The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-24
Here's A Chance for
Fame and Fortune
Don't Pass It i b!
VXTOULD you like to have a
w screen and voice test?

company which today has more
stars on it's roster than any other
individual film producing organi-
cation, in association with The
Indianapolis Times and Loew's
Palace theater, offers to girls and
children of this immediate area
an opportunity of demonstrating
their screen personalities before
their cameras and microphones.
This great movie company is
seeking to discover new screen
personalities. girls and chill
dren with charm, personality, and
voice appeal and IN Chelr
search in this area has enlisted
the aid of The Times and Loew's.
In this connection, MG-M is
sending to this city its elaborate
travelling motion picture studio.
This lavishly equipped studio on
wheels, in addition to being fully
equipped for the taking of screen
and voice tests of prospective
stars, maintains apparatus for the
filming of newsreel pictures.
In coming to indianapolis, the
travelling studio brings with it the
greatest opportunity ever offered
to girls and children of this city.
Here, for the first time, is a real
honest to-goodnesS chance to get
into the movies. Here is an OPP
portunity to be given actual, bona
f1de voice and screen tests, not by
an individual cameraman, or by
some fy-by-night organization,
but by the greatest motion picture
company in the world.
4 ND although this great COM
L n pany already has under con-
tract such outstanding stars as
Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer,
Greta Carlo, Marion Davies,
Clark Gable, Marie DreSsler, Wal
lace Berry, Robert Montgomery,
William Haines, John and Lionel
Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Colleen
Moore, and many others, it is
seeking new. personalities for
M-G-M and Hal Roach pictures.
M-G-M executives believe that
their stars of tomorrow will prove
to be "unknowns" of today. In
stead of waiting for these dis
coveries to be made through the
regular channels they have set
out to discover them.
Girls and children throughout
the entire country are being
tested by the travelling motion
picture studio. Shopgirls, stenog-
raphers, clerks, mattresses, school
girls, home girls, are being given
an opportunity to demonstrate
their personality and ability.
If you think that you would
screen well, if you feel that your
voice may have appeal, if your
friends have ever told you that
you reSembled some famous mo-
ton picture star and that you
would make good in the movies,
here is your chance to find out.
Any indianapolis area girl be-
tween the ages of IS and % is
eligible to submit an application
for a screen and voice test to be
made when the M-G-M studio
visits Palace theater. All you
have to do is clip the application
blank appearing in The Times
and mail it with a good photo
graph of yourself to the Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer Screen Test Ed
itor, The Indianapolis Times.
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Out of the group of girls Sc
~ lected to be given voice and
screen tests, after the tests have
been made and exhibited on the
screen of Loew's theater, judges
will select the girl whose tests
proved to be the most promising.
She will then be named Miss
indianapolis" and will be eligible
to complete with other territory
winners for the grand award Of
fered by M-G-M.
This award consists of a three