H. B. WARNER

Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3271, 12 March 1931, Page 2

H. B. WARNER

BERNICE IS ONE STAR WHO HAS NOT “GONE HOLLYWOOD.”

It is interesting to note the various effects of popularity on various newformed stars. Keeping the bad examples anonymous, it takes no effort to prove that many of our featured players who were sufficiently humble to work in dress shops for 20 dollars per week a few months ago are now crammed with sophistication and a general bored attitude toward life in general in this worst of all possible worlds, and that social contact with them is unendurable to all but those who patronise them for favours. An extremely pleasant case pointing in the opposite direction is that of Bernice Claire, star of First National productions. Miss Claire is one of our newest and brightest stars, and has managed to twinkle throughout her metamorphosis without the glare and eyesores caused by so many of her contemporaries. In a. perfume symposium collected by One. of our largest fan magazines reporters stealthily inquired of various stars’ likes and dislikes in that commodity. Imagine their embarrassment on discovering that Miss Claire not only does not affect a 40-dollars-an-ounce Fleur de Floosie odour, but that she uses no perfumes at all, no scented soaps, and no scented bathsalts. Astounding ! Alice M. Eggers", a vocal teacher who taught Miss Claire back in Oakland, her first of a great many, still visits Miss Claire every week end to continue instruction. Imagine retaining a three-dollars-an-hour instructor after being a star ! While Miss Eggers has been rewarded with many times over a threedollars fee, the fact that Mjiss Claire still retains her first teacher is a fact indicative of her entird attitude to her name in a million electric bulbs in the United States.