Show Darkest B Before fore Daw Dawn Proves True In Experience of Actors Acors Director Car Careers ers of ot motion picture cure players lend ready substantiation to the old oid nc adage ge that It Is b 01 always darkest betor betori be- be fore tori the time dawn Jo Josef et von on Sternberg tg Hollywood dh director Cites his own experiences und and th those s of f George Bancroft ancroft nl RiCh h. h ard arll MIen Arlen and Fay ay Vr Wray y who vho w were re associated associated- with wit him hint At t tub tho Pl Paramount Para Plira- mount Hollywood Holywood studIos in the production of or Thunderbolt an an al all all- talking picture SAW SLACK BLACK BLACKD DESPAIR SAW Von Sternberg confesses to 10 blackest black black- est despair several Be years yesra ago ago ro when after 1 having nI g been lifted to the heights b by critical eulogies on lila his hIl personally naly produced The Tc Salvation Sl aton labeled him a Hunters Hollywood HolY o R flash In the After having be been n nel el engaged to to direct Mary Marf Pickford and Mak Ma Mn Murray and having been een forced out out of or these alignments through disagreements von on Sternberg Stern Stern- stern berg was anything but but- elated d when signed berg as a a a director of ot lightning and photographic effects for tor Underworld Underworld Un Und d Von gloomy gloom spirits would hardly admit of of a adawn adawn dawn at this period yet he J was waB given gl tha tire entire entre dIrection direction tion of ot Underworld and nc with George Ge ton Bancroft its Il star made one ot of the time mightiest box boc office sue sue- successes sue suc in motion moton picture history Bancroft continued von Sternberg Sternberg Stern- Stern berg knew new a n similar hardship He abandoned A successful saul career reer roer on the New Y York rk stage to to come om t to Hollywood HoUy He believed In pictures picture but pictures picture didn't Jele believe e in Bancroft Ban Ban- Ba croft and he Ire could could write a n book on hI his crof haunting of casting offices l looking looking look look- ok- ok ing ng for tor wo wok wet k GOT aoi FIRST ROLE T Then TAlon cn came came a role rob i for for hUH him In InD D Driven ivi n Critics or of o the nation naton lauded lauded laud- laud laudEd ed hi Ills characterization of ut a n brutal l mountaineer Ed but but- a ri smiling Jm I villain Bancroft thought he was Purely r ly on oil top of ti the mo motion lon picture tu e heap eap A freak treal pt of circumstances i 1 which Be seems ms laughable now made Jobs even more more infrequent than than they were vere ere bet before and it i was was was' three throe years ers until Underworld catapulted George Georg Into stardom Richard Arlon Arlen knows known what 1 It i to bo be down in the tho mouth Unable to find suitable employment when he lie arrived in Los Angeles from tie the Texas oil fl fields Arlen to took tooka k kL a L Job as as a motorcycle messenger boy for or a n film fm laboratory Ho flo was WIS al almost at- at most niost penniless Within a a aveck week nn an I automobile hit Arlen's Arens Aren's and he w went nt to the hospital with a n broken l leg g. g When ho he came out six weeks later Inter friends helped him t to get Jet work in pictures In 1922 the American Releasing luig corporation offered d' d him a l lc lead i d In e othe o othe at atthe the Deep Deep thought he wa was made but bul th the tho picture was wa-s WI less Jess than Hum ordinary and ho was wan glad o to get ex tra roles again were darday dark dar day ny but Arlen rl ri fought along until his his big chace chance came caine Ii lu In Wings Wins which won him a permanent p following follow follow- Colow- Colow ing in t the Q screen en world FAY CASE Fay ay that ol me that that she ere cre her own wn era ora or of c despair but sh she ban haa never regretted her move mo MIss Mis SWay Wray Var broke into irto pictures via tire the th custard pie slapstick with Ha 1131 Roach and Universal After AUer a n yea e r ot orthis she he rebel rebelled d and r refused t to continue In anything but dr dramatic mato work Se found tho time foi tunes tom tunes o othe ot of the hue lancer free to be a n succession of gf t nothing no as dl discouraging weeks weeks' slipped into nto hopeless mon months Just ab abo t this Pay Fay ly heard hean that l von had lund tested several o hundred d girls without ut findIng find find- Ing a Mitzi Mitsi fo for The Tho Wedding March Which he lie v was vas to tp produce for Cor Pa Para Par mount S So many other actresses With Ith Important many names names had failed ailed to meet v von m demands tha she hesitated a t to apply for tOl tin Un inter inter- li s' s But Bul Clue he did and did and l her per performance per e established he her herp tai p aa at t actress i tC p 91 ot true u ug P merit Il t i r i r |