New-York tribune., 1922-05-07
Interesting Chat and Stage Gossip for Paygoers
One Out of 900; How Screen
Camera Picked Miss Boardman
It's Hard to Tell How One Will Look in The Films
Until Actual Evidence Furnished by
Camera Is Tested

The man who picked Miss Eleanor
Bosrdnsn from among more than 1000
other Soung women who were eager fer
an opportunity to act before the
camera admits that she was not the
most beautiful OF the applicants.
The most beautiful young woman Of
the lot he says, turned cut to be
impossible in her screen tests. Others.
who seemed in real life to have the
necessary requirements Of personality.
intelligence. youth and beauty. also
failed for one reason or another to
pass the cruel examination os the mo-
tior picture camera
Why was Miss Boardn,an selected
then? What IS the secret tina. makes
Il possible for one Young woman to
look perhaps moro charming than in
real lfe on tho screen, while others
lose most Of their attractiveness?
Robert B Mcintyre. the casting di-
rector. who gave Miss Boariman her
big chance as 2 result of his recent
visit to New York, thought moment
when this question was put to him.
Then he said:
Frankly, don't know. About all
can say IS that The camera is psychic
IN the elimination tests which Miss
Bosrdman won so handily girls at least
equally beautiful failed miscrably.
There we're girls who seemed 20 ne, and
T. my colleagues, to have al the neces-
sary essent als-the interest which is
50 vital, the appealing personality, the
sparkling intelligence. the buoyant
youth, the bcautF-for which Te always
are on the hunt The had everything
thst We consider screen possibility
must have 50 far as regularity of
features. hair, carriage, physique,
height and ambition arc concerned.
But they failed and Miss Boardman
came through.
'She entered M Office With several
ether young women In that group We
singled her out immediately Paul
Bern, head OF our scenario department.
already had soon her and let mos
sage for me about her Mss Biou
Fernandez, who is OUT scout for
screen personalities, just like r scout
for baseball team for now baseball
talent. was imprcs ssel ;th her. This
interest was sufficient 70 rain her the
coveted test under actual studio CON
,1i tCn
tall 3 feet s inches and Weighed
io4 pounds. Her dark gray eyea were
widely spaced and animated Her
brown hair WAS plentiful. Shs looked
like good prospect. but not 80 GOOD
as several and no better than many
others.
"She had Lad 10 previous experience
before tho camera, but she had filed
small parts on the speaking stage on
Broadway aud in small town stock.
She had lived in Ncw York since her
carly tecns and considered herself
New York gjrl. although she vas born
in Philadelphia. Sho had studied
music. aud Interior decorating, wos
Nt&l itd'.t IlNfh Cdt-'t -NNOi 'pt1 -
all important strange as it may seem.
&she had dore scne posing for sdver-
Ftising rhotoeraphers She was willing,
charming, ambitious.
Then. her FIST test before the mo-
Gon picture camera WIS failure. We
bad had her made up by an expert
Bat so important is this business of
makeup for the SILVER sheet that even
an expert IS more than likely to 60
wrong on his frs: try. Our expert
locked at the test aud said he thought
tie fault was with his efforts. He
resrrangei the makeup. a second test
was tabou. II Was e~erything that
could be desired.
80 that's how Il happened that Miss
Rcardman left a few days later on
limited train for the Goldwyn studios
n Culver City, Calf, and that's how
it is THAT she now Is doing her first bit
in the filming Of Peter b Kyne's story,
Brothers Under Their SKINS"
No one may prophecy Miss Board
mans future. but it is ro secret thai
out on the coast they believe they have
in her one Of the futurs stars OF the
screen. Meanwhile she is living and
studying in Hollywood and is being
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