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TEXAS TAUGHT HER
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Hollywood was amazed when Adrienne Ames, a Park Avenue girl, took her career seriously. But Adrienne learned to work for what she wants as the daughter of a Texas gasoline station proprietor.
By Mabel Duke
The ugly duckling took wings, shed the name of Ruth McClure, and transformed herself into the ritzy gal you see on the right.
Photo by Aunt
IN t lie ranks of the movie great and near great, Cinderella looms head and shoulders above the poor little Ritz girl.
The earnest extra who starves in a hall bedroom for her art before she rises to stardom is a familiar figure in Hollywood. But the average social registerite who takes a fling at acting seldom lasts until the ink is dry on her publicity blurbs.
Miss I 'ark Avenue, with her wealth and prestige, has le>s difficulty crashing the gate but, unhampered by stern necessit) to earn the rent, she seldom applies herself suf
ently to make much headway. She enjoys Hollywood parties and mingling with "those bohemian movie folk," but In' seldom has the stamina to endure the arduous hour-, the painstaking stuHy and nerve-racking work necessary to achieve even a small success.
That's why Hollywood is surprised at the persistence of Adrienne Ames, the latest I 'ark Avenucr to break into films. Sure, she drives to tin studio in a Rolls-Royce that's far beyond the' means of her comparatively small
salary, but once she gets there she works as hard and as long, as uncomplainingly, and as earnestly aany $5-a-day extra who's lighting the wolf at the door.
Hollywood gave her six months.
But Adrienne has lasted three times that long and has risen from merely posing for publicity stills to several supporting roles and now a few leads.
So Hollywood has had to eat some of its words these "smartAleck rich "iris here for a lark."
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