Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-04-30

titious substitutes, and they cannot fool
the camera.
The golden age Of fame ana success
for a movie star is, should say, be-
tween IS and %. -Four years! Those are
the spotlight years Mary Piekford IL
to-day 81, Anita Stewart Ii 20, Jean Soth-
ern is 10 and the Gish girls are about
1s and Fl. In the movies at this youth
full age they occupy the leading posi-
lions that Leslie Carter. Julia Marlowe.
Mrs. Fiske and other great emotional
actresses reached at ages between IS
and As. The movies are only twenty
years old, and the big things In their de-
velopment have actually been accom-
plished only in the last Ave years.
While none Of the big stars have as
yet had time to reach the age limit,
doubt II stars of the first magnitude can
last after the age Of 20. A woman of 80
is a woman and not blooming rose of a
girl. After all the movie market is q
market for Chickens"
The people who go to see the movies
create the demand, for they want to see
youth--the lovers In movie romances
must be tender and young. Movie pro-
ducers, to meet the demand, must renew
their market all the time. The market
must be kept fresh. Therefore there is
always a great demand for youth and
beauty greater demand than the
stage ever made.
There are openings yearly, monthly,
daily for youth and beauty In movie stu
dos everywhere 1t is a market that
can never be glutted with an overproduc-
tion or where the demand will cease.
The movie market Is for girls beautiful,
fresh and tender! In New York there are
from seventy-five to one hundred produc-
ing companies. Every month new COM
panies are incorporated. In practically
every other large city are producing COM
panies. These companies sometimes en-
ploy several thousand girls in single pro-
duction. In Los Angeles alone the people
employed to act In the studios exceed
10000. The girls must be beautiful and
young. 1t doesn't matter where they
come from; lack of experience Is no bar
rier. They are recruited from high
schools and department stores, from
dressmaking shops, factories, retail estab-
iishments, the chorus and the theatre.
Many come to the producing plants from
villages in far parts of the country.
The inducements offered young girls
possessing GOOD looks Dy the MOVIES are
found in no other profession on earth A
good looking girl earning 81 week in a
shop or factory can earn IS day as a
supernumerary in the movies. IL she I'M
consciously displays an unusual express
sion, or has quality OF pathos in her
eyes. she may rise to $1,000 week with
in six months. Without question the
movies have affected the choruses OF
musical comedies, drawing from the
chorus the choicest prizes. Good look
Ing girls who make s1s q week In q
musical comedy chorus can make from
$50 to $50 week In the movies. 4 girl
can make In the most humble supernum-
erary part In the movies In one day what
she would make in one week working In
q department store. What inducement
Is there for good looking girl 10 become
stenographer? She may make SO to
SIS week as stenosrapher.
In the movies there Is the chance of her
making from 500 to $500 week WITH
out even the loss of time and expense
necessary TO master stenography. You
would be surprised at the number Of ap-
plications for jobs that come from high
school girls. Moreover, here is profess