Show COllEGE MEN SHifT JOBS M K ay 40 t p t DC o V fR LEROY ELLSWORTH U GROOMS O Strive to Disprove Edison Theo Theory By ALEXANDER HERMAN NEA Service Staff Writer NEW YORK TORK Oct E Can Can a al lawyer l wyer make male a go good 1 undertaker An engineer a dashing movie ac actor actor actor ac- ac tor tor A s dentist a d hand Or Ot I Is iy a 3 man good gooi only for the par tc jar job for a n he h hs hs s been b br n specially trained A l c Co cren ten en college collego st 1 It t. t Sll successful sue suc cC c- c C in their professions are ar casting aside the jobs they trained them themselves elves to fill just to fin in-I in out 1010 one year ear they will 11 work Infields Infields in infields fields quite foreign to their callin s sto to try out this experiment which began as a joke jolce in a Los Angeles club several se months ago ago go One of the men LeRoy Ellsworth Ellsworth Ellsworth Ells Ells- worth Grooms a mining g chemist who i recently had charge of a large cyanide plant In Nevada has already al- al al already already ready plunged into his new work The mining chemist Is now a n movie actor And the others are looking for Jobs We were discussing Edison's theory that a college man Is good only for tor the work he has been taught I says Grooms when one of It ui us said It was as all wron wrong wrong- He thou thought 1 he e Uld o ld do t any job We Wel l I I laughed lau But a n few tew months months months' later a similar similar simi simi- lar discussion arose in a a. New York club The men were serious A dozen of f us including ing t three r e lawyers lawyers law law- two brok brokers three engineers cheers an nn author a dentist dentist a a. chemist and ind inda anda a n capitalist decided decide to change their callings just f for tor fun tun So we took twelve slips of pa paper paper paper pa- pa per wrote down a n dozen different kinds of ot jobs jobs jobs- steel jobs teal steel roller farmer lumberjack au automobile mechanic actor rancher building contractor electrical engineer undertaker movie star clerIc clerk and sailor sailor aid pulled them from a hat 11 1 drew the Job of ot motion picture actor I had never acted in my lire life but a a. atea tea bargain see i was vas throw a bargain and I had Iud to see It through gh So I went to It at once 4 It It wasn't easy getting a Job I Iwas Iwas was waa shifted around from one a agency ency to another from one studio to the next After Aft four weeks I got a a. chance to tl act a small part In u at studio on long Island I was told to go home and set get et my evening clothes cl Some difference between working in them anti ami in inthe n 1 the tho khaki I wore on my old inning nu ng Job I t took ok to it But strong It isn't every day that one can g get t paid for tor dancing with charming screen creer sta stas s Grooms gets 10 a day when he works in the movies ho he used to get 1300 a a. month on the mining Job 1 But tho the fun of ot tho the new work he says sas makes up for the differ difference ence Besides Im I'm getting ahead on the job and already have thes the tho starton s start rt on the other fellows who will begin looking for tor their new work inthe In Inthe th the e fall |