Arizona republican., 1921-01-26
Film Studios ip Los Angeles Bring
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sehool-and these are the girls. There are between 30 and 40 of them, and they are all under 20. and the business of nose -powdering seems to be theI favorite among them as they await their scenes.
 The Studio Mother
 Wallace Reid and Lila Lee are the principals in "The Charm School,' and there is. too, Sylvia Ashton of buxom proportions who answers, throughout the studio, to the name of Mother"
 The studio mother has grown to be an institution in the pictsres. Most of these studios are run like a girls seminary" says Miss Ashton in her mellow, booming voice. "Of course when the pictures were new, things were pretty bad; there was a lot of hanging around, waiting for jobs. and girls currying favor by trying to flirt with directors. and all that sort of thing. Conditions have changed now. A convent couldn't be run more prop erly than most of the studios, though of course there are some of the smaller lower grade ones where things are still bad. But no matter how good they are there's always some girl who has sorrow, though it may be no more than an aching tooth or a tight shoe or the non arrival of a check from home, and it's good for them to have some one Ito tell it to; not only the girls, either. All the men. from Wal me mother too"
 Get S5 Day
 The girls in "The Charm SchooP' receive $5 a days it sound pretty big S2O a week for doing nothing but sit around a big hot studio all day long, waiting for the little moment when their laughing faces will be wanted by the director. But these girls are all "extras:" for the one week of regular work they have they may have four with no work at all, or only days work in seven. Sc. the s3O of a regular week must spread pretty far-if they're the kind of girl who is Ion | her own," as many of them are. | They wait today through the noon hour while 9 scene between principals is rehearsed and criticized and done and done again. Its doing may not take over a minute and a half; its planning, in which the camera man and the lighting men desert posts back of their machines and enter heatedly may take hours. There is nothing consecutive, nor to the lay eye, or dered about this taking of pictures | 1u6 WCQ01uk Ol l1o PIlnCtpdlS may OS filmed, if the desired 'set'' is on, be- fore they have enacted their frs. meeting, which may have to take place
 lon location" which means some place away from the studio-maybe miles 1T woods or mountains.
 | A Picture Miracle
 A man may be called on to portra,
 the despair of his financial ruin or th' lelopement of his film wife before h, has earned penny or heard his wifei Iname. And the scene in which he DOT trays his emotions may be just a lux
 urious corner, set in the midst of can
 vas screens and a criss-cross of scaf
 folding and a tangle of wires. Tn
 wonder is, how he ever works withou the stimulation of continuity or of au dience, to the required height of emo tional expression. To the outsider it.
 one of the picture miracles.
 Well-the girls of "The Charm SchooP' are off at last, and they scur ry a block away to the bungalow O
 Gar McComber, the coffee and dough nut king. Gar has made himself . parsonage among the picture folk b , the honest excellence of his person ality and his pie. and all about tn rails of his vine-hung, broad veran r daed bungalow there are hung frame plCtuISS OI lilIu Ioydltys edCn Nlln r personal testimonial to aforesaid ex l cellence. Service is cafeteria style an , prices low.
 9 Ethel want a dill pickle?" float 7 from the tray bearing line to tn 2 screened veranda. They compar s notes This afternoon tea, not lunch. 2 Its breakfast for me-
 U The tables on the veranda are filleC 2 There are men and women from othe g studios, too-a group of cowboys, som : dark stained turbaned temporary Al g gerians, a circus clown, a group ( overalled farmerettes. priestly per son, two men in evening dress, a char acter actor in tramps rags; all her I for a sandwich or a doughnut or piece of pie and cup of the famou McComber coffee. Then-"back to tn lot-'