The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-02-18
NORMA TALMADGE
Second Go-Round Of Publicity

|. Friday afternoon Miss Talmadge
! telephoned me and said, Mr.. Ear
!. Rlan, have read The Palm Beach
!: Post this morning, and | want to see
|. the little girl who stated that her
(laame was Norma Talmadge"
! told her "all right and then tele-
,bo,led the mother of the child and
tho met at my Office at four o'clock
Tu IRE ARE MANY NUTS WHO
ARE CRAZY ABOUT SCREEN
STARS.
NEVER KNEW 1T BEFORE.
Before Miss Talmadge left my Of
fee, everybody Who came into the
building wanted to see and shake
hands with her
She is very gracious
She brought her moth err and two
sisters to see this little thi'ee-year-old
girl
She has been before the film six
years, and is today the QUEEN of
y SCREENDoM
She is twenty-three years old, and
}, during her career has always been
accompanied by her mother and two
sisters
IL One sister, Miss Constance, is also '
e a star in CINEMA
Mice Nonetoooo 10 twacJ
old -Aty'ohe years
n The litt'~
emit 40 sister, Natalie, is indiffer-
:. and OILY tolerates the movies
1. Ion account OF her celebrated sisters
Miss falmadge also brought Miss
- Nita Loos, who writes the plays fol
Miss Constance Talmadge
She is the youngest playwright or
the list today, being only twenty-si1
years old.
then asked MA her age, and Ma
side-stepped
She looked at me and grinned, stst
>es ing that age made NO DIFFERENT
NOWADAYS.
The mother and three daughter
were born and reared in New Yorl
city
They have never lived on farm
The party was accompanied b
nv DINKEY.
,eo- DINKEY is WOOLLY LOOKING
yet DOG, the kind that | never saw b,
Ing. fore, and the most noticeable thin
God was that he WAGGED HIS TAI
DRY just like other dogs.
sing 1t will be interesting to know the
pub to produce picture in which Mis-
Talmadge is the star cost ONE HUI
The DRED AND FIFTY THOUSAN
yatt DOLLARS.
liles The playwright receives four tho
Jul sand dollars and percentage or 70
!. VI atty from each picture.
wei Miss Talmadge receives a percer
taAe age which makes her income, fro
ming the various pictures in which she h
ome- been the star, approximately thir
'uiar thousand dollars per week.
ne 1t will, therefore, be observ
any THAT THERE is A FINANCIl
get ANGLE.
nave also observed that the moth
ior takes care of the financial affairs
; Out her two celebrated daughters, or,
'ld other words, PARTICULARLY {
SERVED THAT SHE IS BOSS.
Dui- These stars work continually n
arms months each year and rest the oil
lhey three moths
'nncn 1t Is hard and monotOnous w
uays and requires patience, world with
al end, and the three months rest
imperative.
u anu The mother looks after their r
peo- steal condition, ailments, etc.
lor takes care of all business tran.
tnat TONS
nough Mics 1oos tho ,,ovvr;oht wbo
hoie' companied them, wrote the two pl;
1.-THE Vampire Vamp" and sIn Sea
" mas OF Sinner" in which Miss
stance Talmadge starred.
There is a marked difference
tween these two celebrities in t
private life.
h'ion' Norma Talmadge always takes
dramatic part while her sister,
- pay stance, does comedy.
In talking to them in private
versation, one would figure diffe
angle for both.
There are no sons in the famil
Choir asked Ma if she were particu
y anxious for sons.
To which she replied: mo,