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Star-dust in Hollywood
and at the end of six months may send them packing without having gained a single story. It spends ^500 or £1000 on an experiment and tosses it aside ; it risks a woman's life carelessly, and does not even use the piece of film that records the incident.
One evening we were invited to meet the great Mr Goldwyn at dinner. A young Viennese actress had also been invited by a kind-hearted patron, and the real importance of the dinner was to make a contact between the magnate and the star. For the star was in a cloud.
She had been noticed in Vienna by Mr Goldwyn's great rival, Mr Lasky. Enthusiastic about her work, the magnate had at once signed a contract for a year, a marvellous piece of luck ; but, as she explained to us afterward :
" I think then it meant the fortune ; Hollywood the centre of the film world. Mr Lasky the most important man in all the film world. I am now made for life. How Vienna envies me ! Ah, what a send-off ! I am going to Hollywood, to Hollywood, where gold flows like water. I come. They give me a fine house, they give me servants, a chauffeur and a car, a secretary; I live like a queen. . . . And for what? For nothing. I go to the studio. I see the directors : I say I have been engaged by the great Mr Lasky himself. But they answer coldly: 'We are sorry, mees, but we have no film in which we can use you at present.' Each time I go to the studio the same answer : ' There is no part at present.' Why, then, do they bring me over here? Why do they pay me this money ? Give me this house ? Is it just ? Is it right ? I have now been here six months — no part. They take me away from Vienna, where I was content, where I was known. How can I ever go back again? I could tell them exactly what has happened, but they will say: 'When she got to Hollywood they soon found her out. We thought she was good, but the Americans know better.' So they ruin me.
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