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I Wouldn't Wish it on a Dog"
By Joseph Jackson
For every Cinderella there is a thousand who miss the Silver Slipper
A GIRL who had been a fairly successful molion picture actress for several years and then retired was telling me the other day what she thought about it.
"1 wouldn't wish it on a dog!" she said emphatically.
I couldn't help but think of all i lu little girls all over tin country who think that Hollywood is right next door to Heaven, and all the little girls who think that Hollywood is right next door to Hell. And want to be there all the more.
For the greater percentage, Hollywood i> Heartbreak House. You hear a lot about the Cinderellas. and there are a lot of Cinderellas to hear about. But lor every Cinderella there are a thousand failures.
Hollywood stimulates the ambition, but doesn't always satisfy it. And there is no canker that gnaws more hungrily at the soul than an overweening and unfulfilled ambition. Dotty Twoshoes rides by in a purple limousine. Three years ago she didn't have a thin dime— or a thick one either. Lily Dimples
THE business manager of a studio said recently: "You would be surprised at the well-known actors and actresses who come into my office and tell me they are dead broke people whose names are known everywhere, who are regarded as eminently successful."
watt lu^ Dottj a fleet flight to flap
per lame and BWean by all the iron in her soul that she will ha.
purple limousine. Now there are purple Limousines
in other cilies besides Hollywood, but little girls are not in the habit
of getting t hem by their own ef forts, that is, it they are the kind of
little girls that say their prayers at
night. So Lily Dimples of Red Oak, Iowa, hasn't the same spur to ambition, the same visible example of what a girl can do if she tries hard and is true to her art .
Robert Browning, who used to be to poetry what Babe Ruth is tO baseball, said :
" .1 mini's run h must ext eed liis grasp, "Or what's a Heaven fur/" In other words, there should always be something beyond for us to hope for. That's a beautiful thought, but it doesn't apply to Hollywood. Not by a purple limousine, a couple of police dogs and a private yacht.
If I were getting out a Hollywood edition of Mr. Browning's works — I have no intention of risking [ contivied on page 108 |
The return of the "Rocking Moon" company from location resulted in three romantic reunions: John Bowers and Marguerite De La Motte; Edmund Lowe and his bride, Lilyan Tashman; and Director George Melford and
Diana Miller, to whom he is engaged
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