FORGOTTEN WOMEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1939, Page 4

FORGOTTEN WOMEN

"BIT" PLAYERS AT HOLLYWOOD. Hollywood is full of forgotten women; you see them in the studio cafes made up for “bit” parts, these women whose names were once headlines Directors like these people, because they have had experience in the films, they know what is required of them and they can manage their small parts more quickly and efficiently than casual extras. THE “GLAMOUR BOYS” INSECURE POSITION. The established position of goodlooking male stars at Hollywood, such as Tyrone Power and Robert Taylor, is secure only until the next good-look-ing young man comes along. It is said that even Taylor is beginning to topple, and Tyrone Power may find it hard to retain his position since his marriage to Annabella. One executive expressed the opinion that unless some new young man reached popular stardom, only two men—Gary Cooper and Clark Gable—will retain their capacity for bringing people to the theatre in the immediate future. If you concede such a commodity as "glamour” in Hollywood, it is not possessed by the stars of the set, but on the boulevards and in the shops. Girls behind the counters are groomed to the last eyelash, hoping to be the heroine in a fairy tale; on the boulevards the goodlooking young men outnumber the good-looking young women. But if they are all hoping some day to "be in the pictures," they are all hard-working, they all live at. a pace which somehow gives them additional enthusiasm for living. What perhaps they do net realise is that the film stars with whom they would pljange places are also hard-working at a job which is tedious in the extreme.