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If you can do all these things, you have a fighting chance to make good in the movies.
By FRANCES DENTON
THIS stor\ is written upon the assumption that t'\ t i \body in the world wants to go into the nio\ ies. If you live in I)es .Moines or Cirand Rapids you nia_\ nut be aware of this. But in Holhwood, where you can't be sure whether the ' lun is green grass or something doubling for it. thai is one I the few statements you can make without getting into an argument. E\"en in eastern studio circles, it may not be disputed.
Stipulating for the sake of the story that such is the ca^e. it occurred to us that e\erybod>-in-the-worl(l might like to know how to go about realizing their ambition.
Xow don't grab the idea that this will point you out a sht)rt cut to fame or gi\ e directions for becoming a film star overnight.
Those tales ha\e been relegated to nn tiiology with Cook's north jiole and Imperial, and the 1919 World's Series. In other words, the leaj) to fame is in a tail si)in.
But though I caimot aid )ou to i)erforiu any such miracle as twent\-four sheets in twent\'-four hours. I can be your guide, ])hilo.so]jher and friend in the only actual i)ath to success in the movie, with information founded principally upon inside
tii>s from such e.vperts as L. M. Goodstadt. Thoma II. Ince, .\1 Christie, and Samuel Kingston.
The casting director — that onnu|)otent indixidual who in most studios holds the shears above the asjjirations of the would-be iuo\ ies — is today actually a friendless, harassed creature who dares not ask a i)oliceiuan which \\a\ to turn for fear the cojj's mother-in-law has dramatic inclinations, or go out to dinner with friends i)ecause somebody will inunediately shimmy ox er from the next tai)le to iiuiuire w h\' he. she or it, as the case ma\' be, didn't get that part in that ])iciure.
\o, the life of a casting director is not all be\o and skittles. (W hat, incidentally, are skittles? Be\o I have met.) Most of him is so tired of hearing the stories of the F'ntire I'aiuily concerning Little Xell and why she ought to be given ;i leading role right away, that he was ver\' glad to go on record tor me as to just how it can and should be done.
If e\ erybody-in-the-world w ill now take his word concerning the only wa\" to fiilHll a desire to shine in film grandciu'. and the requirements necessary for a chance of succes.--, ii will lighten the load of the casting director considerabh .
Getting into the movies nowadays, as far as the mere
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If you want a job at Lasky s. this is where you II have to apply. The girl is Lome Larsen, one of the many regularly employed extras in Hollywood. She can ride, swim and dance, photographs well, and has a complete wardrobe.