The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-10-03
Miss Claire Louis Butler Lee
Tells What Happened
to Them.
.FA|RM0NT GIRLS LUCKY
They Did Not Win in the
Beauty and Brains
Contest.

For aught we know there may have
! been SOME tears shed in Fairmont
some time since when the Photoplay
Magazine announced the names OF the
winners OF its Beauty and Brains con-
! test. But aside from the pique at
having some one else chosen instead
of themselves the Fairmont beauties
who were entered-There were three
or four of them, If you'll remember
, have mighty little to mourn over. The
following from the Chicago Tribune
tells what happened TO the unfortunate
young women who won:
IF
You took friend husbands dare" to
enter a contest to be movie star
You were one Of eleven girls chosen
victors out Of 10000 contestants
You went to New York expecting to
be welcomed with years contract at
star star" salary, and TO be made
love to by those adorable movie act
ors-
! THEN
Wouldn't you be the least, weaniest
bittest mad
You were welcomed by no contract.
star star" or otherwise
The aforementioned adorable movie
actors matched pennies to see which
one should make love to you
A fluffy haired, gum chewing movie
star finally acted 1.-The man" in those
longed for love scenes
AND
You were shipped home like bale
Of hay without even so much as pass
to the show in the little old home
town?
Well, II your disposition is such that
you felt cheerful after shuch harrow.
ing experiences, you certainly differ
from Miss Claire Lois Butler Lee Of
Lincoln. Neb., whose husband-she re
ally Is Mrs Lee, you know-purchases
broom corn in the southwest for his
fathers factory.
A petite bundle of outraged femini.
ty. bristling with threats of lawsuits
against her enemies, Miss Lee descend
ed upon Chicago yesterday and imme.
diately established headquarters. She
doesn't just know when and how she's
going to start that lawsuit, but you
may be sure no film company is 20.
ing to get away with any flapdoodle
| u.
She was overloaded with protests
against the treatment she had receiv.
ed. The World Film company, which
with the Photoplay magazine conduct.
ell the contest in the United States
and Canada. is the particular object
OF her wrath. Also there are Alice
Brady. Carlyle Blackwell. and Irving
| Cummins. all members Of the com.
pany.
Can You imagine? Miss Lee and
ten other girls go to New York, ex
penses paid. at the request OF the COM
pany. They expected to be chape.
roned by Alice Brady. Were they ?
They were not. The superior Alice.
with all her airs. didn't even notice
them. They might have been manus.
cript in the directors's pockets for all
the attention Alice gave them.
AS for Carlyle Blackwell and Irving
Cummlns-well. may their sins be on
their own hc.ds. The girls had been
promised that these men would try
them out in the love scenes. And what
did the creatures do? They stood at
the door and matched pennies to see
which one sould make love to each
girl as she appeared for her tryout!
! "S ucdi' just tHlHk OI II. AND
you, o. callous male reader? Would
You have matched pennies? We think
not.
But the eleven rebellcd. and Alice
was sent for to take the part of the
man In the love scenes. Can you i'm
agine anything more adorable than
being made love to by the woman who
you expect to take in the affections
OF the movie fans! And, my dear,
she chcws gum and doesn't know a
thing! The director has to tell her
everything
After four days Of this the com.
pany according to Miss Lee, told then
they could go home. And they had
been promised stay of two weeks
But the Photoplay magazine, she saws,
came to the rescue and paid the bills
for the remainder of the visit. The
girls haven't thing against the Mag.
azine. but mercy. that film company
certainly is In for hard time Of It.
So Miss Lee is in Chicago LAYING
plans for that lawsuit. Meanwhile.
friend husband Is chasing the festive
constalk about the mesas and arroyos
OF the great southwest,