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tal age of children who write for and devour literature of this description.
Be a Movie Player! — thus starts the pamphlet reproduced on pages 26 and 27 — Fame, Fortune, and Joy of Succeeding Are United in This Newest Avocation. . . . Join the silent army of favorites of the films! Let millions learn to applaud your appearance on the screen! Be loved and and lauded by the mighty public! Be known in the palaces of the great and wealthy and in the cottages of the lowly!
No Long Years of Hard Study or Great Expense. . . . The student of medicine, law, architecture, dentistry, or the other professions must put in four years of good, hard study at college, and go through a starvation period of perhaps as many years more. But here, within a few weeks, you are put in a position to learn all of the requirements of movie acting, scenario writing, film advertising, managing a picture theatre, and the numerous other things of which we have told you.
It makes no difference what your size or complexion may be! All kinds of people are needed in the movies! There is room for thousands.
Whip your ambition into action! Say farewell to old cares, worries, and disappointments. Get into the light of public favor. You will enjoy the fun of Filmland — the new friendships — the different people you will meet. You will thoroughly relish being pointed out as a real movie actor or actress. It's like stepping into a different world. It's like being born over again.
"Satisfied Students" Cannot Be Found
To discuss further the claims of the Film Information Bureau in the face of their statements — quoted above — seems futile. And yet when notified that their advertising was about to be thrown out of the columns of Screenland they sent us, in support of their claims, five letters from "students who report that they have secured employment."
These letters — emanating from Denver, Colorado; Port Arthur, Texas; Rockford, Illinois; Los Gatos, California, and Force, Pennsylvania — are all written in obviously childish handwriting; but in order to test their genuineness, letters
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