Screenland (Oct 1924–Apr 1925)

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CO. 2043 Shipman Bldg., Chicago Send me your big bargain catalog and complete details of your surprising offer, without obligation on my part. NAME STREET CITY STATE chin SCREENLAND The Friendly Stars of Hollywood fident that they will find children vending hypodermic needles and "hop" on the Boulevard. They believe that their entry into a Hollywood cafe will be heralded with an avalanche of serpentines, a volley of popping corks and a display of intimate feminine apparel. They believe that "joy-riders" pass a given point in Hollywood on a schedule of every other five minutes and that personal assaults, arson, mayhem and murder enliven what would otherwise be quiet California nights. A mere kidnapping, they have been, led to believe, would pass unnoticed, not even causing a corner cop to stifle a yawn in order to toot his shrill police whistle. I know that Hollywood is as sound as a nut at the core. The film capital is like any other American city in some respects and quite unlike the others along certain lines, say m the matter of the helping hand and a sympathetic smile. There is not a city in the country which does not boast, yes, boast of its fast and smart set. Hollywood also has its smart set, but investigation reveals that it is composed of the fringe of the charmed cinematic circle, hangers-on who have come to Hollywood to exploit the gullible. There are a lot of plucky and pretty young things here attempting to force the cinema gods to recognize the ability they feel they possess. And some of these girls are weak, pitifully weak. Their funds run low. Their pride will not allow them to return home without the laurels of success. Then the jackals sneak in. Tragedy follows and the newspapers carry another story of "Movie Actress Murdered in Hollywood Love Nest." Genuine inhabitants of the land of Cameradia play hard and work hard. Their salaries are goodly and they spend them freely. Practically all of the successful ones knew lean clays at the beginning. Creature comforts of the present can never efface the hardships of the past in any walk of life. They just allow one to appreciate them the more. But the charming thing about the prominent cinema characters, practically without exception, is their willingness to help the other fellow, the ambitious youngster or some deserving "down-and-outer" along. I have seen a sterling example of this charity and I know that the majority of the movie great Avill give their shirts and throw in extra continued from page 25 buttons if they believe they can genuinely help and not for publicity purposes either. Last Spring an ambitious collection of young medical students working their way through college decided to band together for the good of the whole ; so that the expensed incident to education might be more easily borne. They leased a house near their college and began to accumulate the necessary articles of furniture. I happened to interview Herbert Rawlinson, the Universal star at that time, for a newspaper upon which I was working. I told him of the project, just casually and without any intention of gaining his co-operation. Herb was sitting before the mirror in his dressing-room at the " IF ' retouching the "cop" face he was then using. He dropped his stick of greasepaint and whirled in his chair to face me. "Gee! That's great!" quoth Herb. "I remember when I was battling to get an education. Ambitious boys like that deserve to be helped. ' ' • Herb hesitated. The light of an instantly formed plan shone in his eye. "I know what I shall do," Herb declared. "I shall furnish a room in that house and I'll get a number of my friends to do likewise. Gimme a pencil." Straightway Herb did some figuring. Next he evolved a list of names. Then he dug out his check-book and wrote out his check for a sum I knew he could well ill afford at that time. He handed over the check with the list of names he had compiled. "Take this check and go to see these people," he said. "I'm sure they'll want to get in on this." I looked at the list, It held the names of Pola Negri, Viola Dana, Ruth Roland, Jacqueline Logan, George Melford, the director, Wm. S. "Bill" Hart, and Harold Lloyd. "Your interest will surely be appreciated, Herb. But what's the idea? What are you going to get out of it?" I queried. "Humph," grunted Herb. "I'll get a lot of satisfaction out of it." That was that, so I pocketed the check and departed to call on the other stars named in the list. I told each one what Rawlinson had done and of the collegians' project. "I'll furnish the kitchen," exclaimed petite Viola Dana, "for I r