Show how I 1 broke into the movies i copyright by hal C herman BY WILLIAM BOYD P POSSIBLY I 1 would never have faced a motion picture camera if I 1 arrived in orange orang calif with only 35 cents to my name my destination was son diego miles away but one cant travel even miles on 35 1 5 cents my parents had died in my early teens so I 1 was obliged to shift for myself for some reason I 1 always had wanted to go to san diego and I 1 left high school in tulsa okla with that idea my first job in orange was quite a natural one for a hungry kid it was as a grocery clerk I 1 was standing in front of a window filled with edibles thinking how good any portion of the display would taste the proprietor placed a card in the window it announced the need of a clerk I 1 supplied the need while I 1 was saving money to journey on to sari san diego I 1 met some fellows working with a motion picture company on location near orange we struck up ft a friendship of sorts and they insisted I 1 would screen well and should come come to hollywood I 1 was young and my ambitions easily diverted hollywood became my mecca instead of san diego however it was more than a year before I 1 tried to make the grade in motion pictures I 1 had sense enough to know I 1 probably would not set bet the world on fire overnight so I 1 determined to save enough money to keep 4 IU z 4 11 1 1 10 Z bill boyd me going for awhile if I 1 could not find work I 1 left the grocery store to become an automobile salesman then I 1 found I 1 could make more money and amass my reserve fund in less time it if I 1 als discarded the white collar and put in my muscles into action I 1 got a job as aa an oil driller then followed a period of extra work until the war broke out I 1 enlisted in june 1017 but alas tor for any dreams I 1 cherished of eventually wearing gold stars on my shoulders I 1 was discharged three months later for athletic heart a souvenir of football I 1 used to play in my high school days I 1 then ran the post exchange at marsh field riverside calif for some time I 1 was a little older now and upon returning to hollywood renewed the trips to the studios stud ioa I 1 had begun to regard the possibility of motion molion picture work very seriously so I 1 was delighted when in 1910 1 I was lucky enough to catch the attention of cecil B de mille who gave me a bit in why change your wife other minor roles in various pictures followed and mr de mille gave me small email parts in several of his productions I 1 was placed under contract with a featured role in the road to yesterday then came my big chance in the volga boatman this picture i was a 0 milestone in my life in more ways than one for it was during its making that I 1 met and married minor elinor fair I 1 like working la in motion pictures particularly when I 1 play such roles as I 1 bad in the volga boatman jim the conqueror the yankee clipper and dress parade since becoming a rathe star I 1 have appeared in such duch screen hits as skyscraper the Leat leatherneck berneck two arabian knights lady of the pavements high voltage and the flying F fool my father was a civil engineer and if my parents had lived and I 1 had been able to attend college I 1 would more than likely have adopted the same profession fes sion slon but things work out that way however I 1 always enjoy the up and doing characterizations which remind me of my father and the plans for my own future which he and I 1 so often discussed IV service |