Talking Screen (Sep-Oct 1930)

Famous Movie Friendships [^Continued from page 71] But Clara Bow really is a wonderful girl with a wonderful disposition, a great love of human beings, and an understanding of human nature that constantly surprises one. Her chum, then, is Daisy DeVoe. Daisy recently went to New York with Qara, for Daisy is indispensable. So perhaps, after all, some credit for the friendship is due to Daisy herself. Miss DeVoe first was a hair-dresser. That's when she and Clara met. Instantly a real friendship sprang up between the two girls. Daisy amused Clara, for one thing. She is clever and witty, and might have been in pictures herself, only she is a very calm young lady, who looked the situation over and decided there was too much heart-break in it, and that she'd prefer a steady job to ail that hectic life of the movies. It was during the filming of The Wild Party that Clara decided to give Daisy a chance as her secretary. To Clara's surprise, one day, she found that Daisy had been studying short hand and typewriting. That's when she generously offered Daisy the opportunity. And we wouldn't be a bit surprised to find, one day, that Daisy had gone in for writing film stories. CHARLIE MACK AND BERT SWOR ARE FRIENDS CHARLIE MACK and Ben Swor were vaudeville partners for years. They still are friends. And if you just realized what that means ! Professional jealousy . and money squabbles — these are too often the means of teating vaudeville teams asunder. Then there are the ladies! Somehow the friendship of Swor and Mack has survived all these obstacles. Mack has many interests away from the camera. I mean business interests. And Bert Swor has always believed in his friend and fostered his enterprises. "Charlie Mack is a real inventor," said Swor, the other day. "Do you know that he invented the best trunk on the market? I was out on the road with him when he started that invention, and I always believed in it. He has also invented and patented a paint remover and is manufacturing the product." Mack isn't a wise-cracker. Rather he has a slow, droll style, and loves telling stories. He and Swor used to vie with each other in collecting stories and telling them to each other. DOROTHY SEBASTIAN AND ALICE TERRY CALL our friendship a long-distance affair!" Dorothy Sebastian was speaking of her dear friend, Alice Terry. Betweerr Alice Terry and Dorothy Sebastian exists one of the most remarkable friendships in the movie business — a friendship which even long separations cannot spoil. Alice Terry is almost constantly in Europe with her husband. Rex Ingram, while Dor othy is meeting other girls of the pictures all the time. Nevertheless when Alice returns for a short visit to this country — which she has done twice during the past three years — it is Dorothy she calls first on the telephone, and she spends most of her time at Dorothy's house. "An odd thing about our friendship," Dorothy related, "is that when I was coming out to Hollywood on the train, I was reading a fan magazine, and the first picture I looked at was that of Alice Terry. I thought, 'Oh, if I only can meet her, how wonderful it will be!' "Alice was my ideal, and I went to see her three times in The Four Horsemen. Then I signed a contract for pictures — and the very first star I worked with was — Alice Terry! "When I found I was to work with her I was overjoyed. "And right now I want to say that one isn't always disillusioned. Ever since we became friends, during the making of that picture, I have found her to be the most wonderful woman I have ever known. She has a capacity for friendship, a loyalty which one rarely discovers in a human being, and she has a never-failing sense of humor to carry her over the moments that come to any friendship when a misunderstanding might happen. "So, on the one, or two occasions when we might have had a little tiff, we just looked at each other — and burst out laughing! Most quarrels between friends are so absurd. Alice would always bring in some droll little bit of philosophy, in that quiet way of hers, or get off a sly joke, and there was no quarrel. "The picture we worked together first in was Sackcloth and Scarlet. Alice was so kind to me! I knew nothing about makeup, and though she was a star, she hurried through her own make-up the first morning to come over and see to mine. "Rex was in Europe — I mean Rex Ingram, Alice's husband, you know — at the time, and she used to invite me over to dinner. Of course the first time I went I was so overwhelmed with delight that I don't think I talked much. But Alice talked well, and everything she told me about pictures and about Europe was tinged with humor. I remember being dumbfounded that anybody who could make me cry as she had in The Four Horsemen could keep me in such gales of laughter. "But I'll never forget that first picture. We were finally both very nearly kicked out of the picture for kidding so much! "We had one very sad scene, I remember. But we took some kind of a funny meaning out of it, and poor Henry King nearly broke his megaphone hollering at us. Finally he let us turn our backs to the camera when we did it, so that our shaking with laughter looked like sobs." JACK OAKIE THINKS HIS MOTHER A GREAT PAL YOU'RE always hearing about these actors and actresses who consider their mothers their greatest pals. Stays Fat yET SHE EATS LIKE A BIRD HERE'S the REASON kylANY fat people deny themselves year after year, yet stay fat. Many injure themselves in the process. 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