Show how I 1 brolle broke into tl M ae MOTIFS C Py gt by hal half C ti i herman BY ESTHER RALSTON and long blond h hair air propelled me into moving pictures turi s I 1 needed a job badly and the lo 10 long n g blond hair lid did the rest resl or of course obtaining my first part la in lectures I 1 cougil scarcely scar colly be called breaking into the movies it t took more than golden tresse i to got get me parts that eventual led to something comet hang really worth while it took herd work al a large quantity of tears and mor dogged than I 1 ever dreamed I 1 possessed I 1 will always be glad I 1 am a llon though for my hair certainly lid did me a good turn when hen it won TO ma my first drat chance to appear before the camera tn in a picture dl di reeled by lola weer weber I 1 needed a job as I 1 inive men tinned before malsi weber needed an angel for her picture and I 1 nap hap boned to be ba on tile the sot set at tile the time although I 1 was only in my early teens at the time C E became a moy ing picture angel my screen debut followed several years of york work on tho the vaudeville stage I 1 had toured la in a family act with my mother and father As IL a small child I 1 first did acrobatic stunts blunts but that ended when my iny hemd came into violent contact with the stage floor ona night inight in an accident right then I 1 decided that the life of a flying rings artist ma v as kiat for me uj nud I 1 I 1 took up tip dancing tho the war made liard hard times for vaudeville acts and aind bookings were riot not to be ba had bad ihen father received word from it a frind of ills his a manager on the coast ask 1 1114 an 14 15 A ti Y Z I 1 esther ing us ua to come coma to california assur trig ui of bookings there view was only ono one way for us to reach california so BO we started to play our way across the conal rient when mien we readied reached loi an geles me v e learned that fathers rland had left tile the city two week i before so you see why I 1 needed a job that day vs A hen I 1 appeared on the tha set of the picture lols bals aber was directing my aunt who knew miss weber had taken me there it was tay my hair that won me a job however before my aunt had had a chanco to talk to alsa weber she had noti noticed ceI nic mp and asked who the child with ith the tha long golden calr was she then them said she could use roe me in her picture I 1 thought tho the world was mine then and as aa time went on and I 1 was aa given better parts I 1 was sure if of it then came the slump that cosed down studios and almost brought an aa abrupt end to coy any ta a reer a career that had reemon demtd em td to be definitely launched like tany others I 1 had to I 1 link into the inov lea all over again and it was a difficult task almost a year went by b while I 1 diligently sought parts when mien I 1 was waa most discouraged I 1 was waa summoned to the va fa inous players lasky for en an interview with cecil R B demolle DeMl Deb lille lle who was waa seeking a cust cast for the golden goldea led bed after waiting for two hours to talk with mr air demille I 1 was told that he coulden couldn it see me after all I 1 went home and had ft a rood good cry and then determined to find out wh I 1 have the part I 1 sought I 1 returned ta t ti a mr demolles DeMl lles office mee and this time I 1 saw caw him film while we were talking in fit the outer of pee fw a nian man I 1 dian didn t know came in and went with vr mr De destillo ATIllo into the pk rate on oglee ahen hen te ie came out he told me that he m was as herbert brenon an and d that if mr hir De demolle AtIlle use ure roe me he could it turned out that I 1 was unfitted r them the part mr D mille had open so BO I 1 wen directly to mr drenova Dr enona office lie ile gave me the part of mr darling the young mother in peter pon pan and that I 1 considered was when I 1 really broke into the movies fr fir fol lowing that picture Par paramount amourA gave me die a contract as a featured player and I liter iter as a star among the films in which she appeared pea were old ironsides the case of rena lena smith the rho wheel of life her first talking picture I rhe the mighty the prodigal lonely onely INI aves and wheel of chance since her ribe rlue in films was miss ralston has haa made mada two vaude I 1 yula tours tn in this country carly last year she went to boudon toudon as a single act at tile the lim and 0 so o drifted it british PIC pictures turelL orvlee |