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2^4 • Ways to Film Success
Within a few weeks I was started at the usual extra pa^'' of a few dollars per day's work. I was in films, but only just. There were many weary months, but eventually someone else took a look at me, failed to laugh, and there I was, with a featured role in Vengeance of the Deep ; quite soon afterwards there I was again with a rather larger part in In the Name of Love ; and almost immediately afterwards Paramount gave me a contract.
They cast me as leading man in Volcano, tried me for eight days, lost their patience, and I was out.
It is thanks only to Jobyna Ralston, now my wife, that I did not quit the pictures. She blamed me for even thinking of it, until I determined to light on and win. I fought on and began to find more and better parts. In the end they gave me that role in IVings which established me ; and incidentally the role which made it possible for me to marry Jobyna, which T did immediately after the production was finished.
I have never regretted making my career in films, and I intend staying in films for a long time. They may have carried me in on a stretcher, but they'll ha^•e to take mc out in a bathchair !
"I WON A COMPETITION"
—by MOLLY LAMONT
(.British International Picture Pla-jer)
ONE — two — three — hop ; one — -two — three — point the toe, so — hop."
These words were part of my daily life only two and a half years ago. To-day, when in moments of retrospect I consider all that has passed, they seem the echoes from a past as distant as a former existence.
At seventeen I was a teacher of dancing to aU the young hopefuls of Scotborough, a suburb of Durban ; to-day I am a film star at Elstree, the Hollywood of the British Empire.
Much luck, some considerable effort, and constant hard work are responsible for my metamorphosis, which began with a competition organized by a South African newspaper to find a girl who should worthily represent the Dominion in British filmdom. Many friends prevailed upon me to submit a photograph. In order to stand some chance against the beauties for which South Africa is famous, I posed in a dramatic attitude with dishevelled hair and terror-stricken eyes. Despite the strategy, I was the most dumbfounded female in Africa when I was declared the winner. The prize was a year's contract with British International Pictures and all expenses from Africa to Elstree, the return fare being deposited against mj' failure to make good.
My arrival in England is unforgettable, particularly when contrasted with my leave-taking from Durban, amid cheering multitudes, showers of flowers, flying bunting and blaring bands. I had left home as good as a star already ; I arrived at Southampton in a freezing wind, dense fog and splendid isolation. Representatives of British International Pictures greeted mc kindlv, but England was blissfully unconscious of my presence.