The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-23
Famous Actress, Now a
Grandmother, Prettier
Than Ever.
HER SECRET is GUARDED
Plastic Surgery No - Her
Face Is Unscarred.

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-The black
and white magic of Ponce De Icons
fountain reveals itself.
Now the world NAV see what hap
pens when a human being drinks
its waters.
Fannie Ward is back! The first
modern evangel of eternal youth,
the official monument to twentieth
century methods Of regeneration,
whose pre-war fame set women
a.f1utter all over the world with the
desire to emulate her beauty-re-
turns to the spotlight after twelve
years private life.
During all that time the world
heard very little of Fannie Ward.
America whispered about her-that
she had died-that she was hiding
her famous features from the public
because her magic had failed-that
Fannie Ward was mortal, after all.
Recently she came back-flashed
upon the public eye from the foot
lights Of a vaudeville theater-and
IGlL n6T duulSICO VI CclLlllCoos inv 49,
today, at 60, more beautiful than
she was twelve years ago.
Sparkling and fiower-laden in her
dressing room, she seems-is-from
her red gold waving hair to her
delicate, silvershod feet, woman
In the bloom Of her twenties.
And that is white magic.
The story of Fannie Ward goes
back to 1890, when she first appeared |
under the management Of Daniel |
Frohman at the Broadway Theater
fresh from the provincial back
ground of st. Louis.
Her brunei beauty unlocked for
bidding doors to her, opened the way |
to stellar roles in the hits Of the nine
ties Fannie Ward was the star of
THE Little French Milliner," Fan
ME Ward was the glamorous heroine
'in the Bishops Carriage"
Later, she followed the vogue for
problem plays. Her Only Way"
and "The Price," were among her
greatest hits. In Broadway and on
Drury Lane, the little Missouri girl
fought for honors and won them.
Her beauty was her greatest asset. |
She had soft dark hair and melting |
gray eyes and the body of a Dresden |
f1gurine. The bald-headed rows went |
mad about her.
And nobody thought 1t strange |
when the little actress announced |
her marriage to Joseph Lewis, one |
of the richest of the South African |
diamond potentaes. Such a face as
Fannie Wards might be expected to
snare no less than Kimberley |
diamond millionaire.
, One daughter was born, not long
before the Lewis marriage was dis
solved in the courts. That daughter
is now Lady Dorothy Plunkett of
( London, and the mother of two chill
dren.
Fannie Ward was free again. She
was now in her forties. But nobody
noticed that. She returned to the
stage.
Her next husband WIS John Dean,
Z o years Olu. GoH0 SlSnI-
cen years ago, and she is still liv-
ihg with him. He is a chemist by
profession, and her right hand man
in the cosmetic laboratories she
maintains for her beauty shop.
The Ward beauty had become a re-
ligion-and nobody was more devout
toward 1t than Fannie herself.
Her entrance into the motion pic
lures brought one striking change.
She turned from brunei to blond, so
that the Kleig lights might not
sharpen her features too much or be-
tray her years.
1t was during her cinema years
that she came upon her magic foun-
tain. After a retirement Of a few
weeks, she emerged with the face of
a young girl.
Report had it that plastic surgery
had done the work. But Fannie de-
clares that no surgeons knife has
ever touched her face. Certainly she
bears no scars.
IT have decided to give my dis
coveries to the world through my
beauty shop" she says. 1.-THE world
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