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GLORIA JORDAN, 21. luckier than many crowl players: she lives with her parents at Her- don, is assured of board and lodging whether the telephone rings with a call to the studle or not. It's a hard world." sbd says, and adds doubtfully, "I suppose I'd Uke to do parts. become a star. but such a lot depends on luck."

LONDON..

CROWD PLAYER JEAN : RICE (daughter of Erais Rice, ane-line British and European light-weight champion) plays a night-club hostess in Armchair Detective. relaxes in the studio's small" paved garden between takes. She does' only occasional film work, is married to a physlo- therapist.

THE word "extras" is taboo nowadays in the film world. It has been superseded by the phrase change in

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GEORGE WILSON, 97, in the oldest member of the Flim Artistes Association. He lives in Chiswick and was in business in Hire West Ent unil a few years ago. The only aspect of the job he doesn't like to having to get up at Bro in the morning to siwwer a studlo call

BILLY WILMOTT borrowed the spectacular io to lend uttmosphere to his sply part as a crowd player in a night-club scene. He AAYA: “IL Would be very hard to live on this work Alone Isubsidise myself by ringing engagements."

HEREDITY

Why are blondes dumb-and fat

girls jolly?

F human beings in real swarthy skins and heavy black life were like charac. eyebrows? Again, perhaps, bes tera in fiction, we could cause black. connotes mystery, death; sinistar Influences; or also Imake these assertions:--- because the type was that of the ALL FAT PEOPLE foreigner who differed radically are folly.

from prevalling native stock.

the preve ALL BLONDE WOMEN I is human to view strangers with suspicion, and we dare say are dumb and frivolous that antong many black-haired, ALL MEN WITH swarthy people the villains

HIGH FOREHEADS are would be depicted as blond and Intellectual; those with light-skinned...

It would not be hard to find receding chins are timid

the allegorical roots for other wishy-washies.

feature connotations: close-

But aro there actually together eyes as supposedly in-

such correlations?

dicating "closeness,"

A girl blonde, Bluz-eyed, wide-spart

beautiful. Dots a certain tem~

"frankness"

aves

smalt eyes,

ness

"rat-

perament or personality go with iness," "slyness" a sharp, thin that combination? Or is it that nose, "sharpness," "meanness"

her beauty

evõites "responses

Д

Ewitch tend to mould personality? ness,"

protruding chin, "forward-

"bravery" a reced-

She has continually to act the ing chin, timidity." Frola of being

being beautiful, and mayChin want

ទ

off

elevated into positions which

beyond her capacities. A wrong way":

whole cluster of special person-

alty traits may result. The mis-

the

Unfortimately, though, what

-chor-

take would lie in assuming that people think certain features are

rends of heredity which pro- supposed to Indicate has duce looks niso produce porsan- mous effects on their social re Hallitos.

lationships and their own pr

Consider the very tall girl. sonalities. She must begin dressing as a woman before her friends do,

Then the man problem comes along. The talt gli encounters almenky in finding dancing part- nars, boy friends, or mates. She tends to become retiring and reserved.

Very small girls, on the other

hand

moze

tend to develop quite dif- ferent traits. In buying clothes They must patronize the juntor- misses or even children's de- partments.

People constantly jest about

their "pint size. They're expec-

WHY

Jou are WHAT

'moukare

A leading businessman, who

cd to act "cute. These and ather has a chin which recedes so far

factors may malte the small giri. It might almost be mistaken for high-spirited, is Adam's apple, told a gather-

:,

trunk

The

ing of sales exccutives how he had to battle constantly to over "fac girl, alway arget for picasantries. may build come prejudices against his looks, up a defence by being the first and to sell" not only others bus to laugh at herself. A parties wasn't a wealding.

himself en

he big. girls of dress Ar

Acting on

theory that "dikdy" costumes, just as do the stas ladies" in sideshows.

criminals many

may have ba- Never feeling quite at case, it deformities, Dr John F. Pick and como anti-social througle facial Isn't surprising that fat gifs as several other plastic surgeons

olass develop a number of special personally trails..

About the

| homoly girl.

idea; that

the

have been performing, faolal operations on convicts before release, and have rep

reported that much higher than average number of these men have sub-

sequently gone straight.

The effects of extreme home-A logic inference, then, iluces for what is to regarded) would be that, where facial and In a

girl should be obvious physical abnormalities are in- The indecence of men, the herited, certain personality traits with them, lower than on the day of my sendessending aliuds of other might easily develop wif

women, the greater difficulty in though only environmentally. Anding jobs and making a place So much for costalny kinds of may well boks that alter. Behaviou, But

visit.

An for herself in devez of there is also a reverse process.

оп

What are the rewards? ordinary crowd player gots £2nccount for the

Varicus kinds 2.5 a day (a maximum nine-hour certain personally

of behaviour, in- day on Mondays, Tucedays and most people confuse the eluding habits of

of occupation and Thursdays, 014 hours on resentfulnces, the "ouchiness," living, have specific effects Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays the anti-secial ailitude often dis- looks, ranging from the shaping name is signifi- studio than the daily telephere and "declared holidays").

