Show J. J a- a i I V 0 at iWho OT ly r rA 1 r k I 2 1 l I rt V f i Betty White r ri t By ty I I f. f La 0 J I 4 RINK K of it for a moment moment girls dis j THINK T. T appear from their hom homes s in n this country every year Surely this is IS an appalling I. I number i Those who have studied the situation tell us I T 1 r YA I f- that that most of the these se girls go away voluntarily voluntarily- just as boys do Why hy do they go What impels im im- I els them to inflict the torture of mystery and anxiety on family and friends Once you might have counted in the list of causes the lure of f the stage You would ti have r a k L f J tyl k a y t y yS yf f S t r y l lI r I Yf r 1 K My 7 M L a IC l dw Z vY 4 r f r f tf 4 1 ti p r rf k f y y s' s r. r 3 d sJ Good Looks Influence Smart Appearance Favoritism Favoritism Even Even Count Beauty Count for ik J r Nothing in the Selection of Types for fora a P Picture It All AH Depends on i Whether You Can Make lake up for the Part and Then Act It pictured t the stage And you would world have been right enough I Today you would make a better guess if you S said caid movie mad Of all the lures to adventure ever Pcr dreamed out in foolish young heads this call of the movies movies is ss strongest and strongest and most disappointing To steal a away ay to the far place where the magic of romancer romance r is manufactured to to go to b be a seen and to td conS con con- S quer This Is IB the dream To b be bc e a movie star Then comes the smash to the dream To find j that the picture makers dont don't ti want vant you you that that there are arc a n. hundred thousand times too many of you you that that they wont won't even see you you That is tho is the theS S calamity j Then what Go back home home if if you u have the money money and and admit that they wouldn't even cven see Bee you It would be shameful People would say She ran away to be a movie star And they would giggle Here then is the danger point The disappointed disappointed disappointed dis dis- appointed girl who hates to confess a failure has furnished material for many a tra tragic fi c story BeC Because Because Be Be- C cause UBe there are so many of her because the tragedies tragedies trag- trag edies multiplied saving her from the tragedies has bas become a devoted labor of women and men who know the the need A Case of Movie l Madness l J i S V 1 iV- iV FLet Let ket me t take tak e a typical case I Imagine magine yourself for a moment in little in a movie theatre dim and I silent client il nt but for the tin pan piano Mary Pickford Pick- Pick ford f rd as the waif of Grogans Grogan's Alley Altey was dancing riotously on the screen before a crowd of cheer cheer- ing tenement children I I y The big h horn rn was droning out a cracked bass J Jo the the choppy hoppy jazz of tho the piano when the ab ab- abr r a f j J It E i y l 1 i i S r t i i J i. i q 1 Jt r r f 1 j i Jl jI fri rn I r- r rl l it q t l J. J I r r 1 audience of small boys and girls old men and women and the sprinkling of in-between in ages to be found in any town small-town moving picture picture picture pic pic- ture theatre heard a girls girl's voice in st startled exclamation ex ex- exclamation Tilly what on earth arc are you doing do do- ing What has come over you 1 Through the tho darkness they craned their heads beads and saw a girl dancing out in the in frenzied and unconscious imitation of the thc dancer on n the screen The Fascination of the Films Tilly recalled to her senses was dragged by her companion back into her seat Beat The wonder and merriment of the audience subsided and the play went on Yes little Tilly just 16 her bobbing bobbing- curls still tumbling unconfined about h her r ears had trodden on on exalted ether for some time past clenching her bel rapturous se secret ret tightly to her breast for she sho was destined for the screen She was movie She knew it and her best pal Annie Heckscher knew it And together they whispered whispered whispered whis whis- and plotted and planned But no hint of this to to Tilly's mother or father Hard Bard working and practical struggling their bestin best in their own way against the handicap of poverty poverty poverty pov pov- erty and many little clamorous mouths to f G edl ed How he hated it all washing all washing the fretful children combing out their tangled hair d drying the thc greasy dishes when all t the o while she dreamed of f silks and satins of curtseying footmen and obsequious maids my lady her here a an d al rd d your ing her there