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Ga:e on the giddy knockout your correspondent wore in "Twinkletoes"
Installment Three in which our Heroine Loses her Bet but Actually Gets Some Work
By Ruth Waterbiiry
TT/flSA' my editor bet me five hundred dollars that I, a •'V member of the Photoplay editorial stajf, posing as an uiikiioK'n extra girl, couldn't break into the movies, I accepted /lis bel with great calmness and started of for Hollywood. I was very sure of myscJf.
My advent, howncr, did not rock Hollywood with excitement. My face proved fatal only to myself. No more extra girls were wanted by anyone, of my kind or any other. In the eyes of Hollywood I was no more valuable than a used postage stamp.
I discovered Central Casting Corporation, the employment office organized by Will Hays, controlled the extra situation. I called there and didn't even make a dent. I tried the studios. I visited every one of them and succeeded only in wearing out my shoes and nearly breaking my girlish heart.
First National was my last stop. I couldn't have my editor hand me the merry razz, so I begged Dan Kelly, First National's casting director, to let me play on a set, if only for a day. I confessed to him I really was a reporter. Dan told me to come around that night and he would let me work with Colleen Moore.
The newest killjoy of the extra girl's dream — Central Casting Corporation. Dave Allen, standing in center, presides over it. If a girl's name isn't known to ''Central," the chances of its ever being known to fame are very slight
AT Central Casting Corporation, the only office in Hollywood to which calls for extra workers come and the only office from which the extra can get work, there are more than 4,000 men registered; more than 6,500 women, more than 3,500 children, some 14,000 people in all. From this group there is an average daily call for 483 men, 195 women and 20 children, 698 jobs a day for 14,000. These are the facts of the extra situation in Hollywood today.
I was wildly happy as I walked across the First National lot. I, that night, was one of those 195 women, 195 selected from aU classes of extra women, from beautiful girls of sixteen to character women of sixty, one of the 195 out of 6,500. Proportions like that give false value.