The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-30
By ALICE ALDEN

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-D0 you want Junior to be a movie star?
 Well, if you do, see that he goes to college, is popular on the cam pus and develops a likeable person. ality. And it is quite possible that before he is finished academic product, some enterprising movie producer will grab him off the campus and transfer him to the lot. And then there will be another collegiate star with a plentiful dash of TT and the power to sway the hearts of admiring maidens the world over.
 And the beauty of it is that the boy who is dumb in class has an equal chance with the star scholar to crash the movies and gather in the shekels. But it isn't as though these college boys don't get a chance to complete their education. They may be spotted while they are burning the midnight oil to study for their exams. But whether 1t is by accident or design, the movie moguls generally let their find hear the valedictory address and then snatch him from a future of bond selling or whatever it is that college grads incline to now. Started As Artist
 Richard Cromwell was studying art in a Western college, working to make his childhood dreams of some day becoming a great artist, come true. His mother worked and made countless sacrifices that her son might fulfil his destiny. He was fortunate enough to get a job to make bookplate for Anna Q. Nillson and she introduced him to Marie Dresler, who gave him a commission. Next he was com missioned to paint some of the murals in Hollywood theatre. With these fees he paid his college tuition. Then he began to be known in the movie colony and was signed by Columbia Pictures to play the lead in "Tol'able David" It is quite easy to visualize the happiness of the mother in the success of her 22-year son who seems destined for a great screen career.
 Another newcomer to the screen from college who is likely to make a hit is Robert Allen He is a graduate of Dartmouth and a friend of his, affiliated with film con- cern, secured a test for Bob. The six-foot college, athlete was such a success that he has been signed and will soon be making the hearts of movie fans beat just triflc faster.
 Luck and Pluck
 Maybe it was because of tradition and hereditary talent or maybe Ii was just, luck that plucked young Phillip Holmes S, son of Taylor Holmes, right off the gay Prince
 ton campus and planted him i
 the movie studio. Whatever it is Phillip Holmes has plenty of talent and although the company whc signed him, later released him it is believed that he is destined for eventual success.
 ! Of course, we haven't forgotten the campus favorite sons, Charles Buddy" Rogers and Rudy Vallee Their story is so well known that most of the other college stars seem insignificant when contrastec with the famous pair. Buddy, who was student at the University oi Kansas when he began his film career, has brought his alrna mater much renown just as the popular crooner has advertised Yale anc i the University of Maine.
 !, Perhaps some of the faculty members of various academic insti- ] tutions do frown on such methods of making their beloved college known to the world, but they ] shouldn't. Both Buddy and Rudy have helped to popularize their re- spective alma matters and have brought them increased enrollments