Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-26
She Ate Herself Out of Stardom

had a premonition. He saw her meta ~
morphose into big. rotund, motherlv
Irish woman. And he shook his head.
| But he said nothing After all, when
| the time came Molly could take up
starvation like the rest!
| With n genuflection toward Isabells
/ I'VE have had highly successful cousins
| C,,rSslf). We pass over Molly'S first tri-
umphant return to the old home. Back
On the lot Molly was cast as leading
woman in 'Hard-Boiled Haggerty' with
, Milton Stills. Rocket knew after the.
| that there wasn't any fi,lke about
Molly. As movie actress she was
there.
! Brt-and hSre AL remembered that
/ vision I've had had while Molly wcrSed
/ in The Patent leather Kid" She
was settirg fat Horrible. but true!
! Al had trusted satrap take her -
| lunch The secret came out, Ncllv
had = healthy farm girls appetite.
| Hotning anenic abont her. When the
| potatoes and beef ard vegetables were
done she called or ice cream and
cream puffs.
Now. as AL explained II Molly seen
thereafter, sugar makes lat, and you
can't be fat in the movies. You can't
nave boSonS eNd curves and other
womanly attributes OF the sort IL you
want to Be star There isn't any
sense 90 it. but the public or the en-
hibitors, or 10th, want their women
otherwise. You see Well, go and sin
no more. And mind. II you do wei put
YOU bscS pie-throwirg
Fortune favored Molly then, fer the
next two pictures she had as vehicles
TO fame were The Shepherd Of the
Hills" and The Little shepherd OF
KINGDOM Come" In both Of which Sh.
had to wear only the generous. shape
less clothing OF mountain girl where
In little fat doesn't show Molly was,
as every moviegoer knows n great hit
IN both these releases.
The First National rSople were tickl<d
pink. Molly took some time off. as
BELTS a Holl-' 'ood success. ard while
she was away AL Rocket ard hiS firm
planned four big pictures in which she
was to be starred in years Tine
Molly had arrived,
Nov. whether Molly's rest after her
strenuous work Of making pictures
brought II about or whether there was
more Ice cream and candy the fact Is
that when Molly csme back to the
studio she Weighed 100 pounds,
AZ a glance Al realized WHIST had
happened, He saw All his plans gone
Rwry. He was too uccpiuSsSd 10 talk
WcrdlsSsl'. piteoCSly. II all they So is
tue, he thrust into Mclly's hands the
dress she had worn In THE Patent
leather Kid ana toll her 10 put Ii on.
In daEe, Molly did her hest but she
couldn't get single button into Its
h1lel She looked at Rocket, and Rocket
looked at her. and-weli, YOU may
imaglnei
And these new pietures," groaned
Rocket. You'd have TO wear the
smartest troekS You'd have 10 be- thin.
WHY Can you imagine fat heroine
in an evening dress waddlinS into the
heroS arms"
AL Rocket pleaded and Stormed.
Molly promised and weps But she
didn't set thin They sent her up 10
Arrowhead Springs. favorite water
Ing place. and a constant attendant
piled her with spinach and lamb. lamb
and spinach, But the weight remained
And the other day First National can
celed Mclly's starring contract and
abandoned her To her own night
against fat.
The irony ot II is that Molly may
have Just grown up, that nature never
her 10 be modern Sylph.
but buxom, heroic woman like her
mother, she Is, fogSot to say. Just
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