Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-19
Studio Registers Show
Names From Many States
But Few Get Chance to
Demonstrate Their Ability
By GRAHAM STEPHENS
Ueased Wire Service 10 The Journal

III
Copyright, 1929
LOS ANGELES, July 14.-More
than 10000 girls and young women
dre registered at the motion picture
studios in Hollywood and their names
are on the books of the various ser
vice agencies that supply the stu
dies with extras. A canvass today,
of the ager cies and studios produced
this figure.
How many of the hopeful 10000
are at present in Hollywood and Los
Angeles is impossible to say, but a
conservative estimate places the
number of movie-mad girls, who
have come from all parts of the
United States in their search for
fame and fortune in the films, and
who now are in this part of southern
California, at about 5000 at least.
And still they come.
Tonight the number, whatever It
is, was reduced by one, for Gloria
M ,rquise eft to GO pack to her home,
small town near st. Louis. A ser
vice worker and this correspondent
talked to Gloria shortly before she
boarded the train.
Gloria's travelling dress was
heavily beaded evening gown, half
concealed beneath a shabby cape.
Her hair was bobbed in the latest
cut. Her eyelashes were beaded and
heavy with mascara. Her face was
dead white, with touch of pumpkin
color on her cheeks and her lips a
scarlet line.
She was going home cheated of
her chance for a career in the
movies at Hollywood, wiser and sad
der, but still mistaken in the belief
in her endowment FOR a screen ca
reer if she only could get her oppor-
tunity.
They are all Jealous and won't
give a new girl a chance" she sid.
In the flimsy straw suitcase she
carried as her only baggage were
two soiled white duck skirts and
three plain waists, badges Of. six
m ,ntbs of mental servitude in Holly
wood, and little else, and in the
makeup b5x that served her as bias
and purse, a railway ticket to her
home town and very few dollars.
The service worker, taking Gloria
to be one of the girls arriving here
in search of screen careers, suggest
ed that she had been attracted by
the opportunities of Hollywood.
"Hollywood.'' exclaimed Gloria, the
thin line Of her carmine lips curling
in scorn, I've had my experience
with Bollywood-six months of it
and I never want 20 see 1t or near
of it again. I would have been all
right if I could have had a chance,
but girl--a strange girl-can't even
get A chance. Pm going back nome
and some day I'll get my chance, but
not in Hollywood
II had money and good looks when
I went to Hollywood. Everybody toIo
me I would look swell on the screen
-hetter than most OF the movie
Stars. All l wanted was chance.
I went to the studios and they tolo
me to ha We soma photographs taken
and file them with a card they give
YOU to fill out, and that they wouIo
call me if they needed me. mao
tine pictures taken and dellVefeo
Them to all the studios where they
would accept them and to the ser
vice bureau. -
Then l waited every morning for
q call and went around to the stu
dos in the afternoon. Ihefe was
never anything for me. My money
began to run low and l got down TO
one meal day, and not Hlucl VI
that. And the man at the restaurant
was a good fellow and noticed it and
asked me if I didn't want job wait
ing at tables until 1 got my chance.
/ grabbed at it. but it made me cry
to think that I was hasher in
little eat shop in Hollywood, not
movie star.
"One way or another they got
every cent I made at work except