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182 Yes, Mr, DeMilk beauty. Beauty is one of the cheapest things on the market today. It is so cheap that it has little value, The sidewalks of Hollywood, the classrooms, the restaurants, are full of beauti- ful girls. My objections to beauties as leading women are briefly summed up. They are too posey, too stilted, too unwilling to reflect emotion and thus ruffle the beautiful calm of their classic features. This may be conscious or unconscious, but it is always there in a really beautiful woman. She inclines to drape herself in classic poses. She moves with lack of fire, she is aloof from emotion. Spoiled by life, she does not feel the urge to improve herself, to be pleasing, to exhibit feeling. There is always someone who tells these beauties in their infancy that worry and emotion destroy the fine fabric of beauty. They never forget this, and this ruins them as actresses." It was a rather drastic admission for one who had put such store by beauty. A few years ago, when asked to give his definition of per- sonality, he drew back with feigned alarm, retorted, "Am I supposed to isolate and hold up to view the spark which once in a lifetime kindles and enflames the soul of some mortal?" One day he related the circumstances that led him to some of his early leading players. "Bebe Daniels came to my notice in a 2-reel Harold Lloyd comedy and after seeing her fall off a roller coaster in one of them 3 1 decided she was just the person to be introduced to the public as a siren of ancient Babylon in Male and Female. Bebe s mother brought her around to see me. The girl had stooped shoulders and walked like a duck. I felt she could act. Acting came natural to her, but I almost lost my mind teaching her to stand up straight. After weeks of working with her I let her remain on the screen for only 150 feet, but upon that* brief ap- pearance she built an important career. In the days when Bebe, Gloria Swanson, Wallace Reid and the rest were being pkced