The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-06-27
BREAKING INTO
MOVIE CIRCLES
Some Get in by Work,
Some Fill a Require
y ment, Others Luck.
MADE A BOLD BLUFF
AL Brooks Tells Home Folks
About Life Among Film
Workers.

Life for movie" actors IL more
nlay than work, in fact just like one
long picnic. according to the de-
scription given by Al Brooks. now
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. a.
c. Brooks. after year spent more
or less Sin the movies" in California.
1T ls a fascinating life, a life Of
great variety" Mr. Brooks said last
week. you meet interesting pco-
ME and different interesting people
all the time. and when you are out
'on location you ace new scenery
II YOU are n star OF any magnitude
, IN the film firmnnent YOU are the
therefore gratifying attention from
tho public"
Movie-actiug need not oven be
hard work, Mr.. Brooks declared.
Indeed you car let the director
think for you Most Of thh actors
10 not need the script or even re-
hearsc before making the scenes.
They do Just as the director tells
them to do. II Is only the stars who
rehearse for the scenes"
Generally speaking n motion pic
turc company IL like one big fam
ilv." the stars being cordial and un-
affected in manner, Mr.. Brooks said
THAT Is, II you are in the movies "
he hastily amended "Tf you are on
the outside looking in II Is quite diff
fercnt The actors. directors and
managers are OF necessity some
what -blooded toward movie
asrirants because every day they
hear how anxious some one or hun
dreds Of some ones are to get into
II
commit suicide or say they will
sarve to death unless they are en-
poyed."
There are only about four wnvs
Of "hrenkihg in" according to the
Why he has figured 1t out "That's
through a pull work as an extra.
the fact that you are the tyne
wanted for a certain role. or luck.
Perhaps I ought to put n beauty
contest on the list. too. Many act as
extras for months I'm the hope OF at
tracing tho attention of the direc-
tor some dav."
Brooks gained admission into the
movies through "just plain luck"
Let him tell the story himself '1
was selling automobiles I'm Holly
wood when G. u, Samuelson, head OF
an English motion picture com
panN, VINO nad Just arrived with MS
company to make pictures. came TO
the agency to look at n car. 7
showed him car, drove him to the
Universal studio. where he had
rented a stage for his company, and
the next day sold him the car. He
asked me II 7 would drive for him.
Py that time had caught the
movie fever. too. so | said I would.
One day he asked mo II had ever
acted In the movies. had never
seen a, camera before coming to Cal-
ifornia, hut I lied promptly. Yes,
two years. I said. You are the slim
English type l need for our first
picture. Report to the director to-
morrow was his answer"
Mr.. Brooks described his further
experiences thus; 81 learned what the
costuming and makeup would be
for my role, which was that OF juve-
nile lead. and got a ham actor 10
show me how to make up. BY luck
] saw the script before the shooting
OF the first scene and did not suffer
from stage fright at ALL"
Following the making OF this first
picture, which was Love In the
Wilderness" Mr.. Brooks was put 'in
stock" In the Samuelson company in