Clara Horton — A Frank Admission (1925) 🇺🇸

“Why am I returning to the screen?” Clara Horton wrinkled her nose, squinted her eyes reflectively, and whispered, “Listen, I’ll tell you — because I want the money.”

Not customary, that admission, from an actress. Usually they return because art calls, or the directors beg them, or public loyalty makes them reconsider, or for some other reason which, were they candid, really cloaks the explanation that fluffy, blond Clara frankly expresses.

“That’s a plain fact, so why not admit it?

“I had been on the screen since my childhood, and was tired of all the make-believe. I wanted to live a real, ordinary life. I married, got that reality, and for a while was content with just a domestic life. Then I began to grow vaguely dissatisfied when I saw all the things I could do with the money I could make, not only for myself, but also for others. As there were no objections at home, I have come back, though in doing so I do not wish to lose the realities of life which marriage has brought me.”

Since completing her rôle in Victor Schertzinger’s “The Wheel,” she is enthusiastically preparing for her next appearance.

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Photo by Melbourne Spurr

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, October 1925