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Many and varied were the professions the stars left to crash the movie gates — everything from bricklaying to ostrich feeding
Mathis and Rex Ingram selected him for the leading role in The Pour Horsemen. You knew, too, that John Barrymore was born to the stage, an offspring of one of the most distinguished families in the annals of the American theatre. But you have been wondering about three others — John Gilbert, Ramon Novarro, and Conrad Nagel.
"At the tender age of one year, little Johnnie Gilbert was carried on the stage in the arms of Eddie Foy — a splendid start — and, yet, some seventeen years later, he was selling automobile tires for the Goodrich Rubber Company. Jack has reached the peak now, but he served a long apprenticeship as a scenario writer and director before he ever donned the grease paint.
NOVARRO'S start was less auspicious. He quit his own business, a financial exchange in Mexico City, his birthplace, to give piano and vocal lessons in Los Angeles. He
Unaccustomed as Joe E. Brown is to public speaking, he can hardly be blamed for elaborating a bit on his past. He started out as a circus acrobat, played baseball for the New York Yankees, did vaudeville and burlesque and finally hit the talkies.
Lon Chaney started out as a guide on Pike's Peak, although some of his admirers still insist that Lon is really the Peak. His first movie experience was as a property man and stage hand. And you may not believe it, but he is also an interior decorator.
must have felt the urge of the theatre then, for another step toward his ultimate stardom in motion pictures brought him a job as usher in a small movie theatre. I saw him next about nine years ago, bearing still his unpronounceable Mexican name and playing the role of a French musician with Henrietta Crosman in Etrter Madame at a Los Angeles theatre. Ramon wore a beard then, ladies.
Hold everything! Conrad Nagel, who throbbed and made you throb through Three Weeks, was a bricklayer. His early ambition was to be an architect, and bricklaying, apparently, was his notion of starting his chosen profession at the bottom. Conrad is not complaining now, but he complained then be
cause the union local in Des Moines, Iowa, refused to let him continue his constructive efforts at one dollar a day. Later, because the union would not relent, he worked as a room clerk and telephone operator at a hotel in the same city.
ALICE WHITE was a telephone operator, but she has held a dozen other jobs as well. Her first whirl in the turmoil of business brought her to the office of a Hollywood realtor, whose wife promptly decided that the new stenographer had too much // for the good of any business. She failed to last much longer on the switchboard of the Writers' Club, but the reason for her sudden retirement there is not.
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