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134 Picture Show Annual Before tk famous ALTHOUCH many of the best-known stars of the screen fought their way to the top of the ladder from the very bottom rung, it is seldom that we have a chance of remembering them in their struggling days. For one thing, when they were extras, there were few who could predict their future careers In this scene from " The Eternal City." starring the ill-fated Barbara La Marr, do you recognise Betty Bronson ? She is the page seated on the lower step. This was before her good fortune in Peter Pan." In the background of this Willard Ip Louis picture is Richard Arlen in a small part. 7 n n / On the left is William Boyd in f "Forty Winks," a 1923 film, just when he was beginning to struggle from obscurity, and had not been " discovered " by Cecil DeMille. 5? of brilliance and they were treated like all the other extras. Their portraits were for agents and casting directors. They had no news value for a film paper, so they were not sent. If they were, they were promptly con- signed to the waste-paper basket or returned. Even a small part player holds little interest for the average picturegoer. We may feel a passing curiosity, but it is seldom more. We have to rely, therefore, on recognising the present-day star as an extra in a picture of which someone else was the star. That is why the photographs on these two pages have an especial interest. They also r d ,y i it iL .1/1 j\ j a is ur serve to illustrate the ephemeral fame of a George Barraud {centre of the three men w the bacligrouna) and Anna May Wong were r\ t f 1 ri ueor§e Darraua \cemre oj ine mrec men in ine vuLngruunuj una nnna iviay rr ong were £1 f i \ ri both practically unknown when they played in "Lilies of the Field." which we saw over hlm Star, tor most ot the Stars in the hlms here in 1924 with Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle in the leading roles.