The Picture Show Annual (1928)

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20 Picture Show Annual sheltered. Her father, you see, was a very prosperous business man whose chief ambition with regard to his daughter was to shower all the luxuries of life upon her and gioe her a thoroughly good time. It came pretty hard for the girl, then, when, through a reversion of fortune, her father lost his money, and Norma found it imperative to earn her own living. What could she do ? With sickening heart she realised that she wasn't trained for any profession — except perhaps the stage and the screen, where her appearance might stand her in good stead. She didn't pretend to herself that she was an actress, for she didn't know if she had any ability in that direction. Still, something had to be done, and so with all the. money she could muster she set forth to New York. And thus started her four years of setbacks, ever, deprivation. She simply lived on an occasional day's work as an extra. Then suddenly her luck changed. She got a part in a film comedy — a role all to herself — and she showed them that she COULD act as well as look beautiful It was the first step, and although all the following steps were also small, they were all on the up grade. And during this time she learned a lot, playing as she did in films with Lillian Gish, Alice Joyce, Marion Davies, Corinne Griffith, and other actresses already famed. She watched their work intently, hoping against hope that one day she would become on their level. And now she has her hope fulfilled, and everyone must admit that she deserves it. Norma is as pretty as a picture. She won a beauty prize once; but, though many girls have achieved fame and fortune over a beauty competition. Norma merely •had personal satisfaction over it. Her complexion is of the rose-leaf order, and her eyes are blue, while her dark hav curls in the most delightful manner. No wonder she charms the filmgoer. THE GIRL WHO WOULD NOT GIVE UP // ever a girl had the gift of perseverance, that girl is Norma Shearer. Now that she is an acknowledged success in pictures, now that she has thousands and thousands of admirers, now that her name is known to every picturegoer throughout the world, it is hard to realise that there was a time when she trapesed from studio to studio for four years with only an occasional day's work as an extra. For four whole years I Just think of it I Many a girl would have been discouraged after four weeks, let alone four years. Bat Norma was not thai kind of girl. She would not give up. All the setbacks in the world could not discourage her. She hadn't been trained for any particular work. As a matter of fact, her childhood and early girlhood had been specially Norma Shearer and