Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 19, 1923, Page 5

4 ereeas <1 2..uywood and Los Angeles were liter- tit ‘ erte © morals have improved somewhat, and ‘E Srpareeerecegeyacesy, Be. =~SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1923. he Casper Sunday Worning Cribune PAGE FIVE -RUSH TO MOVIE-LAND IS SLOWING UP AGAIN sUts EDITOR'S NOTE: This summer from varied points between New York of enroute ty Hollyw fm by police or applying ~ “actresses en route to Hollyw: Perhaps a lot of them get married en route or Apparently only a few of them ever reach Movieland. galled the attention of Robert bureau, to report of this the facts—from the Hi = aldson has handled nearly BY ROBERT A. DONALDSON, (United Press Staff Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15.—(United Press).—The depart- = ment stores of Los Angeles are filled with pretty girl clerks | = who thought they were potential Mary Pickfords. * “second Gloria Swanson” is no a typewriter, as a stenograph where she first went hoping to ‘tune on the silver screen. Fortunately, however, the tide of screen struck girls who come from all parts of the country to Hollywood = Fas been checked. Despite reports from tourists that everywhere girl hikers are “on their ‘way to Hollywood,” léss of them are erriving than ever before in the his- tory of the movie game. <\pparently the recent widespread publictty given to the small chance t: +t a,girl has to win fame in the movier and the starvation facts which usually confront her on arriv- ing in Hollywood, have taken effect. Swamped With Girls During the war and after the war fap to the big movie slump of 1920, | elly swamped with would-be movie ! queens. New Commanies were spring- | mg up like mushrooms, and many | of these aspirants to film fame actual- ly found places where they obtained Bome degree of recognition. In some cases they became stars. But the “roaring twenties” have | Fone, and the movies are now on a dif- ferent and very much more efficient Danis. Casting directors and welfare work- ers are unanimous in dec’aring that, with the greatest talent and the best of looks and the rarest of luck, no unknown girl nowadays can hope to make even small reputation in Hol- lywood inside of two years. The Y. W. C. the city police mothers, and sim erganizations ebtained many of them jobs in de-| partment stores, ‘n stores and offices, | or if they know typ!ng as stenograph- ers. Others were rescued by friends or perents who sent the price of a return ticket back home. Since that time producers have aimed to spread the truth over the country that the average, unknown girl has only about one chance in a thousand to make a living in the movies, : “Our problems have greatly de- creased in the last two years,” paid one police mother. “Before that mor als were more lax in the movies, and besides, so many giris came who, un- nile te make # living in the movies, took in desreration what they believed to be an easier way. Now movie the girle are arriving in smaller nurn- 4 and T believe are of a better Waiting List Grows It is estimated that about 500 flap pers « year desert their homes in 'the (Tide of Potential Mary Pickfords no Longer Surging Against Walls of Hollywood; Big Problem Apparently Solved for Lear my en route usually termed themselves as A. Dondaldson, at the head of its Los Angeles | general exodus and migration and asked him to get Wall Garinieiimoris, teartea, ecandan cor de | “ ig movie 5 scandals, etc., durin: the 1922-23 season and knows the studios clear through. Here { dope. ’ there has been a flood of dispatches and Los Angeles, telling about scenes in autos and in trains. Girls taken | their minds. ‘The United Press} Here is his dope. 2 Many a} w chewing gum and punching er in the office of a studio} win her way to fame and for- | ly think things over and in from six/ months to two years leave the movies for more substantial lines of work. ‘The same is true of the handsome} youths. One of the most successful sales- men on automoble row today {ts a wavy-haired youth, who once aspired to he a movie hero. He hal! rved as an extra for two years, and then came down to earth and got a job as an auto salesman for a sporty-looking make of car. Using his slight speaking scqua‘nt- «Ce with the real stars of studios, he specialized in a movie clientele and he hes established a record of hiving sold more cars in the movie colony than any other one salesman in town, (END CHAPTER IL) Number Shrinking. Despite the fact that many gay girls from all parts of the country come to Hollywood secking a butter- fly Mfe in th police reports show that remarkably few of them get into trouble with the law. During the past year only ten girls have become cases for the local board