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"Never A Dull Moment
Gloria Swanson Keevs Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness All in the Air At Once.
By Dena Reed
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Always talked about, always interesting, never understood — that's Gloria.
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HEN Gloria Swanson gets to heaven, she'll have the angels doing cartwheels!
No, I'm not talking about her sex appeal now, but of her tremendous energy. After all, that may be just another name for sex appeal. Whatever it is, Gloria has it now just as much as she ever did— if not more so. The reason? In her own words:
"I'd say it was my love of life. I'm simply never bored with anything. The most trivial of incidents and the most tragic, are events to me. I can wear six people out and remain fresh as a daisy. I remember when I was start-, ing my career, I lived with another girl and her mother. The telephone would ring and people would be coming in and out incessantly. Finally it got so bad that one night my chum's mother said she couldn't stand it another minute. She wanted some peace and quiet; she was leaving, she said, and her daughter could go with her or not as she pleased. The girl went along because she didn't want the old lady to be alone at midnight. Well, at about three in the morning, the front door bell rang and there stood the pair. They" had had so much quiet in two hours they couldn't stand it, not after their hectic life with me."
As she spoke, her great grey eyes, which can be very quiet and very calm, shone as if lit with sudden emotional intensity. Her smile came readily— that smile which proclaims the warm human woman behind the queenly bearing. Watching her as she sat in a boudoir chair in her dressing room at the Paramount Theatre, where she was making a personal appearance, I found her a charming enigma— and what more can any woman hope to be!
She was dressed in a tight-fitting black and red gown, with a long train to increase the illusion of height, for she really is a very small person. I thought of Helen Hayes playing "Mary of Scotland" on the stage. Both these little women seem to possess queenliness. Gloria sat impassive and yet she exuded a certain fire which kindled everyone around her.
I say "everyone" advisedly. Her secretary bobbed in and out with messages. And an old friend, who is one of her designers, and myself made up the "audience" at the moment. Would Miss Swanson please talk for her public? Would Miss Swanson please autograph these photographs? Would Miss Swanson let the designer look over her stage gowns and allow him to tell her of some creations he had in mind for her?
Miss Swanson remained calm. She laid the photographs aside for a more convenient moment. The designer was told to help himself to a look at her wardrobe. Meanwhile we would "talk."
I realized suddenly the secret of her great sex appeal. Even her physical defect—that of a too-large head on a small body— is fascinating. Her eyes with their arched eyebrows light up with an almost Oriental expression. This, with her sudden smile, bespeaks an unconquerable zest for living. No wonder men are drawn to Gloria!
Four disillusionments such as she has suffered through her marriages would have felled the average [Cont. on page 62]
Gloria's "personal appearances" have shown that she is still a popular favorite.
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