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Show nOMBOYErWAY i TO MOVIE FAME Cist of Mistaken Identity Gave Noma Tiliidfe Her Start. HARC MAC DERM OTT A CO OK JL Trlea Hit Hand at Baking With Almost J 'JFatal Raaulta to Fallow Aetor Wo- " t man Haa Now Entarad tho Fiald ai T a Moving Pletura Operator Shs ' Handlaa Camara With Skill of 8e. 4 aonad Photographer. I'TTOU would ucvcr suspect It from X seeing her on the screen. In fact, you would never suspect It from meeting her casually, so quiet Is tier usual manner, so demure Is Htie, so dainty. Vet It's tbe truth nevertheless and must be told. Norma Talmadgc Is an Incorrigible tomboy. If she weren't well, there would be no story to tell. It Is all very well for the moralists to assert that success Is tbe reward of earnest endeavor. That may bo encouraging, en-couraging, but there are sonio who say It Is not true. Take Norma Talmadgc. Tal-madgc. 81s years ago she was a nobody. no-body. Tho daughter of a traveling salesman, she. was Just an ordinary llttlo schoolgirl In an ordinary public school In an ordinary residential section sec-tion of Flatbush, which Is sometimes Identified with Brooklyn. Now she li a movie star, with a company of her own, with a suit at a hotel, a country home at Deechurst and mora money and more fame than she can handle. And why? Despite the preachers, tho truth must be told. Dccauso slio was an Imp, with an Impudent "way with her." "I got my start," sho told on Interviewer, In-terviewer, "through an accident, a lucky accident, as you mny guess." Now, It happened ono day that while making her rounds of movlo managers she blundered into a studio where wns a scene waiting to bo "shot." All round were tho principals in various stages of "makeup," and in tho middle was a director in tho not unusual act of tearing his hair. Hod Norma been nervous she would have doubtless with drawn hastily. Hut, as has been said, Norma was an imp. Instead sho drew closer, and as sho did so sho saw tho director make toward to-ward her, with the cry: "Ah, hero you are! What on earth has been keeping you so long?" Deforo sho could resist or even explain bo had caught her by the shoulders and thrust her into n chair in tbe middle of tho scene. Whom was she mistaken for? Somo principal evidently, perhaps the star. t Should she speak up? No, Indeed, said the Imp In Norma. So she settled her- r self comfortably Into that chair and proceeded to "register" as directed. And she was still "registering" very vigorously when In walked her double, and Norma's act was at an end. "But ' they took mo on," she said, "and I got $25 n week." When sho finished as n salaried artist sho was earning $3,000. |
