Motion picture acting; how to prepare for photoplaying, what qualifications are necessary, how to secure an engagement, salaries paid to photoplayers ([c1913])

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MOVING PICTURE ACTING natural beauty. If so, there would be little need for the manifold "Beauty Secrets" articles which appear in the columns of every daily newspaper. Cosmetics would be little in demand and there would be no opportunity for the richly paid beauty specialist. Be neat and magnetic—attractive, not gaudy—in your dress and demeanor, developing the other gifts bestowed by nature, and you will have little cause to mourn over your lack of exterior beauty or to bewail the fate that did not make you one of the chosen "very, very few." V. PERSONALITY This qualification is the embodiment of talent, health, mental and commercial ability and personal appearance. It is an almost indefinable "something" which lures or repels. When it attracts it might be called "charm" and in this meaning it is a wonderful asset in stageland or screenland. With- out ambition and average mentality one hasn't the bubbling enthusiasm of an alluring personality. It is personality which wins popularity. Recall the names of your "screen" favorites. Was it some wonderful bit of acting which coerced your admira- tion ? No! Wasn't it some manly traits or actions peculiar to himself, or the dainty ways or alluring smile which only she could possess? That is per- 31