Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1930, Page 37

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MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE HOLLYWOOD, July 17 (N.AN.A).— Elsie Janis, one of the greatest names in the American theater, today is the most forlorn figure in the entire ugiverse. The American girl whose success be- hind the footlights at home, abroad, back of the front-line trenches of the World War, was dependent on the direction and supervision and constant eompanionship of her mother, Tuesday laid that mother to rest at a simple little ceremony in Hollywood. Perhaps for the first time since she can remember, Elsie Janis had a re- sponsibility t could not to turned over to * She took down the telephone’ herself and asked a few close friends to attend the funeral services,: and she explicitly asked her friends in the colony to refrain from attendance or expression of sympathy unless she| herself asked for them. In 1897 Elsie Janis made her stage debut. Her youthful age made neces- sary her mother’s constant attendance. That attendance never waned. During her years in the theater “Ma” Janis had gone with her daughter to every performance. She had stood in the wings and directed Elsie in taking her curtain calls. When the audience clamored for an encore, it was “Ma” Janis, not Elsie, who decided which song would suit their mood be: “Go back out. They want another bow. They're calling for you, Elsie.” And the comedienne would dash out and graciously do as her mother had bidden her. The legend of Elsie Janis' broken fomances as the result of maternal supervision 1§ no idle one. Time and again she has admitted to friends that | the close companionship of her mother | precluded another and even closer asso- ciation being formed. During, their waking hours the two were inseparable. And it was the daughter who was com- pletely dominated by the mother’s judg- | fi ment and likings. In an interview with Ashton Stevens| the actress once frankly admitted that she had not married because of her mother's interest, in her life. “I have & mother and a’ sense of humor,” she had said at that time, “so I shall get slong wonderfully. ‘When motion ures Avew Elsle Janis away from vorld of t"1e thea- ter and to this center of entertalnment manufacture she went under contract to Paramount studio. . One of Aryan race. 5. Store. . Mountain pass. Ashen. . Molten debris. . Part. 5. In the near future. 7. Persia. . Gaelic! 9. Flee in haste: coll. . Biblical patriarch. . Turkisn title. . Tarry. . Coincides. . Erose, . French coins. . Savior. . Aggregating gods of a people. . Takes sustenance. Barren. | . Upper thigh guard in medieval | armor. . Cutting tool. Man's name. Admonish. 25. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLR. | 36. 30. w"‘&'." E L jolo]RINAICIEISEMETS Al jA]p|PIRIC PRI WiEMo/A M NIlSIT] IRIEIEIN|AIG € MATVI/IAIA] [oRE] D] [RIE]S] |LIEMRIOINIDIO] L3 Y SIoREST] MERRICK. ‘When she reported on the lot to talk contract, “Ma” Janis was at her elbow. It was the older woman who read the contract through while Elsie sat and talked of one thing and another; Mrs. Janis who pointed out the weak and who thought up the neat little clauses which were to turn to Elsie Janis’ advantage. Elsie Janis supervised a revue for that studio. Each morning when her car turned in the studio gate two descended from it—the inseparable pair, Elsie Janis and her mother. Mrs. Janis had her chair next to her daughter's on the set, and the maternal seal of approval must be placed on any and everything Elsie Janis did. on “Madame Satan. Janis, as had been her tom through the years, was her ter's inseparable companion and co- operator in this work. It