Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

Without Beauty Continued from page forty-six ally, find honor in his own country. She secured an engagement with a stock company in Yonkers, her birthplace! From the first moment that she stepped on the stage, in that small Yonkers theatre, the Kirkland charm, released by her determination, held her audience. She went from there to Louisville, Kentucky, for a season of stock. Experience was the thing she knew she needed now. And while there, Stuart Walker, ever alert to discern the potentialities of unknown players, saw and engaged her as leading woman for his company in Huntington, West Virginia. Stuart Walker taught Muriel Kirkland the value of the voice she had thought strange. He taught her the value of those great soft eyes as a medium of expression. Under his intelligent guidance, the little red-head became an actress of rare sweetness and knowledge and infinite individuality. Finally, Mr. Walker told her she was ready for Broadway. Nothing could have stopped Muriel then. She believed in Stuart Walker. Had he told her she could swim the English Channel, Muriel would have dived into its choppy waters! —William Walling, Jr. Marion Callahan is one of the eleven girls representative of Broadway showgirl beauty brought to Hollywood by Earl Carroll to appear in Murder at the Vanities JUNE, 1934 Brock Pemberton was casting a play called Strictly Dishonorable. There is a psychic something along Broadway which prophecies the success of a play before it opens. It was in the air about this new play of Brock's. Every wellestablished ingenue was ambitious to play the leading role. Forty-eight such girls had hopefully read the part before the exacting audience composed of Brock Pemberton, the producer, Preston Sturges, the playwright and Antoinette Perry. An ordeal for any actress. An ordeal from which forty-eight beautiful, nervous young Broadwayites emerged without triumph. The forty-ninth girl was a little redhaired unknown, with huge brown eyes and — confidence. Such glorious young confidence! When the curtain rang down on the opening night, the play was a success and Broadway had welcomed a new, sparkling personality. The American Academy of Dramatic Art quickly put its official seal of approval upon her. Her name was placed on its illustrious honor roll! When she finished her engagement in the record breaking run of Strictly Dishonorable, William Harris, Jr., sent for her to play the leading role in The Greeks Had a Word for It. By this time, you've guessed it — the movie scouts had watched what she did to New York audiences. They had listened and been moved by the spell of that voice. Muriel was soon Hollywood bound, a movie contract with a major studio in her bag. Muriel did not make a picture under that contract. Day after day, week after week, month after month, while the contract ran its length, she awaited an assignment. Those studio officials who had not seen her "in action" looked and listened and gave solemn decision. She would not photograph — her voice would not record. Tell her she wouldn't photograph? Tell her her voice wouldn't register? There was something familiar about that situation. She was sixteen again — standing before the heads of the American Academy! To increase the parallel, Stuart Walker was in Hollywood coaching embryonic stars for one of the studios. Again his influence swayed Muriel. So the red-headed youngster was again defiant. Life is a series of repitious experiences! Her first picture was made for the studio which had not cast her in a single production while she was under contract to them! Followed other pictures for major companies. Cocktail Hour, Secret of the Blue Room, Hold Your Man, To the Last Man and finally — Nana. Nana presents the glamorous new star — Anna Sten — to give real competition to other glamour ladies of the screen. It means triumph for another girl, too. Beauty surfeited Hollywood has "noticed" Kirkland. 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