Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1923)

Advertising Section 99 about getting a job with Cecil De MiUe. At that time ''The Rose of the Rancho" was going into continuity, and she was given a chance to work on it. This chance was followed by the plumber remark from the lips of the De Mille. quoted above. She wrote the thing over six times before she won her place in the sun as a skilled scenario writer. "There is a niche for every one in the picture business." she said. "It is just a question of the boys and girls finding the right niche. '"Failing successfully is one of the turning points in the life of every great man and woman. A square peg in a round hole is never happy, any more than is a round peg in a square hole. They just don't fit. There is no use trying to be an actress or an actor if you are cut out for the cutting room or the camera, and if you are an actress at heart there is no use fooling around as a scenario writer or a script holder. "Everv girl or boy who seriously contemplates going pictureward should get into the right niche and stav there — but more important still, if at first you don't succeed in one niche, try. try again until, if you are a square peg. you find the square hole into which vou fit !" The House of Gloria's Dreams Continued from page 25 tical things. The lofty halls form a gigantic background for the five-foot star, and her height — or rather lack of it — is emphasized, too, by great tapestries and long, sweeping drap j eries. There are always great bowls of fresh-cut flowers about the house, i and everything is kept in perfect order. It takes a veritable army of servants to keep it so. Ever\ morning at breakfast in the little cream-colored-arid-gold sun room that overlooks a garden. Gloria goes over her letters and business papers with her secretary and then she rushes off to the studio. She doesn't return home for luncheon as a rule as the drive from Hollywood takes too much time. She lunches instead in make-up and costume in one of the Hollywood Boulevard restaurants. Late in the afternoon when she returns her home is a scene of almost breath-taking beauty-. The hills looming up in the distance behind the House have purple clefts, the house itself seems drenched in the last glowing ravs of sunshine. And there on the velvety lawn is baby Gloria waiting with a chuckle of welcome. When Gloria acquired this house manv of her dreams were realized. If the subscriber paid direct Suppose that every Monday morning all the people who have a hand in furnishing your telephone service came to your door for your share of their pay. From the telephone company itself, would come operators, supervisors, chief operators, wire chiefs, linemen, repairmen, inspectors, installers, cable splicers, test-boardmen, draftsmen, engineers, scientists, executives, bookkeepers, commercial representatives, stenographers, clerks, conduit men and many others, who daily serve your telephone requirements, unseen by you. There would be tax collectors to take your share cf national, state and municipal taxes, amounting to over forty million dollars. There would be men and women coming for a fair return on their money invested in telephone stocks and bonds — monev which has made the service possible. Then there are the people who produce the raw materials, the supplies and manufactured articles required for telephone service. They would include hundreds of thousands of workers in mines, smelters, steel mills, lumber camps, farms, wire mills, foundries, machine shops, rubber works, paint factories, cotton, silk and paper mills, rope works, glass works, tool works, and scores of other industries. When you pay your telephone bill, the money is distributed by the company to the long line of people who have furnished something necessary for your service. The Bell System spares no effort to make your service the best and cheapest in the world, and every dollar it receives is utilized to that end. "Bell System" American Telephone and Telegraph Company And Associated Companies One Policy, One System, Universal Service, and all directed toward Eetier Service Larjre List New Vaudeville Aets. S^atre Monologs. >~e\v Mms i r<>] t h.. ruses and >'ovelty Songs. Blackface Afterpieces and [ Crossfire. Musical Comedies and Eeroes. Musical i;eadin§rs. >oveltv Entertaiiinients. Wi;s, Beards", Grease Paints and other Maketip Goods. ILLUSTRATED C A T AJ.O<;Ci: FREE. WRITE NOW. T. S. DENISON & CO. 623 So. Wabash, Dept. 52 Chicago Eve rything About uticura Soap Suggests Efficiency! G Genuine Diamonds ouMf Send for Catalog. Everything fully explained. Over illnstrari.-r.s o'f D!amonds,W2tehes. Pearl;. Gold Jewelry, SHI vervr are, ~ ilesi Basrs, etc. Wn« W3t ri . 1 s ^ : . i W>;r a GcH. 17 Jrn-e ^ , gTI3^r.:£sz. £39; J =— =is. S3 2. Terms, SI. 00 a ^sek. j—j-b-^ LIBERTY BONUS ACCEPTED T|£ The Old Reliable Credit J^velers a g DEPT. HS27 * 100 10 m N-,Si?te Sl Chiasm. DKUj O L'J 13 = 3 Stores In Leading Cities