PICTURE GIRLS IN LOS ANGELES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18990, 11 October 1923, Page 11

PICTURE GIRLS IN LOS ANGELES.

THE MAGNET OP THE KINEMA. <Wbom Ope Own Cohuespondent.) WELLINGTON, October 10. Mr Edwin Geach, well known in New Zealand in connection with theatrical affairs, is passing through here to Australia en route from America.. He has been to those filming centres, Hollywood and Los Angeles, and from what he saw there is little if any room there for pretty girls from New Zealand in so far as the filming of pictures is concerned. Mr Geach admits that New Zealand has a surfeit of really pretty girls. That is an admitted fact, says Mr Geach; but they should also recognise that the same conditions prevail in the United States of America, only in a larger proportion owing to the enormous population. The result is that Los Angeles is simply teeming, so to speak, with beautiful girls, attracted from all parts of the world, hoping against hope for an opening in the “movies, ’ and it has been found necessary to establish homes of refuge to shelter many of these unfortunate aspirants for fame until such time as their luck changes or they return once again to their people and sanity. New Zealand girls, inflamed with the “movie” craze, should realise that the day has long passed when a pretty face .commands success, 10-day, owing to the intense competition, one must have had stage experience, must be an accomplished athlete, able to swim, dive, row, drive, tide, and be devoid of fear, and in addition possess an artistic temperament and a “photographic” face, not necessarily pretty, but a face that will photograph beautifully. With all these attainments one thing certainly will be necessary to stand the inevitable siege, for prizes are few and the blanks many, and that is dollars, dollars, ; and more dollars.