Evening star., 1923-12-02
~ ASHINGToN girls are buster
n than usual these days.
" " First. there were the
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THANKSGIVING baskets to
prepare and deliver last week, and
everybody from the biggest senior
girl in high school to the smallest
girl in kindergarten took part IN some
way in making these gifts and dis
tributing them to other children and
grown people who were less fortunate
than they.
Now the girls are turning all of
their energies toward the making OF
Christmas things Some of the piay-
grounds that furnished baskets for
The patients at hospitals for Thanks
giving are doing more work in prep
aration for giving the sick folk oit
OF Christmas cheer. In all the play
ground classes for children OF kinder-
garten age, the littlest girls are espe-
cially active in cutting out gay doiis
and other little novelties from oriRnt
papers.
At some of the Fairgrounds, the
girls are making the stockings Which
will later be filled with little gifts.
At Rosedale playground, uhuer 'he
supervision of Mrs. Caroline Alex
ander. the girls and boys are i"akihs
all the ornaments for their Christmas
tree At Garfield playground II mas
always been the custom under MISS
Naude Parker. who recently accepteu
another post in the department, 10
make the stockings and fill them 20
he distributed to children through
missions Miss Louise sullivan, the
,au. diractor. will probably keep up
this custom and the other teatu'N VI
Christmas preparations on thls pla!
ground. the dressing of dolls ''t'
field playground is noted Tor the
cuteness and smartness of the dressed
dolls which the small girls who play
there have painstakingly gowneG.
All of the girls who are player ound
directors have planned specia. cele-
brations for Christmas with trees, the
singing of carols, and the teillnS OF
the Christmas story to all the boys
aad girls.
VX1CRD has been sent broadcast all
" lover the United States from
Hollywood, Calf, begging that each
CITY tell the young people and espe-
cially the girls that Hollywood Is no
place for them to go. Miss MarJorle
Williams. director of the Hollywood
studio Club. has sad stories 70 tell
of the hundreds of girls who flock
to the studio city trying to get into
the movies.
To be sure. il is an old story by
row of the trials and tribulations OF
the extra girl and the small chance
of her success i'll reaching a star
position. Stories have been written
of it, sermons have been preached.
motion picture plays have demon
strated this truth, yet, this fall, girls
have arrived In Hollywood in even
greater numbers than ever before.
Many go with the thought that il VIII
be possible to get some kind of job
ii they fail in getting into pictures,
but this outlet is almost blocked up.
too. now. Wages have dropped lar
below good living salary because
of the many applicants for every JOB
from waiting on table in a cheap
restaurant to telephone operating.
Washington saw a group of Ameri-
can girls last week who typify the
underlying problem behind this most
recent rush for the picture studios.
Miss Williams says that these beauty
contests are responsible for making
mi: ny girls dissatisfied with their
home life and simple pleasures such
as those our high school girls en-
JOY, and making them wan. the ap-
parently perpetual limelight which
the press agents say the motion pic
ture queens possess.
1t has been considered by some peo-
"a inf nvf 70 hat -,
Washington has no representative
known as Miss Washington who could
have accompanied the other Miss
Cities to big party in New York
Others, however, think that Washing
ton is rather to be congratulated and
the fact that local girls are too busy
to compete at present for this posi-.
tton as good thing.
The day is past says Cecil de
Mile, the producer of films, when a
man or woman of ordinary ability
appearance or personality can make
good in the movies. Perhaps one in
100 girls who come to Hollywood have
even a chance to try. The best Tire
nlnetyI1ine can do is to turn around
go home to father. and say: Daddy,
You were right. / am back The
tragedy lies in those who, out of pride,
shame or humiliation, never 10 back.
That is the lot of MANY"