Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

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67 xtfitk aVer Haver, the writer of this comprehensive article hitherto unknown facts about her character perament. H erzog Offers poured in on Phil after "What Glory?" It was a gala moment for the gir hadn't been able to give her services away, went with Cecil DeMille. When the weekly stipend commenced coming in regularly for a change, Phil plunked as much as she could of it in the bank. To-day she owns a charming home on Orange Grove Drive. Her mother lives with her.: She doesn't fear the future. She'll never be caught again with her bank account at zero. Through all this! trying period Phil's sense of humor remembered to live. When eight years old, the Haver girl came West to live with her grandmother. Time lapses. Phil is in high school. Vacation nears. One of the boys suggests that she make money by going into pictures. Phil vows she hasn't the remotest idea how to go about it. He volunteers to show her the ropes. That was about fifteen years ago. The first studio this boy took her to was Lasky's. Marshall Neilan was directing a picture. She got a job as extra. Neilan spotted her in the crowd and elevated her to cigarette girl in the cabaret sequence. He even gave her a close-up. "I thought myself just a honey," chortles Phil at the recollection. For this she received five dollars a day — an astounding sum. A friend of hers was a friend of a girl who was engaged to Hampton Del Ruth, then a Mack Sennett director. Through this somewhat roundabout connection, Phil was advised to see Del Ruth and mention his fiancee as the wedge to crash the studio gate. Phil donned her best bib and tucker and boarded the street car for the Sennett lot. She got off at the right place, but couldn't decide which gate was the one to use. As she stood on the curb, her nose crinkled in perplexity, a man stopped beside her. Her first movie salary was twelve dollars a week. Though Phyllis Haver has been in the movies for fifteen years, she has only recently acquired a home of her own — another example of her prudence. "What're you doing, little girl?" She I beamed at him and told him her story — she wanted to see Hampton Del Ruth. "What do you want with him?" She had an answer for that, too. "I'm Hampton Del Ruth," he introduced himself. Phil gasped. What a sweet break ! "Come with me." He led her past the gateman, up a flight of stairs to an office in the tower. A shaggy-haired man, with cold, blue eyes and thin lips gave her the once-over. It was Mack Sennett. Neither Sennett nor Del Ruth paid much attention to her after that. They left the room, telling her to wait. Phil was scared. Sennett and Del Ruth returned. "I'll give you twelve dollars a week and a contract," Sennett said. "More money when you work." Phil gulped. All right. She left the studio. She had a contract. She had actually been alone with two movie men in a tower, and she had no dire, experience to recount ! Phil was getting her bearings—learning the difference between talk and reality. [Continued on page 98]