Show S t a r dag I 1 I 1 S t A repeated mistakes A doug sr in again A 1 I moral less tale BY virginia valo vale HERES a good reason for tone THERES one of the mistakes that hollywood makes about every so often the only trouble is that after its been made the studios forget about it and make it all over again later you read about beautiful models dhove been signed for pictures girls who pose for magazine covers and advertisements verti girls whose faces are familiar to you although you probably have never known their names until you read about their going to hollywood then in all likelihood you never hear of them again they stay in california until their contracts run out and then head back to new york sadder and wiser one of those models talked to me the other day shed been urged by phone telegraph and letter to take advantage of the movies shed 41 A m ik ANITA COUNIHAN COU NinAN been offered a screen test shed dodged all interviews just saying that she interested of course I 1 take beautiful photographs she said because I 1 know how bow to use makeup make up im nothing unusual to look at in real life but the men who make movies even though they know what makeup make up can do for their stars dont seem to realize that a models beauty may be all artificial they sign us up and then comes the awful shock were not beautiful except when our faces are redone re done and are arc in n repose and then teen they lose interest in us well that been the difficulty where some of the famous models were concerned anita counihan is an example she went to hollywood got started in bits and went back east again but for one like her there have been others by the dozen girls whose beauty in photographs captivated the movie men when it exist in real life 1 11 1 remember mary kornman who used to be the sweetheart of the our gang comedy shorts ashes an attractive young woman now and see her in its spring again with oliver hardy and harry langdon the hall johnson negro choir which youve often heard on the air has been signed for that same picture incidentally in it feature in the evening by the moonlight I 1 douglas fairbanks sr just stay out of the picture business any longer his new company is is all set financed by american british and swiss capital the seni bior fairbanks will just produce at least at present he thinks he wont act but you never can tell and lie he has planned three pictures for 1939 they are the californians the tenth woman based on the life of lord byron and the three musketeers here are a couple cou ale of success stories storie of the he air for you eugene conley was a shipping clerk in lynn mass until not so very long ago lie he took time off whenever he could coul a to sing with three of his friends A radio executive heard the boys one time when conley was playing hookey bookey hooks books from his job in order to sing s and now conley has three programs a week and has had an offer from the chicago opera company compa 1 john laing lain play hookey from his job because he was a page boy and soon after that bat he was a guide N B C has a lot of them you know to guide tourists through its studios after that he did an audition as an announcer and an announcer he was tor for four years now hes been signed up for movies so one won out by not sticking to his job and the other succeeded by b kin kins to it |