Motion Picture News (Sep-Oct 1916)

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2744 ACCESSORY NEWS SECTION Vol. 14. No. 17 Her Movie Career Reads Like a Fairy Story— A year ago Doris Grey, a Chicago girl, had never been inside a movie studio. TODAY Thanhouser features her in leading roles. Somewhere Around Chicago Are Other Girls Like Doris Grey Somewhere among the 200,000 Herald buyers and among their friends are restless young women and young men waiting for an opportunity to show the world they can act. THE PEOPLE’S MOVIE STAR CONTEST Conducted by the CHICAGO HERALD gives them — gives YOU this opportunity to stand before the eye of the producer who “ discovered ” Doris Grey. It offers you a chance to play any one of 89 roles in a great photoplay feature, to be produced under the supervision of Louella O. Parsons, Herald photoplay critic. It offers you the chance to become famous overnight. And that leap to fame is no flight of anyone’s fancy. Again and again it has been demonstrated that screen players develop during the taking of the first five-reel picture. Many of the strongest personalities in filmland jumped from “ nowhere.” You’ll Have to Hurry! Already hundreds of Herald movie fans have entered this contest, believing they have that inherent talent, those unrealized attributes for which every director in screenland is ever looking. Begin today. The longer you put off entering, the less chance you have to win. Elsewhere in this issue appear particulars about the progress of the contest ; how to enter, what it can mean to you. New tips and suggestions appear every day in the 89 Amateurs Wanted Four Star s — O n e woman, one man, one little girl and one boy. Five Young Men — Substars. Five Young Women — Substars. Seventy-five persons of both sexes for minor roles. CHICAGO HERALD CIRCULATION OVER 200,000 DAILY Be sure to mention “ MOTION PICTURE HEWS ” when writing to advertisers