Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

three weeks. Then came the struggle. In a couple of months he felt lucky if he got one day a week at seven-fifty. He prayed and prayed for costume pictures, for he had no clothes, and in modern pictures extras must provide their own. When he was called for a tuxedo scene; it cost him four dollars to hire the suit, which left him three-fifty out of his pay-check after a long and gruelling day. How did he live? He doesn't know. THE SWEETS OF SUCCESS THE week after the contract was signed Jimmy Ford's smile was never absent and he savored the good things of life rapturously, rolling them around his tongue to get the full bouquet. He bought new suits. He wired his mother and sister, who didn't know where he was, that he had plenty of money and that they were to come at once and live with him. He moved from his hall bedroom to a comfortable apartment. He had his shoes shined every day and gave quarter tips. He ate wonderful steaks at what seemed at the time to be wonderful restaurants. He strolled often into the studio, past the gateman who formerly had been so insuperable an obstacle, and was greeted cordially by executives and directors who a few days before would have flicked their Corona ash at him and looked the other way. He has suddenly risen from the ranks of those who dodge automobiles to the company of those who ride in them, but his manner has not changed with the transition. The mushroom of conceit has not sprouted with the celerity not uncommon among the suddenly elect of the cinema. Rather he takes his promotion with a thankful satisfaction. He's been poor long enough, and is still young enough, to appreciate it all with boyish enthusiasm. He's seen enough of life, not to mention the peculiar kind of life portrayed in film studios, to make a great actor some day. And he's so preposterously modest about it that he makes one want to go off and have a good cry. Is this Virginia Bradford? Well, yes and no. 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