The Washington times., 1921-04-16
MOVIE mad GIRLS
ASSISTED BY Club
DislIlusionment Awaits Maiden
Craving Fame, and Hollywood
Helps Disappointed.

LOS ANGELES, April 16.--Amon2 .
the fields dotted with vast studio
buildings and acres Of beautiful bum
galows in Hollywood. where most of
Los Angeles output OF S5 per cent sf
the worlds motion pictures is. pro-
duced. there functions the Hollywood
Girls Cuban Institution that has
become nationwide in it's purposes
and with an influence for good that
reaches into all the large cities and
into even many OF the small towns Of
the United States.
The club is housed in an impre ssive
and palatia1 appearing colonial resi-
dence set In a garden Of blossoming
trees and flowers. The white pillars
at Its entrance are wreathed with
roses and jassamine and it's interior Is
homelike, comfortable and convenient
In it's atmosphere
Just what happens when Mary
Smith. OF carlinville. ILL.,. or Jane
Jones, of Emporia. Kan, or Mabel
Black, OF the Bronx, New York City,
suddenly become "movie-mad," and
without money or experience to back
them after they have arrived here.
make their way to Los Angeles?
ROSY DREAMS ONLY ASSET.
They usually come to the attention
OF some kind-hearted person In film
land who enlists the aid of .he Holly
wood Girls Club. and were ii not for
this organization these girls who
chased rainbow across the continent
would be in pitiful plights. facing per-
haps, sordid or tragic fates.
This club has put into practical op-
Grafton the big Sister idea and the
300 girls comprising it's membership
are pledged to act in the capacity or
Good Samaritans to girls from all over
the country who come to Los Angeles
with rosy dreams OF future in the
movies" as their only "asset."
The club is partially self-support-
ing, twenty-one of its members con-
stantly living there. In addition there
are housed the unfortunate girls who
cannot find employment and who have
no money. For six weeks these girls
are sheltered and given their meals
while they endeavor to locate them
selves somewhere in the industry
which has attracted them with its
promises of big pay and future fame.
The fund for this temporary emer-
gency Is supplied by donations and
yearly subscriptions from the various
studios. while chari,abiy inclined in
dividuals from various parts of the
the furtherance of the work. The
board OF managers is comprised Of
the WIVES and mothers of famous di-
rectors and producers, active workers
among whom are Mrs. Jesse Lasky
Mrs. Cecil B. DeMille and Mrs. Will
liam DeMille.
DIsILLUsIONMENT AWAITS.
Helen Jerome Eddy, widely known
screen star, is one of the founders
OF the club, and who teaches a free
class in dramatics for the benefit of
the girls who are anxious to learn
something OF the technique of the
stage and screen. is emphatic in warn
ing young girls against leaving their
home environment and coming to Los
Angeles to work in films unless they
have ample private means and excel
lent preliminary training.
III older and more experienced peo.
pole could only talk with them before
they start on their vain pilgrimage,
hundreds of the 'movie-struck' girls
would never come to Los Angeles"
observed Miss Eddy. My advice to
girls thinking of entering the film
world is to talk the matter over with
their parents, or IL they have none. tn
thresh' the question out with their
spiritual adviser and two or three per-
sons well versed In the drama.
.-RETTY FACE NOT ONLY REQUI-
SITE.
"The ranks of the film workers are
already badly overcrowded in Los
Angeles. and there are plenty OF we'll
trained actresses and girl perform
ers to supply the demand for years to
come, IL not one new recruit Journey
ed to California to re-enforce their
numbers
Somehow the idea has gone abroad
that pretty face and a good figure
are about all that are essential to ad-
vance rapidly to stsrdom. There never
was greater fallacy. a. many disil-
lusioned girls have found on their
arrival in the great film center.
where one girl succeeds in the
movies there are a dozen who fail to
realize their dreams of fame. money
and short hours. Motion picture work
Is now a highly specialized business
and requires lots of brains, lots OF
energy and the ability to keep going
in the face OF the most disappointing
reverses
THE life OF an Office girl. or that OF
teacher, or a clerk in the East or
middle West may seem of little prom
ise, but IL is better in most cases than
that of disappointed. 'movie-mad'
girl who has followed the rainbow to
California to find the pot of gold and
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