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Photoplay's
Beauty and Brains
Girl— Now!
Comedy claims Lucille Zintheo, the prize contest winner.
IN September, 1915, Photoplay Magazine inaugurated a unique contest — wliich lias, by the way, been widely emulated since then. It was "The Beauty and Brains Contest," and the purpose was to select from the United Slates ten women, and irom the Dominion of Canada one, who could combine the maximum of beauty and brains for the making of motion picture actresses and eventual stars. Such judges as Lillian Russell and William A. Brady were chosen to pass on the merits of the contestants.
Up to February, 1916, the letters and the photographs came pouring in. Eleven beautiful girls were linally selected, their expenses paid to New York, and their talents tried before the camera. Most of them photographed well; one jumped right into a leading part in a picture; another joined a Broadway musical comedy. Still others decided that an actress' career was not for them, after all. But among the pretty and plucky ones was a vivacious brunette from Spokane, Washington. Lucille Zintheo was her name, and she registered with a bang. She went to California, because it seemed to her that film success lay that way; and she played small parts for a while. Then comedy claimed her. Now she is the principal embellishment of the Larry Semon farces for Vitagraph. Below, she is seen leading a chicken-chorus in "The Head Waiter" — Larry Semon at, or on, the piano.
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