Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

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"For one thing, I can live nicely on a very reasonable sum. I couldn't at home. Then, I have my friends and my own bungalow — it isn't paid for yet, but eventually it will be. If I returned to the town where I lived, I could stay with my married sister and possibly get back my job in the bank. But I wouldn't be happy. Here I'm a nobody, but a nobody among lots of nobodies. I'd rather be able to walk along Hollywood Boulevard and drink in the color and kaleidescopic moods of the street, even though I haven't a place of importance here, than to go back home, and be made to feel out of things." The Studio Club houses many girls who come to Hollywood to act or write. On its records are girls who have had some degree of success in both these fields, but who are now experiencing the doldrums. One girl, a writer, has had screen credit on three or four pictures during the past three years. And yet, for a whole year, she has not been ablev co find one day's work in the studios. She is staying on, doubtless in the hope that the pendulum will swing the other way again, and she will be able to repeat her former success. Whether or not she ever will, there is* no telling. Writing is an even more overrun profession in Hollywood than acting. We all hear tales about girls who came to Hollywood, and when they failed to get picture work or any sort of job, gradually drifted into the life of the demimonde in order to live; That there is an underworld in Hollywood, and that it feeds largely on green girls, and a certain class of movie-struck girl adrift, there can be no doubt. It is also true that a pretty girl in Hollywood is subjected to more temptation than if she had remained at home under the eyes of her parents, lax as that supervision is to-day. But any girl who is broke and without friends, can receive aid if she applies to the proper sources. Miss Mel told me that although the Bureau does not supply money or tickets — naturally it couldn't — it sees to it that girls who come to them, and admit candidly they're broke and ready to go home, are sheltered until money can be lent them for their fares. And the Studio Club, over which Marjorie Williams presides, does the same thing. "We can at least write home to their parents, if the girls are too proud to do it themselves, and explain the situation here. This usually results in some one sending money for the girl to return home. We're only too glad to ship them back again," said Miss Williams, "and help decrease the over supply of screenstruck girls. I'm glad to say that this oversupply has diminished lately, thanks to the true facts about conditions which are being circulated over the country to offset the Cinderella tales. "There's very little excuse for the modern girl's drifting into the life of the underworld, as a rule. Very few girls these days are so green that they don't know the whereabouts of philanthropic organizations, or can't find out where they are. Very young and inexperienced girls, and sometimes older girls, too, can be duped into the life of course, by glamorous promises of being helped into the movies. Those that go into it because they think it's an easier life have only themselves to blame when they're disappointed. We can't regulate a girl's morals, but we can be helpful, if she wants help and comes to us in time, or goes to one of the philanthropic societies in the city." The reason many of the girls don't go to the organizations, is that they want, above all things else in the world, to stay on in the picture city. "Hollywood, with a picture job," seems to be the slogan, "but Hollywood anyway." If they are able to fight the battle for existence themselves, well and good. But if they find themselves up against things and unable to see their way out, it would be to their advantage to call for help and be sent home, checking up as experience their adventures or misadventures in the town founded mostly on dreams— and bunk. CALORIES Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but a picture screen, Where we pass like walking shadows, Some too fat and some too lean. M. K. Roof.