of charities and corrections. Probably 30 or 40 girls a year are taken into custody by the juvenile department, but many of these cases come about not because the girl has gone wrong but because her parents have asked that she be held until they could arrange to vring her back home. BIG WAITING LIST FOR “HEARTBREAK HOUSE” cases was much higher, officials state. During the latter part of 1918, and| adamant, and, learning that the girls’ during 1919 and 1920, approximately} mother lived tn Denver, took steps to 150 girls a week came to Los Angeles and Hollywood, movie casting direc- tors estimate. Movie Life Gag Then. Movie life was much gayer then— that was before Fatty Arbuckle’s ar- rest, the slaying of Willam Desmond Taylor and the appointment of Will H. Hays to the post of movie mentor. Girls fell in with a wilder crowd, and were subject to more improper ad- vances by various men connected with the studios, police matrons state. Now, according to the Hollywood ¥. W. C. A, the Service Bureau, which hires the extras, and prominent casting directors, not more than a studio wickets each week, and most of the girls who do come are serious- minded, have a fair idea of the hard- ships they must endure. ‘The problem of girls under age is the big one, all sources agree. One big studio has each extra sign a questionnaire on which must be given the name of parents or guardian. The parents or guardian are then sent a card informing them that the girl has applied for work in the movies. Many frantic telegrams come back saying that Nellie is only @ girl of 16 who is “screen-struck” and has run away from home, and that “pa and ma” are worried and want the authorities | to send her back. Contrary to the best dime novel precedents, it is usually not the sim ple unsophisticated girl who gets into trouble with the law in Hollywood. half dozen new faces appear at the | But the juvenile authorities were determine their ages, and learn why they were wandering so far from home, But {t's such girls es the “Dixie twins” who never in t! close the studios. END CHAPTER III. Studlo Home Planned A campaign is now under way tn movieland to ra'se the dignity of “ex- tra'’_ work and to form a colony of e but the ultra-worldly-wise girls—the “jazz bables.”” The Dixie Twins. There are many giris like the “Dixie twins," who come to Holly- wood seeking fame and notoriety. The “Dixie twins” hiked all the way from Pensacola, Florida, arriving in Holjywood in overalls, looking for work. They danced and sang to make their way across the country, they said, and hoped to get into the movies on the strength of a handful of clippings garnered enroute. But the juvenile authorities took them in charge. “Why, we're not juveniles,” both stated when questioned by the al- thorities, We're both married. Fea ture that—calling us kids. We’ actresses. Say, this town muss » some class witel taf icuk a girlie up because she doesn’t wear silk. W: had some other clothes but a funny Four years ago the number of girls who went wrong or were juveniie| old landlady in Denver seized our trunks.” middle west and east and come to Hollywood, fluttering like moths about * @ brilliant flame of movie fame. At present about five a week apply for work at ‘Heartbreak House.” “Heartbreak House” is an old de- eayed, bare-walled structure down- town in Los Angeles, which houses the powerful Service Bureau. Prac- tically all of the big producing com- panies are members of the Service Bureau, and hire their extras through {t. Butterfly girls and handsome boys, * who apply for work at the studio wick- ets, are referred to the Service Bu- reau. But the Service Bureau limits the number of extras it will register. At present the limitation {s 1,200, and this must include all kinds of character people and comedy freaks. No matter how much ability a pret- ty girl or striking youth may have, he or she doesn't get a chance {f the yogistration is filled up—as st usually , * ‘The {dea of the Service Bureau, “witch sends extras out on calls for | studios, Dac. Some Bak types or for certain scenes | ¢rom studios, is to give a decent liv- ' gng to a group of established extras by providing fairly steady work. The Bervice Bureau does the hiring, and iso does the paying, deducting « commission from the extras’ pay for + placing them. Girls who come to Ho!lywood, hop: | ing to win recognition, sometimes for months before there is an opening on the registration books of Irregular ‘Wages range from $5 to $10 a day, wth the average about $7.50. Some character players get as much as $15 | a day. Work is very irregular. Some- times an extra will work in half a cozen pictures a week, at as many sometimes working at one rtudio in the daytime and at another at night. And again an