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Introducing An All-star Cast
Photo .by Louise
A. L. Wooldridge has a filing system
crammed with information about the
stars.
ALMA TALLEY.
Alma Talley is the richest of fanmagazine writers ! She doesn't say so, but seeing is believing. When one is ushered into her Park Avenue home — a cooperative apartment that she owns, my dears — one knows that she is a success. But her manner is not that of the Park Avenue we see in the movies. Mercy, no !
Alma is slim and dark and sympathetic, so simple and regular that only her bright, deep eyes tell you that she knows as much about the movies as The Oracle himself. Like most people who are better informed than the rest of us, she is loath to talk about herself.
As she puts it, "Born St. Louis — do I have to say when? Started writing at the age of eight, with the idea that a bit of genius was lurking somewhere about. Sent out stories when I was eleven, which of course came back, usually with a footnote written on the rejection slip, 'We do not consider manuscripts unless typewritten.' For
years I felt that all that stood between me and fame was the lack of a typewriter.' Time lapsed, ye gods, how it has lapsed ! — and I went to Lindenwood College, St. Charles, Missouri, for two years. Why? Because" I received a scholarship, and because it was near enough to go home to parties on week-ends."
To hear her talk you would never think that she has earned success by dint of determination and hard work. She's reviewed pictures, interviewed almost every star with anything at all to say, written feature articles, poems, and short stories, and altogether has had things published in twenty magazines. Yes, Alma's public has made her what she is to-day.
Editors adore her, because she's absolutely to be depended on for a first-rate story ready at the moment promised, with nary a comma out of place, let alone a fact. If she's rich, there's a reason.
She goes to the theater as constantly as a professional critic, loves antique jewelry, simplicity in people and food, and is as nicely balanced as a scale on which diamonds are weighed.
H. A. WOODMANSEE.
Horace A. Woodmansee is long and lean and thirty. On his first visit to a nickelodeon, in 1907, he was badly bitten by the movie bug and has never recovered. When scarcely out of short pants he was so absorbed in pictures that he spent most of his spare time in studying films and writing scenarios. The only results, at the time, were low marks in Latin and algebra.
On leaving college he went into newspaper work, and wrote jokes and skits for comic magazines. This led to work as a gag man in comedies. In one studio he was regarded as a curiosity, because he actually made up his own
gags. While there he earned the nickname, "The Professor," probably because of his wearing cheaters and a melancholy expression. So would anybody who had to think up funny ideas while staring out of a window at the tombstones of the cemetery across the street. He is outwardly reserved ; inwardly., who knows? He is taken by some gullible Hollywoodites to be fearfully learned, while he is considered something of an ignoramus by his friends in Boston. This amuses him a great deal.
Madeline Glass is a graduate of "What the Fans Think."
Photo by Witzel