Evening star., 1932-09-04
BEAUTY WINNERS
FAIL IN MOVIES
About Two in 1000 Stay in
Hollywood After Initial
Tryout.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
HOLLYWOOD, September 3.-What
happens to pretty little girls who grow
up and win beauty contests? At a
rough guess, about two in 1000 make
a success in motion pictures.
Not that the beauty prize winners
don't come to Hollywood They come
here by the dozen. They get into pic
lures. too. but they don't usually stay
there. Contrary to what you might
think, 1t takes some dramatic ability to
make a hit on the screen, and it also
takes the right kind Of voice
This is why large proportion of the
prize winners 60 back to their typewrit-
ers or their beauty shops or the homes
from whence they came, or become eff
cient business women or wives. Many
are perfectly contest with their brief
moment in the spotlight.
Two Win Success.
But many are not. And of the beauty
victors who have in recent times had q
tryout under the spotlights of Holly
wood, two are in line for conspicuous
dramatic success in the talkies. Irene
Ware and Miriam Jordan are both, as
it happens, under long-term contract to
the Fox studios. They are being groomed
for stardom, and in the meantime they
are doing very nicely in several pic
lures, thank you.
1t is significant fact, and one which
beauty contest winners would do well to
bear in mind. that both these girls came
to Hollywood after making success on
the legitimate stage. As a matter OF
further fact. they would probably have
been signed up by producers even
though they had never won beauty
contest.
Winning beauty prize. however, was
the first step toward the stage and, as
it turned out, toward Hollywood in the
career of each actress. Neither of them
had originally the faintest notion of
becoming an actress, by the way.
Irene Ware, born at Pelham Bay.
N. Y. was a secretary when an aunt
sent her picture to New York news
paper that had started a search for
Miss New York to represent the city in
the international beauty contest held
at Galveston, Tex, In 1929. Miss Ware
went to Galveston as Miss New York
and returned to New York as Miss
America. Earl Carroll persuaded her
to leave the typewriter keys for the
footlghts and she was featured in his
"Vanities."
Movie Contract Results.
Came a test before Fox camera.
Came contract. Came Miss Ware to
Hollywood, as leading woman In
"Chandu. the Magician" opposite Ed
mund Lowe.
Miriam Jordan was British Empire
beauty queen at the Wembley Exposi-
ton. Theater managers made 1t easy
for her to exchange quiet home life
for a stage career. She quickly gave
proof of her dramatic talent in London.
Broadway beckoned ana Miss Jordan
responded. She had prominent role
In "Cynara," with Philip Merivale as
the star. Merivale brought his COM
pany to Los Angeles, and various film
executives rushed up TO Miss Jordan
with contracts Within two days after
her first appearance at the Fox studio
she was playing the lead in six Hours
to Live" sharing honors with Warner
Baxter and John Boles.
This, then, is what happened to a
couple of pretty little girls who grew
up and won beauty contests. AS to
most Of the other beauty winners, the
records Of Hollywood show that despite
the white glare Of fame which for a
while illumines their faces and figures
for all the world to admire, few sue
coed in capitalizing their fame to any
appreciable degree.
(Copyright, 1922