Show I Gloria Swanson Fights Illness While Whale Making Latest Screen Product Inside Story of Envied Film Queen Is Revealed Fames Fame's Cost Nerves Says gloria as She Rests By GENE CORN COHN COHNN N NEA EA Service Writer NEN EW YORK June 26 Glorious Gloria Swanson grand lady hoyden of the tho screen Is I playing her offstage scenes under the direction or of one ot of leading nerve nelVO specIalists The battle she aho has waged and Is Isnow now In the tho face of great reat physical odds constitutes one ot of the most human Inside stories of the rums films a aIt It was a worn harassed and wistfully wistfully fully app Glorious Gloria who revealed re chapters hitherto unknown to aU ail but her intimates In an exclusive exclusive ex- ex interview for The Telegram C The Tho circumstances that led to this interview are not secret to the trade All buzzed for weeks about the unheard ot of goings c un on or of the million dollar dollar illion-dollar star The gossip leaped the fence of the Paramount AstorIa studio and and found its way to the theatrical and rum film l ap And the reports have havo not been heen flattering Day upon day It Is known half a extras e tras have Idled on the thes s sot t of Pine Manners which Is to tobe tobe be Miss 1 Swansons Swanson's last picture before before be- be fore joining the exclusive circle ot of United Features They have stretcHed out on benches sleeping chatting and drawing their pay A 2500 a week male star h has s ill also so caught up considerable sleep and I drawn consIderable extra pay And Miss s 's salary has gone sone on onI I at al 1000 a day About 4 In the her car has had drawn up whereas work Is supposed to begin at around 10 o'clock In the morning The picture to have cost thus tar far due to delays and ami the end Is not yet In sight a r What hat can I do asks Gloria frankly putting her cards upon the table For ten years I worked to reach my position The fact Is th that t my doctors have told me It if I gb through I Ithe the usual arduous arduous' day bf or film work Ill I'll collapse And no one knows better than I how trul truly they speak The world knows how close I Iwas Iwas was to death In Paris last year I came bade back terribly weakened And yet I worked In California In Florida In New York Last winter I was seriously ill from flu The after atter effects were too much Not long afterward a nervous breakdown began I thought I was oh dying many times My l doe doc tors kept telling me I must rest But I went on And mind you all the time I had my my two children business details to look after lawyers lawyers law law- waiting at my door In the morning a house under tion I would come home In a state slate ot of c collapse and taU fall not Into sleep but n. n state ot of unconsciousness I went to lo Atlantic City I had reached the state where I couldn't eat or digest what I had eaten One of the leading nerve specialists has had me In charge I dont don't want to bore you with a tale of symptoms but you know science has found out outa a great deal about the ductless glands And they found I was a This c condition spurs one to work beyond ones one's capacity I have been warned that I must walk such and such a distance daily dalh I must eat only certain foods and I must have no suggestion ot of business or worry when I eat I tell teU you I almost have felt myself grow lifeless I have gone on to act with my heart pounding more than a hundred beats a min min- L Is S 4 f w r x t I II Its It's no Ile trouble for Gloria I Swanson to register care these days C ute Id I'd like to be able to describe the feeling I get when my car reaches the ninth Fifty street |