Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1935)

PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE FOR MAY, 1935 123 e wanted to be an actress. So, between orus rehearsals, she hounded the casting rector and everyone else until she landed one those option-tilled contracts as an actress. "I guess they gave it to me to get rid of me," ary giggled and dimpled in her most demure inner. Eight other girls signed similar contracts at e same time. The other seven are gone. Only ary remains. She will probably never be a g star. But she'll have a successful career for , ong time. That giggle and the big, blue eyes fe only camouflage. She knows what she unts and she is going to get it. Life is no bed j roses for Mary. She loves to eat but she iesn't dare. She closes her eyes when she losses those tempting trays of French pastries. lie takes every possible kind of a lesson to ivelop her abilities. She even volunteers her :|-vices in Little Theater productions to learn ige technique, and drags all the powers-thatli to watch her work. jlf the girls who wish that they were motion i;ture actresses could trail along with Mary j Jean Parker for awhile, Hollywood might ijt look so rosy to them. Jean is like Joan jawford in one way. The same blazing del mination burns in her eyes. Success comes I'fore her own physical comfort, her own Ippiness, before everything else. For many nnths Jean lived in the forests of the High Sierras, when she was working in "Sequoia." Her only feminine companion was an older woman. There was no you thful gaiety, no young fun during those long weeks in the woods. Jean came to Hollywood only three times, to visit the dentist. Then she went back to the forest. "I was too busy to be lonely," she said, when those months, which would have been unbearable to most youngsters, were ended. "It was grand because I had time to practice my singing and dancing without any interruptions." That's the same spirit which carried Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor to long and lasting success. " You've got to learn to take it on the chin and go down, but you must never go out," Marie Dressier often told the youngsters who came to her for advice. Marie, herself, went down many times, but she always came up, more determined than ever before. Hollywood is no place for softies. You can count the real stars of the screen on your ringers and toes. That proves how very few people have the steel in their wills to match the iron of Hollywood, how very few men and women are willing to sacrifice happiness and personal liberty for the thrill of success and fame. vilLK * That's Why SHU -MILK far outsells all other white shoe cleaners. It actually cleans by removing spots and stains. Shoes cleaned with ShuMilk retain that newshoe whiteness longer. Shu-Milk is absolutely safe — cannot cause shoes to crack or discolor. Easy to apply . . . will not rub off. Use it to clean all kinds of white shoes. At Department, Shoe, ajp. ana Drug Stores AJ SHU-MILK America's Largest Selling White Shoe Cleaner HAIR GRAY FADED Women, girls, men with gray, f aued, streaked hair. Shampoo and color ycur hair at the same ti me with new French discovery " SH A MPO-KOLOR," takes few minutes, Ieavea hair soft, glossy, natural. Permits permanent waveand curl. f lee Booklet, Monsieur L. P. Valugny, Depl.43.254 W 31 Si.. New York BE LOVELY ERASE Wrinkles — Crows' Fool Dry, Flabby Skin FREE book, "Loveliness Begins at 40," telling how you can really say farewell to "age signs" after a fortnight's treatment with my sensational . . . "LineNo-More" and "Glandular Emulsion." $4 /\*\ Introductory Package $1.00 1UU (S3. 00 value). Money back if I ^^— not delighted! Write for book I or send check or Money Order to EUNICE SKELLY'S Salon of Eternal Youth ParkCentral,SniteF2 ,56th&7th Av., N.Y.C When Verree Teasdale finished work in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," she came back on the set to visit and watch the others At last ... an indelible, transparent lipstick that hasn't even a hint of purplish undertone! Actually slays red on the lips; and such a red! The brilliant red of Hawaii's gayest flower . . . the wild ibiscus . . . the brightest, most daring, exotic red you have ever seen. Yet, it is so its intensity, it is easy to wear. . It ips really feminine . . . gorgeously, apPealingly feminine! Tattoo "Hawaiian" is pasteless too. Put it on . . . wipe it off, only the Color stays. There has never been anything like "Hawaiian" before. The price, $1, at drug and department stores. TAT rOO'HAWAiiAN