Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-19
VIRGINIA FARE WON
CONTEST AND FOUND
STARDOM IN 1T
NTF I should pin this beauty contest,
am sure Of place in the

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That's the ovestiou. Uhetber il is
nobier in the mind to suffer the shngs
sma ."n - ".o|S ~ 20 ~ u"o 'um " "m "'sI-
closet cIose.Vn. and evmmed an il /.
indeed a question of frighttul dimen.
SONS.
some r't teH y0n hdt 'omning
cohtes1 ~ me Foydt rood 10 Jane IN
motion pictures. Others iriH rcarn you
against dn contests. Some contests
are hetptut, ana others dren { destined
10 hetp you az dH: 1hc tdfter are jusf
money.mdking schcmes: OF 'chtch you
nre INC innocent and disappointed ptc-
f'm;
~ contesf Is run oD reliable hr'n
or newspaper or md9dsine 1t 70 all
r'9nt' our oe'odre OF the stranger oho
may come 10 your topn TO hold a
morton p'cfnre contest. The toinners
mH rcce're marrefous promises, and
he promoter OF me contest toHl prob
aoty sap our OF fo,on nnnoficcd on the
o'o "hh grip tdEng the place OF
cdsn regS'er "nder ms arm.
VIRGINIA BROWN FAJRE ,vos rho
v ~,
I ""i"oi VI oe"ut' conles'' lher'
were oo'ooo entries. and she was but
one
| VIRGINIA Rrown Foiro ,,oo houoI,, &c
| ''"n i"',e was oare'' III
age to enter the Fame and Fortune"
contest, conducted by we'll known
magazine publishers Months were re
uuired for the classification Of pbo-
tographs and the elimination of the OBJ
viousiy unfit. Consider the anxiety
| suffered by 80. 600 yonnp women seek !.
| ing fame and fortune,
| For sucb n contest ,bora ,rrst ho
judges, as there is in this one. Vir.
ginin Brown FARES ouali6cat;ons ca mo
I'm before Mary p;chford Cec;, De
Mile. Maurice Tourneur. 7 Stuart
Blackton. Howard Chandler Christy
James MONTGOMERY FIava SnnnaI TH :
miere and Eugene Y Rrewster
| The final decisions were aided bv
motion picture tests as this will he
and the verdict for Miss Foire was.
"She liz of an extraordinarv beantv
sculptural classic Artists nronomncs
her close TO perfect;on She hos thc
"reminiscences az vontb Sbe bas snner :
delicate scnsitiyeness easily md
rarely-lent to dramatic art Sho ;s
fircjv different hacamse of hor sanso -,
inDncenrn and tnunh nf tho ,nuno Mo
donna in noise onJ footnro ''
And that coruaS tba ,ro, for W.,
u;nia ""' '0' va
1I,1 evon of,o. oil .ho. /. :. M, Co.,,
| II N""' - 20 NV ''
~, '"eS' uh'esS fortune iaVors you
mere was once winner OF big chi
Taso contest VINO wrote nome after she
mRa arrived at studio IN Los Angeles
NO one seems 10 care what can do
or VINO ! am lhey We heard m
winner OF contest, ana thnts about
aii IL amounts TO
nut fortune 1aVored virginia Browr
falre-icttune ana virginia 8 natnra
SUCK TO- I!tatlVehess' FOR Vfrg1nif
i,rowh rhire was selected Tor the roll
Vi Ametra III nuGyafu hiplhB fath'
% starcs wos nu ;nn,,dad n iHrerese'ns ~ th c,rcum
this important engagement
1t Is explained that fifty capabl,
young picture actresses. upon invita-
ton, submitted themselves at the Brun,
ton studios to a most exhaustive serie
of tests in competition for the priz
Kipling engagement
: Each of these in turn was costume,
and made up for the pothetic fiyure n
, the little dark skinned Hindu ma;de,
; and required to act several scenes n
VARYING emotional intensity in cot
ready for the actual "sbootinp'' ~ IN
nicture y"
So Miss Faire vas really IN aQains
a strong romnetition s;miJar 20 ~