Show Dont Don't Send Money for a Job Jobin Jobin in the Movies By LOUELLA O. O PARSONS III moving mo picture editor holds the THE TIl T Innermost secrets of or many Ulan people The majority of or these confidences she holds hollis sacred and Jocks locks them in her ller breast away from all prying eyes ces Occasionally Occa Occa- there comes a letter with Information Information Information mation too Important to keep secret and then she breaks her silence and anal tI does es her apparent duty to the other readers of her department by making public t the c knowl know knowledge edge she has rained gained Today I 1 am nm going to take you oU all aU Into w nay lily confidence and tell bu about a certain fain tain little girl named Daisy Dais Her lIer name of course Isn't Daisy but because w we promised Promise I not to tell her real name nume we will call her Daisy She Is like som soma thousand other girls eager t to t b bo be a it motion n im actress s anti anu spending an ail nor ncr wan wa waning ing hours planning on the day a when Clara Kimball KImbal Young Theda Barn Bara und and Alice lIce Brady Brad will wUl tear their hair with One day her day dream seemed about to be realized Sile She read an nn advertisement advertise ment meat in a paper asking for tor young ladles ladies with and without experience to work In moving mo pictures She hastened to reply to the address given i en and to ask for nil all possible Information If this little girl irl had been beeD wl wiser er Hill anti older she would have hll known every reputable reputable table company Is Js besieged with applications ions Hons and the last thing in the world they would do Is to advertise for tor players But she too didn't know that moving mo picture positions do not grow on trees soshe so soshe she answered the tempting bait In the tIle newspaper and sat down to watt wait She didn't walt wait long lobs within a tow few da days s 's came an nn answer a form letter printed on the tho cheapest sort of ot station station- er cry ery There was no signature and the letter was signed President of ot the Film Company She was told to toi i scud 1 l and she would be bo cast as a nurse in a patriotic film with a n salary of ot 43 45 15 a 1 week The rhe dollar the letter Jetter carefully explained ex ex- explained was as only a n small deposit to buy the cue cuo book make up and instruction book und end a copy of ot the manuscript What was a n dollar compared with the magnificent salary of ot 45 a week wc-cl Most any girl sirl would be willing to spend a n dollar doll dol lur lar if it she could eventually e earn such a princely salary Many girls did send sentI their dollar poste haste and they are still waiting for their opportunity to pIa play Nurse Gray In a big patriotic drama Dais Daisy wrote amI consulted me mc She Site asked me nee if It I had ever e heard of or the company com com- company pun pany or of or the man who signed himself President A glance at the letter Jetter sent from this supposed film concern told me there was n a nl r in the woodpile some some some- where so EO I ha had the company investigated In i This Is what I learned The general ollices of the company w er located In A n bedroom in a n priced low hotel in the neighborhood of or basement saloons ladles ladles' shops barbershops burlesque shows and penny arcades The clerk in charge have gate ne th the y name of or another man besides es the president prest dent lIe He could not be bo found and 0 he Is found he lie will have hn to explain to the inspector just where his company com lan pany is located If It It isn't located located well well he will probably have hate time lime to re reflect over oer the situation in jail 1 v q So So that that is the tIle secret I am telling you yon OIL If it any of you h have he e received nn any similar letters offering to make moving picture stars of or you OU send them along and we will r let Jet you rou know just how bow much faith to place In the offer Moving roin picture Jobs do 10 not grow row on trees neither do dollar bills It ItIs ItIs itis Is much better for you OU to give your our dollar dol- dol Jar lar to Uncle e Sam to help win the war than to squander It with an unknown film com company pa ny There I Isn't nt a reputable company In 11 the country which will ask an any deposit of or you ou Mary ar Charlie Chaille Chaplin Viola Dana W. W S S. Hart and anel all the rest of ot the stars tars will tell ten you OU they didn't get t their chance In pictures by putting down downa a dollar Success Isn't won that way Dont Don't send your our dollar to help support J t slacker An Any time a n man asks you to de de- deposit lo posit lt even a quarter you ma may maj be sur sure behas he be a fA has something up his sleeve and it isn't Isn a n place for you OU In n a moving mo picture com com- pang pany Copyright l 1318 1918 le by bj J. J Keeley |