Disguised

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 572, 26 January 1929, Page 25

Disguised

BLOND GLORIA SWANSON I SEEKS EMPLOYMENT AS EXTRA. i i Gloria Swanson, famous for her pranks and unconventional inspirations, decided recently to weigh her personality against a blond disguise and seek work as one of a thousand other motion picture extras. Noon crowds saw a strangely attired girl, with long blond curls coming from beneath a smashed looking velvet hat, and a funny short tight jacket and speckled skirt. She sat at a corner table with two local scribes. Constance Talmadge and Buster Collier, with friends, were seated at a nearby table, and noticed the strange looking girl. They stared and they stared. Finally they wrote a note and sent it to the table of the strange girl. It said, “Dear Gloria: Take off your funny hat and come out in the light, for we know you. Why are you in disguise ?” and more of the same sort of i thing. There came back a demure note, i cleverly worded in which the miss in question said she was only a little country girl from Indiana trying to ! break into pictures. 1 It was Gloria. She had been the ! rounds of the casting offices trying |to get a job in films. One prominent i film official took her hand and told her kindly to go back to her little town; he could see she was neither beautiful nor talented, and had nothing to offer the films. Others refused to see her at all, and all the casting directors turned her down fiat, muttering things about the writers who had brought her to them. Gloria made the weary rounds with hardly one encouraging word. Gloria seemed to get an enormous amount of fun out of it. Perlians was so convincing in her off-stage acting that she fooled the movie moguls into overlooking the famous figure and profile.