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newcomers to the screen, and never youthful ones. Whether new faces will the fans to decide. Enough, for the some of the youthful invaders who have their mark.
David Rollins won his spurs in "The High-school Hero."
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Leo Kelly has played leads in independent films.
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age she joined a vaudeville act — with a magician, or something. Later she and her mother came to Hollywood, though they were the only two who seemed aware of it. Finally, work was promised her at one of the studios, because our Marjorie said she had an evening dress, which she did not have. But on the promise of work, her mother scraped up sufficient capital to buy her an evening gown. Marjorie went to work dressed to kill and received seven-fifty for one day — all the work she got !
Things did not always turn out like that. Work in Universal comedies followed. Fox engaged her for several pictures and, seeing they had a "find," signed her to a contract. "Ankles Preferred" and "Very Confidential" attracted notice to her.
Notice is likewise spreading all over James Ford, who has been signed by First National. While doing a bit in "The Divine Lady," he was seen by Corinne Griffith, Avho discerned possibilities in him. She drew her husband's attention to him, and their ardent notice concen
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Marjorie Beebe has starred.
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trated into a powerful idea and got Ford signed up. He appeared with Miss Griffith in "Outcast," and with Alice White in "Naughty Baby."
While the boys are still feasting on Marjorie Beebe, you girls may gaze at Ford. He is very handsome, and is sure to cause some kind of disturbance when he is seen on the screen.
Born in Massachusetts, James did everything — that is, in the way of work. He was a trolley-car conductor ; he worked in a bakery, and he did other things. But the stage was always in his mind — pictures most of all, he urges me to put in. To get a chance, he went to New York. While waiting to get a whack at the cinema, he became captain of the bell hops at a club.
After being one of the supernumeraries in "The Love Call" and "The Student Prince" on the stage, he joined a stock company and played in New York and Boston. Two years ago he came to Hollywood.
Believe me or not — and I hope you know I'm truthful — Ford had twenty-six tests taken, and got nothing from any of them. He was just about to give up the celluloid ghost, and go back to New York, when Corinne Griffith espied him.
His mother and sister are now in Hollywood with him. Sister Rita has no movie inclinations, but is a secretary in a business concern. From now on she is going to be the most popular girl in the office — that is, with the other girls.
Another smiling youth is David Rollins. He belongs to the Fox menage, winning -a contract for his work in "The High-school Hero." He, too, comes from Kansas City. He spent all his life there until his people moved to Glendale, California. He put in his last two years at
Greta Granstedt i n o s e Harmony."
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