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THE QGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINER SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1925 The film star leaving America on the trip, that ended in her becoming one of Europe's titled nobility 1 In'Placing the Credit Don't jg' Forget What Elinor Glyn Did to Smooth Down the Former Shop Girl's Rough Edges and Teach Her the Polite Social Graces of the Born i Aristocrat WELVE years ago Gloria Swanson was wrapping bundles in a Chicago department store. To-day she is Mme. la Marquise de lac Falaise de la Coudray, and can sweep into, palaces and castles along with queens, duchesses and all the rest of Europe's titled great ones. The rank of "queen" is liberally be- ''stowed on motion picture stars by their admirers, but Gloria is the first screen actress to annex a real title. The Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudray belongs to.

one of the 'oldest and most distinguished families in France. He inherited his title some years ago through the death without heir of his father's oldest brother. The marquis-is a handsome charming manners and magnetic personality. His war record--which includes two citations for bravery ana a Croix de Guerre--casts a -glamor about him, and the slight limp which results from one of his wounds, does not detract from his fascination in feminine eyes. His own social presence, backed by his distinguished family connections, opens-to him and, of course, to his bride, the most exclusive drawing rooms on the continent and in England.

And Gloria Swanson, the bathing be.auty, how does she bear herself in these circles, to-which only birth and breeding customarily gain admission? Friends and relations of the marquis who might perhaps have regarded his union with an American girl of undistinguished ancestry as a mesalliance have been amazed at the dignified and assured bearing of the new marquise. Gloria, old friends and new agree, wears her title regally. Miss Swanson has played in "society" drama for years, and has always been noted for wearing gorgeous gowns. But Gloria has something more than the ability to display costly clothes. She is grande dame finger tips.

All actresses, of course, learn to walk gracefully, to make an impressive entrance into a drawing room. But Gloria has more than these accomplishments. The marquis's friends have marveled at her exquisite tact and poise, her mastery of all the little graces that mark the woman of breeding and long experience in fashionable society. This little actress from America had that nameless charm, that je ne sais quoi, for centuries regarded as the exclusive possession of the aristocrat. The question was, how did.

she come by it? There was nothing in 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 father, Joseph T. Swanson was a soldier in the army. Elinor Glyn, Gloria's social tutor, and another of her proteges, Rudolph Valentino Gloria's childhood was not different from that' of thousands of.

girls in middle class homes. She attended the public schools of Chicago, but her education was cut short in her teens the necessity to earn her own living. She got a job wrapping bundles in a department store. But wrapping up bundles day after day did not appeal to the exuberant, fun-loving Gloria. So she migrated to Hollywood, just then becoming the Mecca of ambitious girls.

were not so plentiful, nor so glittering as they are to-day. The only engagement Gloria could secure was as one of a group of bathing "beauties, in a production. She continued for some time in bathing girl comedies. Her beauty and. vivacity made her a favorite.

It was during these early days that she met and wedded her first husband, Wallace F. Beery. Shortly a this the discriminating eye of Cecil B. DeMille, an connoisseur of feminine'loveli- ness, upon Miss Swanson. He; such possibilities in her that he raised her almost immediately to stardom.

I can't wear evening gowns," she wailed. "They never look right on me. I can't walk' in She overcame this and so successfully that her. rivals began to accuse her of only a horse." Soon after her divorce, from Miss Swanson A daughter, born them-a few years ago. in the-most, elusive society, and she.

became -social, savoir- faire and She'-- is -the author of in- likes to in '-flesh Lady Duff. mous ashion creator, long recruited'. her'. mannequins' from th'e ranks-' untu-' shop A -rigid' course, training "-her establishment '-instilled in, them charm; "and- grace-of-a w.oman. of fash- celebrated -as -one of women one' o'f What her sister" her a k-i n--g'; business; 'Elinor Glyn likes''to', every day; past Elinor' 'been- scenario has'-- made'' -in.

"she as an- acknowledged- It The distinguished Marquis and the bride and the 'young he fo a ny of titled ladies 611 This marriage was as as her She and Somborn last year. Gloria went on a them almost 1 The'writer's have learned. was at her-suggestidn that-AOeeri' Pringle rearranged her coiffure, th'a't Gilbert'lowered "his under direction is often" quite- thorough, and been, some who not willing 'to. pay' price. But found.

Gloria a ready" falsepride. at being "discoyered 1 She "knew -that; many a 'career'' has been'-made--or or enough'-to -knbw- that'she'could learn-things of incalcula- ble value from her "finds" Gloria proved the'most exciting to Elinor "She --hasV she often "exclaimed, meaning; that ''Miss Swanson indefinable something known as -Elinor Glyn-' wrote a scenario for Gloria. The scene, was laid in a. palatial atmosphere was finement'and culture. atmosphere Gloria shone.

J3ut-it "was not all stage. with-; 1 was learning" from' the how" a woman, of breeding acts unde'r -She -wasVon She. 'had; -'written: story purpose, -'to see that was; filmed 1 of 1.by TnOT I OVO Still Gloria Swanson to the but in real life, the proud la Falaise de la Coudray the production' of the; picture. At end of that time Glyn was'ready to pronounce her creation "perfect:" Then Gloria -went abroad 'again--to It. was on this trip that she in the--production of a film The marquis acted as her interpreter.

Paris, was buzzing about-the friendship'that was growing up between -the American and' the 'French- noblem'an. the --marquis, has always enjoyed the society of actresses. He was yery. tentive to ori her visit to France, and for.awhile his affecfions.had seeme'cUto be 'divided between the Dolly, But-'nothing came of It remained for Gloria, the. former- bathing capture'-his heart and title." There blue-eyed''actress that young "She is ex.

claimed. Gloria, it was 'much en- amored as She- at last she was atmosphere in. which-she belongei- She had-said her from Somborn that, -sne would marry again. her' third impulsive' as' that of a'runaway school irl perfectly wanted 7 1 But 'the remains, months; again. 7-- She resolved but; she'- Gloria of iier, suggestions eagerly.

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