Star-dust in Hollywood (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Star-dust in Hollywood
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
Volume:
Star-dust in Hollywood
Leaf #:
000260
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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Star-dust in Hollywood " It's English you are?" he said. "Well, Oi'm Oirrish meself, but it's a long time OiVe bin over here now. Did you ever see Tarzan of the Apes} No? Then you didn't see meself as the woild man. And it's a treat you missed that time. That's me speciality, that is, woild man. It's a kind of a woolly head Oi've got on me. Some says that Oi've a bit of the naygur in me blood. Well, maybe Oi have, but it's little Oi'm bothering about it anyway. But a fine fuzzy head Oi've got, and a fine fuzzy beard Oi had ; woild it was. But on me last job they had me shave it off, and they ruint me intoirely. Oi'll tell you how it is, now. Oi can't make up me moind to set meself down and let it grow on me again. It would need time, you understand, and in the between it's little work that Oi'd be getting. But lacking it now Oi'm not the man Oi was ; me woildness isn't the half of what it used to be. Oi'm regretting the day Oi let them shave it off me, that Oi am. It's no star Oi am, or they'd be paying me to grow it, and a nice, easy job that would be. . . ." An extra is hired beard and all, but if a star must take a bearded part his salary begins from the first day that he neglects the razor. MEXICAN EXTRA A simple, kindly conglomeration of hopefuls, these twenty thousand extras, made up of examples from almost every nation under the sun : Americans, Europeans — many of [244]