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Strange Roads
There are five major roads to screen success.
the most spectacular, incredible of any. Yet it is
tells you what it is, who have tried it,
By Al
l'hoto by Bruno
Josephine Dunn accompanied a friend to the Paramount school and was urged to enroll, though her friend was
rejected.
ALMOST every girl would like, to get into the movies. And almost every boy. "I'm a screen-struck cutie" could be the national theme song.
"You're just <*s pretty as Clara Bow any day!" Minnie's boy friend will tell her and, in her secret moments before the mirror, Minnie thinks so herself.
But Clara Bow is in the movies and Minnie isn't. Minnie, standing over the dinner dishes, si^hs and yearns for her share of Hollywood glory.
"I low can I get into the movies?" she asks herself. She asks her friends and the fan magazines. The answer is always the same : "Not a chance ! You have to have pull to do it."
That isn't all the answer, of course. It takes considerably more than pull.
How does one get into the movies?
Every one knows, of course. what might he called the five major roads to screen success.
You can make good first on the stage, so that film producers will see you and knock on your
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dressing-room door with a contract. Ina Claire, Mary Eaton, Ruth Chatterton — of course there are scores of recently prominent screen players who are recruits from Broadway. Not to mention the many established film stars with preliminary stage experience.
You can win a beauty contest — or can you? Clara Bow did, and Lois Wilson, and Mary I hilbin, and several dozen others.
You can start as a model, either for magazine covers or fashions, so that your face becomes your fortune and film producers pursue you. Like Alice Joyce, Norma Shearer, and Anna O. Nilsson.
You can, if you're of the masculine gender, become a champion cowboy, with your riding or lassoing a coveted screen asset. Like Tom Mix, Ken Maynard, and Buck Jones. But Westerns aren't so popular these days.
Or you can struggle up the tortuous hill from extra roles, as Gloria Swanson, Richard Arlen, and Ricardo Cortez all did.
But all these stories have been told. They are the customary paths trod by the feet of the great on the road to stardom.
This story deals with another road to screen fame that isn't on the bonks at all. The most spectacular,
incredible way of any. Into the movies by accident ! Just a little, lucky chance. Many screen-struck boys and girls have sat and sighed for a chance at fame and glory. But only the lucky few have had that fame and glory flung into their laps.
Sue Carol, for instance. Sue, in the days when she was Evelyn Lederer, was a belle of Chicago. Her parents had money. Sue was reared in luxury. She went away to school, to Kemper Hall in Wisconsin, to the fashionable National Park Seminary in Washington. If she thought of the movies at all, it was in just the same way that little Minnie does, fretting over the dinner dishes : a lovely, nebulous dream, never to be realized.
And then Sue — or Evelyn— went to Hollywood on a visit. She too, like any other tourist, was thrilled.
Nick Stuart, as errand boy,
delivered a parcel to Tom
Mix.