Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section W-o-r^k — That's All (Concluded) T understand them and they understand me. When I left the Follies I think every girl in the company was my friend. They all cried — and a girl doesn't spoil her makeup like that without good and sufficient reason. 1 think the Follies girl is more interested in gold-digging than Mrs. Bill Smith of Peoria or Susie Simpkins o f Asparagus Center. Because the Follies girl goes in for it on a larger scale. She wants diamonds, and sables, and a town cai But believe me — when Mrs. Smith wants a new hat she grafts from her husband to get it, — she's just as much of a gold-digger as a Follies showgirl. I don't blame the little, girl who comes to New York to seek her fortune and works hard, if she resents other women — some not so pretty or clever as she — with their cars and their jewels and their wonderful furs. I do blame her if she's standing on the sidelines looking in and puckering her face into envious wrinkles wishing she could have all those things without working for them. I've no patience with lazy women. I work hard every day of my life; I have a good time, too — but I have more fun working than you'd imagine. Just this to any little girl up in the mountains of Vermont or out in a small town of the Middle West or down on a ranch in Texas, who wants a career — that queer intangible thing. Are you willing to work hard? Work like — like the deviU Then don't worry if you're not beautiful. Winning Screen Success (Concluded from Page 33) language of the lot, "will not photograph." That technical quality is something that can only be discovered by an actual demonstration, and without it, there is no use in one's beginning. Having it, the fortunate possessor of the "camera personality" is only on the first rung of the ladder of success, and there are many, many rungs before the top is reached. We are no longer demanding freak personalities or mere photographic prettiness. We are demanding actresses, and actors, because the public is demanding actresses, and actors. The business is overcrowded, but there is always room for talent plus a determination to fight one's way to success. The star system, condemned as it is, will always prevail to a greater or less extent because of the public demand for idol, an acclaimable personality. More and more we are discovering that the pieces which succeed are the pieces in which all parts are well played, rather than those pieces in which some genius, or some great favorite, is surrounded by a cast of sticks and nonentities. The way to motion picture success today, more than ever, is through work, work, and still more work. Playing many parts, and every part assigned, in a stock organization under competent direction, is the only training which gives finish and surety. Photoplay acting needs elements which are gifts of nature, but equally with there it demands technique and the perfection of almost infinite practice. There will be stars tomorrow, but they will come from the ranks, in a longer or shorter time, as the case may be. They cannot be stars by accident, by self-determination, or by anyone else's determination. And in conclusion, let me say that the public has erratic momentary whims, but in the long run it never makes a mistake; the star who endures from year to year only does so because he or she deserves to endure. C7). , *A-/'? //ri/-?;;//^ ri /" This fascinating col y pink-packaged Toiler Requisites, all in a convenient rose-tinted box — fraggrant, refined, — will appeal at once to you if you've ever used Hinds Cream. 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