Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1938 — Page 20

Contest Held

Cruel Stunt|

~ Winner of Hollywood Trip - Often Publicity Dupe,

Harrison Says.

By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 2.—One of the cruelest practices in Hollywood ~ is the contest, conducted for publicity purposes, by which a girl or _boy is chosen for a small role in a picture. : Of course there are all sorts of mitigating circumstances. For one thing, a round trip to Hollywood is worth a good deal, and a contestwinner not overburdened with illusions about stardom can have a fine time. And occasionally a director.

or producer is kind enough to say, | “Listen, child—you’re probably a.

good stenographer with a good home

and a nice boy friend back. in: your | - own town. And that’s where you |.

belong, so don’t go .getting any. notions into your pretty head about acting—because you can’t act.”

Too often, though, contest win-

- ners are not kept in balance by any |

such honesty. Theyre met at the train with orchids and limousines; theyre. installed in hotel suites the like of which they've only seen on the screen, they're interviewed by press agents and sometimes by reg‘ular correspondents. The resulting stories almost invariably describe their picture parts, however tiny, as “featured roles,” and usually there are hints of “long-term contracts.” They're hustled into costly clothes, made up by experts, and photographed in the still galleries by men who know how to make anybody look glamorous.

3 Enter the Agents

About this time the newcomers begin to receive ‘calls from agents. There are dozens of starving fleshpeddlers, or talent brokers, who battle over inconsequential people in the hope that maybe one in a thousand will get a break on the screen. It doesn’t cost an agent anything to sign an aspiring actor or actress, sofhe signs as many as he can by telling them of the marvelous opportunities and big money that he can secure for them through his “close personal connections with the big shots of the studios.” With all this attention, the new arrival soon is floating around in ihe roseate clouds of Never-Never-

Within a few days, though, her (it’s almost alwdys a “her”) bit in the picture is fiaished. There are no more interviewers, photographers or anxious agents. She must vacate the hotel suite, which has been assigned to a girl from Iowa who has won a Most-Beautiful-Eyes-in-the-‘World contest. The time limit on her railroad ticket is about to ex: pire.

Remembers Those Letters

The girl remembers those glowing letters she has sent to her friends back home—the one in which she advised. her former employer to look for someone to take her place in the office; the one to her mother, asking her to break the news to Dad, and please to send along the rest of her clothes, especially the evening gowns and sports things; the one—and what a : difficult letter that was!—to the boy friend, confiding that she was going to stay on here in Hollywood and have a career. . Then the girl telephones some bf the agents and says, “How about those marvelous opportunities you were promising me?” And every agent says almost the game thing: “I'm sorry, Miss Zilch, but you can’t realize how slowly things move in this town. It’s a question. of seeing the right people at the right time. I heard that you were going back home tomorrow. Now, if you had come out here prepared to fight this thing out like a regular trouper and were willing to starve—ha! ha!—for a few weeks,

Colorado’s mountains and Indiana’s “limberlost” form the background of the current Alamo and AmThe former theater -has Gene Autry, filmdom’s No.1 cowboy, shown in the upper picture with Carol Hughes in

bassador first-run attractions.

in’ “The Man stories.

Larger Faculties Await Music School Openings

With Indianapolis schools of music, dancing and allied arts ready for fall terms during the coming twq weeks, announcements are forthcoming of new faculty members, curricular additions and the formation of a new dance group as inducements to Indiana students. :

The Burroughs Schools of Musice have added three to the teaching staff. Miss Elma Igelman and Tom Morgan are to join the voice faculty, and Mrs. Amelia Monninger, the piano faculty. The department music history and criticism will be taught by Walter Whitworth, who is returning to the school after a year’s absence, - Miss Igelman comes to the Burroughs Schools from the Jordan Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory’s summer faculty. She is a well known recitalist and oratorio singer. Mr. Whitworth is music critic of the Indianapolis

may be I could have done something (News.

' for you.” : And So She Stays

When the last of the talent-mer-chants gives her the same familiar line, the exasperated newcomer says, “All right—TI’ll stay! Go ahead and see the right people; get me some * tests; get me a job!” ‘She sells her railroad ticket. She . takes her luggage and finds an $8-a- - week room in one of the old houses Just north of Hollywodd Boulevard. She never hears from the agent again. She to Central Casting and Jeary at the extra lists are closed. She fails to get a job as a secretary. She finally gets a > $10 job as a waitress in a greasy : . Jittle restaurant on Cahuenga Blvd. Maybe she swallows her pride and writes the boy friend for bus fare

back home. And maybe he sends it. | 24

PAT O'BRIEN SUES PAT O'BRIEN AGAIN

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 2 (U. P.)— Pat O’Brien, free lance actor- who ‘ claims he, and not Pat O’Brien, the movie star, is Hollywood’s original * Pat O'Brien, pressed a $500,000 dam- . gge suit for the third time today. After the court twice found technical faults in his suit, Actor O’Brien filed a. third amended complaint against Star O'Brien and others. He accused them of plotting to keep him from working in pictures. He contends Star O’Brien’s real O'Brien.

