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(\The following article deals with another offshoot of the industry, which is even more dangerous and futile— namely the attempt of certain concerns to "teach movie acting in your home"-— than ivhich there has never been a more ridiculous proposition.
Allien
As in the case of the "scenario schools," however, we are confronted at the outset, in trying to deal with these people, by the unfortunate fact that their operation is in no way illegal. It would be far easier to cope with the evil were the law in any manner transgressed. But it is not. Fundamentally, we are forced to recognize that there is probably nothing more fraudulent in trimming a sucker fifteen dollars for a course of acting lessons, than in charging him fifteen dollars for, let us say, a "spinal adjustment" to cure him of chilblains. The one is no more -(or less) fraudulent than the other. In fact they are both likely to do him an equal amount of good.
The Film Information Bureau of Jackson, Mich.
The particular concern under investigation in this case is an organization calling itself the Film Information Bureau, of Jackson, Mich. It's a good name, and a nice little town — but inasmuch as it is some thousands of miles away from any motion picture producing centre, one is led to wonder why it should have been selected as the place from which to broadcast acting lessons. However, that is not highly relevant, and in dealing with a theme so fundamentally inane, becomes merely another foolish detail.
It has ever been Screenland's policy to publish the exact facts about extra life in Hollywood without glossing over the situation with the sickly hue of romantic sentimentality. We have hoped in this way to cool somewhat the overheated imagi
nation of screen-struck boys and girls, in order to lessen — as far as lies in our power — the heartache and the misery of the countless thousands of impressionable youngsters who annually sacrifice all in a futile effort to attain screen fame.
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Issues Warning
IN quoting the following misleading statements from the garish literature of the Film Information Bureau of Jackson, Mich., the reader's attention is called to the official statement of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, reprinted from last, month's issue of this magazine:
WARNING! Don't try to break into the movies in Hollywood until you have obtained full, frank, and dependable information from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. It may save disappointments. Out of one hundred thousand persons who start the climb up screenland's slippery ladder, only five reach the top.
With these authentic facts well in mind, consider what must be the dire effect of the following appeal — quoted verbatim from the pamphlet entitled MOVIE ACTING — How To Learn It in Your Own Home — when it is made upon the minds of children. For it is children and grown-up persons of the men
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