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ACTING v. EATING PoR nearly nine years now we’ve been 1 seeing Ralph Bellamy on the screen— ever since he made his first appearance with Wallace Beery in “ The Secret Six.” And he is one of the few good-looking young men of the screen who does not play a series of hero parts. In the course of the fifty pictures he has made. Ralph Bellamy has played almost every kind of role, from leering villainy to subtle comedy. Ralph was the eldest of three children, and his father expected him to go into his adver- tising business. But Ralph was president of the school dramatic club, and knew where his ambition led him. So he ran away. He was then seventeen, and he had the appetite that usually goes with that age. He landed a job, after some weeks of frugal feeding, with a repertory company, and life after that was just a question of whether he would ever have enough to eat again. In fact, the necessity of eating once forced him to go into his father’s business. He alternately toured and starved until he had enough money to tackle New York. And during this period he played in “ Romance ” opposite a certain Catherine Willard, who later became Mrs. Bellamy. But meanwhile, when Ralph got back to New York, he once again found starving the alternative to acting. Eventually he reached Hollywood but learned that although he could act, he wasn’t a “ film type." The day before his contract expired, Ruth Chatterton asked for him as her leading man in “The Magnificent Lie," and he’s still acting. Off the screen he is easy going, impulsive, and has a sense of humour that has carried him through all his lean times with a laugh. He likes outdoor sports, Russian music and opera, and symohony concerts. A LITTLE eighteen-month-old girl toddled on to the French stage where Jean and Joseph Bradna were putting trained dogs through their paces. Her unexpected appearance made such a success that Papa and Mamma Bradna included little Olympe in their performances. At eight, being trained as a dancer, she appeared at a small theatre, then went into the Folies Bergere, her nautical dress bringing her the title of ” The smallest sailor in France." She later went to America. With New York at her little feet, Hollywood signed her as a dancer, but in the role.of Babsie in “ Souls At Sea ” she proved herself an actress as well. 14