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SCREENLAND
Nathalie Bucknall, director of research department, at her desk in her studio workshop. Mrs. Bucknall supervises the correctness of the many details that go into the making of pictures.
G
O West, young woman, go West!"
If Horace Greeley could have known the West of today, he might have added this afterthought to his well-known and much-quoted words to young men.
Of course, to modern youth, West means Hollywood. But Horace Greeley would not have been advising youthful and feminine America to go West to become movie stars. He would have realized that such advice was unnecessary. Every train which rolls into Los Angeles is loaded with its quota of such fame and fortune seekers.
He would have been talking to the energetic, intelligent young women who do not crave the thrill and glitter of screen glories, who are looking for other avenues to success. The young women of the country don't need the advice
Above: Henrietta Frazer, designer, assistant manager of the studio wardrobe.
Upper right: Edith Farrell, competent manager of the script department.
Right: Josephine Chippo, script clerk, accompanies Director Van Dyke's company on location trips.
The Q I R L S
Behind the
STARS
of any man to show them the possibilities of the motion picture field. They discovered these possibilities all by themselves. Every morning hundreds of clever girls throng through the studio gates to hang their smart straw or felt hats, as the season may be, in hundreds of offices.
Every time Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Gloria Swanson or any other glittering lady of the silver screen moves through eight reels of film adventure, a half hundred unseen and unknown young women have helped in the motion.
A wonderful thing about the behind-the-cameras activity of this movie game is that age, sex and looks don't matter. Only intelligence counts. The one great cry of the business is, "It can be done!" Nothing is impossible. Miracles are performed. It makes no difference who performs them, man or woman, oldster or youngster, so long as they are performed.
Each year finds more clever girls added to studio payrolls. They come from all parts of the world to try their luck in the West of motion pictures. They do all sorts of things. They are ready to give every ounce of their intelligence and energy to this fascinating business. They love the thrill of being a factor, large or small, in the making of pictures which travel into every nook and corner of the globe. They wouldn't trade places with any Garbo or Shearer or Swanson.
Below: Peggy Coleman, with a record for war service, capably directs the studio hospital.
Above: Nathalie Bucknall has earned a special niche for herself in research work.