Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-10
MOVIE MAD
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
CHAPTER /
Enter Gloria !

up of gold curIs, lambent eyes and perfect
though eXpressionless features
Gloria's beauty was not obvious At first
glance her features were set in too serious
an expression to be attractive, and it was
only after looking a second and third time
that one realized how unusually lovely she
was. She had hair Of very dark auburn.
At night it looked black, but when the sun
shone on it, it glittered. Her eyes were
greenish brown, great wide, passionate eyes,
that seemed almost too large for her face,
and her mouth, small and serious above
tender, cloven chin drooped very little ct
the corners.
Gloria had come from Middleburg, O. She
belonged to that great army of girls who
each year come to Hollywood IN search Of
fame and fortune. Back home she had gone
to every bill at the Elite Moving Picture
Emporium Afterward, alone in her room,
she would act out different roles before her
mirror and there was born in her at that
time the conviction that she could handle
situation fully as we'll as Catherine Charm
ing the dangerously alluring Vera Vamp.
To do her justice Gloria thought less about
making personal success than she did about
doing her bit for the movies as whole. She
was serious, almost pathetically She was
like a young crusader on a passionate quest
for the Holy Grail, and she was very much
in earnest about wanting to make good.
Of course to girl of her type Hollywood
brought establishment Time was when
she had subscribed to five motion picture
magazines, when she had been absorbed in
interviews. with stars, when she had read
each magazine from cover to cover. building
vague dreams for the, future. Six months in
the film colony had hardened her She was
still in earnest about her work, but her eyes
were open now. When she read in the maya
zines and newspapers of the doings OF Vera
Vamp or Catherine Charming, a scornlul lit
tie smile would curl her lips, for she knew
them all. No wonder she smiled when full
page picture of Vera Vamp holding a Russian
wofhOund on a leash and wearing a simple
little gown that cost not less than $500 was
published in Screen Snaps. To the public
Vera Vamp was purported to be of the Rus
sian aristocracy. She had escaped during the
revolution and after terrific hardships had
succeeded In making her way to the States.
But Gloria knew the truth about Vera.
Vera's name had been Yetta Lubitsky. She
had COME from a rather dubious portion of
New York's East Side She had glowing fea-
lures and an unlimited amount of nerve. She
screened we'll, and had arrived in the movies
by way of a Broadway chorus
AS for Catherine Charming, all sausage
curIs, big eyes and quivering childish lips,
she was married to the heavy of the Orange
and Black Super Perfect Film Company. Her
film company it was understood that she
made more money than her husband, and was
not willing to settle up certain outstanding
debts of his This fact made for more or less
discord.
In Screen Snaps pretty Catherine Charming
was depicted as adorably domestic. Pictures
were published of her standing at her big,
shining Range wearing a ruffled apron and
apparently in the throes Of concOctinG her ia
vorite dish, crab souffle.
AS matter of fact Catherine couldn't
have boiled egg. But in closeups, with
baby in her arms land glycerin tear stand
ing like a Eiece of jelly beneath each eye,
she delectable.
Knowing all this and a great deal more, it
isn't at all surprising that Gloria was some
what disillusioned
CHAPTER III
Dreary Waiting
TT seemed to be the thing in the film col
! ony to adopt a fictitious name. Gloria
being serious and in earnest about her
work, kept her own.
you've got nice handle, kid. Where
did you get it," one of the extras remarked
one day This made Gloria angry that
she almost decided to change her name to
Mary Brown, and would have II she had
been a shade less fond of the genuine
"Is that your own name, honest?" re-
marked the extra in response to her rather
fierce explanation. "Well, you needn't get
so sore about it. How'd l know your mother
had tn esense to pick a name like that out
of her OWN head? You're lucky"
But Gloria didn't feel lucky She didn't
seem to be getting anywhere. Out of hun
dreds of extra girls she had as yet no chance
to show what she could do. Her beauty
wasn't startling enough to attract attention
She had succeeded in getting work in three
or four pictures where a great many extras
were needed, and since then there had been
nothing. That meant weary days of wait
ing and all the while her money was dwin-
ding until there came time when dis
couragement almost made her lose track of
her goal
Gloria had come to Hollywood with every
cent she possessed in the world. She had
earned it before taking charge of the Mid
dleburg public library and when she had
decided to draw it out of the bank, stalking
everything on a gamble with fate, her father
had washed his hands of her.
To Milton King the people in the movies
were headed straight down the primrose
path to destruction. To think of Gloria, his
only child, and motherless, a motion pic
ture actress filled him with righteous in
dignation, and he even went far as to
ask Mr.. Starrett, of the Methodist church,
to talk to the girl.
81 can live as straight a life in Holly
wood as / can here at home" Gloria had
said with unexpected stubbornness when the
reverend gentleman had attempted to reason
with her. If there's wrong inside of
person, it will come out anywhere, and,
matter what anyone says, I'm going to try
to set into the movies"
But why the movies. Gloria?" Mr.. Star
rett had eXpOstuated gently. There are
has been carefully brought up as you have
sod a hat