And just tonight al after er the wonderful time that afternoon in the theatre why did everything everything every every- thing have have to go wrong She could have screamed in her state of rasped nerves nerves as the 1 i r r J Y 1 dJ t oJ r Wh Why y Running Away to Be Star a So Often Ends a in Tragedy e and aria Why Picture Producers S 'S Join With Aid Societies in in Earnestly Crying drying H Dont Don t Foolish for F Fame J to Aspirants alTIe I j I Ij t 0 r rJ S j J J t d Y y r r r b f s r i a ff r rt r t t k ek 4 Y 5 ro 1 a i i f s J 9 r I J r iJ iv r R i I N v S 1 5 7 1 r i V r 4 L i iJ J sY 3 ra f Rt L r s J J frig T v t S w 2 t Y- Y It Is Scenes Like This That Stir the Imagination of Girls Who o Think They Know oJUst Just How to Be a F Fascinating c Star I e cries of the children grew louder and he steaming steaming steam- steam in ing fumes in the room wing kitchen dining room room- ins room mounted ever higher That Tint settled it She was going to leave tonight tonight tonight to- to night And she did leave lease The next morn found her breathless bewildered bewildered bewildered be be- excited and happy in the maze of the gr great railroad station near that dream land of her desire And she had it all planned out She had stayed awake on the train mapping out every pery det dew de- de S. S 5 w J r v r 4 YIt t tI I gi gir r i i C SA N i b 4 r a 1 J j f J al v. v t 1 r J Jr r rc y r. r Before and After Taking up Make Show ing the Important Part Facial Preparation Plays in a Screen Picture tail S She e knew just where to go because for formon mon months hs she and Annie had bad pounced impatiently on the little daily country newspaper cutting and sec secreting eting every ref reference rence they could ferret ferreL out to o d its stars and producers rs Now v another thing t that at Tilly and Annie had decided vas was that she had better begin with l Mary lary ary Pickford role roles For she had the curls the tho rosy dimpled cheeks and the round baby eyes all that were needed for the part of course She would go str straightaway and ask for the great Mr 11 l Iana Manager er But she couldn't get to Mr tir Manager l There seemed to be a thousand obstacles in the way It was horrible And this was not the full size of the calamity She couldn't seem to pet get et to any any- body They didn't want girls for the movies Curls didn't count nothing count nothing seemed to count The world had come to an end Tillie TiBie wandered out again into the city SheY SheW She Sho W jip Y WM J. J y Kj u F S ay a Sw ri 95 l S yi h r i iY Y a f y S f y YD J r. r t I 4 Jq fi fit f 4 Y t n 3 G w was angry chagrined miserable She was ridiculous ridiculous lous useless useless useless-a a kind of joke if you ou guessed by that crowd in the thc hallway What became of T Tilly Jy You could learn from rom a certain motherly-faced motherly woman in an aid society She would tell you that she had tho the luck to be just in time I have suggested that an organized effort is being made to extend helping helpin hands where the they are nee needed ed t One of the chief of these organizations the Travelers Aid Society highly competent and efficiently organized organize as it is has a staff of but 45 desk and station workers against whom are pitted the eyed argus cunning and rapacious cruelty of the hordes and hordes of human vultures vultures vultures tures who skulking n on street corners or parading openly at train terminals at docks and ferries in the more sympathetic guise of kindly guides lie He ever in wait to prey upon the floods of unsophisticated un un- unsophisticated sophisticated innocence that surge daily and hourly into the city gates I And what do the movie people themselves say say They say Dont r I They are appalled by the rush of candidates They have long since ceased even to attempt a aview view of them We Ve cant can't see you is the cry of the producers They feel the pathos of off the dis dig digi i 1 appointments Tell them all that a pretty face isn't all there is to motion pictures Brains and peculiar gifts visual traits of which no ordinary eye or photograph can tell teU but only the motion picture camera itself are what the producer producer pro- pro i ducer selects And he has plenty to select from I Dont Don't run run away to be a movie star What Girl Does Not at Least Want to Be Tried Out in a Great Love Scene and Does poes r Not Believe That She Can Fill the Bill r W r Y t J t tr tr tw t pr w r r r l f r d. d f r r. r h J. 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