Screenland (Apr–Sept 1923)

from Hollywood C The Diary Of An Extra Girl — Continued from page 84 Fool's Gold 85 tor. On my third trip he may say, "Oh, hello, girlie, I can't remember your name — I hear so many, you know — but I do remember your face." But he frowns as if it were the most excruciating effort on his part. Now, my dear, if you make a real first impression on a man, your face, your name, even the perfume you use, he will remember. Something about you and in you, the flavor of your own particular individuality must stamp you as different from every other pretty girl in Hollywood. As pretty girls are legion, and about as plentiful here, as leaves on a tree, as each casting-director interviews several hundred in the course of a week, you can see what a task lies before you. Question number 2 — Have you sex appeal ? This, deep down in your heart you may know you have, and hence feel you could be a success. "Do You Hold Men?" T hat's the question to ask yourself. I can show you fifty girls who have sex appeal, sex charm, in fact the "57 varieties" of sex attraction, but not one of them reaches the third step in the ladder of fame. Do you hold men? Do you find that men want to see you after a month's absence? Do they call you up just to hear the sound of your voice? Do they keep your photograph on their desk or beside their dresser? It resolves itself into a question of personal magnetism. Have you that something that attracts as surely as a bit of steel draws to itself and holds particles of iron? If so, you have learned already to give far more than you get; to keep yourself well in hand, and to count other peoples' personalities of greater moment than your own. You have a quiet consciousness of God-given power. But, my dear, no matter where you are, nor what you are doing, you will get to the top. No one can keep you down ! Yet there are not many of these souls in the world. Are you one ? Question number 3 — Do women like you? The male is more powerful than the female when it comes to giving you your start in pictures. But the female is more deadly than the male when it comes to killing you as a favorite with the D. P. (Dear Public,) for it is largely they who watch you in the 1020-30's or in the movie palaces on Main Street. I know a type of girl, pretty, interesting, or even fascinatingly beautiful, with vivid personality. Men like this sort, yet nine out of ten women hate them. The men fall at once for their strong individualities and their Mona Lisa-like understanding, which even on the screen they get across, but women don't like them. Do women like you? Are you mouldable? is my last question. It is an amazing art, this one of pictures; that is, if you take it seriously, and go in for art. It's a difficult thing to give up all one's own ideas — ■ one has so many at twenty — to laugh and smile and cry and frown at the command of a director with whom you may not agree. 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