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Phoj. by Harry Merland
Clara to-day is making seven thousand a week, but she hasn't forgotten the time when a "fifty-cent feed" was lier idea of a feast.
A Flash-back on Clara Bow
Her first press agent looks back on the time, four years ago, when Clara Bow was just a gum-chewing kid from Brooklyn who nearly died of excitement when a producer decided to send her to Hollywood for a try-out.
By Virginia Morris
ONE of those journalistic detectives who trails Hollywood rumors down to their very source revealed in the newspapers not long ago that Clara Bow, alias Rough-hoiisc Rosie, the red-haired hula girl with "It," draws a weekly pay check for seven thousand dollars.
When I read that, I uttered a little cr}^ of delight and clapped my hands together. Clara's a great kid. She deserves ever}' nickel of it. And looking at it from a cold business standpoint, if Clara's boss persuades her to work for that, it's the biggest bargain since somebody bought Manhattan Island from an Indian chief for a string of beads — or was it a box of gumdrops? Why, there are several stars not half so popular as Clara who are knocking down twice as much.
When I think of that, the seven thousand makes me mad, and I decide that Clara's underpaid.
Still, seven thousand is quite a little change to have to carry around with you on Saturda}' morning. A studio pay day is something I'd like to be in on some time, if only as a spectator. I've often wondered whether film bosses pa}' off the hired help in thousand-dollar bills and whether the stars gaze a little wistfully at them and figure out "so much this week for rent, so much for ice, so much toward paying for my new fur coat, and an extra dollar left over to go to the movies on if I want to."
There are times when I'm a very
The "It" girl at the time of her discovery looked like a school kid — she used no make-up at all, and her hair, still long, hadn't even thought of turning red.