Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Jun 1929)

Twelvetrees Is Oke (Continued from page 40) wouldn't want to play the character." This was something different, to say the least. Most of the sisters from the stage are no less than boiled in oil when thej don't get to create their stage characters on the screen. But the Twelv'etrees shook her head. ''No matter how advanced the screen feels with the talkies, it is still a diluted medium compared to the stage. I mean for human characterizations. In Hollywood thetype makes the character and on Broadway the character makes the tyf)e. I'm sure no casting director for the screen would choose me for the part of Roberta, though the critics of New V'ork found me perfectly adapted to the role. But I have no quarrel with that. I'm perfectly willing to be the good little girl in the movies. Movie audiences seldom go in for the morbid, depressing themes, anyway. I've watched too many girls ride into success on the Pollyatina philosophy." And after all, Helen is in Hollywood to make a hit — even if we have no Times Square. "The time when I miss Broadway the most is at seven o'clock in the morning. I simply can't get used to these heathenish early hours. Before I came out here the only thing I knew about seven .\.M. was a mere rumor. But I guess I'll get used to it. The picture girls I've met seem to thrive on it. But the picture girls seem to thrive on a lot of things the stage girls could never fatten on. Thousand-dollar-per-week salaries for one. Money Makes 'Em Moral COMPARED to the actresses in New \'ork, the Hollywood actresses are millionaires. If a girl makes two hundred and fifty dollars weekly on the stage, she is getting along nicely. Some of the bit players out here average that much. Maybe that's why we have so many gold-diggers in New York compared to practically none in Hollywood. Most of the girls make so much money they can afford to he moral. "Ciold-digging in New \'ork is a necessary part of a chorus girl's existence. I mean [X)lite golfl-digging. ITiere's nothing particularly immoral about it. She merely trades a pretty smile for a bottle of Christmas -Night; or her company at dinner for a pair of silk stockings. It's quite an accepted code — and no one thinks any the less of her. After all, e.xcept in rare cases, her salary docs not |)crmit her many luxuries. "When I said a moment ago that there ^CTK no gold-diggers in Hollywood, I meant no petty gold-digging. Out here they go in for it on a much larger scale. The girls out in Hollywood who wouldn't think of wasting their smiles for a bottle of [jerfume, will use almost the same tactics as her despised sisters for a starring role or feature billing in a special picture. They gold-<lig for fame in the studios, where they golfl-dig for necessities on the stage. This is a condition that couldn't possibly exist in New V'ork. The chief reason is that a man of influence in pictures, such as a famous director, or producer, can teach his prot*'-gce to become an artist on the screen, whereas there must be a natural talent for stardom on the stage." Helen stuck her hands deep down into the |}<K:kets of her bright sfxjrt suit and laughed a s<')rt of sounrl-proof laugh. "But 1 don't know why I should be going on at such length about gold-digging either here or abroad," she continued. "Never having btceii a chorus girl, or a Hollywood star, I've lf)Ht out on my chance for plain and fancy 'I'gK'ig. ""£ way or the other. You Know or You Don't NI.IKI-1 many girls in New York, I did not step from a l-'ollies chorus (Continued on page 8g) u This Charming Gift Is Yours HERE is a wonderful gift for you. A beautiful leatherette framed photograph of your favorite Motion Picture Star. Size of frame nine by eleven inches holding an eight by ten inch photograph. Patented snap easel back. A most attractive adornment for your dressing table, and will add charm to your room. Your friends will envy you. This is the finest gift we have ever offered to our readers. Just send us your subscription to MOTION PICTURE or MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC, with your remittance of $2.50 for the next twelve big issues of MOTION PICTURE or MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC and let us know the name of your favorite. As soon as we receive your order we will mail the framed picture to you and your first copy promptly. If you are now a subscriber, this offer is open to you too. We will be glad to extend your subscription. ----------------Mail This Coupon To-Day — — — — --------- MOTION PICTLiRE PUBLICATIONS, INC. ISOl BrDadw.Tv. New York Citv •M.rc For the eiiclr)se<l $2..->0 I subscribe to ^JJ^I^JJ I'lc-ri be Classic (check choice, for one year. .Semi me tlie attractive leatherette frame<l photograph of: To: S'irne Adtiresa T;nn Start with . . J (C'hecki Extenil my sijbsrri|)tioii Inrliide .>0 cents extra pf)<itaKe for Canada Inoiiide one dollar extra pfj.statce for f(»reiK>» 87