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Picture Show Annual A HATED SUPERVISOR LAWRENCE Gray began his career in the film studios as one of the most hated men in movie-making—a supervisor. Larry was about twenty at the time, and found it de- cidedly unpleasant trying to tell directors with years of experience behind them that they were behind with production or spending too much on a scene. Luckily, the job lasted a very short time, and Larry became an extra, but with a casting director for a friend, which meant all the difference between eating and not eating. He discovered this when he went to New York and had no casting director friend to give him work. For six months he existed as best he could, then decided to do a prodigal son act and return home. He had to wire for the money even before he could do this. After a short stay at home, he determined to have another attempt in Hollywood studios, and, through his casting director friend, got a small part in Gloria Swanson's film, " The Coast of Folly." She chose him for her next two pictures, and Larry found himself in demand by other companies until—the talkies. That took the top off Larry's speedily growing self-esteem. He was tested for " Broadway Melody," but the test was as far as it went. After a while he was given the lead in " After Mid- night," and then for four months he didn't do a stroke of work. Larry, who had seldom been out of work for a quarter of that time, was on the verge of giving it all up when he was tested for Marianne," and Marion Davies, finally left to choose between Larry and a Broadway actor, chose Larry. The picture won Larry a contract. " It's a Great Life," with the Duncan sisters, and " Spring is Here " followed, and Larry decided that once more life wasn't so bad. I, A NEW LILA ,• HEN Lila Lee was fifteen, she was playing ingenue roles on the New York stage. A (j^y producing company, noting her prettiness and charm, gave her a five-year starring contract at a small salary, and put her straight into the lead in a film, under the impression that all they had to do was to advertise her and they would have a ready-made star very cheaply. Unfortunately, the public resented the trumpets blown before they had even seen her, and the experiment failed. It was not Lila's fault, for she could act, but , it was very hard luck for her. She found that not ^(T only did she have to make her name afresh, but she had to live down the stigma of failure at- tached to it. She free-lanced doggedly, and in between any roles she could get she played on the stage. Thus, when the talkies came, Li la Lee came into her own, and in one year acted in twenty pictures, playing in 'our simultaneously. This resulted in a contract, jealK won this time. Her talkies include " His Woman," "Wise Girls," " Second Wife," " The Sacred Flame," " Those Who Dance," " Dark Streets." " Murder Will Out." and Under Western Skies."