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Charlotte Stevens won the Chicago Daily Journal contest last May and took the first train for Hollywood. She landed a contract with Bobby Vernon and has been working on it ever since.
importance that she is practically ruined for life.
His scheme to prevent such wholesale slaughter of the innocent-;' morals and manners did not live long in the gust of ridicule which accompanied every word written about it. But it had its points — undoubtedly — as every picture producer on the west coast will gladly tell you.
Hollywood Full of 'Em
For beauty contest winners make up a neat percentage of the female population of Hollywood. Hollywood is held up as the goal toward which all pretty girls should strive. An already glutted beauty market is swelled every year with the season's crop of beauty contest winners. Into a city that boasts more beauty — and more unemployed beauty — than any other city in the world, annually come the newest beauty contest winners, armed with one-picture contracts, which are guardedly worded, so that the subject, if absolutely impossible, need not be used in anything but a minor — very minor — role. These contract-bearers are the fortunate ones. The really pathetic stories could be written around the village belles, winners of Elks' contests or Flower Show contests, or chosen as the Queen of the Firemen's ball,
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Beauty in Hollywood is as common as pigtracks in Alabama. As Alma Whitaker said in a previous issue of Screenland, the really ain girl is the only one who has
Gertrude Olmstead was winner in the Chicago Herald-Examiner beauty contest two years ago. She is now under contract with Goldwyn.
Lois Wilson is one of the few winners of beauty contests who have made good in pictures. Oddly enough, Lois does not claim to be a beauty, and forbids her publicity writer to mention the fact that she ever won a contest. Her latest big role was the feminine lead in the Paramount picture, "The Covered Wagon."
a chance to make a sensation in Hollywood.
The prettiest girl of Simsbury, 111., to crib from Harry Leon Wilson's priceless story of movie life, has small chance in Hollywood, where she competes with the most . beautiful girl of France, the most beautiful girl of Sweden, the most ravishing charmer of New York, the most gorgeous twinkler of Ziegfeld's Follies, the prettiest bathing girl in the United States.
She wheedles her father into mortgaging the old homestead, breaks with her high school sweetheart, and comes to Hollywood, with every penny of the family's available cash — only to find that her nose, which the Simsbury photographer had caught at the only possible angle, photographs like a knot on a potato, and that her hair, which she had thought an exact replica of Mary Pickford's. photographs like strands of hemp rope. In fact, the belle of Simsbury is not even belle of the boarding house in Hollywood.
She manages to get a few days' work occasionally as an extra, and unless she develops a talent for character acting, she finds herself doomed to return to Simsbury or to dish up food in one of Hollywood's ubiquitous cafeterias.
Her fate is the common fate of
Virginia Browne Faire is one of the few successful winners of beauty contests. Dramatic ability, intelligence and beauty of soul and body have helped her.
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