was “Ma” Janis' voice on the telephone when there were calls for Elsie Janis. And in all their leisure hours they played to- gether s stanchly as they worked side by side. Elsie Janis attended no par- ties without her mother. ‘There is & _contract to be finished in Hollywood. Elsie Janis had been tak- ing & brief vacation at the time when er mother was stricken. There is & career of work which has carried the actress into middle age which cannot be snapped off thus ruthlessly, even though fate has robbed her of the mother who had dominated her enmtire existence. " For the first time in her life Elsie Janis will face contracts and problems and the harassing duties of existence without s buffer between her and the outside world. “Ma” Janis, that stout ally, that indomitable spirit, that un- agging devotee of Elsie Janis' career, is no more. There is nobody to take her place. 1If the Janis car rolls through the studio gates again, the slim little figure of the most famous daughter in the world will step from it alone. Death has done for Elsie Janis what romance could never do—it has stepped between her and her mother; it has cruelly snapped the most amazing bond of devotion which has ever been recorded between s mother and her child. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Allianee. . Remove. Eagerly attentive. . Forepart of a shoe. 5. Domestic animals, . Opportune. . Listless. . Con. . Accomplishes. Nurture and train. . Petitions, Down. . Summer resorts. . Spare. 3 glc%:lnll ?‘lfl . Exchange for a price, . Photographic plates. . Durable, . _Elliptical. Having rectangular inserts. African charms. it 3 . Concealed. oo b Do g | . Interfere. jend : . Priend: . City in India. . Keep in safety, Brokerage. [ Home, Sweet Home. MARK. ¥/ WORDS, ALOYSWS P MSGINIS, I DONT INTEND - By Pop Momano . A Familiar Voice. MUTT, Meése RePORTERS ARE WERE TO GET AWANDFUL oF NICWELS INA TELEPHONE JBOOTH ! I'LL FIGHT ‘Wi FoR A MILLION DOLLARE, WINNER ) Y PHOTOGRAPHS ¢ PHOTOGRAPHS ! WHY DID I EVER START THIS OLD BEAUTY CONTEST? IT HAS WORN OUT SiIX LETTER CARRIERS ALREADY — THe POST OFFICE 1S EXPRESSING ‘€M To ME IN CRATES Now ! - DOC, You BECAME CRAIRMAN “THE GREENS COMMITTEE AT " A FAVORABLE TME. THE COURSE IS IN GRAND CONDITION, BVER Y POSSIBLE /MPROVEMENT WAS BEEN MADE S!o THERE'S NOTHING FOR 0U “To Do XCEPT To SEE TTAA I IN CONDITOIOM» 2 TR KEW KNOW, MOM 4 A FRESH KID CAME UP BEMWIND ME AN’ PUSHED ME ON MY D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1930. Mt 4] et HABURGER AN'T A GAL TO BE TRIFLED W ] iz HES WHALW TR STUFFIN QUTA THAT B8\G BuLLN- AN | THOUGHWT SANDN WAS THE PuBLIC 1S ANXIOUS To G&T THe CHAMPIONSHP BACK, MmuTT, BUT .\ “MERE ARE ENOUGH PICTURES HERE To PAPER THE WRLL OF CHINR! 1T'S A LOT OF WORK, BUT=— THINIK_HOW HAPPY \T wiLt MAKE ' SOME LITTLE GIRL WHEN SHE SEES HER NAME IN THE PAPER AS THE WINNER !, THERE'S PLENTY OF RoOM FOR IMPROVEMENT ON TAIS COURSE AND M MAKING “THOSE IMPROVEMENTS AS FAST AS MAYBE 1T WAS ONLY AN ACCIDENT! NAW, HITS DOCTOR'S ORDERS MESCAL _HE SAID HIT WAS BAD FER MY NERVES IF L STAV" OUT AFTER NINE MAD ABOUT MONEY SURE T'M MAD - WHEN 1 THINK HOW PROUD HER PARENTS AND SWEETHEART AND FRIENDS WILL BE, IT CINES ME SATISFACTION To KNow 1T WAS DUE To MY EFFORTS! - e— HEARD IT A THOUSAND. TMES BERORE — WHOSE \S IT? WHERE DID I HEAR IT LAST ? WHO CAN IT BE? ’ SANDN - Nou PARLIN'= Nou JUST COULDWT BUT = THEN AGAIN, THINK OF THE THOUSANDS OF GIRLS WHO WiLL NOT WIN = How UNHAPPY T MAKE THEM ! d e AW, WHY DID 1 START THIS THING ANYWAY ? THATS ONE OF MY IMPROVEMENTS, NOW THE MEMBERS WHO “PuLL UP 52 THE BDIRECTION OF THE GET T, ACCIDENT HAPPEN To HIM &~ HE wENT HOME WITR A BIG BLACKEYE!'

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