extra will cometimes not get a single call for three or four weeks. Extras must at all times be pro- vided with a good wardrobe or street, vort, and evening clothes in good condition. Only clothes for special craracter parts or costume pictures ure furnished by the studios. Charac- ter actors and actresses obtain nteadi- er work than ordinary extras. “The least-wanted type in the movies ia the jazz baby,” one of the hiring experts at the Service Bureau told the United Press. “There is no cal for them. Bobbed-haired girls also ‘earn a scant living in the movies. Stars are the only ones who seem to have the prerogative of bobbing their halr and getting away wth it.” Leave the Movies extras. make a permanent Carola Drehman is the first woman in Germany to take up gliding since the experiments in motorless flying have started. Here starting on a flight in the Rhone M: she is jountains. 34 A Rare Gift for a Rare Girl DIAMONDS profession of the work, out most of the would-be Mary Pickfords eventual. ART. JEWELER JOS. 1-SCHWARTE That’s the way you feel about it, and that’s the way she will feel about you and your gift. Partic- ularly — particular- ly, mind you—if you purchase it at this well known and high standing store. Our jeweled gifts are standard. Ss eNow your brassiere troubles are over Formfit Brassieres are so well made that they can be depended upon to ive the proper confinement to the figure —to fit snugly yet without bind- ing and they will not They are made ina large variety of styles and patterns sufficiently diversified to meet your every need, ~ ea NES GEM STO: world get a! peep behind the high fences that en- tras so that all may obtain a reason- able living and form a substantial |part of Hollywood life. Hollywood wants fewer drifting girls—girls who are given to chance acquaintances, and who, dscause of lack of proper environment, are tempted to listen to improper ad- vances by men influential in the studios. Several years ago the Y. W. C. A in Hollywood started the Studlo Club, ® temporary home for girls coming to Hollywood to go into the movies. Tt housed 20 girls. They were sup- Posed to stay only for two woekx. while they got located elsewhere, al- though thereafter they were urged to make the Studio Club a soc!a' cen- ter. e Studio. Club has alway's been filled to capacity. The two weeks’ rule has never been <nforced, and girls were housed thers for sev- eral_months, until they cotl4 get on their feet financially. Membership in the Studio Club ts not limited to girls who aspire to be actresses, but {s opsn to all girls who work in the movies—stenographers, film cutters, scenario readers and sec- retaries, A campaign, headed by Will HF. Hays, movie czar and the big pro- ducers, to raise $150,000 for a new Studio Club bullding, to house 100 girls and serve as a recreation cen- ter and club house for all movie girls in Hollywood. Girls would be per- mitted to live at the new club for as long as @ yoar, unless the rush of girls to Hollywood becomes greater than at present. “The majority of girla who come to us are of good type, clean, wholesome nd serious-minded,” one of the club's cretaries told the United Press. ‘Most of them are trom small towns, and are generally girls who have gained some fame in home-town ama- teur theatricals. Most of theif! families are in moderate circum stances. Of course, a large numbe. of them are quite unsophisticated as to the ways of the world and the dan- gers that beset a single girl In the) motion picture or any other large) business, I feel sure the club has) saved a great many girls from going astray. Where girls have told us of improper advances we have taken the| matter up with the studio heads, and| usually have put an immediate stop to such @ man’s activities. Must Work to Lave “After a fow weeks many girls who have come with high hopes of becom- ing stars run out of money, and con- fess to us that they must have work to live. Then we try to get them lo- cated in other lines in the movies where they can make a good living, if they are qualified for the work, or if not, we try to get them work of some sort !n Los Angeles stores. “Far too many ¢'rls who have only small savings come to Hollywood only to realize too late that even if they have the ability, it takes time to break in to a point where they can earn enough on which to live. Any girl—if she must come to Hollywood. ought to have money enough to live for six months at least. She should also have a xood wardrobe, as @ girl without plenty of clothes for all oc- castons cannot qualify for the wide variety of scenes which require extras, “Of course,” the secretary saded. “we see only a part of the girls who come to Hollywood. 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