New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1923, Page 11

VIRGINIA BRABFORD FINDS . ODDS AGAINST HER ARE 20,000 TO 1, BY VIRGINIA BRADFORD, Hollywood, March 22-—A famous motion picture casting director says nine of every ten Americans regard themselves as “born’ actors, needing ony a chancé‘to become stars, This. man and others who mold movie destiny have 30,000 names on flle—~people awaiting the call to film fame, \ I am one.of the 20,000, When 'l came to Hollywood, movie mecca of the world, I too felt that 1 needed only opportunity to make me sparkle, Three incentives carried me here from my home in Memphis, Tenn. An immediate liveiihood for myself and my five months’ old child of an ill-| fated marriage; craving for emotional expression stified at home; and the vanity of youth which sees the scree: as a setting for its splendid dream: OP SEEMED To: GRIN AT ME PITYINGLY VIRGINIA BRADFORD AMUSED AT HER AS JUST ANOTH “Dramatic experience” had been confined to a little dancing and home theatricals, from which so many egotistical girly rush blithely to Hel- Iywood expecting immediate stardom with its silks, limousines and mash notes, About the technique of acting 1 knew absolutely nothing. Even the world puzzled me. Arrives With Baby. 8o I stepped off the train with my baby boy, without a single acquaint- ance here and without any definite plan or idea how to proceed. 1 selected a boarding house Hollywood boulevard because I agined that would be within studio “colony."” : But instead of the concentrated cluster of magnificent buildings T had pictured. I found the movie fac- tories, scattered over a vast area. To visit them one after another, even in a fast ‘motor car, would require three days, And now the thing I had been so ure of seemed suddenly remote and on im- the FINDS HOLLYWOOD APPARENTLY ER MOVIE-STRUCK GIRL, You see, I am trying to be quite honest in writing down my feelings as well as my experiences in break- ing into motion pictures, at the re- quest of The Herald, for whatever in- terest and guidance my stories may have for other girls hoping for screen career. Movic-Mad at 186. At 16 I had become movie-struck— that epidemic of the adolescent Am- erican girl. 1imagined a “Beauty and Brains” contest, then running, had been ‘arranged for my special benefit. 1 had even picked out the clothes I'd wear to Hollywood when I should be acclaimed as the winner. IFailure to get even honorable men- tion almost killed me, but didn’t erad- icate all the virus, for here I was, at 23, with the old ambition blazing anew. My equipment was a high school education, a little business training, unlimited self-confidence and a mod- est wardrobe, enough money to last several months, a pair of gray eyes 1 thought effective, and a figure my rriends considered petite. al !intangible. To get the “feel” of the | place, I spent days just wheeling my baby along the streets, trying to muster courage, to readjust my no- tions to the facts, and to formulate a plan. “Another Silly Girl.” Everyone who suspected my mis- sion, I thought, must regard me as “just another silly girl who wants to be a movie actress,” and I adopted all sorts of subterfuges to conceal my intent. Even the groups of men and women in make-up, standing about the wtudios or rushing to work, seemed to_grin at me pityingly. | I was nmazed and chastened at the number of girls, who, like ~myself, were trying to "break in.” TOMORROW—The pitfalls of Hol- lywood—are they real or imaginary? MRS. WEEKS CRITICALLY ILL Brunswick, Ga., March 22.—Mrs. John W. Weeks, wife of the secretary of war is very ill here on board the private yacht Evergreens which was hurried into port this morning to se- cure medical aid for Mre. Weeks. Princess Mary and Child Princess Mary is shown here with her infant son whose birth gladdened all England. This picture, the first posed photograph of myal mother and her child, shows the baby in his christening WKW BRIFAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 19Zs. BORAH ASKS PARTY FOR REAL POLICY Uges 6. 0. P. to Stop Is G- shoeing Tactics . Akron, O, March 22.—Inviting his party to ‘‘quit gum-shoeing’” for votes and adopt a clear cut and fearless program, Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, declared in an address here last night that by such a course re- publican leaders could put an end to a third party movement which now appears ‘‘not improbable.” “Political conditions are distressing- ly unsatisfactory to both political par- ties,”” sald Senator Borah, speaking at a banquet held in honor of Abraham Lincoln by the republican county committee. “The voter is alarmingly indepen- dent. Party leaders seem confused. 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Better than @ mustard plaster poitics at this time 1 would unhesi- tatingly declire that it consists in playing. the game on too low a stan- dard—far below the level of both the intelligence and - patriotism of the voter. The problems now pressing for attenion are in many ways the most difficult ever presented to the American electorate. We know these problems are here and no one can be unconcerned in regard to them. But we geem to lack boldness and de- termination in dealing with them."” A thousand willing patrons read and answer a Herald classified ad. The Herald will classify your ad and what is more, sell it for you. In Clark Case s Laura Martin, Houston, Tex., girl, shown above, declares she is the girl Edward Young Clark, Atlanta, Ga accused of having transported to New Orleans for immoral purposes. She will testify at the trial in Houston of | Clarke who is charged with violating the Mann act OSTROWSKI & FOR $600 Stanley . Ostrowski has been made defendant in two actions brought by Attorney Stanley J. Traceski, for al- leged non-payments on notes. Rosaba Perzanowski has brought action to re- cover $400 and Mark Dworancik has 18 ey were to Bave been married yes- t v nstable George A, Star! Both writs are re- turnable in the city court on the first ‘Monday in April |NAN IS MURDERED ON DAY HE WAS GOING T0 MARRY s Body When Girl Dashes From Hut Screaming and Hysterical New York, March 22,-—Detectives | haye been called in to solve another |murder mystery when the body of Ludwig Schlessinger, 29 year old “hermit" of Brooklyn was discovered in his tiny shack on the shore of Jamaica Bay and the $3000 of which he had boasted to acquaintances, was found to have been stolen from its secret hiding place. Police have defi- | nitely determined that the murder oc- curred yesterday, Joseph Narhutt, a neighbor, told them he had seen a young woman and a man enter the shack in the after- noon. A few minutes later she dashed from the hut screaming and Narbutt, | hurrying to the place, found Schles- |singer on his bed, unconscious and dying. The victim had been horribly beaten with a heavy instrument, Nar- | butt said. Meanwhile, he an sobbed an h having been eng: aid, the young wom- rical story about ed to Schlessinger. terday, she said, and when her fiance |failed to appear for the ceremony she land her brother went to the hut toj |learn the reason. She conveyed the, {impression that Schlessinger had been attacked before they arrived, said the| neighbor, and that he was moaning | and bleeding to death when they en- | tered the hut. | Narbutt did not remain at the shack | nor did he advise authorities what had ! |taken place, because he thought tho[ girl and her brother “would take care sued to recover $200. The papers in of that,” he said. Sprains — bruises — pai turned ankles — stiff, sore muscles—no family can w%': tl!em.hy i at is why millions keep Sloan's handy. 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