Arizona republican., 1921-01-31
Los Angeles City Mother Is Kept
 Busy Saving Girls Llred by Movies

factors in the moving picture life of Los Angeles which helps make work | for her and her assistants is the fake | which Is continually spring | ing up and must ever be weeded out l anew.
 One of these organizations sets up 1 offices in pretentious way" she ex- plained and advertises for talent. l There is plenty waiting to snap at just that kind of bait. of course. Men and women go there and are given tryout When they go back for a yer dict they are shown their pictures In a few feet of film and are told that. al- though the company has no need for them at present, it will bear them in mind because they show unusual tal- ent, and that, with 90 suspicious be- ginning, they will doubtless be in the star class in a short time. For this cheering advice and a few feet of themselves in film they cheerfully pay $25 or $50 as the case may be. They never hear of the fake company again, are always turned down when the ap- ply at its offices, and one day 20 there 10 find only blank windows and a locked door. Then they try the legit- innate concerns, believing that with the recommendation of the other com pany they will have no trouble get ting in" They find that the word of the fake company as to their excei- lence means nothing when it comes to getting real job, and there they are. robbed of the little money on which they might have lived a week or so longer. Any number of girls in this plight come to us"
 Must Have Other Means
 Mrs. Gilbert agrees with all other girl and picture authorities in saying that it is almost essential that a girl have some other means of livelihood no matter what her talent. if she wants to make good in the pictures. ''I have
 in mind one girl she says, who l know is going to succeed. She and her sister came here from Washington, l D. c. because she was sure that she could make good in the pictures. Of course she couldn't find, a picture job. | bue she wasn't discouraged. She found an office job easily enough and so she supports herself. while every outside
 minute she gives to making herself ready for the picture job she is sure she will get some day She takes fenc- | ing and swimming lessons; she takes \ lessons in publAc speaking merely for | the boise which she knows she needs and which these lessons will give her. | She never slumps nor spends an hour in idleness. She's so full of grit and pluck and determination that she
 makes you believe. as she believes, l that she has call to the movies. Not Afraid of Work
 And she isn't much to look at. She's
 a little wisp of a thin brown thing with big eyes. But she's going to get | there because she has intelligence and
 she isn't afraid of work Maybe she1l never be a star, but she'll get in. And she'n do it without the help of an
 artificial complexion or the curling iron The city mother will never have
 to pay that girls railway fare home.
 The girls who get into trouble. Moth
 CT Gilbert says, are not of that type; they are the weddings. the girls who
 want the movies for the good times that they will bring. the girls who think that the way to fame is marked
 with such pleasant milestones as cosy little suppers for two. the other hal of the two being always an enamore6 , moving picture director. It is girls suci
 as these who have long secret sessions with the city mother, while the calico 1 clad doll and the Teddy bear and tho
 elephant and the rabbit look down ana . do their silent and subtle bit.