Star-dust in Hollywood (1930)

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Star-dust in Hollywood earned reward of the careful subordinate; but those fit to take the step from careful subordinateship to a position needing vision are few. There is always room round the ^2000 stage. Allowing for the difference between London and Hollywood, there is always room in the films round the ^3000-ayear position. The happiest man in Hollywood is the man important enough to have his name shown in the list of the cast but not important enough to have it on the hoardings. On the set he is sufficiently honoured to have a chair inscribed with his name, but it is a name that scarcely moves the outside world, nor does he need a special secretary to send off his photos to thousands of adoring flappers. The Purity Clause and the Black List do not loom over his head ; he must be extraordinarily naughty for the papers to be excited about him. This is the man or woman with character. Beauties by the hundred serve in the drug-stores or wait in the restaurants hoping some day to catch a directors fancy, but a fine set of wrinkles can gain steady employment and suffer none of the temptations of over-advertised youth. Of the nine stars whom we considered at page 1 5 1 three were superior and fixed stars : two actors and a waiter, but only one of these could be called a properly educated man. Three others were planetary stars : sailor, farmer, and acrobat, none well educated. The remaining three were the university professor, the Russian general, and the dancer. These also were stars, though of a secondary rank, but compared with [172] CHARACTER