The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-01-18

are "movie" stars goes without saying. OF course
as such thing would be impossible In any other
field OF endcavor.
That tho romance that surrounded the mush-
roomllke development OF the motion picture indus
try has not NIL been disslpated since 1t has been
placed on modern business basis Is shown by the
stories OF these young stars who have risen to
fame and fortune almost overnight While they
have succeeded. OF course, hundreds OF others,
trcading the same path. have failed, but that Is
another side OF the picture The world Is not In
tercstcd in failures II Is interested In those who
have made good" under unusual circumstances
II seems probable that of the leading
movie stars of today may have had TO tell
tiny nb or two TO escape the clutches OF the min
Ions OF the law whose duty II Is 10 enforce the
child labor regulations for some of those who are
now In the very center of the spotlight are stin
far from that age which they must attain accord
Ing To the fiction Of the law, before they are cap
able OF managing their own Affairs,
The case Of BESSIE Love. one Of the most recent
youthful stars To flash into view In the movie
armament Is typical OF that OF several others who
have gained fame and fortune In the past year or
two, Just u little more than year ago this young
star was Just sweet sixteen" aud stlll "A pupil In
the Los Angeles high school she admits now that
white she pored her books her thoughts were
elsewhere. She dreamed Of the time when she
might become u movie" star. but she did not know
thcn how soon her dreams were To come true.
II she hadn't had tonSluts aud hal to stop
studying Miss Love would not have been out OF
high school yet. but the doctor said mo more
school FOR while" aud that dlctum resulted Tn
Miss Love becoming star almost In the twtRklinE
Ut an eye, OF course she did not become a star
the first day she visited Il studio. aud she worked
hard before she reached the top, but her period
Of probation u short one. and Il was only
few short weeks. after she drst went tlmidiy 20
studio In Hollywood the crugrr OF the motionplc-
turc industry In Los Angeles, and was given trial
as mn extra, that she was playing leads with such
actors as William 5. Hart. Douglas Fairbanks and
nc Wolf Hopper Then e WAS but step TO the
point where IL was Bessie Love ia - when
the pictures Ia which she played came out She
Is fuii hvlEvd STAR appearing Ia her own
pictures and SIN she Is only seventeen
Through IL all Miss Love has remained un.
spotted she Is stu the modest and unaffected girl
of sixteen. Nclthcr she her mother who al
ways travels with her. seems to think that 1t Is
anything unusual FOR glrl Just past seventeen 60
~ earning as much money the president ~ the
United States. Mrs. Love tells how Bessie used
TO sit M In her high chair end discuss civic mat.
tiers and religion and music at the axe ~ six. and
u how they had planned that she should be a.
seho0ltcachcF. And here she Is film actress"
says the mother but her heart was set on Il and
I believe that only does we'll that which one
loves 20 do" And Bessie declares that she loves
her work In the movies
Then there In Mary Miles Mutcr. who Is not yet
sixteen. and u said TO be the youngest OF all stars
Eeeeiying the amount % money which Is paid TO her