Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1922)

Some Fortunate Girl Is to Occupy This Star Dressing Room at the Goldwyn Studios A question mark has been painted on a star s dressing room at trie Goldwyn Studios in Culver City. It is being reserved for trie first choice in the Goldwyn-Photoplay Screen Opportunity A FTER looking over the entire motion picture field for /\ material for a big production, a famous producer said / \ the other day, 'The most amazing and dangerous thing about the screen business today is that there doesn't seem to be any new blood — any fresh possibilities among the young actresses." The preliminary announcements of our plan to make tests of every young woman, not classed as a professional actress, to see if she has the beauty, personality and talent to succeed on the screen, has aroused so much interest that we really wonder why it is that we didn't do it before. Probably there has never been a time since the very first year of the screen industry when there was such a chance for a girl with possibilities to come to the screen and make good. It's like a new start. That is why the Goldwyn Company and Photoplay have decided to give the young women of America a chance to find out if they have the sort of thing that the screen is looking for. We believe the screen needs it — and we believe there are thousands of young women who are longing to walk through an open door into future greatness. The tremendous response that has come to us since we announced our Screen Opportunity Contest convinces us that we are right, that the ambitious welcome the chance. Do not wait — Send your photographs right away to the New Faces Editor, Photoplay Magazine, 25 West 45th St., New York. To make sure they are returned at end of contest, if unsuccessful, send sufficient postage for mailing back at conclusion of contest. This is YOUR opportunity. We have opened the door. You may have the greatest kind of a screen personality. You may photograph like a million dollars. You may have that tiling that directors all over the country are looking for — dramatic instinct and responsiveness. If you have, a wonderful career is yours. The screen always needs youth. It is a photographic art. and the camera is clamoring for fresh, sweet young American faces. Lack of experience or dramatic training is not a bar to screen success. You need have neither in order to enter this contest. All you need have is the desire to work hard and — we will find out if you have the other essentials. We will give you a chance to show what you can do. The great artists of the screen, the (Continued on page io~) THE Goldwyn Photoplay New Faces Contest is open to all women, over seventeen years of age, who are not professional actresses. This docs not exclude members of amateur dramatic organisations. The first choice of the judges in this contest shall receive a year's contract to appear in Goldwyn Pictures. During the period of the contract, the v. inner shall receive a salary equal to that being paid competent actresses playing in motion pictures at that time. The Goldwyn Company agrees to pay for the transportation of the winner and Terms of the Contest her mother to and from the studios at Culver City, California. The Goldwyn Company shall have a three years option on the services of the winner. Other entrants, in addition to the winner, will be considered for use in Goldwyn pictures. Motion picture tests shall ho mi those selected as the best screen possibilities. These tests -hall be made at the Goldwyn exchanges, transportation expenses or those chosen to be paid by the company. Photographs from entrants in tr test will be received from February 1st to July 1st. Ml photographs and correspondence in regard to the contest shall be addressed to New Faces Editor. Photopi ay \] \r, mine, 2"> West 45th Street New York City. The winner will be announced in the September issue of Photoplay, on the newsstands August 15th. Samuel Goldwyn, president of G< Idwyn Pictures Corporation, and James R. Quirk, editor of Photoplay Magazine, will act as judges. 35