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Players Win Fabulous Riches
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A writer hasn't begun to write until he has plastered the walls of his room with rejection slips. Most authors tuck away in the bottom of the trunk a play and several books before they happen to write something that catches a publisher's fancy. And even then it might not catch the public's fancy— and royalty checks do sort of depend on the public's fancy.
George Bernard Shaw had five inipublished plays on his hands, which no one seemed to want, when he took over the editorship of a magazine in England. The company had no money with which to buy original manuscripts so Shaw ran one of his unpublished plays, and thereby caught the attention of the English reading public. Joseph Hergesheimer wrote for sixteen years before he sold a single thing. O. Henry went through the entire gamut of debt and prison.
But little Simone Simon smiles prettily in a French film and immediately she is signed by Twentieth Century-Fox at more money than O. Henry ever knew existed. Gypsy Rose Lee strips as prettily as Simone smiles and immediately every studio in Hollywood dangles a contract under her nose. 'What does Miss Lee do? Why naturally she chooses the company that offers the most money. She's no fool.
George Eliot was nearing forty before she wrote her first novel. She had written magazine articles before but no one paid the slightest attention to her. Theodore Dreiser fussed around his typewriter a number of years before American readers decided to get terribly thrilled over his
Glenda Farrell, Randolph Scott and Fay Wray enjoying themselves. In Hollywood they even play enthusiastically.
"American Tragedy." And William Faulkner of "Sanctuary" fame had by actual coimt a collection of one hundred rejection slips before any publisher would give him a tumble. Only last winter George Santayana, at the age of 72, had published his first novel, "The Last Puritan." He had been writing it for fifteen years.
Imagine anybody in Hollywood doing anything at the age of 72. Mercy, nobody in Hollywood is over 29. (Oh, I've got my tongue in my cheek when I say that.) That's the grand thing about the art of
acting for the cinema. You don't have to spend your yoiuh building up to it. You can be an artiste, you can have plenty of money and public adulation and still be in your twenties. I'm telling you it's the easiest art in the world.
The modern young actor, or actress, usually spends a year in a stock company, or perhaps a "walk on" or a "bit" in a New York play, or sings or dances in a night club, or appears in a "little theatre" play at the Pasadena Playhouse— and that's about all the apprenticeship he or she
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