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SCREENLAND
The Battle of the
OME things burn me up ; and one of them is to hear people say that stage expcrience is terribly valuable in the movies!
Where do they get that stuff? Why don't they open their eyes and look about them?
The biggest picture stars today have never been backstage in their lives, except on social visits. I'll admit there are a few exceptions— not more than a handful of them — who prove the general rule.
As to Hollywood chorus girls, I've worked with
them in quite a number of pictures now, and I find every time that the brightest, the snappiest and the smartest of them are girls who have walked right up to the casting bureau and filed their applications without an hour of stage experience back of them.
They are fresh — I mean in the nice, unspoiled way. They haven't been through the Broadway musical comedy mill which is pretty sure to take away some of their freshness.
Think what it must be to play in an old-fashioned show! You rehearse for weeks; and then you go on doing the same thing for months and months, night and day —
Alice insists stage experience is not essential to screen success.
Broadway 'Follies' Graduates
Who'll Win the
By Alice White
HOLLYWOOD ALUMNUS
that is, if you're lucky enough to be in a successful production! I know that I couldn't stand it for a month.
You can sometimes see the effects of it in the girls who come out to Hollywood with all the so-called 'glory' of Broadway behind them ! They lack elasticity; they are not adaptable. The studio routine gets them. No wonder some of them fail to fit into the studio life and have to go back to jobs along the Great White Way!
There's one funny thing about this business of the actors and actresses who come out to California full of wise-cracks. They may like to pose as highhatting the screen, but {Continued on page 106)
Hollywood's "Show Girl" kicks up her heels at the idea of a Broadway background for tnovie maidens.
Broadway never produced a prettier showgirl than Olive Hatch — in fact, Olive is a strictly Hollywood product!