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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20253, 23 July 1937, Page 4

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Cinema Snapshots Chance for Film Stardom is Exactly 1 in 100,000. Your chance of winning is i in 100,000. The prize is riches, adulation, the flattery of millions of persons, a place in the spotlight almost as bright as that of the President of the United States or the King of England—film stardom. Those who try, yet lose, pay heavily. The cost of their adventure is years of disappointment and heartbreak and, in the end, oblivion and probable poverty. But the fact that it oan be done keeps the hopefuls pouring into Hollywood. For the moat part, they are attractive boys and girls, although there are many mature persons who believe they have the quality that made stars of Will Rogers, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold and Marie Dressier. The 100,000 to 1 odds are not | fanciful fig - ures. They are the authentic statistics revealed b y Miss Ethel B. Call!s, of Central Casting i Bureau, the! organis all o n from which j practically all the major studl o « recruit their extras and bit players. More than 1,300,000 persons have paraded through Hollywood during the past deoade; failing to find screen careers, most of them went away; 12,000 have remained to make up the ranks of struggling extras; only 13 , have been graduated to prominence | bs actors. Only one extra graduated to stardom since the advent of sound I pictures in 1928. That on* was Jean I Harlow; the others started their careers in silent pictures. The u lu'oky thirteen” "are Janet Gaynor, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Adolphe Menjou, Gary Cooper, Frances Dee, Carole Lombard, Ann Dvorak, Randolph Scott. Sally Eilers, Edwlna Booth, Raquel Torres, and Adrienne Ames. Clark Gable. Old Favourites Make Screen Come-back j Can a motion picture player come batik? The answer, in 1937, is “ yes.” Hollywood is full of comebacks, the most phenomenal of all being Jean Arthur, now under contract to parai munt. who has proved that she has Lite needed qualities in “Mr Deeds Goes To Town ” and in “ The Plainsman ” and who has more sensational roles in the future. Cast in medloore roles in a series of pictures In 1932, Miss Arthur deserted Hollywood for the stage, coming back to greater roles In motion plotures than •he had ever had before. Jean Arthur isn’t the only one who Is making good in 1937. There’s Jack Mulhall, worth more than a million dollars in 1929, retiring as a star fit that time. He’s back to-day, working in Paramount's “ Student Dootors Can’t Take Money,” with Barbara Stanwyck and Joel MoCr*»a. And that perennial comeback artist, Alan Hale, working in other Paramount productlons. Then there’s Agnes Ayres, once a •tar. now with a strong role in Paramount’s “ Souls at Sea,” and set for other plotures; Clara Kimball Young, ■strong in character roles; Ethel Clayton, appearing In half a dozen Paramount pictures; Janies Burke and Edmund Burns. Miss Arthur is the exception. She has gone higher than she ever went before. A Rare British Epic. “The Great Barrier,” G.B.D.’s outetandlng British Empire epic attraction which supersedes Rhodes of Africa,” the first of the Epic series, created quite a stir in Christchurch where it is screening with conspicuous success. It tells the notable ■story of Alan Sullivan’s popular book, “ The Great Divide,” which authentically deals with tiio tremendous romance of the vlcclsitudes passed through by the men and women concerned with the building of the Canfi«llan Pacitlo Hallway over the. Canadian Rocky Mountain Barrier, which, when completed, made possible the All-Red route from Australia and New Zealand across Canada to England. The play is alive with adventure, romance, comedy and love. The acting of Richard Arlen, Roy Emmcrton. J. Farrell McDonald, Lili Palmer, Antlonctte Collier and Barry Mackuy is described as being of the highest order. FLASHES. JJORMA TALMADGB has become a story scout for David O. Selznick. PJECIL B. and his brother, William C. De Mille have written a play called " Genius and the Model." M-G-M have bought it for ttie screen. JOAN BENNETT will spend the * summer refreshing her stage technique with & Connecticut stock company. J ORF.TTA YOUNG, Warner Baxter and Barbara Stanwyck will play in “Wife, Doctor and Nurse.” for Twentieth Century-Fox. The title tells the talc. T* \DTO have set two now pictures JV for Barbara Stanwyck. One is ’■ \ Love Like That”: the other is “They Had to Save Charlie.” The latter Is ll: ■ story of two girls who win uione;- in ,i sweepstake and set out to find husbands.