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Show The Flashy Girl. Copyright, Ifl. by The McClure News paper Syndicate. Entered at Stationers Hall. Tendon. All rights reserved, including rights of translation. Publication Publica-tion of this article in whole or in part - is expressly prohibited except by special arrangement with The Mo dure Newspaper Syndicate. TTIE best way I can illustrate my articles of advice for young girls is bv la king indi vidua I types which have a tf racted my attention. atten-tion. Without, betraying their names. I shall write of them as imaginary cha racters to you, so by their shortcomings short-comings or by their successes you can get some idea of what is demanded of a moving-picture actress. Today I am going to introduce you to Miss Fid shy Girl, whom I shall call Arline. Arline had a. very comfort able home, with a doting mother and father who yielded to her every whim, eager to inakp their only child happy. . She. was pretty, hut not of the type of prettinoss which lasts; she bar tampered too much with nature. By that T mean she. had touched up her ha ir and. although she was but lfl. she rouged her cheeks and reddened her lips to an unnatural scarlet. scar-let. A friend of hers, a very clever, hardworking hard-working girl, brought her to the studio and in t rod need her to one of the directors, di-rectors, who thought her a type he could use "to advantage. She photographed very well and was given all the extra work she could do for the next few weeks. She seemed to enjoy the work immensely, immense-ly, but after she had been in the studio a while we noticed a radical change in her. She talked very loud and made . herself conspicuous by her extreme dressing. dress-ing. Instead of saving her money so she : could buy a wardrobe and be prepared 1 for any emergency, she dressed more ex-I ex-I travagantly than the stars. Always was 1 she seeking personal attention, and after a while the work began to pall upon her. Tt did not offer enough excitement excite-ment ; she even decided to - create it. A Disturbing Element, . . She encouraged a lot of the girls to 1 gather in her dressing room and start , little card games instead of tending strictly to her work.- She came late in the mornings and would resent being told to ret urn in the evenings. Then she was always seen in the company of the actors a round the studio, laughing boisterously and encouraging their little a t tent ions, which pleased and flattered her. The directors disliked her because her mind was never on her work, although they all agreed she photographed beautifully beauti-fully and bad rare powers of expression. Perhaps Arline never realized it, but they bad prophesied a brlllia nt future for her if she could bring herself to a radica 1 change of her errant ways. They gave her chance after chance and, instead of grasping her opportunity, she went sailing by it, vainglorious, because she felt si ie was necessary to the company, com-pany, having overheard remarks as to her beauty and seeing for herself how well she looked upon the screen. One morning she kept them waiting over an hour for her. She came in, radiant with a new suit and hat, and seemed surprised because they dared to 1 reprimand her. "Oh, very well," and she flounced to her dressing room. "I don't intend to sta y here anyway." she threatened. "Another company has offered me a chance to play leads, and I'd be a fool to be bossed around the way T have been here when I can make lots more money somewhere else." She left the studio. Iater T heard she was becoming quite successful. Her salary kept on limbing for a while, but her art was on a. steady wane, and when her pictures were released the audiences I did not like her. Brains and Beauty Wanted. "f'he is a pretty girl' someone remarked, re-marked, "but she isn't an actress. We would rather see faces with character than dolls without brains or emotions."' She was never a favorite, and after a year's experience she drifted down and ! down until she was just an extra girl, seeking transient work, embittered and disappointed. Sometimes she is given small parts, but she had spent her time on fashions, sacrificing her work, study and development develop-ment of her character. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mrs. M. L. Smith, Detroit: T cold cream my face sometimes two and three times a day because of using grease paint, but ! think everyone should use cold cream at night. It takes the dirt out of the pores and makes the skin soft and velvety. I cannot recommend a good cold cream, but any cream complying with the pure food and druga law is safe. Rice powder you can buy anywhere. Lanolin is very fine, but I understand that it makes hair grow on the face. drink a grca t deal of water and I find that does more toward keeping my complexion good than any remedy on the market. T am sorry T did not get the letter from Dorothy "NT. of St. Louis in time to advise her what costume to wear in a Japanese play, but there are often unavoidable un-avoidable delays in the mail. The best way to get any costume is to go to the library and in the histories of different countries you will find illustrations. Costumes Cos-tumes can be made of cheap material just as effectively as in silks and satins for the stage. |
