Show c i r nos r y r ri i ro i y The film star leaving America on the trip that ended in her be- be becoming becoming coming one of Europe's titled nobility P I II If I f I I v t 4 O k ayT q I Ia a a e I II I I I II I i t ti tirs rs 9 fg S YA Y f b bYA F FY Fd FJ J NJ d j w TWELVE WELVE years ago Gloria Swan Swan- Swanson Swanson Swan son TWELVE son was as wrapping bundles in a Chicago department store day To- To Today she is Mme lime In la Marquise de to Ia la-Falaise la Falaise de Id la Coudray and can sweep into palaces and castles along w Ith ith queens duchesses and all the rest of Europe's titled great grent ones be- be bestowed be bestowed The rank of queen is liberally stowed sto on motion picture stars by their admirers but Gloria is the first screen actress to anne annei a real title The Marquis Henri de la Ia Falaise de dela dela dela la Coudray belongs to one of the oldest and most distinguished families In Prance lie Ile inherited his title some y ears ago through the death without heir of hi his fathers father's oldest brother The marquis is a handsome youth of charming manners and magnetic per per- personality per personality His war ar which record record which in- in includes includes in includes two citations for bravery and a aCroIx aCroix aCroix CroIx de Guerre casts Guerre casts a about him and the slight limp which results from one of lu his wounds does docs not detract from his fascination in feminine eyes His own social presence backed by his distinguished family connectIOns opens to hun and of course to his bride the t-e most exclusive drawing rooms on the continent and in m England Engla id And Gloria Swanson the for former r bathing beauty how does she bear herself In these circles to which only birth and breeding customarily gain gam admission Friends and relations of the marquIs who l might perhaps have hale regarded hIS union with an American girl of undistinguished undistinguished ancestry as a n have been amazed at nt the dignified and assured bearing of the new marquISe Gloria old friends and new agree wears her title regally Miss Swanson has played in m society drama for years and has bas always been noted for wearing gorgeous gowns But Gloria has something more than tho ability to display costly clothes She is grande grandc dame to her finger tips All actresses of course learn to walk valk gracefully to make an Impressive entrance into a n drawing draving room But Gloria has more than these accomplish accomplish- accomplishments accomplishments ments The marquI marquiss marquis's S 'S friends have mar mar- marveled marveled marveled at nt her exquisite tact and pOise her mastery of all the little graces that mark the woman of breeding and long experience in m fashionable society ThIS little actress from America had that nameless charm that je le ne sais SIllS quo quoi for centuries regarded as ns the pOS pOS- pos pos-H session of the aristocrat 1 The question was ns how did she come comeby comeby comeby by It There was nothing in Glorias Gloria's early life and training which could account for her grace and charm of manner She was born in Chicago of average American parentage Her lIeI father Joseph Josephr r Swan Swanson on was a soldier in the army e f t ir rf In Placing the Credit Dont Don't sl 1 r Forget 0 What Elinor Glyn rt r Did to Smooth Down the A i ftP Former Shop Girls Girl's as c Rough Edges and Teach n x rt Her the Polite Social a y Graces of the Born l By Aristocrat hA K Elinor Glyn Glorias Gloria's social tutor tutor and another of her Rudolph Valentino 1 Glorias Gloria's childhood was i inot not different from that of S Si i i ii i thousands of girls m in mid mid- middIe middie die cla class s homes She attended at at- at tended atA A tended the public schools t of Chicago but her edu edu- eduA education education A t cation was cut short in ID fr her teens by the necessity to earn f r i her own living t She got a job M j wrapping bundles f fin in a y store But wrapping wrap wrap- ping up bundles rN 03 day after day did Ig Ignot not appeal to the r exuberant fun lov i ing mg Gloria So she migrated to 1 to Holl Hollywood Wood just lust then a n then becoming the thea Mecca of ambitious girls Stars were not so 50 plentiful plen- plen shy sa nor so glittering as they are to-day to The's The Thc s 's only engagement which l k Gloria could secure was wasas wasas wasas as one of a group of bathIng bath- bath i aw mg Ing beauties In n a comedy production She continued for some sometime sometime sometime time in bathing girl comedies come come- comedies comedies dies Her beauty and I made her a favorite favorite favorite fIt f It was during these early early days that she met mett t and and wedded her first husband hus- hus AJ band Wallace r I Beery Ij fj Shortly aft after e I this the l IB eye of Cecil I B DeMille an ad ad- ad lJ f mit ed connoisseur of feminine Oh 10 ness f-ness ness fell upon Miss Swanson He lIe 6 saw such possibilities in her that y S he raised her almost eil n Immediately 1 t 1 n iia to stardom But I cant can't wear evening gowns she wailed They never look right righton righton righton on me I cant can't walk in III them She overcame this handicap however and so 50 successfully that her rivals began to accuse her of being only a clothes clotheshorse horse Soon after her divorce from Beery MIss Swanson married Herbert Somborn A daughter Gloria was born bom to them a afew afew afew few years ago ngo 1 M rr N k r M f f y H f 7 4 1 Iv ro n 1 r s S Ss tt t c c b J r x s S H The distinguished Marquis and the bride he preferred to any of Europe's titled ladies This marriage was as unhappy as ns her first She and Somborn were dIVorced last year Gloria went to Europe on a pleasure trip She stayed only a few months then returned to Holl Hollywood wood ready to work werk again It v was ns at nt this time that Elinor GI Glyn 11 came into her life Mme Glyn Isa is a member of an aristo aristo- aristocratic aristocratic aristocratic cratic old English Inglish family Her lIeI girlhood 1 I 17 l 5 I If t 9 W WT WA T A