The Washington times., 1934-07-20

CHAPTER XII
Yet careful as we are about
detail, no point is ever missed
by an audience. A colored por-
ter stopped me in a station one
day and told me how he liked
Anna Christie" He said that
he had been to see it three
times. THE point that got me-"
he said, was when the old man
gave you the gate outside the
saloon and you took your mad
out just standing there picking
at your cuff. Gee, I got q kick
out of that and it taught me a
lot. After that I started taking
my mad out on my cap. I've
worn out two"
Next to clothes, people are
most curious about makeup.
Their faVorite question is, who
puts on your make-up?" If it
didn't sound as if / had the big
head, would answer, God"
My face may not be much.
but I don't do anything to it
to make it either worse or bet
ter. I wear very little makeup,
as a matter Of fact, particularly
in character parts.
Handicap
I believe that makeup takes
character away and is, there
fore, a serious handicap.
A face like mine has tremen-
dous advantages. I don't have
to park it in a cold cream jar,
I don't have to spend two hours
nightly ironing out the days
wear and tear. If I worried as
much about my face as some
folks do, I bet / could get the
prize as Miss Coney Island.
I used to cry as a little girl
when I realized that I wasn't
pretty like my sister and other
children. It really hurt. Then
I began to find that I could do
many things that the beautiful
ones could not do.
I have learned since to be
sorry for beautiful women-yes,
really. You see we all start in
life with some personality, but
when we don't use it, it goes.
The creature who is good to
look upon makes people so
happy just to be near her that
they wait on her and spoil her
and soon the personality goes,
leaving nothing behind. I saw
the beautiful Langtry once at a
gaming table in Monte Carlo
and, believe me, I was glad I
had a rubber face that was still
an asset. Langtry's beauty was
gone, her face was vapid, ex-
pressionless. inert.
There are, of course, excep-
tionS. Lillian Russell, on the
other hand, was always beau.
tiful. because her nature was
generous and lacking in ego.
Her personality ripened and
developed and enhanced her
beauty which otherwise would
have withered.
AS a matter of fact, I have
no idea what I really look like.
With an acrobatic face like
mine. I never look twice alike
either in photograph or in a
part. If a chameleon we're asked
for its picture it would not know
whether to give it's admirer one
Of the pink or plaid photos.
am in the same fix.
When I'm asked for a photo
graph I wonder whether shall
send myself as a queen or a
derelict. Caught short of queens,
I send Marthie.
Likes Animals
Another question is, Do I like
animals? Sure. I can make
elephants do things that nobody
else can make them do. Ele-
plants understand me and I un-
derstand elephants. I've owned
every breed of dog and even par
rots. At present I have no ami
mails, bit I'r. scared to death
for fear I skall fall for some
thing.
Some day my sales resistance
may be low and I'll walk home
with a giraffe, but in the mean
time I avert my eyes when I
pass pet stores. I think that
every house on the ground floor
should have a dog, a cat and a
parrot - the dog to keep the
burglars away, the cat to keep
the mice away, and the parrot
to keep callers away.
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