yellow Ford coupe, called "Rabbit" because it goes in leaps and bounds; two Persian cats, "Mitzi" and "Tibs"; a canary named "Napoleon"; a Boston Bull christened "Caesar"; a wire-haired terrier whose godfather is William Powell and whose name is "Snifter"; and seven fish — known as the Seven Vestal Virgins. ALTHOUGH she has the reputation of being one of the best-dressed women in Hollywood, Kay doesn't spend half her salary on her wardrobe. She never makes an "entrance" and yet, when she enters a room, she is immediately the cynosure of all eyes. Everything she does is effortless — with no striving for effect. Shoes are her greatest hobby. At the last census there were more than 75 pair. She doesn't own any diamonds and never wears anything in silver and platinum. Despite her brunette beauty, she claims she is a "golden" girl. Although she is on every host and hostess list in Hollywood, she doesn't go in for a continual round of parties. She has a small group of friends, the John Cromwells (Kay Johnson), the Arthur Hornblows, the Louis Bromfields, the Edmund Lowes, with whom she likes to dine informally. She adores music. When she was a child it was her mother's fondest hope that she would be a genius at the piano. Kay wanted to be a trapeze artist and wear pink tights. Both have since recuperated from their respective disappointments. Kay now occupies a box at the Hollywood Bowl during the summer months and at the opera during the season. Her escort on these musical evenings is usually Mrs. MacKenna's little boy, Kenneth. Kay's cup would be overbrimming now if she could only see New York again. She hasn't been back for almost two years and no anodyne but a return trip will cure her nostalgia She is hoping that in a very imminent future she will be allowed to make a picture at the Paramount New York Studios . . . and then, excuse her dust! Many of Kay's friends, however, have crossed the desert sands to help assuage her homesickness. They report that she is still the same Kay — sweet, unspoiled, unaffected, evidencing no traces of "going Hollywood." This, in the nature of things, is not surprising. Popularity and adulation have ilways been hers and her grand sense of humor would never allow her to take herself too seriously. In other words, she doesn't think she is important. 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