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THEY were sisters — two young, eager girls who had travelled many hundred miles to New York to "go into the movies."
The older was the prettier. The younger was just an averagelooking girl with no distinguishing marks of beauty or ability.
"Go home, my dear child," David Wark Griffith, who was then at the height of his glory, advised the younger girl. "You will never photograph. You'd better forget about the movies."
But the girl didn't forget about pictures. And she didn't go home until all her money was gone and there were no more jobs in sight.
A short time after their humiliating return to their old home town, a telegram arrived, calling the younger sister back to New York for a part in a picture. The older girl, the betterlooking one, the one with all the odds in her favor, did not go
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with her. She couldn't face that fight for the theatrical si vival of the fittest. She decided to marry and settle down , peaceful domesticity.
The older sister's name was Athole, the younger's was Norm and their last name was Shearer.
Norma could have married, too. But she didn't. When si arrived in New York for the second time, she found that a we known actress, the one whom the producers had wanted in t! first place, had finally been signed for the promised job. i Norma was workless and penniless. But she was in New Yo and she made up her mind to stay. She gritted her teeth ai took every job which was offered, from posing for advertisii photographers to playing the piano in small motion pictu theaters.
She played in a few pictures and Hollywood saw her and sei
for her. She went to California with
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