FROM ONE TO ANOTHER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 January 1931, Page 4

FROM ONE TO ANOTHER

STARS INTRODUCE FRIENDS Film celebrities, when they attain fame, eventually find new film celebrities for they often bring friends into the business who, as a rule, “make good.” In fact, many a successful player of to-day owes his or her success to the fact that another player opened the hard-to-crash doors of the studios. For instance, Edward Bropliy, a ris-

ing young comedian, has scored in “Doughboys,” “Our Blushing Brides” and “Remote Control”—because Buster Keaton started him acting in pictures. Bropliy was a production manager until discovered as a comedian. Another screen celebrity of to-day is Johnny 'Mack Brown, of “Billy, the Kid,” and “The Great Meadow.” Ho won fame as a football player, and became a friend of George Fawcett, veteran character actor, who took him to the studios and launched him.

The late Lon Chancy had a friend, Clinton Lyle, variety performer, now in pictures, introduced by Chaney and winning success. Malcolm Waite, screen “heavy” was son of the collector of the port of New York, became a friend of Norman Kerry, and kerry brought him to Hollywood and made an actor of him. Incidentally Kerry was a bridge salesman when Art Accord did the same for him. Gordon Davis, now a successful film comedian, was first brought to the studios by his friend William Haines, and introduced in “The Girl Said No.” Even back in the old days these things happened—Lillian and Dorothy Gish were first introduced to the studios by a former stage friend, Mary Bickford.