Abr Id 4 Y I a r h S N NGa a ar r rf Ga Pr f 1 rr 4 ty a x s t ti S 7 5 I I dF K h Ls I r tt f S 5 riY r S 'S A a err v t tJ J 4 i t A r 1 dt c wc F Fr Fa r a 5 5 Y r f b o t W F rr w r was spent in the most ex- ex exclusive exclusive ex exclusive circles of English society and she became noted for h her r social sa faire and poise She is the author of in- in innumerable innumerable in innumerable numerable novels noels no els but she likes to work in flesh and blood too Her sister Lady Duff Gordon the fa- fa famous famous fa famous fashion creator long recrUIted her mannequins from the ranks of untutored untutored untutored shop girls A rigid course of training in her establishment instilled m in them all the charm and grace of a woman of fash fash- fashionable society Dolores the mannequin who has been celebrated as one of the most beautiful women of modern modem times IS ISone isone isone one of her creations What her sister did in her dress dress- dressm dress in m a kin k i n g business Elinor Glyn likes to do in e etory everyday cry day life hie For the past few years Elinor Glyn GI n has hns been en- en engaged engaged en engaged In m scenario w work ork and has made her home In Hollywood where bhe she rules a as an acknowledged queen It was inevitable that she and the tho young star frequenting fre- fre fre frequenting the same social circles should meet An attachment sprang up between them almost immediately The writers writer's e imagination was flied Cued fh ed by Glorias Gloria's beauty and vivacity What a pity that the picture should not be ab- ab absolutely absolutely ab absolutely perfect I She resolved to make mahe It so Gloria should be a true grande dame off off the stage as w n ell as on Being found by Mme GI Glyn entails entail responsibilities as ns many movie stars 01 non feature u In Inc r w have learned It was as at her suggestion that Aileen Pringle rearranged her cOiffure that Jack Gilbert lowered his Ius moustache The remodeling process s sunder under her lieI direction is often qUite thorough and there have hn been beell some who were not willing to pay the price But she bhe found Gloria a ready and apt pupIl The stars star's stage career pre prevented presented her from having any false pride at being discovered She knew that many I a career has been made or made or marred marred-by marred mannerisms poor diction or lack of pOise She was as wise enough nough to know that she could learn things s of incalculable incalculable incalculable ble value from from this tutor And of all her finds fand Gloria GlorI proved the mo most mos t e to Glyn She has it she often exclaimed e c meaning that Miss Swanson possessed that indefinable something known as Elinor Glyn wrote Tote a scenario for Gloria GlorI The scene was laid in m a palatial home The atmosphere was one of re- re refinement refinement re refinement and culture In this Gloria shone But it was not all III stage with the tho star She was as learning from the tho author how a woman of bleeding acts under all circumstances Mme Glyn GI n IS 13 a stickler for precISIon in details She was l on the set from early morning until late at night She had written the stor story for a n purpose and she intended to see that it was as filmed in accordance with her ideas Costuming the correction of mistakes made by members of the tho cast east m in oti- oti eti etiquette quette nothing quette nothing escaped her critical e eye e DIrectors stormed stage hands cursed but she had her way Gloria absorbed all of her suggestions eagerly engery But the acquaintance of the theauthor theauthor theauthor author and the tho oung star was not con con- confined confined confined fined to the lot They were together almost daily in the hours bet between een scenes cenes About a year i car was consumed in s I a Still Glo Gloria ria s Swanson vans on t te to 0 th the e moviegoers mo v but in r real I Iv life th the e ea proud Mea Marquise uise de la Ia laFalaise Falaise F a I alse de la Ia Coudray tie the production of the picture At the end of that time Mme Glyn was ready to pronounce her creation perfect Then Gloria GlorI went l abroad to agam-to again Prance It was as as on tins tillS trip that she met the marquis The star s vas as engaged in the tion production of a film drama The mal maiquis acted ns as her Soon all Paris Pans was buzzing about the friendship that was growing gro up between the charming and the French nobleman Like many other youthful aristocrats aristocrat the marquis has always enjoyed the society of actresses lIe He was very at- at at attentive ate e to Pearl White her on visit to n Fiance ton and for a awhile his affections had seemed to be dl divided Idd between the DolI Dolly hI twins ms But nothing came camo of these at- at at attachments It remained for moria the former bathing beauty to capture his 1115 heart title lItle There was and blue e blue eved eyed ed actress that something about this appealed to the young oung marquis marqui's s 's old world old orld romanticism She is not like other girls he claimed often ex- ex ex Gloria it seemed was as as much en en- en as the tho marquis She She felt i- i at ur last she sue w was s sin in the that which she atmosphere in rightfully belonged She Sho had said after her divorce from Somborn that s e would agun agim un But her third marriage never marry Impulsive as that ofa of a was as girl schoolgirl runaway runa school I am perfectly happy Gloria I lase e had a great said life I have had many things in my success I have 10 lose e I have had henl heartbreak All had I wanted was as devotion and ever found it it I havo h avo But the tho question Gloria have hae ha lase e attained her remains desire would in this way nay ay without the thc aid of o 11 the qUite nm and rutty English Inglish aristocrat wise GI Glyn n No says ays Hollywood She her title and the fact that she OWes to te it as if she had been born lives up 11 the careful tutoring to one to in ill the the she he got cot from Elinor ways of aris Glyn GI n t I 11 K 1 l i 0 h hYi Yi 11 |