Show In Hollywood w DAY DAV AT HAND FOR FOIt ACTING IN I-i FILMS IS SAYS YS ANITA NIT LOOS By NEA Service Sen NEW YORK Oct 20 TIme The The pretty girl has had her inning in the movies now the character woman steps to the foreground So says sas Anita Loos Loas once the time child wonder of the motion picture indus Indus- industry Industry industry try when she wrote scenarios for Griffith Grif Grit wearing braids down her h r back now one of the time outstanding successes in the literary world with successful plays plas and best sellers to her credit Times have changed she sh says Once beauty of form and features feature was Today personality Is ev ev- ev The Time outstanding successes of last lat season were ere made In some cases by actually homely women women and and men LOTS OF OP COMPETITION CO The pretty girl of today faces in international In- In International International competition for Holly Holly- Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood wood is the center of the motion pic pic- picture picture pic- pic picture ture industry of the world She must outclass the graceful and lovely Vien Vien- Viennese Viennese Viennese nese women the seductive French the beautiful Russians the Swedes and the naturally exotic Ital- Ital She must not only look but she must act she sh must feel and she must put her personality across Pictures are growing grO Ing up They must make a wider appeal and be acceptable to con con- continental continental audiences for foreign busi busI- business busIness business ness is very Important Acting comes first and looks second Miss Loos Laos and her husband John Emerson found out Just how hard Jt It was to find the perfect type when they cast for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes We tried out thousands of o ful fUI girls with golden hair and blue blueeyes eyes eves she continued We despaired of finding a new and fresh name and were about to fall back on one of the th established stars when we found Ruth Taj Taylor Talor lor She was the one girl who would do MECHANICAL IMPROVEMENT I The greatest changes In the indus Indus- industry IndustrY industry try however have not come In the human hu hu- human hu- hu human man side so much as In the mechanics ics she finds The camera lighting and all mechanical appliances have been and arc ar being perfected quite be- be beyond yond jond what the wildest dreamer could have ha foreseen ten years ago Miss rUss Loos Laos and her husband expect to retire from the th stage and the screen They are now on their way to Europe to superintend productions 01 ot Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in Vien VIen- Vienna na and Budapest When they return they will help produce their musical comedy for which Irving Berlin has written the music Then we are through says Anita firmly We have worked hard much too hard Now we deserve a a. rest z 5 r- r i er Lr LrA v A L Ruth Taylor Tar or a year ago ajo was a bathing beauty on the Sennett lot Now she hc he Is playing the lead in iii one of the j years year's ears cars most discussed dj cussed pictures Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Ian and Spanish types |