PICTURE GIRLS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4619, 31 October 1923, Page 2

PICTURE GIRLS.

LOS ANGELES CROWDED. NO OPENING FOR OUTSIDERS. Mr Edwin Geach, well known in New Zealand' in connection with theatrical affairs, recently passed through Wellington to Australia, en route from America. He has been to those filming centres, Hollywood and Los Angeles, and from what he saw there is little if any room there for pretty girls from New Zealand in so far as the filming pf pictures is concerned. Mr Geach admits that New Zealand has a surfeit of really pretty girls. That is admitted, says Mr Geach ; but they should also recognise that the same conditions prevail in the United States of America, only in larger proportion owing to the enormous population. The result is that Los Angeles is simply teeming, so tp speak, with beautiful girls, attracted from all parts of the world, hoping against hope for an opening in the “movies,” and it has been found necessary to establish homes of refuge to shelter many of these unfortunate aspirants for fame until such time as their luck changes or thev return once again to their people and sanity. New Zealand girls, inflamed with the “movie” craze should realise that the day has long passed when a pretty face commands success. To-day, owing to the intense competition, one must have had stage experience, must be an accomplished athlete, able to swim, dive, row, drive; ride, and be devoid of fear, and in addition possess an artistic temperament and a “photographic” face, not necessarily pretty, but a face that will photograph beautifully. With all these attainments one thing certainly will be necessary to stand the Inevitable siege, for prizes are few and the blanks many, and that is dollars, dollars, and more dollars.