Show c. c l HOLLYWOOD q r Little tittle Peggy Doesn't Like Star Worship By SHE SHEILAH L I GRAHAM NEW V YORK YORK Little Peggy Conklin Conk- Conk Hn lin is 13 in som somewhat what of a a. fix Y You u see Ice she dislikes Hollywood intensely but but butin in a weak moment promised Walter Vatter Vanger she would make two pictures a year for him over a period of or five years year and tho the time has now now arrived when she must pa pack k her her belongings kiss her new husband goodbye and venture once more to the detested film mm city But I shant shan't stay longer th than n two months she told this writer vehemently in her dressing room at atthe atthe atthe the Ritz theater while whilo preparing hurriedly for her last appearance in Unknown Hollywood Experience She wont won't stay that long if it I Ican Ican Ican can help it added her looking good husband broker James D. D Thomp Thomp- son Peggy ceased makeup activities ties tes to murmur You sweet darling darlingto to her mate and to tell me the only reason Im I'm going to Hollywood Is bec because use nowadays it it- itis is essential for foran foran foran an actress to have film experience in order to get a following on the stage As proof the only notes I receive praising my work come from people who saw me in the two bad pictures I made in Hollywood His Masters Master's Voice and Way One Ticket She received the best personal notices ever aver given a second rate film film ilm chimed in the adoring Mr Thompson I The question What if you If-you you make a ft big success this time elicited the reply Im rm going to unless Mr talks me into playing a part that doesn't suit me mc could cajole the archangel Gabriel himself into playing an imp He tarts starts tart by saying he has a good part for lor you Before hes he's through you arc are more convinced convinced con con- vinced than he is that the part was made for you But even if he is right this time Im I'm still returning to Broadway There is no re real l future in film work ork Miss Conklin resumes resumes The tiThe life lile of a screen actress is very short A few years of fame and Its It's all over On the stage you can go on onas onas onas as long as your memory holds true She Is Is' reminded that sufficient money can be made during a short but successful screen career that will take care of f enforced years of I idleness I Sham Adulation One of the things I disliked most In Hollywood was the reverence given actors and actresses who made big money Peggy replied All the towing kow-towing that went on when when- mentioning the name of a astar star you all know came know came on on the set made madene me n more determined than ever that no matter how great a suc success ess I might have in pictures I would not stay in Hollywood to f receive the sham adulation that goes with it IL The only good resulting from picture pic plc- ture work as Peggy sees It is the excitement of watching yourself act one thing one thing you cant can't do on the stage The screen is an amazing mirror and conceit killer killerI I defy anyone even anyone anyone en even Garbo to Garbo-to to be satisfied satis satis- fied fled with her acting ability after seeing herself perform for the first time tima on the screen The thousands of people who saw Miss Conklin in the stage version of The Petrified Forest with Lesne Leslie Leslie Les Les- lie ne Howard found no fault with her acting prowess Neither do the folks back home in Dobbs Ferry N. N Y where Peggy started life inauspiciously inauspiciously as the daughter daughter- of a tavern keeper Her first stage appearance In a charity performance for the benefit of Saint Faiths Faith's home was sponsored sponsored spon spon- by py the Thursday club composed composed composed com com- posed of the leading social lights of Hudson on and Courtland Smith then vice president president president dent of Fox films was in the audience audience audi I ence and he told the eyed eager brun brunette tte she had talent and should go on the stage |