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HOW TO GET IN!
face, feature, complexion and form. In conclusion, let me state that the best ways in which extras can advance themselves are by studying their work, themselves,
and what the public likes, by being a close observer of the screen, and by having resolute sincerity and being "on the job" always.
By WALLACE REID
The Popular Leading Man of the Lasky Company
It is a pretty tough game to break into in this day and age, for the reason, in my humble opinion that the theatrical business that is to say, the stage —
has suffered so much in the past few years that there are thousands upon thousands of splendid actors of ability who are willing to accept very small remuneration for any work that they may be able to get in pictures. And so the smaller openings are so well filled that the poor but ambitious outsider is more or less in hard luck. It's hard to discourage burning bition, but, as I have seen it, there are only about three in a hundred that ever really get to be anything but hangers-on in the studios, despite the hardest kind of effort. And unless the tentative picture actor is mighty sure that he or she has many qualifications that will make for success, it would be very much better to seek out some vocation less crowded and certain.
WALLACE REID IN "CARMEN" (lASKy)
training, and a person without unless he happens to be exceptionally talented, has very little chance of getting in ; but, above all, the people blessed with that elusive quality known as personality — they