The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-29

very few movie fans know any
thing about them This 10 the first OF
series OF artic!es In which the con-
ditions under which this great bust
ness has developed are revealed.
These stories do not deal with the
gutter with which press agents try
TO mnhe stars shine more brightly.
but with the strange life Of the ma
lefity who are not stars, how they
live. how they work. what they are
paid. where they come from and how
they support themselves when not
before the camera.l
Los Angeles. Tho land Of the lamp.
BACKED lash and the painted lip
that's Los Angeles.
Los Angeles IL TO the movie industry
what Paris is to frocles, what New
York u ITO musical revues. swhat Mill
sensibly Favored with the movies as Is
Chicago with the stockyards. When
the WIND blows In certain directions In
Chicago II IL impossible to be un-
aware OF the Stockyards, When the
sun shines In Los Angeles-and II
shines there for as many hours In the
day and for as many days in the year
~ II may shine any place on this
earlh--you cannot be unaware OF the
moving picture studios.
You are made aware OF them by the
gorgeous and vari-colored motors that
swoop along the streets and are pointed
out AZ belonging to movie stars. You
are made aware OF them by divorce
court stories In the newspapers in
which the name Of q well-known NOV
ing picture actress figures prominently.
You are made aware of them on the
streets and In the cafes and IN the de-
partnient stores and cafeterias by the
girls and women. sag
The girls and the women one sees In
Los Angels are q distinct type. They
could not be mistaken for the girls Of
New York. lor the girls OF Paris, nor
even the girls Of San Francisco. That
Is because Los Angeles 10 brim full OF
girls who have been bitten by ambition
TO see themselves on the silver screen.
And the bite of that silver screen ba-
cillus leaves on them its unniistakable
marks.
The eyelashes Of Los Angeles are
down Broadway. In fact. leaves q dis
tinct impression that Los Angeles con-
tains more remarkable eyelashes than
any other city In the world. In most
instances they were long eyelashes and
been plastered with coating 81 mas
karo--that's the fayorite make Of black
ing-until their wearer looks out
through them as through an ambush
- The Constant Blush.
Progressing downward from tho
thick tangle of the oriental lashea.
there is Inevitably to be discovered
complexion of marshmallowy texture;
checks of constant blush: a mouth that
shows q duh, graylsh pink where its
corners droop away from the vermil-
lion double curve Of rouge that has
transferred 1t into kissable cupid's
bow.
And the hair must needs be tortured,
regardless Of Its inclination In the mat
ter OF color or form, Into Mary curls.
You may take your choice Of Mary
Pickford or Mary Miles Minter: each
boasts a face of pink piquanoy. almost
totally. surrounded by foam OF per-
manen, waves which. you have the
word Of the credulous press agent for
It, are as natural as any waves that
ever foamed on sandy beach. The
girl who is wistful for the movies feels
In her heart that she never VIII make
a success of It, unless she Is surrounded
by clustered sunshine In the way OF
waves and curls, like those worn by
the Movie Marys. Hence. her hair
curls. Nand II 1t be a curl the spontaneity
of which would deceive. not even
press agent, II deceives her, neverthe.
less. or the. complete Maryness Of
that curl she Ia convinced. and. gayly
bobbing, she fiaunts It.
City OF Pretty Girls.
Sometimes Il hobs about q face gaunt
and haggard ana ugly: sometimes II 10
a face that Is beginning to show age,
But more often the Mary curl hobs
about n face that Is young and lovely.
Los Angeles probably has more pretty
girls TO the square block than any other
city In the universe. The exotic gentle.
man who dreams Of paradise as himself.
by houris would think he
had died and gone to heaven II ever ne
reached Los Angeles. Being sur
rounded by pretty girls In Los Angeles
Ii as inevitable as being surrounded
by air.
ThiaI city has drawn pretty girls from |
Butte, Mont: Sandusky. Ohio, and
from Augusta, Me- The pretty girl |
came to got into the movies, but she |
serves your Ice cream sodas and your
aspirin tablets In the drug stores. and |
hands you your canteloupe and toast
and coffee and punches your check, and
takes your money In the cafeterias. and
She sells you your ribbons and your
hosiery In the department stores and
she is business secretary to your hus.
band, II you happen to own one. and
she evens washes and irons your shirt
waists in the laundries of Los Angeles.
All OF these things she does cheeriully
and efficiently. But never, remember.
osing sight of the main ISSUE. which
Is that she came to get into the movies