Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

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87 Charles Farrell First Big Pay Check selves of what their sensations were when they various uses to which they put those checks. Charles Farrell Xecessities — that is the general head under which my expenditure of my first good-sized check conies. For rent, I suppose, and such sundries of existence. Ten minutes after receiving it, I deposited it in the bank, to save my account from total elimination. Since I came to Hollywood from Cape Cod, two years ago, I have always had a bank account. It went down to fifty cents more times than I care to mention. On the day that I received my first contract check, the account wasn't any too husky, so I contributed to its health at a speed which would have shamed Nurmi. Dorothy Gulliver In the center of a shoe-shop window, those exquisite, metal, brocaded evening slippers, in thirteen colors ! I know — I counted 'em over and over. Delicately shaded rainbow hues — such dainty high-heeled trifles on the blue velvet on which they were placed. Every day I stopped to admire them. Being small models, they weren't sold. Little brocaded slippers, waiting for me. I knew I was their Cinderella, for I had tried them on, but the Prince wasn't anywhere around. I used to close my eyes as I approached the shop, with the fear that they might be gone. Though I couldn't have them, I didn't want*anybody else to wear them. Then — wonderful day ! — Universal put me under contract. I had the saleswoman lay them away for me, until I received my salary at the end of the week. It was some time before I was invited to a party and could wear them, but I used to put them on every night in my room and prance around. Dorothy Gulliver Edmund Burns Say, my first big check didn't last two hours ! It is mighty tough breaking into pictures. I had all settled how I would spend my first big moneyclothes, and a celebration spree. But the news that I had connected with real cash traveled around Hollywood so fast that, by the time I got home from the studio, my creditors had gathered to help me celebrate. And there were plentv of 'em. My spree was postponed, and my check was gone before I was on speaking terms with it. The next one went too, but in pleasanter ways. it Norma Shearer Edmund Burns Norma Shearer All of my life I had pictured myself sitting luxuriously back in a high-powered motor car, with a dignified, liveried chauffeur at the wheel. My first big check made my cherished dream come true, but with a fly in the ointment. The brightly polished car was perfect as to upholstery and fittings. But the glamour was dulled by the terrible time I had with chauffeurs. The first two, though spic and span, weren't reliable. The only thing wrong with the third one was that he couldn't drive ! At last, though. I have found a trustworthy driver. But the irony of it is that, so far as appearance goes, the picture isn't complete. For, he never would take a prize for being the perfectly groomed chauffeur. However, though I shattered a dream in satisfying a burning desire, I tell myself that I must count my blessings — I have the car. And the man can drive. Hugh Allan There was a special suiting material that I had always admired but which was too costly for my pocketbook. I used to imagine myself' in a whole outfit — suit, hat, and shoes — strutting down the street all dressed up like a collar-ad hero. With my first First National check, I attired. myself in accord Hugh Allan ance with my dream, and nothing on the Boulevard could touch me with a forty-foot pole. My friends laughed at the foolish pride I took in a few new clothes, but that didn't matter. Youcca Troubetzkoy With my salary check, which the Universal company presented me for my first week's work, I bought a radio set. The second week. I made a first payment on a roadster. I was then, if you please, an American ! Betty Bronson "Peter Pan" made me better acquainted with Sir James M. Barrie's "family." Pc'tcr was the only one of his "children" whom I had known well, and I wanted to become acquainted with the others. I was so excited over being cast as Peter that I can't remember but one thing I bought with my first week's check, a beautifully bound set of Barrie's works which were on display at a Hollywood book shop. Next to "Peter Pan," my favorite was "A Kiss for Cinderella," and now I have played in that. I hope Paramount will let me do all of his stories. Claire Windsor From my extra days on, a diamond wrist watch symbolized to me success and beauty and everything worth struggling for. My heart was set on one, and I never Continued on page 104 Betty Bronson