The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-12-22

Although have written one whole
try" I always have to return to he1
because letters come every day to re
mind me OF the many pathetic and
amusing incidents in her career. Evi
IDENTIFY Tess is just as real to others as
she is to me, for they never refer to
her as an imaginary story-book girl
but as real Tess in which Mary
Pickford was submerged. They do not
know how happy 1t makes me when
they compliment me in this way, for
one Of my greatest ambitions is to por
tray characters so we'll my audier ces
forget me.
One woman wrote about Tess. Her
letter began: Thank goodness, Mary
Pickford, you don't '.ear wig. had
always believed those curls of yours
were too long and even to be real, and
/ have argued for many years with my
neighbors when they insisted you did
not even wear Stitch. When l saw
Tess shampooed and her head rubbed
and scrubbed and then set out to dry,
l watched deliberately to see that wig
slip and tumble into the soapsuds !
But it didn't, and now you are fairer
to me than ever, because see there
is nethi g false about you after all. y
laughed so when l read this letter
and wondered how many more were in
doubt as to my readiness" I an
swered her letter, telling her about
that shampoo just as l I'm going to
write to you all now.
1t was a bitter cold day when the
scene was taken, and in order. to
scrub me so could inspire a romance
in some ones heart, they began on
the top of my head. and those curls
which / wore in tumbled. disheveled
mass were the first to dip into the
bucket.
at least, YOU mus have the water
warm" scolded. 1T is bad enough
to be tackled by two strong hands and
a large bar of kitchen soap. am not
the stuff that martyrs are made of,
even If | will sacrifice my feelings for
the success Of role. This water is
ice cold
Very well,' the director laughed at
me. Turn on the warm faucet. Set
the camera up--the ordeal is about to
Begin
An ordeal it was! The soap trickled
down my forehead into my eyes and
mouth, and as this was the fire. time
I was ever introduced to brown kitchen
soap 7 cared not a whit to ~ecome bet
ter acquainted with it. did not rel
ish it's flavor, and - felt like a thou
sand needles as it spattered into my
eyes 1t was only when l saw 1t upon
tie screen and leard the audiences
laugh at 1t that felt repaid, because
there was an aftermath which no one
knew until now.
| caught the most unromantlc colu
in my head from that episode that !
have ever had wheezed and sneeZed
and my eyes WEI, so swollen that
could not be photographed for days.
It delayed our picture and 1t was nip
and tuck to ge1 through in time:
These little secrets the audience
never dreams of when 1t sees re"
feet OF film run off, nor have the peo-
ple who have never visited moving
picture studio any idea OF how long IL
takes us to make a scene which they
see in almost the wink OF an eye
The Care Of Ny Hair.
am going to AID paragraph ABOUT
the care of my hair because so many
young girls have asked me what do
to keep it in condition.
shampoo it about every two weeks
using physicians and surgeons soap
which seems TO stimulate the roofs
and leaves the scalp very clean and
white | never let ~~v one else care
for my hair: in fact. I have been the
sole guardian Of M curls ever since
l was ten years OF age. Every night
night | brush 1t fly strokes. which
gives it natural gloss and keeps me
from ever having to use brilliantine or
other glycerin compositions to make t
shine If find that my hair is get
ting drv the night before I shampoo
it. rub pure hot olive oil we'll into
the roots. This feeds the roots OF the
hair and makes it grow luxuriantly.
have heard that olive oil darkens the
hair, but II cannot hurt If 1t is used
only before shampooing.
can curl my hair over my fingers
by brushing it, dampening the brush.
during the rainy season. but in dry
weather my hair gets quite straight.