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Ct, ''I'm a straight thinkin', clean living' c u s s," says Dick O'Dare. "A 1 1 that lam all that I do, I owe to that little woman, my wife."
. fter all, success is the big idea these days. You are always reading little stories about how so-and-so achieved, and achieved, and achieved — how, when, and why. Too little has been remarked about the phenomenal success of our screen lights and Screenland, just to be different, has decided to unearth some of these little success stories to pass on to the palpitating public.
Come, dears, gather round ; listen attentively, and perhaps, one day, who knows, you will achieve also. Let us take these stories one by one — representative tales of struggle, written, we hope, in the best family manner — nothing to annoy, offend, or even amuse the little ones.
Gladys Golightly, star of Twinkle Productions says :
w hen asked to tell my unknown friends out here in the audience to what I attribute my success, my eyes grow dim and a lump rises in my white throat. It is to my dear, dear mother that I owe what little success I have achieved. I was only a wee slip of a girl — that is, even a wee-er slip of a girl than I am now — when my mother decided I was to go into the movies. Father had been away for some time, and it was up to mother to keep things
together in the old C" We'll see whether he is home — for we are
southern you know.
M y brave little mother — that frail, indomitable woman who 36
in or not," said Mama Golightly, playfully striking down several office boys with the umbrella she always carried.
Ho iv they
Achieved
By 'Delight Evans
Drawings by Wynn
swept literally all before her ! She determined in her quiet way, that I should work for no other director than Archibald Gluck. With this end in view, we presented ourselves at his office. Several people told us he wasn't in, but mother, with her uncanny woman's intuition, said cheerily, "We'll see whether he is or not," and playfully striking down several office boys with the umbrella she always carried, proceeded into the office marked Private.
There sat Gluck himself. It has often been said -that after one look at me, he decided to make me his future star. All that I know is that mother made her way to his desk and picking up a paper knife said in low tones, "My little girl is here to work for you." Mr. Gluck's hand cautiously made