Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-03
i CITY OF WEALTH
EARNED IN THE MOVIES
Forty Per Cent. of Los Angeles
Populace Draw Pay From
the Photoplay
BY the Photoplay Editor

There Is big money in the movies, AS
We all know, but when II comes to keeping
real city, or rather most of the people
n i, then we realize what wonderful in
dustry It is
II ~ said that of the 100000 popula.
tion Of the city of Los Angeles, approxi-
hateIy 40 per cent. is drawing at least a
Portion Of It's annual income from the mo.
ton picture Industry. As an Indication
OF the extent to which the people OF that
city are interested in pictures, recent
visit to the Griffith studio of the Triangle
Film Corporation brought forth from one
visitor the remark:
1T Is almost pitlfuI, the way in which
the hories of people flock to this place
When they think there is the least ikeli-
mood Of a mob scene being staged. They
are not stage folk in fact most of them
come from the ranks of clerks, Office work.
ers, store employees. followers of the minor
professions; you will find mediocre sing
ers, carnival folk, athletes of the various
types, women from their homes. anxious
70 earn little to help out the family
income. Old men and young men. aged
women, infants and young girls, all wait
for hours in the steady California sunshine
hoping for days work"
When some of the big battle scenes are
being photographed; when some of the
great road scenes like the one in Jordan
1s Hard Road" are being taken, the
a STEAL sIuulO AeetneS OUTSIDE like n hive
How the word gets out no one seems to
know, but Il does and Los Angeles sweeps
down like the Assyrian on the fold.
Perhaps one Of the most pathetic sights
Is to see gentlewomen, fallen upon evil
! times, waiting patiently for an opportun-
4ity to earn n few dollars. They have little
success, for they are not fitted for COM
petition with the rougher element. They
don't understand the pushing tactics they
can't elbow their way with the others
Then old men, too, often broken down pro-
iessional men of various walks, doctors
preachers, lawyers, even ranchmen, art
isans and the like are trying to stave Off
the visit of the wolf with picture work
Picture work
Imagine nearly a quarter OF a million
people earning their daily bread and but
ter--more or less precariously-froma an
industry that 10 years ago was considered
childrens toy
d. w. Griffith remembers his own lean
years; he recalls the days when he was |
glad to get an extras wage. and his keen |
eyed assistants have curious manner of |
overlooking the heads and hands of the |
hale and hearty the rough and ready and |
picking out the more tender and older |
members of the horde of applicants. Not
always is this possible, of course, but, all
things being equal, the timid gentlewoman
gets the first call.
The Lubin V. L. s. t. release will be
dollars and the Woman" featuring Ethel
clayton and Tom Moore. Another of the
many Moores.
The Essanay is still telling us Chaplin
is coming in his "Burlesque on Carmen"
and now they add the promise of William
Gillette in Sherlock Holmes" Let's hope
Bill will not wait long as Chas
Cleo Madison will appear in The Bit
tercup," Red Feather production.
The exterior scenes OF "Pudd dnhead
Wilson" which will be seen at the Cedar
IN Tuesday under the direction of the