WHY ACTRESSES SUCCEED
NECESSARY REQUISITES
Screen actresses who achieve greatness do so because they possess four necessary requisites. These, in order of importance, are the inate ability to react naturally to situations, physical beauty, intelligence to acquire technique and the experience necessary to perfect these traits. That is the manner in which Edmund Goulding. the author and director of Paramount's new alltalking dramatic play, “The Devil’s Holiday,” sums up the secret of success on the screen “The ability to always appear natural is, of course, the most essential ment for any screen artist,” Gouldinp contends. “Without naturalness, the actor fails to conivnee. Beauty a requirement because the public demand it. Intelligence is possessed most everyone who is artistically ambitious. and experience may be acquired.” ,| Goulding says that Nancy Carro- • who is starred in The Devil's Ho :- V nients and, as a result, is a star toda. •
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 14
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146WHY ACTRESSES SUCCEED Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 14
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