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Star-dust in Hollywood
though she might drop her lip-stick — each extra is immutably fixed in his position. He is ticketed and labelled. A goodlooking young Englishman, a captain during the War, had once made a success as a valet. Henceforth and for ever he is to be a valet. He may struggle, protest, he may have himself photographed as a number of other possible characters, valet he will remain. Nobody will test him in another role. For him no ' break ' can come unless a film should be written with a valet as hero. Then his perfect valeting might spew him out among the stars. Another Englishman, who fifteen years ago was a matinee darling in London, is for ever a barman with sleekly oiled hair. Yet even so these are the luckier ones. To be recognized as one of the five best valets in Hollywood or as the Metro-Goldwyn barman places you almost among the minor constellations. You may not have your name on the back of a chair, you may have to be content with long hours of waiting on a rough bench, playing bridge, but you are nevertheless one of the brighter spots that shine through the general diffused luminosity of the Milky Way. You are almost as noteworthy as a chimpanzee or a trained dog, and possibly superior to a talent special. You usually have the privilege of haunting some salons of the Movie Great and of cadging personally for jobs.
For in the Milky Way of extradom there are degrees of brightness, as among the stars themselves. In Fairbanks' Twenty Tears After there were the courtiers, persons capable
WAITING FOR HER ' BREAK '