The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

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Wh.„ . „H needs a girl friend {Zco&. cv&ul /ua t&iu umeld/" ***? "What do you suppose that new young doctor said to Jack after the dance the other night? When Jack asked him how he liked the rush Jane was giving him, he just looked bored and said, 'Why doesn't some kind girl friend tell her she needs Mum?' Those were his very words. Imagine! After the way we girls have all tried to ease it over to her! Can we help it if she's dumb?" ~fh/0j * / "Mr. Glover said he was <&LU*C4: afraid he'd have to let / Ann go. Wish I had the nerve to tell her what's the matter. It's such a pity when a jar of Mum would save her job for her." ( £?u cffluvi cootdd% t0&u*L6 -^kcly, "Your references as to ability are very good, Miss Clark. But I hardly think you'd fill the requirements of our position here. Sorry." ^!HE'S bound to lose out every ^ time — the girl who is careless about underarm perspiration odor. For people will not excuse this kind of unpleasantness when it is so easy to avoid. With Mum! It takes only half a minute to use Mum. And it lasts all day. Use it any time — when dressing or afterwards. It won't harm your clothing. Mum is soothing to the skin. Prove this by shaving your underarms and using Mum at once. Another reason you'll like Mum — it prevents every trace of ugly odor without preventing perspiration itself. Decide today to use Mum and be safe every day. Bristol-Myers, Inc., 75 West St., New York. TAKES THE ODOR OUT OF PERSPIRATION It's a Million to One Youll Never Be a Star {Continued from page 38) YOU NEED MUM FOR THIS, TOO. Use Mum as a deodorant for sanitary napkins and enjoy relief from worry about this source of unpleasantness. guidance of Starmaker School of the Screen, one of the average fakes. Gertie would, of course, bring her bank balance along and in almost no time, the canny agent would have relieved her of any such encumbrance as money. One of the strange things about these schools was the sliding tuition scale. If Gertie had $500, somehow that just paid for everything. If however, she had only $200, that also was just the right amount. Shortly after the payment came graduation and Gertie was pronounced another Garbo and quite ready to play a lead opposite Leslie Howard or Charles Laughton. Then a fake talent scout would interview Gertie, maybe give her a fake screen test, and the next thing Gertie knew, she would be wiring home for return fare. Fake schools are gone in New York and pretty well cleaned out in Hollywood but still thousands of girls from all over the country gamble everything they own on a trip to New York or Hollywood on the mere hope of being seen and signed on the spot by a talent scout. If you are contemplating any such trip, don't do it, because that is not the way talent scouts work. You can't crash their gate and even if you did, it wouldn't mean a thing, because they don't sign people on looks any more — its on how they can act. Billy Grady, head of the talent scouting for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the East saw over 3500 players in 300 legitimate shows during the first ten months of last year. He travelled 7500 miles and viewed summer theaters, little theaters, amateur theatricals, school plays, and of course stock and Broadway productions. From the 3500 players he found 15 who warranted screen tests and of that group, only six were signed to movie contracts. Those signed were George Walcott, Gladys George, Gene Lockhart, Mady Christians, Richard Waring, and Lee Sullivan. While watching a college show at Yale, Billy saw a student in the audience who interested him enough to interview and eventually test. The student, William Deering, made the grade and was signed, along with Frank Shields, famous Davis Cup tennis star, and the only other non-legitimate experienced person to receive a contract from Grady in the whole year. Warner Brothers or Universal or any of the other big companies all have the same story. They look for their new talent on the legitimate stage. They want people grounded in the fundamentals and naturally they look in places like the Hedgerow little theater in Philadelphia where Ann Harding and several other screen names received their early training. If you live in Atlanta or Spokane, the Hedgerow is a little bit far for commuting but your local amateur theater groups will give you just as much training and prestige. You can take the most important step to stardom right in your own home town! Talent scouts all agree that the naturalness of a Katharine Hepburn or the personality of a Claudette Colbert are the most important assets in making a success on the screen. Reputations made in sports or business are just about as unimportant as is beauty. Red Grange and a host of other All-American football stars have been given screen chances and missed. Hundreds of beauty contest winners have been tried and found wanting. Without experience on the legitimate stage, the only chance Miss Unknown has is to win with personality and naturalness. And she has to have plenty of each and be willing to work mighty hard. If you are selected for a screen test today, it costs the movie company upwards of $1,000 and takes about three weeks of preparation, including rehearsals, interviews, and sometimes the writing of special dialogue in order to get the best possible results from your work. The same care is taken with the actual shooting, as with a feature. The almost complete unimportance and insignificance of so-called screen tests given as contest prizes is proved by the expense and care to which the movie companies go when really giving an actual screen test. The mere contest stunt of standing in front of a couple of Kleig lights while somebody grinds a few feet of movie film is far from a screen test. If you will stop to think of how few Carole Lombards and Robert Montgomerys have come out of such stunts, you'll realize that most screen contests are just good commercial promotions. You don't make big salaries in the movies! It's a fact. Most of the people in Hollywood live on just about the same kind of budget you do. Of course, a few big names make big money but then so do a few big names in your home town. Beginners in the movies are placed under contract and usually have to pay the agent who "placed" them. The beginner's contract is usually from $43 to $75 a week. That lasts for six months and then it may be raised or the person may be dropped. And of course many more are dropped than raised. It may be disheartening for you to realize that only seventy-three people were signed by the major movie companies in nearly a year. It may be even more disheartening when you realize that few of the people signed were without legitimate experience. You'll probably think I'm an old meanie but I'm sure those million-to-one odds are wrong. I'm sure that it is three or maybe even five million to one you'll never be a star! ENJOY NEW MOVIE EVERY MONTH You won't miss any of the fascinating stories, the beautiful pictures in New Movie if you have a year's subscription. Use the coupon below. A year's subscription in the United States is $1.00. In Canada $1.60. Foreign, $2.00. Tower Magazines, Inc. 55 Fifth Avenue New York, N. Y. Please send me New Movie for one year. I am enclosing $ (check or money-order). Begin my subscription with the issue. Name Address City .State. 42 The New Movie Magazine, April, 1935