Show mam MS f talks with tf screen struck girls go als I 1 by beatriz michelena hiim i iy ay ay iy Fo lowing my warning in the last talk about having too receptive an ear tor for your friends well intended prophesies I 1 may add the suggestion that you take all cheap advice on motion picture affairs with a pinch of salt it is astonishing to note the num her of people who would seem to know more about motion pictures than about the particular line of business tor for which they are supposed to be qualified it would almost appear that the more real experience one has in pictures the less ho he or she knows about them I 1 am acquainted quain ted with one girl she occasionally sio nally dresses my hair who would willingly tell you moro more in fifteen minutes about motion pictures than I 1 shall be able to impart in this entire series of talks and the surprising part of it is that she can dispense her information with so small an expenditure of thought I 1 have met a great many others exactly like her it is well that the screen struck girl realize that there Is 13 a frightful amount of eon caa berning motion picture acting aad that it is trying hard to pass musa lam ter as real information it may bi be had for the asking yes too often i without the asking there are people who will sure you as they have hav e a assured ss ared me that motion picture directors etera 1 where spend a good part of their i time tearing their hair because theat they cannot find enough act actresses to bill eliy their casts this is altogether y ulous true there is and always wil be room at the top tor for real ability coupled with ambition and a willa wills dingness to work and learn but nea ner er tor for a minute you girl who would I 1 succeed figure on finding a place in int pictures through the supposition 4 that a dearth of talent la in the 9 slon sion will allow you to squeeze in at the studio where I 1 work there ar 0 two big drawers filled with applies i eions on file and a great many of 0 I 1 the girls whose names are list lla tedy aili I 1 there will never squeeze in vf 2 |