The

played by hamely

giris

with and posture of the body down to call to the Film Casting Associa- night rate is £2 16s, and the rate something basis in their make characteristle movements, facial tion, which, since the war, for Sundays and holidays £4 45.Up.

cxpressions "attd munnerisms. dif. largely taken the place of the Overtime is paid at the rate of Very thort men, Hike very Many of these effects come represents the

who used ogerlis ference between the days studios with crowd players."

to supply 5s, an hour by day, Os. 6d. by small giris, tend also to be over through

scientists call night and 12 on holidays and sensitive and cager to dominat "muscle toning," the manner in when anyone might pick up

Sundays.

Very handsome men, to whom which diferent sels of muscles a sovereign or two for "più

In their many things come too easily, become conditioned of m people Many money" by a few days' work FAAS lists, therefore, could not

The stand-in's rate (for they may

may often he ne'er-do-wells, working through reprated usage. come under the FAA too) is But it is wrong to think that a Heredity and at studio, and today, live on their present-day earn-

£2 10s. a day and he may earn child who inherits genes (or crowd-player's pay as well. Allseeds of heredity which cause your intelligence take other joba, preferring thoce

these figures of course represent thim to look like his father will Tho

minimum rates.

automatically

to act grow up pantomime season is a help in

like his father. winter, convert-party and ica- side musle-hall in the summer Alany of the girls do modelling, some revert to being housewives when there are no studio calls.

#

an the

when no one is allowed on ings from the studios, They the floor of a set unless he led to the film world. can produce a union card.

supply

Then there are extres (in the

permitted sense of the word) for * How looks

(m)

General conclusions

We can draw are that heredity is cer tainly a potent factor in shing personality (cavicamental in flueners, of course, also being meals when a film is shot location (breakfast 25. Bi.. are looked at

taken for granted) and the luncheon or dinner 33, 6d.); for providing your own dresi sult

Genes of all kinds may be in general bellef among psycholo

In the gists is that hereditary influence's (£1) or for doubling for a starherited independently.

very same family, iwo Indi- may be graded in this way: or featured player.

viduals, who received many of Most likely to be influenced the same "feature" genes, may by heredity: Basic abilities, such yet have entirely different gene as intelligence, speed of reaction, combinations for intelligence and motor If the crowd player is lucky behaviour.

tion, ele sensory discrimina- enough to speak a line there is

Moreover, the effects of look by heredity:

Less likely to be influenced extra payment of 10s, for up to pon personality.

Teniperamental largely ore 10 words (15), if he wont governed by how the looks are traits, such as emotionality, in a foreign language), £1 for regarded.

alternation or evenness of mood, II-20 words and £5 for more

activity For Consider our girl types again. Least likely to be influenced than 20 words, which is reckoned If cu: very tall girl found her-

lethargy

as a 'bit" part.

All crowd plasters over 16- years-old must belang 1a e Film Artistes Association (en- rance fee £1 134. dus 35, a

What are the qualifications for month and such levies as the a crowd player? They must committee may impoe the last pass an FAA scicelion committee of 15. a month was in 1938). At and satisfy it about their com- present the union has 1250 petency. They need patience members; it is permitted to re-and optimisin. Bu eruit up to 1700 but the figure 'ckéeeds demand.. is held lower because of the bad umes

the industry is posting

I called at Mr O'Byrne's through.

offices, of Regent Street, when the selection committee of the Even, as it is: "To keep all our union were Interviewing appit members reasonably fully cm-

cants. There were more than ployed the studios would need to 40 men and giria qucusing in the

self in a society of uniformly by heredity (if at all): Attitudes, makse 80 pictures a year," says corridors of the offices and splif

tall

would people, sho

no stylistic traits, beliefs, values But the total is not very cut longer be maladjusted.

and other such characteristice in he union's acting secretary, Mr Las over into the street, They The chamze of being singled out

Ing

which training or conditioning Oby O'Byrne, himself a former, 50 scomed

way fat girls are clearly 103, the cheerful and for stardom E exceedingly

major factors, But. crowd and small-part player!

supremely confiden.. But only remoto, haurh reteral of duly regarded depends on where they are for 1gr the present we can only live. In many parts of An independent opinion in that seven (at whom three were old stors were once in the crowd, and world-in rome countries of the ammmal passonniity/traits' Just as · teazume that there are gents for the calm of

mess Orient and

in certain African heavy, for one niest always be tribes the plumpest women are

there are tice for other aspects. presentably turned ou! when

considered the most glamorous.

human make-up and function- imawering a call.

Why have cur traditional stage. Inge

story villains" been de-

30-35 pleteres of the type that

members rejoining) were cepted for membership.

might need crowd players may ba made this year; and as things are, many crowd players may Every week this ccone is o a month or even months with repeated, and ofan enough the out getting any nearer to a percentage of acceptances lo

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