Show Biggest Stars Need Needed d Luck LuckIn In Starting Movie Career r S. S 1 i c By DAN THOMAS N NEA EA Serice Writer I HOLLYWOOD Cal March 5 How did he crash the movies That is the most common question question ques- ques tion asked ed about cinema players the stories which these men and women portray on the silver sheet their starts came about In very matter ot of fact ways To a large extent Lady Luck has made them what they are today I There are in tire United States today probablY Fairbanks Gilberts Swa ons or The only difference is that they have never been given an opportunity to show their and stuff probably probably ably wont I A LONG HARD CLIMB I The world today thinks of Douglas Douglas Doug Doug- I las Fairbanks in terms ot of a a huge Image being projected on a screen Few remember the days when he appeared behind the footlights on Broadway He was a prominent figure among amond stage folk when DV D. D V. V induced to take a fling at the celluloid racket Doug's first picture for Griffith was Tile rne Lamb a six in which he was starred Then followed followed fol- fol lowed a series of westerns But finally Fairbanks grew a mustache after arter Several everal months of careful nursing and became a big time star He still sUll has the mustache and still has a secure seat in the cinema heavens Norma Shearer rose rose- from tIm a climb extra girl tough for any girl She left her home In Montreal Canada with her sister Athole and went t tc Now New York with high ambitions Even weeks lOt f tramping the well beaten path Dath from studio to to- studio failed to dampen their spirits Finally one agent sent them to comedy company A BATHING BEAUTY four Fifty girls were on hand when the casting director arrived and only twelve were needed Eleven Elev- Elev en girls were chosen with Norma still standing in line She was the twelfth one Her sister was not chosen That was her first job job- just one or of a dozen In a slapstick comedY Gloria Swanson often termed Glorious did Gloria her ler first work before the camera in in Chicago with the old company But Buther Buther her real start toward cinema fame came right here in Hollywood when she was sIgned as a bathing beruty by Mack Sennett Gloria Gloda was beautiful beau heau- and she could act Those qualities plus personality have c her to her present position John Gilbert really made his bow as an actor at the age ot of 1 year with Eddie FOYS FOY'S show in Salt Lake City Since then he has sold Eold auto tires written scenarios and directed along poverty row He was given givena a chance to take up acting a again aln when he was offered a small bit bita a few years ago He took it D and nd success followed likewise his mustache mus- mus tache a la Ia Fairbanks inks |