The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-01-18
Pearl White Film Star; Is Fugitiue in
French Content From Dual Personality
Screen Self Fights for
Power Over Real Nature
of Oemure Woman,

BIZ NEA Serricc
PARIS, Jan. 1S.-Pearl White
(herselO is q fugitive from Pearl
White!
The real Pearl White. is a refugee
in an Alpine convent from the
Pearl White. the great American
movie-gOing public knows as the
queen of screen thrillers.
Pearl White presents 4 rare study
for psychologists. Demure. dis
Greet. dignined-that is Pearl
Whites personality. Dashing. daunt-
less. daring-that' is Pearl Whites
false personality.
Personality No. is her screen
personality. It's the personality
that has leaped from precipes, swan
boiling torrents. leaped from
speeding train to speeding train,
jumped horses over yawning ra-
vines, risked airplane adventures.
Screen Personality Sticks
" All went we'll so long as the real
Pearl White could doff person
ality No. when the director
called CUT But there came a day
when Personality No. pursued
Personality No. / off of the set"
Pearl White (herself) began to
live away from location" the high
ly nervous life she lived before the
camera. Heroine WOrShipers, in
America and Europe, contributed.
They invited her here. there.
everywhere. Social invitations were
pressed on her. She raced from
H., ~
don by airplane: then from dinner
TO dance by automobile-often 1876
miles an hour over the channel,
then seventy miles an hour from
London hotels to country manor5.
Pearl White (herselr was always
in revolt against Pearl White!
The fight between the two person
alities helped to break her health
Her constitution became weakened.
Then came the disappearance Of her
former husband, Wallace McCutch.
con, and the sudden death OF her
former leading man, John Steven
son.
Her strength snapped
Doctors diagnosed her case as a
combination Of nervous and physical
breakdown.
Absolute quietr' they ordered.
The alternative? Death
Welcomes Order
Pearl White herself welcomed the
order. She selected a convent,
where she has donned a novitiate's
habit and is surrounded by quiet.
prayerful nuns. She has elected the
clustered lfe-at least until her
health is restored. That may be a
long time.
But, even more than physical
strength is i necessary for the real
Pearl White TO build up her psy-
Geological strength. so that she will
not succumb to Personality No ..
once she has left the convent" said
an eminent Partisan nerve specialist
and psychologist today
Personality No will be await
ing her at the cloister gates, beckon-
ing her back to the gay social life Of
Paris and London, with restaurant
dinners. cabaret parties, dances-all
the diversions that these cities afford
so sumptuously.
Can the real Pearl White resist
this Personality No. 2, with its allies
Of heroine worshipers, movie fans,
worldwide publicity? I am sure she
cantor the real Pearl White IS
even more courageous than the
Pearl White Of the screen STARTERS
that the public knows"
Meanwhile Pearl White (herself)
has locked the doors Of her cloistered
cell against Personality No. 2--and
that includes press agents, society
reporters, movie producers and a
circle Of thousands Of admirers.