Show Charm Taught to Hollywood Actresses Like Course in Latin or r Mathematics How lIow Hollywood film tum players are taught the art of or personal chum charm Is rc e revealed led b below V lo In the fourth of a a. series of articles written for The Telegram on Making the Stars Shine By MARIAN YOUNG HOLLYWOOD HOLLY Oct 10 Holly 10 Holly Hollywood wood is a charming place Your favorite young screen ac actresses actresses actresses ac- ac tresses digest t t.- t. t t books on charm along with wIlli their breakfasts Unknown Unknown Unknown Un Un- known but hopeful extra girls en enroll enroll enroll en- en roll In schools c cf charm Stars of the silent film days who used to be beable beable beable able to take charm or leave It alone now brush up on the subject Ever Even film directors movie cameramen messenger boys r the waitresses waitresses waitresses wait wait- who serve you in m Hollywood restaurants all all have charm on tap Charm has become the password to o success in filmdom And the teachers of this elusive e personal persona quality quam are just about the busiest busies members of the growing fraternity whose task It Is to surround the people of the films with Made to Order for Stars Small fortunes are spent on the young to Invited contract contract con- con tract player He Is taught to walk and to talk anew He learns not only to read lines and to act on the sets but how to meet people how howo to o get along with others what to wear even what and what not to cat The boys bos an and girls in the training classes are given advantages such as usually are afforded children from Cram rom only the wealthiest homes Excellent libraries are available Charming interesting men and women women women wo wo- wo- wo men are arc their teachers and advisers They The are taught the meaning of good taste in clothes and makeup and behavior And they are paid for the privilege of learning Thus charm which used to be considered an inherited quality now is s made to order to fit the darlings of the screen Listen to words of wisdom from some of Hollywoods Hollywood's outstanding teachers of charm and manners Eradicate Jealousy all alleviate First of we try to feelings of jealousy among actors LIllian Lilian Bark Barkley Icy head of one of the foremost studio dramatic schools told old me This trait probably more than han any other completely spoils charm a characteristic so important important tant ant to an actor who wishes to become become become be be- come a star Furthermore we immediately immediately im im- mediately try to curb any tendency toward fits of temper simply by i ig ignoring ignoring ig- ig noring the outbursts As soon as a a youngster finds out at a display of bad temper he himself often olten is inclined to call it temperament isn't going to get him anywhere at atall atall all he calms down and learns that graciousness pays bigger dividends doesn't put lines in the face and makes him infinitely more interest interest- ing big Miss Barkley a Californian who took her masters master's degree in speech at Columbia university has as coached June Lang Rita Cansino Rochelle i r r rr f f lx rt 1 A Y Gail Patrick gets the lowdown on charm from Phyllis Loughton ri right ht who ho cites Ann Harding as an example of n a truly charmIng charming charming charm charm- ing woman Hudson and scores of at other nota nota- bles She teaches Shirley Shiney Temple not only how to play her parts be before before before be- be fore the camera but and The schoolroom isa Is Isa Isa a desk in Shirleys Shirley's own stucco bungalow bungalow bungalow bun bun- galow on the Fox lot Miss Barkley wont won't say which star she sho thinks Is most charming of them all but when she ment mentions ons Shirley Temple and tells of the I childs child's rapid progress in school schoolwork schoolwork work her eyes light up and you get geta a pretty good Idea what her choice I would be if it she voiced it Vitality Essential In the opinion of Phyllis Loughton Lough- Lough ton another important dramatic school molder of at stars vitality is necessary to charm By vitality I dont don't mean the kind that bowls them over but the type that keeps people wide awake and interested in what you have to say I try to teach each of my pupils to think of others and as soon as he starts to become successful to study some subject ab about ut which he knows nothing Miss Loughton Laughton herself once when she felt she was developing a dictatorIal dictatorial dic die air from many years of teaching teaching took piano lessons To I prevent a superiority complex which ruins charm the young instructress who at the age of 13 was stage manager manager manager man man- ager for Jessie Bonstelle says teachers teach teach- ers and every person who becomes especially proficient in his own line ought to learn something new and rattier rather difficult This tends to de decrease decrease decrease de- de crease any feeling of self import ance and makes for patience and tolerance She adds that those who take themselves too seriously almost never are charming Miss Loughton Laughton believes incidentally incidentally tally that Ann Harding is the personification personification personification per per- I of charm Oliver Hinsdell head of another I dramatic and charm school which has turned out such rising young stars as Martha Sleeper Betty Furness Furness Furness Fur- Fur ness Robert Taylor and Irene Her- Her Hervey Hervey vey thinks that those who try to emulate the manners and habits of oC others spoil their own charm He never tries to change the personality personality personality person person- of his charges char es Each one of my kids has something something something some some- thing outstanding within himself or we wouldn't have brought him out here the kindly gra haired dignified dignified dignified dig dig- man said Naturally we dont don't want him to spoil it by imitating imitating imitating ing some star who already has ar ar- ar- ar rived I 1 dig around the roots and let the flower come forth by At R-K-O R the mother of ot Ginger Rogers has charge of developing the personalities of rising young actors Outstanding Examples In a colony of actresses all Imbued imbued imbued im Im- im- im with this thing called charm a few are outstanding And some of them told me what they think charm isI isI isI is I believe naturalness Is the first requisite said pretty little Anita Louise who had ha remained good tempered for two hours in spite of oC the fact she had been called to the studio on a a. scorching day to talk to several interviewers and to pose under blazing hot li lights for tor dozens of of fashion stills Another charmer Dolores Del DelRio DelRio DelRio Rio who seldom fails to fascinate interviewers insists that intelligence is the keynote to charmI charm I 1 never saw a stupid person whom I thought charming the vivacious little brunette declared The more a person mows and the greater wealth of information he helas has las at his fingertips the more charming he is How can you be becharming becharming becharming charming it if you haven't read good books and many of at them studied human nature and kept up th th current events 1 |