Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-23

titions substitutes, and they cannot fool
tho camera
The golden age OF fame and success
for n movie star is, should say. be.
tween ] S and %. Four years. Those arc
the spotlight years. Mary Plckford ia
to-day Fl. Anita Stewart is 90 Jean Soth.
ern is ~ and the Gish girls Gre about
10 and 81. In tho movies at this youth.
ful age they occupy the leading posi-.
tons that Leslie Carter, Julia Marlowe.
Mrs. f'iske and other great emotional
actresses reached at ages between 35
and 40. The movies are only twenty
years Old and the big things in their de.
velopmcnt have actually been accom-
plished only in the last five years.
While none OF the big stars have as
yet had time TO reach the age limit. |
doubt if stars OF the first magnitude can
last after the age OF 2S 4 woman OF 30
is woman and not blooming rose OF n
girl After all the movie market IS a
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 he 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 il
always n great demand for youth and
Deauty-a greater demand than the
stage ever made
mere are openings yearly, monthly
daily for youth and beauty in movie stu.
dlos everywhere. 1t is n market that
can never be glutted with an oycrproduc-
ton 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 arc producing com.
panles. These companies sometimes en-
3ioy several thousand girls in a single pro.
duction. In Los Angeles alone the people
employed to act in the studios exceed
lO,ooO. The girls must be beautiful and
young. 1t doesn't matter where they
come from; lack Of experience is no bar
rlcr. They are recruited from high
schools and department stores, from
!ishmepts, 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 by the movies are
found in no other profession on earth. A
Sooh ioohiHS BlIi earning S4 Il week IN 4
shop or factory can earn So a day as a
supernumerary in the movies. If she I'M
consciously displays an unusual express
sion, or has a 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 a week in a
musical comedy chorus can make from
$50 to $50 n week in the movies a girl
can make in the most humble supernum-
erary part In the movies in ono day what
she would make In one week working in
a department store. What inducen,ent
is there for good looking girl to become
stenographer? She may make s12 TO
SIS week as n stenographer.
In the movies there is the chance of her
making from 800 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.
plfcations for jobs that come from high
school girls. Moreover, here is a profess :