Hollywood... Mothers

Their names are repeated on people's tongues.

This face of Hollywood is calm and elegant; in its beauty there is no trace of the wild inner turmoil that so often takes hold of the lives of actresses... And in this face appears the beauty of its women: their beauty in their home life... their beauty in bringing up their children and devoting much of their time to the service of their homes... their beauty in guarding their virtue and their faithfulness toward their husbands!

And how charming it is, this calm, elegant face of Hollywood — so let it not spring to people's minds that Hollywood has but one face, that glittering, dazzling face!

It springs to people's minds that all the beautiful women in Hollywood are film stars, or at the least candidates for that station, whose pictures will soon be ringed with a great halo of radiant lights and adorned in glittering, alluring colors. But the reality is otherwise: in Hollywood today there are many beautiful women, married and unmarried, who live a contented home life, keeping far from the tinsel of life in noisy, carnival Hollywood! So it is not strange that we should see Diana Wagner, daughter of the well-known actress Joan Bennett, with no ambition to mount that enchanted throne, and with no hopes of shining in the sky of art as her graceful mother shines — even though this young woman enjoys an ample portion of fresh beauty and charm.

And here she is, turning her face away from that bright road that dazzles her eyes, and choosing marriage to a rising young flier — serving him with her own hands, wrapping him in her tenderness, and reserving for him, and for him alone, her beauty and the grace of its enjoyment.

This class of society's beautiful ladies may meet the film stars at public parties and converse with them without affectation; but they do not change in their conduct, and they take care to preserve their good name, and that there should not be much... aristocratic, in her aristocratic house — but she is too intelligent to be content with this house, which, for all its importance in her eyes, has not the power to bring happiness to her heart — the happiness that only a man can create; a man, and a man alone!

Since her last divorce she has been keeping company with Greg Bautzer. And there are those who believe that he may well become her fourth husband. Will Joan, one wonders, keep this man, or will his lot be that of the husbands who went before him? That is what the near tomorrow will reveal to us...

It is well known of Joan that she pursues perfection, in her work and in her private life. If she learns to swim, she strives to rival Esther Williams; if she acts, she will not content herself with acting one whit less finished and less artful than the acting of Helen Hayes; and she is determined to go on improving her house and caring for it until it becomes the most beautiful house in all California!

And Joan Crawford has her gowns made to match the reception rooms of this house of hers: if a visitor takes her by surprise while she is in a blue gown, she leads him calmly and elegantly into a blue room that harmonizes with her gown; and when she adorns the lighted corner of the room with a great vase of beautiful flowers, she does not forget to keep back one single flower to pin in her hair, or in her belt at the waist, to complete the harmony of the room and the atmosphere.

This is Joan Crawford, whom people have loved on the screen for years past, and who still has her thousands of admirers and lovers. She is one of the few women who have kept this high station and whose star has not set despite her advancing years — and that thanks to her personality, her intelligence, and her constant striving to better herself and to better her beautiful house, which to this very day she still prefers to any man. Will there ever arise in Joan's life a man to hold the first place in Joan's heart, as this house does??