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The thrill of that original movie salary check is a thrill that comes only once
As told to MARY SHARON
ALICE WHITE
'HEN I was a script girl, the stars' possessions I envied most were their prize dogs. The favorite dogs of Hollywood are chows. Long before I dreamed of being a movie star, I had an intense ambition to own a chow. I made up my mind that as soon as I had enough money, I would buy a little chow with a tail like an umbrella handle, and I would strut down Hollywood boulevard with him on a leading chain, and myself wearing a swagger brown sports outfit, with alligator skin slippers and a spifTy little brown hat. I used to have brown hair then. My first pay check went for that very thing and also some silk lingerie. That's a combination for you. 1 never had been able to buy French lin
When Alice White received her first fUm money she da.shed out and bought a chow with a tail like an umbrella handle, and also some lingerie. That's Alice for you.
Rex Bell and his dog,Boco. Mr. Bell's original movie money went for a splendid beaver hat for Westerns, while Boco's choice was fancy dog biscuits.
Leila Hyams* first flicker gold bought a large bottle of specially blended, imported perfume. The same brand of perfume upon which she relics for mood and relaxation at the present time.
gerie and laces and I went on a lingerie spending spree and bought everything in sight. My second pay ciieck went for my brown outfit.
BEN LYON
Y FIRST pay-check was for extra work with the old Famous-Players-Lasky Studio on Vine Street. I had haunted the casting office for weeks before they finally put me on and I was so proud of the fact that I had worked in the movies that I carried my voucher around in my pocket for a couple of weeks. I told everyone I met who was kind enough to listen, that I was a movie actor. If they seemed incredulous or inclined to doubt my word, I backed up my statement with that lone paycheck.
Looking back. I am surprised that I didn't burst with pride, I was so inflated over the first call. The saddest part of the story is that I lost the voucher before I had finished displaying it to friends and acquaintances. Being ashamed to ask for a duplicate I never received pay feu my first film work. However, when the picture was shown on the screen. 1 rushed down-town to see myself in the opus. To my chagrin, the scenes in which I had worked had been ruthlessly cut from the picture. After that, I felt as if Famous-Players and Ben Lyon were even. I had worked for nothing and they had riot profited by rny services. I received far more •