Frances Farmer, former University of Washington co-ed, who left Seattle on a bus in 1935 to see the wide world, and to seek her fortune, came home last night in a transport airplane, as befitted a star of the moving pictures.

Many things, some of them hardly conceivable, had happened to her. In less than a year she had become a sort of Cinderella in the eyes of moving picture fans. Her name had blossomed in lights on the marquees of the nation’s theatres. So, according to the old custom of the "flicker" industry, she was accorded a setting into which to step when she descended from the plane.

Photographers There

The setting consisted of one press agent (who swore she made $1,000 a week), one bouquet of roses, several theatre men, and flashes of bright blue light from the flash bulbs of four photographers.

Frances Farmer, who always did and said about as she pleased when she was a co-ed, did it again, and was, bless her heart, a little disconcerting to her setting.

Faced with that hardest of hard jobs, coming back to the old home town a success, she climbed off the plane, looking, talking and acting exactly as she did when she climbed on the bus for a trip to Russia, which she won by selling subscriptions to a newspaper.

Had Her Own Eyebrows

Although she had found fame and fortune on the return trip by way of New York and Hollywood, she might have been climbing out of an automobile after a shopping trip.

She wore no makeup, save a little lipstick; she wore a coat which could have been worn on the campus on a rainy day, and she had her own eyebrows.

She explained about the eyebrows after she had been photographed, had kissed her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Farmer, and had greeted the theatre men. She will appear in person Friday evening when the motion picture, "Come and Get It," has its world’s premiere at the Liberty Theatre. She stars in the film adapted from Edna Ferber’s story.

"They did all sorts of things to me in New York, when I had my screen test," she said. "They shaved off my eyebrows - it was like sitting in a dentist’s chair wondering what tooth he’d pull out next - and they cut my hair, gave me a permanent wave and experimented with makeup. I got up and looked in the mirror and saw a new face."

"But when I got out to Hollywood, they didn’t seem to notice me so much, and so I finally got my eyebrows back. I’ve been trying to be natural ever since, and I’m beginning to succeed, I think."

"How did it feel to become a success in one short year?"

"It’s dangerous," she said. "Until this last picture, I haven’t been sure what I was doing. I felt better about it in this last one, but before I felt that I didn’t know anything. It was very confusing. But pictures are a great medium."

Did she ever feel that she was "going Hollywood?"

Actress Frances Farmer