Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1927-02-03
AIR CASTLES TUMBLINC

VAST ARMY OF YOUNG WOMEN
LIVING IN DISAPPOINTMENT
BECAUSE THEY FAILED
TO BE STARS OF
THE SCREEN
There are 1000 girls for every 500
Jobs out where the "movies" are made
but Sallie Carson didn't know it as
she sat nervously twisting her hand
kerchief on a long bench in the office
of a motion picture studio in Holly
wood. Sallie didn't know that she
was due for rude awakening as
foot at time she slid along the bench
nearer door bearing the magic
words Casting Director"
Gee, wouldn't it be great to see
Sallie Carson printed in great big
lights on Broadway" shsr confided
for the tenth time to the girl next to
her. Maybe it will be. I'm going to
be movie sta rsome day"
Then the magic doro opened. Sal
ly went into the office. When she
came out there were tears in her eyes,
and her feet were tagging.
The other girls didn't know what
had happened until they too, entered
the magic door They pitied her,
though, just the same.
Only One of a Vast Army
For Sally was only one more re-
cruit for the vast army of the disap-
pointed, one of the 1000 girls to fill
500 jobs in Hollywood. Probably by
this time Sallie has picked up another
job, perhaps working in restaurant,
clerking in store, usheping in a
theater, or being stenographer.
Most of the girls who go to Holly
wood to become famous do that. For
500 jobs can't possibly be divided
among 1000 girls. Fifteen hundred
girls must be disappointed.
Hollywood Full OF
Beauties
Hollywood boasts that its waitress
es, its stenographers, its clerks are
the most beautiful in the world. They
are. In fact, Hollywood boasts beau
ties from all parts of the United
States. But not all of them are in
the movies. Most of them are girls
whose pride-or whose flat purses
kept them in Hollywood after they
failed to break into motion pictures.
So numerous have become these
girls of blasted dreams that Holly
wood has an organization to take care
of them. The Y. W. C. A. studio club
it is called. 1t takes the place of
home for the disappointed beauties.
1t is open day and night. For always
hopeful young women are streaming
into Hollywood.
Mornings See A Mad
Scramble
Each morning sees mad scrambles
as these girls hope against fate and
storm the offices of the casting direc-
tors. They soon abandon the dream
of becoming stars. They ar eready
to fight for jobs as extras at $3 day.
But these are the jobs which average
500 for each 1000 girls.
Not all are doomed to disappoint-
ment, though. Some are selected to
fill in. Usually they are the early
comers or those who have been try
ing month after month. Now and
then one gets contract for mlaor
role. But the chance is four to one
against the newcomer.
Miss Marjorie Williams, head of
the Y. W. C. A. Studio Club is willing
to spend few minutes telling the
visitors of the experiences of some
of "her girls" as she sails them.
Names, of course, are not the true
ones.
"See that middle-aged woman over
there at the table," she begins. "She
came here three years ago. For
three years she has been hungry and
thirsty for the movies-but she never
has made it. She's clerking in store
now. She threatened to kill herself
before a friend brought her here
She has a god family but she is too
proud to return to her folks. She'll
probably be a store clerk when she
dies.
MARCY Black helps me here IN the
office. This is her day off. Marcy
won a beauty contest in small New
England town and came here year
ago. She visited every casting dl-
rector in vain. Some fool told her
she should be wicked" to earn screen
success. A rascally theatrical agent
entered her life. We found Marcy
lust in time to save her from a ca
reer of shame"
"Most of the girls come here with