Show f In I cl G y A L a r y i y e n wl i e eMay I Edna May THIS TillS KID KIn FROM FRO MISSOURI SOME SO DAY WILL VILL SHOW EMBy EM EMBy By DAN DA THOMAS S tS NEt NEA Writer HOLLYWOOD Calif Calli Oct 26 She's Just a young oung tow-headed tow kid from Missouri Missouri but but one of 01 these days das Edna May will have her name blazoned in theatre lights The story of 01 Ednas Edna's rise in film film- land is so much like the writ writ- written written written ten around other girls who are now parading before the In the huge cinema factories And yet it itIs ItIs itIs Is at a t the same time distinctly different differ differ- ent Edna May Is just one of a large group here who have made Horatio Algers Alger's poverty po to riches yarns come true Publicity copy sent out about the radiant blonde tries to establish blish the fact that she had no idea of 01 going Into pictures when I she migrated to 00 Hollywood I hap hap- happen pen to know differently having differently having hap I Ednas Edna's own word for it that she came to our celluloid village for lor the express purpose of 01 crashing the movies WORK HARD nARD TO GET Movie Jobs arent aren't open to the first caller as the haired fair girl will testify In fact she found it almost Impossible to get work even as an extra So she got a Job in the wardrobe department of 01 a large luge studio For a full year ear Edna worked in the wardrobe creating clothes for girls whom she has already left lett behind in her march to the cinema heavens One day Paul Bern encountered Miss May He was struck by her blonde beauty and Immediately asked her to play a bit In Flower of 01 the Night which he was then hen directing Needless to say Edna made good If II she hadn't her pretty tow head would never be known among movie fans SIZE SHE THINKS KS Edna May had started her cinema career and she dIdn't Intend to stop So she kept plugging for more jobs a hard task for lor her The young oung actress Is very deceptive In appearance ap- ap appearance she Is Just a happy-go- happy lucky flapper who has plenty to say and says it Behind that mask ot of frivolity is to a quiet modest sin sin- sincere sincere sincere cere young oung girl who thinks occa thinks occa I The actress got her first break when Johnny Hines nines signed her for foran foran foran an unimportant role in his last production Home Made Johnny was struck by the way she photo photo- photographed photographed graphed and saw in her a brand new leading lady prospect A con con- contract contract tract was next In order and of con I that Edna j May has a right t to be e proud ud I Hines Johnny doesn't often e give a girl a 8 contract con tract I Hines is to start work soon on his next production with Edna May I playing opposite him And after the they y I have made two or three pictures I together he has promised to feature her in her own 11 productions |