New Britain herald., 1927-03-16
THE GIRLS AT HOLLYWOOD

THE GIRLS AT HOLLYWOOD
 Glrls Of an earlier time had yari- 5us sorts e ambitions. but going 70 Hollywood 70 ge. into the movies xas not one ot them. r a sprigh'ly lass Of around 1s disappears from home nowadays. t is ea per cent likely hat she has heat t for Holly wood.
 This is inc feminine gold mi7e, and the t,aprer gold diggers are many. Los Angeles IS said 10 have th- pra.'ies, girls in The world - serving tar.es in restaurants, doing odd 5obs n various establishments. picking up money wherever loose change is to be had. Every city, Of course, claims 70 have the worlds rrtttiest dan7sels; but as every girl with good looks knows where the moving pictures are made. it is en- tirely logical that those who have more ambition than common sense Hill gyrate lo the center Of beauty gravity,
 Nine times out 0. Ten, when -he beauty queen Of kokomo treks 10 ths film center, this IS what hap pens. The film companies are yis- ited and the hard boiled directors shake q critical eye. You may be The best locker In kokomo," th ' say-or think-"but that Isn't say ing you have anything on 10000 other charmer without the gates. But you may have talent; if go, stick around Maybe some day when we require an army of extras, wel hire you; at least. you've got a.s good a chance as the others
 Multiply this by many thousands and you Hill have quite feminine colony Of beauty churned up in the wiling minds eye. Whatever be- comes Of most Of the girls iu Holly wood nobody has been able 10 ex- plain. Perhaps most Of them, when they get tired Of waiting" tired Of menial jobs while they're waiting, and tired Of hearing about the as- founding success Of somebody living just around the corner, who got in 1 as a super and now is star, they will return home 10 pa and ma, per | haps never the same, but still able to function as one of the most beautiful girls along Main street.
 What lures the glrls is the reports of so-and-so getting into the movies and making the grade; in other words being successful" It only takes half q dozen year 10 draw thousands 10 the modern movie mecca. Naturally everybody on the ground cannot be successful in this sense; many are called but few are l chosen.
 The girls who 20 70 the movies | regularly and are moved 10 become movie stars need sound. fatherly ad- 1 vice. As Will II. Hays. film czar, remarked from his throne, there are entirely too many pretty girls for the movies. As a matter Of fact, there is too great a tendency to mis- take good locks for film ability. Or vice versa. whichever way you care 10 take it. What the films need is more drama and less good looks. These closeup views Of film stars | usually of the female prrsuasion- leave us cold. It's old stuff When one sees too many pretty faces they become commonplace. it seems. l What is more essential to the happi- ness Of film fans is good film acting and fewer powder puffs
 As Bill Hays more or less clo- qucntly says. the pretty girls in Hollywood are having hard time competition is extraordinarily keen But there IS greatly lcssened compe- tifion among fthe candidates fol ilrst-class dramatic parts. Indeed
 the girl who can act and prove il
 anytime, anywhere, can lack tht graces of q Venus of the appear. ance of Cleopatra and we'll bet tho
 price of an admission 10 one o
 NoXy's shows that she can hrral
 past the barriers while thousand
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 look ou.