Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1927)

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He was one of those fellows who say, "I don't know why your order hasn't come yet. The boy started half an hour ago." WHICH brings us to Lloyd Hughes. Mr. Hughes also entered Hollywood by the back door. He was the young man who started from the store a half an hour ago with the order. Mr. Hughes, alas, was delivery boy for a meat market. William Haines started life in the Paradise of Refined Young Men witli a College Education. He was a bond salesman. It's a genteel job, handing lists of securities to people who tell you that they'd dearly love to own a bond if they weren't going to Europe, or getting a mink coat or paying for a new car. Mr. Haines was employed by the S. W. Straus Company when a handsome man contest landed the bewildered young man in Culver City. Douglas Fairbanks was once in Wall Street, years ago before he went on the stage. Although he is now rated as one of the few actors with financial ability, Fairbanks never burned up the Billion Dollar Lane. Lon Chaney, Karl Dane and Monte Blue started at the bottom of the ladder in the theater. They were members of stage crews. In his youth, Chaney had as many jobs as he now has make-ups. He worked all through the middle-west as a stage hand, a job guaranteed to increase the vocabulary and decrease the illusions. Fame has no glamour to a stage hand. Chaney, to this day, hasn't been blinded by the glitter of stardom. He worked too hard and waited too long. After a varied career, Monte Blue landed in the Griffith studio as a carpenter. He was so strong, so willing, so daring that Griffith used him as an extra. Once he had a chance as an actor, Blue weniat it with Indian determination. Working in a stage crew was only incidental to Karl Dane. For a time, Dane wasa curtainraiserback in Denmark. N< '. that doesn't mean that he was a one-act play; it means that he pulled the curtain up and down — heave ho, heave ho! His first job in this country was as a stunt aviator. The job had its disadvantages so he tried raising chickens out in San Fernando. Calif. Raising chickens and seven card stud, deuces wild, are two of the surest ways ever invented for losing money. When Karl offered his services to the film industry, he was glad to begin at a modest wage. WALLACE BEERY applied to a circus for his first job. He told the manager that he wanted to do something big and clean. Paraphrasing the popular song, the boss told him to go wash the elephant. Wallie washed elephants for quite a while before he branched out into Bigger and Finer Things. .Wil Hamilton and James Murray walked into the movies by way of the main entrance. Hamilton was an usher at the Strand Theater in New York and Murray was doorman at the Capitol. After taking tickets in a highly graceful and polished manner, Murray was made house manager of the Piccadilly Theater, also on Broadway. I have heard tell. too, that Ricardo Cortez once stood 'em up at the Rivoli Theater. That is to say, he made 'em stand in line until the overture was played. VICTOR McLAGLEX claims the most picturesque job. McLaglen served in the British Army during the World War. His regiment was sent to Bagdad, after that home of the Arabian Nights was captured by the British. McLaglen was so big and strong and lie had such an intimidating face, that the military authorities made him Chief of Police. Chief of Police of Bagdad! There's a swell job for you ! After graduating from Princeton and achieving all sorts of scholastic and athletic honors, Fred Thomson went abroad with the A. E. F. as chaplain. Those were the days when a parson had to have two fists and lots of muscles. Frances Marion, the scenario writer, went abroad as an entertainer. She met the good-looking chaplain and they were married. And thai, my dears, is how Fred Thomson came to be a movie star. Harry Langdon drew comic faces long before he made them in front of a camera. Langdon was a cartoonist on The Omaha Bee. Larry Semon was another newspaper artist — he worked on the New York Morning Telegraph and then on the Telegram. Although John Barrymore came from the actin'-est family in America, he wanted to be an artist and tried to sidestep the inevitable theater. For a time, John was staff artist on the Xcw York Evening Journal — just a regular Xell Brinkley. AS for the girls, whom we have neglected to mention, there are just three roads into pictures — win a beauty contest, get in the chorus of a Broadway revue or join up as a bathing beauty in comedies. Only a few of the girls can look back on colorful careers. Renee Adoree was a bareback rider in a little French circus and came to this country as a cabaret entertainer. Eleanor Boardman was an artists' model and an interior decorator. Julia Faye and Lois Wilson were schoolteachers. Helen Ferguson and Patricia Avery were stenographers. And so, too, was Edna Purviance. But while the men of the screen were valets to elephants, grocery boys, policemen in Bagdad or stage hands, most of the girls were plugging along as "extras,* and trying to make one dollar do the work of ten. The boys, as usual, had all the fun. Eivry advertisement in ritOTOPLAT MAGAZINE is guaranteed.