The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-08-16
High School Girl Playing
Opposite Eddie Polo
in Hollywood
HAS PLENTY OF WORK
Says Movie Life Is Not One
of Ease But of Real,
Hard Labor

To rise from extra" to leading
lady in half an hour all because OF
being a blondei
This was the most unreal" OF the
real" experiences of Miss Thelma
Price, Tulsa high school girl who.
while in los Angeles on visit to
Mr.. and Mrs. w. a. Lombard, for
mer Tulsans, became infected with
the film fever. enlisted as an "rx-
ira" with q comedy company. aud
was finishing n picture as lead" to
Eddie Polo when she was called
back TO this city two weeks ago by
She Illness OF her mother Mrs. \. T..
Price. 609 North Cheyenne.
Miss Prico went to California in
March and through an acquaintance
of the Lombards became an extra"
in the Frances Ford firm company
Mt $3.50 per day. For about ten weeks
she did service as n bathing beauty,
In ball room costume. and in the var
ious roles I'm which feminine good
looks are employed I'm he films fun
ny. When she changed TO tho Hank
Mann company her work was similar.
Then one fair day Miss Price, who
has very golden hair and very blue
eyes, was seen by Eddie Polo one
of the few movie actors who does not
need to use much makeup because
he Is so dark OF complexion and who
always chooses n blonde co o.sta- for
the same reason. Polo saw her one
noon as she was hurrying from
luncheon along the street at Holly
wood, went to the studio which she
entered, and asked the director to
'call forth all the blondes This the
director did, one by one, the last one
being Miss Price. she was promptly
engaged to play the leading mem
tnine role in the serial, "Circus Life.
at 800 a week and with all attire
furnished.
The picture was shot" at Univer-
sal City and at Los Angeles. Miss
Prize said. Her part was that of a
village girl into whose home a cir
Gus performer is brought for care
Natter an accident under the big
top. The girl marries the perform
er and enters circus life with him,
further complications of plot being
caused by her jealousy OF a bare
back rider who turns out to be the
kidnapped sister OF the hero. This
picture has not yet been released
and may be marketed under another
title.
Such luck as hers seems TO be the
usual reason far the rise of stars in
opinion. Good looks are not abso-
lutely necessary" she said last week.
You need not be a 'raving' beauty
Mt all. It's all in the way You photo
graph--that and luck or pull Some
actors and actresses are in reality
quite homely, but they screen we'll.
In movie parlance. Most tsstars are
not quite as good-looking off the
screen as on"
Little stage-fright was felt by
Miss Price. II was just q bit self
conscious at first, but soon got over
It," she said Things in the movies
arenot always what they seem, Miss
Price stated. An example OF trick
work" was the filming of her in the
circus scenes in Circus Life. Az
she could not ride. she was photo
graphed only on horseback or in the
act of mounting or dismonrting
from a horse. while a double did the
bareback riding stunts. Another false
idea which Miss Price exploded was
that of frequent rehearsals. They
don't rehearse the play in advance
No. indeedy. They just rehearse each
scene before tho shooting of that
scene, and that is ALL"
Life In the films is not all play and
no work, as Miss Price described 1t.
Sometimes we had to work at mig IT,
making pictures at o'clock in The
morning. The late-or early--pic-
lures were for those scenes sup
posed to occur in the evening or nt
night. At the close of the days work
the director told each one what time
he wanted him or her next day, say
ing. for example. I want you on this
set at 0 a. m. sharp"
An unpleasant feature is the dis
astrous effect on the eyes of
"cleague light" a light by which all
scenes are taken both by day and
night Though this light throws a
soft illumination, It causes con-
dition slangily termed 'cleague
eyes'", causing almost everybody to
don colored glasses for rehearsals.
And o yes, girls, Miss Price had a
date" with Wallace Reid, who es-
corted her to the initial showing
in Los Angeles of "Sick Abed" his
own stellar vehicle shown at the |
Palace theater recently. "Bnt it's
being done in California-having en- |
gagements with movie stars" Miss !
Price said. 1.-THE girls out California |
way don't consider the event so very
momentous."
Miss Price will probably not enter !
the movies, though she wants TO, be- |
cause her father objects. She is a |
Junior at high school and most 10 as |
TO age.