Show r I Screen Aspirants of Telegram Contest Conte t Grin Giggle GiggleS I S and Vamp I I By Selma Miller I TF F MARY IARY PICKFORD and Norma lorma IF I Talmadgo and Marguerite Clark 1 had not given shen up the ghost entirely upon see seeing In themselves down at atI I Liberty park the other day when hen The Telegram took screen tests teats of canI candidates can can- I In the screen screeD talent contest they would certainly have fallen Into convulsions and never would have ha come como out of ot them alive Upon that I auspicious occasion Mary Pickford j lived again in tho the minds mind's eye at least I of a dozen or more aspiring Salt Lake LakeI j I misses who posed before belore tho camera I to sa say nothing of the like Uke number of or Talmadge e girls sIrls the tho willowy Pauline I Fredericks and petite Marguerite i i Clarks who waited walled for their their- turn beI be- be I I fore tore the machine to convince the i cameraman and all others that these I stars of ot national repute were only i makeshifts as far tar as aa acting and apI ap- ap I I go 0 In comparison to their j ow own particular charms CURLS DO WORK Funny PUllEY how a flock of or yellow curls II can make a girl think she's a n deaI dead dea ringer for Americas America's little sweetheart I Then too plump arms and black hair hall j and dark dall eyes will convince most any beyond all reasonable doubt es esI especially especially es es- if her mother says sas so that I she's the Ima image e of or Incomparable Norma T. T All 11 it takes too to take Marguerite Clarks Clark's place in the cinema world is ie to be small have bobbed hair I and dark clarl eyes and be able to I ct ct cute cute and vivacious I Now Im I'm not hot slinging mud folks I dont don't misunderstand me for fOI I T was I told by tho the person who Is directing the contest for tor The Telegram that I there thelo were wore unusual beauty uty and flashes of or talent amon among the candIdates candidates candidates candi candI- I dates shot on that occasion Then I too perhaps you can understand better bet better bet bet- bet I ter tel why 1 I am pessimistic on the affair when I admit that up to press I time timo I have been unable to get pet anyone I Ito to admit that I favor nor the 1 bit any anyone one In filmdom oven even even one of or I the famous scrubwoman characters Im I'm not discouraged though I think I Ill I'll he be able to land some somo fish who will come across with the goods before long S THEDA JEALOUS Speaking of or the motion picture stars even poor Theda would have I j felt bad if she had seen herself i demonstrate the vampire walk and j I tho the roW roll th there re on that oc oc- oc I caslon casion Wh Whether ther Theda really chews chews chews' I 1 N. N L Y l I gum um when out on a vamping campaign campaign cam cam- before the cameraman has not been fully tully decided in my own mind yet Some of ot those who suspected that their talent lay along this line che chewed ed while others didn't so rm Im undecided which to accept as au nu- nu Norma T. T is known m as a heartbreaker heart heart- breaker if It wo tako the typo of pic plc- tures she tures-she she plays in as any indication In the wa way of ot soulful topographical expressions the cameraman on that occasion drew anything from the look on the face of or a dying kitten to tho smirk of or a Turk Turl in the act of or be bo- heading a victim As I have said saidI l I before I was not one ono of or the guilty I for I t was unable to select anyone to toI I imitate m my own talent being of or such I negligible quantity As for tor little Mar Mary you OU should have I seen some somo of or the tomboy characters there with floating curls who proclaimed proclaimed pro pro- claimed themselves their likeness to Americas America's little litHe sweetheart It wouldn't I be wise to to say much more Douglas I Fairbanks s and und a n tow few more famous husbands might get sot peeved and sue suo I The Thc Telegram for tor libel |