New Britain herald., 1926-04-01
MANY FAMOUS MOVIE STARS BEGAN
 THEIR CAREERS WITH HUMBLE PARTS

Hollywood. Cal. April LH --- Shiny serge suits have been sup planted by arrays Of English. tailor ed garments. Flossy fur limitations have given way to sahles Instead Of hall bedrooms, there are fine homes, Trips 10 Europe, once confined to dreams now receive no moro thought than visits 10 Florida.
 Such has been life 10 many of tho movie stars who began in the ago Of one-reel thrillers, when five dol lars day was considered a fat salary.
 To the millions that throng the picture houses, this might seem as it q fairy had waved her wand, But 10 the players tho change has been written in weeks, months and years of toll, repaid by rapid progress ol new industry.
 Mary piCkford
 After career on the sta re, which began al the age of i've and led 10 Belasco productions. Mary Pickford entered motion pictures as an extra under David Wark Griffith. From five dollars a day. she advanced un- til in L9l6, the Mary Pickford Film Corporation was organized The star had a drawing account of Sl0,00o d week. with fifty per cent Of the prhts-a remuneration representing the highest amount ever paid q woman in pictures or any other pro- tession at the time,
 Today. she Is one Of the leading figures in the United Artists Corpor- alton and is receiving much larger income.
 The other member of the family, Douglas Fairbanks. however. has never known poor salary In the movies. He came in | a time when producers were offering high pay to induce stage stars 10 appear on the screen This little era was marked by the fact that Fairbanks and Will liam s. Hart were among the very few to remain with pictures,
 EtlOl ijE btlFi atllNS I lNhLolI "Fttll with Griffith, the Gish girls, Doro- thy and Lillian. joined the director as extras, Lillian's fame came in The Birth of a Nation" Her latest vehicle was La Boheme." Dorothy also starred In several of Griffith's special productions and her last ap- pearance was in Nell Gwyn," an English film.
 Was Animal Trainer
 Wallace Beery was an animal trainer and then a baritone singer with a stock company. His first salary with the movies was little more than twenty dollars he had re- ceiyed as warbler. Now he owns q home in Hollywood, two mountain cabins, a stable of horses and is q member of tTenty-slx clubs and lodges.
 Gloria Swanson
 The Marquise de la Falaise de la Coudray. better known as Gloria swanson, came along a little later aS 4 bathing beauty in short comedies. Soon she may have a company of her own in the United Artists group
 Norma and Constance Talmadgc and Dolores Costello were little more than kids when they played bits in the one-reelers which brought John Bunny and Flora Finch to the hcighth of their fame.
 Charlie Cha plin made his screen debut in 1914 and three years later signed a contract 10 make eight two real comedies at q salary of S1,o0n,- 900. Today, he is one of the United Artists clan.
 Fifteen years ago, Ricardo Cortez vas making twenty-two dollars q week in the movies. A hard climb brought him to the top and he now is working in Sorrows of Satan" ] which Griffith is making,
 Here's Monte Blue
 A freman's set in 8 railroad en-