The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-02-07
WORD PICTURES Or
LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD
CLOSE up VIEW OF -FOUR
YOUNG WOMEN IN TAYLOR
MURDER MYSTERY PROBE.

Los Aneles. Feb. Tn the pic
ture life in Hollywood, as shown by
the camera of the police investiga-
ton into the murder of William
Desmond Taylor, there are the close
ups of four young women.
This is the home of the studios,
large wooden buildings most of
them, and the home of the cinema
stars.
Here you may see men and wo-
men, faces painted even as the Put
es and the Sioux, riding in gay col
ored motor cars, walking in gaudy,
blatant, blazing sports clothes, lug
ging funny looking dogs, carrying
strange pets, carrying on in weird
ways.
Here all the world is really q
stage, and all the men and women
movie actors.
There are men in golf suits who
cannot tell caddy from a niblick
or bunker from a stymie; men in
riding togs who think a horse has
something to do with a wagon; men
khaki and puttees who believe the
greatest Battle ever Fought was film
ed by Griffith.
And out of the press of these
steps four women in the Taylor muir
der, Mable Normand, Mary Miles
Minter, Edna Purviance and Claire
Windsor.
Miss Normand, the athletic come.
dienne, is listed under the classifi'
cation of "reg-lar fellows" An un
trained young woman, she is re
markably intelligent. She is sell
educated.
She dotes on pies and peanuts
and outdoor sports. She swims, and
raises her arms preparatory to div
ing into tank. She loves 1.-THE
swimming, not the eyes of the crowd
She golfs, she rides, she takes
long walks, she drives Zipp motol
car.
mabel wants her horseback rid
es" and climbs upon the back oi
willing friend TO be ridden around
the cafe shouting, singing, Laughing
waving her arms. Great times wher
Mabel's around.
Mary Miles Minter-the Peren
NAL debutante, the type of girl tha
all the young movie stars are popu
larly supposed to be, as well al
young women with a vacuous blonde
prettiness, and the little foolish af
fections of the F. Scott Fitzgerald
flapper.
"A very decent young lady," the!
saw about her. "A nice girl. Al
actress who plays nothing but dain
ty roles, never anything unclean
young-but not so young as she wa
once upon a time"
Edna Purviance-Miss Purvianc'
has taken part in many of Charlie
Chaplin's comedies. A beautiful wo
man who isn't fond of being callet
"a picture girl"
She was once reported engaged u
Charley-but this does not necessar
lily confer upon her any great dis
tinction, inasmuch as many other
have been so reported.
Claire Windsor has also been zen
gaged'' to the king comedian; ant
there was warfare carried on in tn
newspapers between her and Mis-
May Collins concerning the Zen
gagement."
"It happened just after Charlie
got back to Los Angeles from nj
trip abroad. Claire was at the dc
pot to meet him. May stayed a
home. May said she was not tn
sort of girl to meet man to whom
she was not engaged. Claire aske
innocently:
What was / do to, when Charlie
telegraphed me to meet him." Ma
let it become known she had receis
ed a fox fur from some traveller
claire would not say what she re
ceived.
Along came Claire Sheridan. tn
scuIptress, and took him on a cam1
ing trip out in the woods.