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stars' salaries and marvelous homes think only of the attention the famous are popularly supposed to receive. Now, the days of temperamental czarinas definitely are over and producers apply the boot to the spot where it will do the most good when players act up. Whatever glamor there is attached to the estate of fame is more than counteracted by the hard work it takes to get on top and the even harder work to stay there."
"Fame is an illusion," opines June Collyer. "When I used to see actresses being pointed out on the street, I thought it must be nice to be famous. Now, I am painfully self-conscious and embarrassed if someone notices me when I go shopping or to the theatre. I think fame is something we strive for and find rather meaningless when it finally is achieved."
Colleen Moore, as usual, was philosophical in her summary. "Can you remember, as a little child," she said, 'looking out of the window at night and wanting the big round moon which hung Hke a huge green apple in the sky.-* How nothing else seemed to matter but that you should clutch that glorious, shining ball of light in your chubby little arms and be bathed in the glow of its rays? To be famous is to have the ball of silver, to be drenched in its light.
"When you've worked for a thing over a period of years — gone hungry for your ideal, slaved for it — that prize becomes a precious and sacred thing. So with fame. It is the thing we hope to achieve at the end of the long and arduous trail, that our labor gains us."
PHILOSOPHERS have said that fame is an empty word," declared Norma Talmadge. "This is true, for it is only the deed, the striving, that counts. Otherwise, fame is short-lived." There's certainly something in that. [Continued on page 91 }
Here's what Eddie Qnillan has to sar about fame: "It's nice to know that I can do T'lJngs for my folks wi !lie extra money that ha^ accompanied my screen s access " Eddie is especially happy that he has been able to i>elp his mother, who'6 helpe-i him.
Joan Crawford, she of the dynamic personaUty, says that now that her name is in electric lights, her daydreams have disappeared and she finds herself in one continuous round hard, grinding work.
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