Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-10-10
MARCH UP To FEAR
AND COURAGE WILL.
CONQUER, SAYssTAR
Juanita Hansen Was Once Afraid
of Cats and Mice; Now She
Is a Dare Devil.

Girls, are you afraid of mice? Do
black cats with jade eyes make you feel
all 'shivery" when they come near you
And do you develop sudden panicky
to drop out of the entire universe, when
you find yourself peering down toward
the street from the fourteenth story
window of an office building?
If your answer to any OF the above
questions is ''yes" there is no chance o3
your becoming star in the picture ser
ials. That is, no cinema fame viii be
yours while you harbor such nerves"
But there is a way of getting over your
fears, if you try hard. Juanita Hansen,
now one of the leading stars of the epi-
sode thrillers, once upon a time was
fearful of mice, and black cats, and all
| that sort of thing; but you would never
know it now, when she has conquered
all those impulses and does things that
| make people hold their breath when they
behold the scene of her Pathe serial
| plays on the screen.
Had Only Beauty.
| Here is the way Miss Hansen made
| her start toward the eminent place she
now holds as daredevil. In the begin
ming she had only her blonde beauty toI
| recommend herself to the directors. She
was chosen on account of it for a pretty
girl part in Morosco picture. Later
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still in Sennett com edies. When, five
years ago, big stunt" serial Was being
cast the director made up his mind that
Juanita was the only actress he wanted
for the stare role. But Miss Hansen
baked when she learned all the stunts
she would be called upon to perform.
| However, she was prevailed upon to
60 into training to be serial star.
First there were lessons in high diving.
her teacher keeping her at it until the
now famous serial queen could climb
the rigging of ship and do "Jack-
knife without even thinking twice about
| it. The final course was when Juanita
was taken about the big zoo. out in
movie land of Los Angeles. and taught
how, to be the playmate of lions. tigers.
elephants and crocodiles. Even now she
is not sure of herself when it comes to
getting chubby with crocodiles, but she
says she expects some day to have one
for household pet.
Ccnquers Her Fears.
Not that Juanita does not know what
it means to be afraid-and that she is
not is conclusively demonstrated by some
of her stunts in the new Pathe picture,
The Phantom Foe''-but she says it
is easy to conquer all the little fears and
the mouse mania. she bids you catch
mouse and play with it until you can pick
it up and fondle the creature.
Ii you are afraid of water, 90 and
learn to swim and dive, taking your time
TO get used to caring for yourself while
you are in ii.
These things sound difficult, but Miss
Hansen assures you that they can be
done if only you have the determination
70 be master of your own actions
Half of the fears come from ieno-
rance of the thing feared" says Miss
Hansen. we overestimate the power
of the object of our fears and underes-
innate our own abilities to combat foe,
which often as not, is imaginary If
mouse should by any chance bite us. we
do not suffer anything like the terror
experienced by those who race about
frantically searching chair or table to
climb when they sight the shy little
things. Similarly, if we imagine that the
ocean was created for the sole purpose
OF swallowing US up. we are not likely
to go near it. but, when we realize that
nature has equipped us with minds and
bodies capable of safeguarding against
its dangers we are not so likely to treat
II as a great evil