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P h o t o P 1 a \< Journal
AMONG us mortals there are some who J-\ work for success, some who achieve J. JL it accidentally, as it were, still others — though these, the popular modern pessimists •would say are rare — who would have it thrusi upon them.
Hope Hampton is an exponent of a compound of the three.
She is working for success, because she believes in work as the only broad highway to a substantial success ; because the star dusi has not blinded her to realities and because she is a healthy, normal American girl, with the will-to-do an essential part of her makeup.
She achieved it accidentally, in a sense, too. owing to the fact that she had no screen aspirations to begin with. A friend, a school girl friend of hers in her native Texan town, sent a photograph of her unknown to her to a newspaper running a wide-spread beauty contest. The photograph won first prize and Miss Hampton was the rather amazed recipient of various offers from still more various producers of musical comedies, plays anil shows of one type or another. Miss Hampton was inured to home life and none of these offers appealed to her. Still, the seed was sown.
"At least," Hope must have meditated, "I'd like to study in some dramatic school an 1 see whether or not this ability I feel is justified beneath and beyond the mere fact that 1 am the winner of a contest."
Success she has had in school at amateur theatricals reminded her of unsolicited publi approval with deeper significance than she had hitherto attached to them. It resulted in her
THE GREATEST THRILL
By CYNTHIA LYNN
All Photographs by Nelson Evans
departure from Texas for New York, and thence to the Sargent Dramatic School.
For part three, stage success was thrust upon her, because, from the beginning, recognition by various producers was hers.
She had intended to remain at least a year in school. At the end of the sixth month she was prevailed upon, not against her inclination, be it said, to graduate into the sterner school of actual, practical experience.
"There isn't any school finer," Miss Hampton says, "one single experience of literallv doing is worth six months of book knowledge and second-hand technicality. And a bitter experience — " she smiled ; "not that I believe 'A Modern Salome' to be a bitter experience. Certainly not in the long run. J don't believe it to be a good picture. despite the fact of its apparent salability I don't like myself in it — but, oh, how I have learned and how, I hope, I have profited by the knowledge ! I had far rather begin less luminously and grow nn<\ roach and struggle