Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

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B€ A D€^ICN€ROf HOLLYWOOD FA^HIONr EARN $25.00 to $50.00 A WEEK Have your own Style Shop, design smart gowns for the best dressed women, mingle with the elite, win financial independence as the Hollywood Fashion Expert of your community. DRESS LIKE SCREEN STARS AT LITTLE COST You can easily learn to design and make glamorous gowns like those of your favorite fllra star at a fraction of their cost. You may acquire the charm that such alluring gowns give to the wearer. You can have more clothes, and dress more smartly, at less expense. Hollywood Fashion Creators Train You AT HOME With the cooperation of leading FashIon Creators of Motion Picture Studios, and Screen Stars themselves, this 50-year-old college, In the new style center of the world.will teach you Professional Costume Designing in your spare time at home by its easy-to-learn method— and prepare you for a highsalaried position. Free placement service for our students: graduates In demand. Woodbury College, Hollywood, Calif. WAIL COUPON fOR f R-F-fc BOOK WOODBURY COLLEGE. Dent. I i-F. Hollywood. Calif. Send me FRKE your new book, "Designing Hollywood Fashions," and full particulars of your home-study course in Costume Designing. My age is Miss — Mrs Street City State Stepping Stones to Fame Continued from piutc twenty-flve Of her early school days she remembers vividly that she was always called upon to sing little solos, and to speak pieces before the class more often, she says, than any other pupil. Claudette modestly claims it was because of her accent which the teacher and the class found amusing. From the grammar school she entered Washington Irving high school and for the first time in her life was allowed to enter into social and class activities. She made the basketball team and was asked to join the French dramatic club, because she could speak the language. In the few plays in which she appeared, she attracted the attention of her English teacher, Alice Rostetter, who drafted her into the English dramatic club. Miss Rostetter took a deep interest in her little pupil, as she believed the girl had talent which should be developed. She was acquainted with several of the Provincetown players in Greenwich Village, and had sold the organization several plays and playlets. "Hie theatre was located on McDougal street, in the very heart of the Village. The teacher persuaded Jasper Deeter, manager of the troupe, to give her protege a chance, and soon Claudette was rehearsing for The Widow's Veil. High School graduation day came, and Claudette sallied forth to face the world, secure in the thought that the studies of art and designing, which she had mastered in her high school classes, would fit her to battle for a livelihood. Father Georges was still in the bank, and promotion was not as rapid as his enthusiastic fervor in France had imagined. With a pad of sketches under her arm, Claudette went into the world in search of a position as designer. From one store to another she carried the bulky bundle. At last, one store manager informed her that he had a job for her in the workrooms and Claudette accepted it. It was not a bit like the little wouldbe artist imagined, for she was little better than a janitor to the place, carrying heavy bundles of materials, and ceaselessly struggling to keep the floor swept clean of scraps of material. In vain she appealed to the manager to allow her to design a few gowns and she was met with the usual refusal until one day, when the other artists were overbusy, he asked her to turn in a halfdozen designs for blouses. Claudette worked all morning on her first sketch. In her ignorance she tried to make it a full drawing. "A regular portrait it was," she says, and had hardly got a start on the design before the manager asked her for her sketches. Claudette showed him the half-completed work of art. "Where are the other five?" the manager asked. "The other five — this is all there is—" Claudette gasped. That ended her career in that shop then and there. Seeing that the future in art was somewhat nebulous, Claudette found a few pupils to whom she taught French, dabbling in art in her spare time. It was the French lessons which led her back to the theatre. Among her small list of pupils was Helen Hackett, an actress, who told her again that she should go on the stage. She Introduced Claudette to Ann Morrison, who was about to produce The Wild Westcotts on Broadway. Miss Morrison gave the girl a chance. Claudette's big Broadway debut consisted of a role as one of three guests at a house party — and her speeches were three lines. But she got a thrill out of it. First presentation of the play was at the Frazee Theatre, on Christmas 1924. Hardly Had The Wild Westcotts closed before Claudette was sitting in Brock Pemberton's office telling him what a great actress she was. Pemberton had never heard of the dark-haired and darkeyed miss, which was a good thing for Claudette, for she told him a string of white lies. She told him of the hundreds of plays in which she had appeared in France; of a theatrical ancestry which dated back to Charlemagne. It was sufficiently impressive, for Pemberton gave her a leading role in The Marionette Man, which starred Ulric Haupt, the great German player. She fooled Pemberton — but she couldn't fool Haupt. "He knew I was faking the first scene we had together," says Claudette. "He was a good sport, though, and didn't betray me." 58 Claudette Colbert as she appeared In The Barker on Broadway in 1927. She met her future husband, Norman Foster, while playing in this production, tt was her last stage role before entering pictures HOLLYWOOD