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Unknown to the screen, and with little hope of ever appearing on it, many aspirants found that in observing the stars they acquired knowledge of acting that made it all the easier for them when opportunity finally
knocked at their doors.
AT the organ sat a pretty girl, her fingers trailing the keys and finding the stops from familiar practice, while her eyes were fastened upon the screen above. Seen at such close range, the figures were enlarged and lengthened out of all proportion, but even with the lack of perspective she noted little things — the way Norma Talmadge used her hands and Constance her eyes, the gesture of a Chaplin.
Young and lovely and dreaming star dust, she wondered how she would look up there among that shining, silver pageantry, and reminded herself that she would do so-and-so, or not do thus.
Stored away in her subconscious mind, Jeannette Loff may have forgotten half the lessons she learned by watching while she played the right music for each scene in a Portland, Oregon, movie
As an usher at the Chinese Theater, Raquel Torres found opportunity to study the screen before she was "discovered."
theater. Much of it, however, constitutes a reservoir of knowledge from which she now draws, in acting leading lady opposite William Boyd and other stars.
A number of players, while dreaming starshine, have worked in menial jobs in connection with the movies, acquiring valuable training that enabled them to progress quickly when the chance to act came.
As an usher at Grauman's Chinese Theater, in Hollywood, the dusky Mexican child with such delicate features, Raquel Torres, was busy thinking and not just ornamenting the place. She was studying the screen. Many a bit of technique thus picked up was used in "White Shadows in the South Seas," "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" and other films to which she has given her gentle charm.
Though his father was a stage manager, and backstage, therefore, was as familiar as the footlights to which he progressed, Edward Nugent found no paved road to movie success when he left the theater and moved to Hollywood.
While working as shipping clerk, he earned a