CONTRACT SIGNED BY CARL ESMOND

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 2.—Carl . Esmond, who created the role of Queen Victoria’s prince consort in ‘the London presentation of “Victoria Regina,” has been signed to a ~ gontract by Warner Bros., beginning with the role of Von Mueller in

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35 Now on Faculty

The Burroughs Schools now have a faculty of 35 members. Registration at the Bomar Cramer Studios is to begin Tuesday morning, and classes will commence a week from today. Mr. Cramer again will teach pianists in the school’s advanced classification, while Sara Miller will supervise the intermediate, and Nina Hayes Dutton and Catherine Bell, the primary departments. In addition to private instruction and repertory classes, Mr. Cramer is instituting a course in technic and keyboard harmony, to be given every third Saturday afternoon, beginning Sept. 17. The repertory class will meet on “alternate Saturdays, with the first session Sept.

Norman Phelps, chairman of the Jordan Conservatory’s ‘theory - department, has announced a weekly evening class in commercial orchestration for the coming year. Form Opera Department The course is designed for students and professionals wishing training in the fields of dance, radio, theater and motion picture arranging. Mr. Phelps plans to organize an orchestra within the class which will play students’ compositions and arrangements. The Jordan school likewise is instituting a department of opera, urs der Joseph Lautner’s direction, for the school year which opens Sept.

The Stockman Studios already have begun their 20th season of dance instruction with a facuity made up of Louis Stockman, Bobby Rivers; Virginia Pointer Rivers, Dorothy Kizér and Marian Fearheily. Mr. Stockman recently has re-«

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various national dance conventions. In the creative field, he developed two. new dances—the “jitter bug” and the “Corrigan hop.”

Ballet Company Formed

The new dance company, to be called the Indianapolis Ballet Co., already is in the formative stage, with initial tryouts scheduled for Sept. 14, 15 and 16 at 38%2 N. Pennsylvania St. Dorothy Prince is the group’s president and ‘director; Miss Helen McCullum is secretary; Olin Frederick Fouts, archer of the order, and Mrs. Fouts, treasurer. Miss Prince states that the company is open to all Indiana dancers interested in ballet, and that appearance of guest-artist directors are planned at intervals throughout. the season. The new company already is booked for an appearance at the Spink Arms Hotel on Oct. 1, when

a corps of 40 will present the bal-

let, “Johann Strauss Tonight.”

HOLLYWOOD GETS LINCOLN COACH

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 2 (U. P.).— The railroad car that carried Abraham Lincoln from Spaingfield, Ill, to Washington after his election as President will be shipped to Hollywood for a motion picture. The old coach will ‘be used in the filming of Robert Taylor's picture “Stand Up and Fight.”

nal old William Galloway engine

with high conical smokestack also

will be used. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is loaning the equipment. The old train still runs.

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Anita Louise’s selection as “the

most beautiful blond film actress”

by the National Society of Artists

and Sculptors.of Finland was her 44th [“most’ beautiful” award.

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worked ‘night pi day. spent while the press agents my picture in numerous un attitudes, and all night I spent on the set, helping with the technical side of making movie hoboes look | and act like real ones.

“Then, when I had worked n days: and nights like this, the studio: told: me the picture was finished and.

tried to hand me a check for: “I laughed at ‘em. They: ‘were

just trying to make a sucker out of

me. They must have thought I was some stage struck type or something.

| I wasn’t. I didn’t ask ’em for the job.

They hunted all over the country for me and begged me to come out here. I finally consented and then when I got here, they tried to shush me with $47 and a pat on the back. “But here's one time a movie studio isn’t going to get away with such a thing” I'm going to fight ‘em .to the end, no matter how long I have to stay in Hollywood.”

Film to Portray Movies’ History

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 2 (U. P.)—

| A project was under way today to - | make a movie of the history of mo-

From: Music Mountain.” Below are Eric Linden and - Jean Parker, plus several admiring’ relatives, in a scene from the Ambassador's “Romance of the Limberlost,” based on the popular Gene: Stratton Porter

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE APOLLO Alexanders fii time Band,” with Tyrone Power lice ay i tO 11," 1:13, 3:26, 350. 73 7:89 CIRCLE

“Spawn of the North." ith George Raft, Henry Ponds. 'Dorothy La-

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“I'm From th * with Joe Penner, at 11, 2 2:10. a and 8:40.

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“Boy Meets Girl,” with James Sagney. Pat O'Brien. Marie Wilson. : stien at 11:41, ZL 5:01. 7% 51 and 10:31. :

“Maj. Bowes Anniversary Revue.” on stage at 1. . 3:50, 6:40. and. 9:3

HOLLYWOOD GRID SEASON OPENED

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 2 @. Py—| It was football season in Hollywood today, as gridiron films were, prepared for release this fall ‘when the college season opens. Actors were hobbling off movie playing 1 fields in bandages. . The latest casually’ was Tom Brown, Who suffered ‘a ~ sprained ankle in a game before the cam-

eras on the playing field at .the nearby University of California at Los Angeles. Andy Devine, 245-

-. | pound comedian, fell on his foot.

Two college teams have been reeruited to play the movie: .games that will be seen in the Pieyure “Swing That Cheer.” ..

‘tion pictures—a patchwork of all great movies dating back to “The Kiss.” John Abbott of the Museum of Modern Art Film Library conferred with studio officials and agreed to co-operate in lending prints of famous films. Oldest of the films will be “The

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in southern France, where Maxine Elliott, the Duke of Kent, the Duke of Connaught, Edna May Lewisohn were among his neighbors.

Now Blackwell lives at the Chatham here and commutes between Broadway and Hollywood, reading plays in the East, looking for pictures in the West.

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