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__ THE MICHIGAN DAILY__

IICHI $N" HOLLY QOOD REPRESENTATIVES DESCRIBE
SUMMER APEN T IN MOVIE CAPITOL AS A 'VACATION'
WITH ENTE.RTaAINMENT AS CHIEF PART OF P'RO GRAM
"A wvonder ul v<aation,V as the I flew 'work in Atkronl, t0, as he' grad - the ten boys had berm ntroduced to
ay Leland . Wils-ox "'27, one of: atlast_ june, lie says nio exppcts nearly all of the"bg stars, Wilcox:
ficign's twoq cl~eprlenttivc aimong t,, go bckto HollywUood-within the; said.,-Mary Pickford entertained at a
e eicolleges gr iven a tryout at n x t WO yMrs, Den1ton, althugh hisl theater party and Mary Astor, Joan
tollywood thssNl r, descibed contract with the Mirst National std-., Crawford, Billie Dove and others gats
"I experieziawh~en interviewed OnIcexipired at the samen time as the dinner parties in honor of the groump.
Icnday. To .,:K. Denton. o3 1ther tryouts, sitayed in Hollywood Jack Muihall, Charlie Mlurray , Wal-
ichigan's other ti Ilis ulo'w work.- .ad 1;i o working; there, although lace ]Beery and a host of other Vwell,
i ; in Hollywood ar:lNdvill not r°etur-1 'n nt in the TmOVies, it is understood. known stars were all encountered and
school this yezar, it was learned 'tis was confirmed by a telegram re-; found to be quite "htuman,"' Wilcox
lnay. c ivMAd . d ly by Paul Buckley, gen- declared.
According to Wilcox, entertainnmnt c ra I nnuvr of the Unpion, fromtD-enl-I Although neither of Miichigan's rep-
layed, a big p' rt in the p 'ogram for t. 1' lhroth er. He expects to remain resentatives were among the twxogiv-1
ie sunmmer. Froml the time the stu-; in Hollywood, en second conatracts, there was little
ents arrived; in Chicag.:o andl were en-: John Woestwood,' of Princeton, and. reason for being discouraged, Wlo
rtained at the office f "College Jac-k Stsainhaugh, of Chicago, -were explained. Shortly after i cain-
turner,"' until the day Qf their de- the two youths chosen from amongl paign for new college stars war
ature from Hllywood, they were~ the college c men to continue with launched, John McCormiick, gen-
'eated royally. 1 their works at the First National stu-, eral mnanager of the Fir t Ta-
For the first two weeks after Den- dios. They were each given short, tion;al Weist Coast StuIows re-
an and Wilcox arrived in Hollywood, termi contracts to finish the muinor'signed, and Al ltockcett who replaiced
ogetlher with the 'other eightcoeg' rolos inth e pictures in which they hiw, was able to giv-e les of is;t-
nenl given the tryout, were spent in- were working, Wilcox stated, after tentdon to the experiment. For thY
oring in the -First National plcturLi-Which their future is problematical, reason a less thorough trial thian wa
rEhe Dropkick,'- starring Richard although they will have an: excellent3 expected was given.
tarthelmss oand Barbara Kent. Bar- chance to receive another contract OfW the two remaining, it, i- Wilco_',
hciness, before he weent into moving with the motion picture Company, it' personal i ininN that Jack :Stam-.
icutres, was,a student at Dartmouth.iwas said. baugthe tl;un<iversIty of Chicago Stu-
he college men were all given rminor Out of the other.- ten bgoys, n ftew, dent, has the bst chance to make.
artS in ethe icture; particularly in haive reirn'ed to their rep'ct i'-e ntd- good.
iP football scenes. 2versities, sonicfound lhollywlood quite AthIL Lee, Un '281, named as1
In "The Dropkick," Wilcox receiv- likable and tl taed tere, while others Michigan's altern ate, was notfcalledi
d one of thel',bbst opportunities of av sOa t 3 nw work elsewhere, upon to tiake Part lint hc contest, sin'e,
f the finalist, a~ern~nthe final - As for' the "?Movie stars" Ithemn- Wilcox anid L)D eto N bth wreable ito
shot" at the -clijlx~a of the fOotball selves, bWore the suinmr' was over, make the trip to 1Holly vcod

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for good pictures.
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Ge=(t dependab)le Kodak Film here and return it aftrer x-
po,;ure for our qual-ity finishing.

alt the end of thie firs't wwe ace Rent a Typew r iter
however, after "The- Dropktick" wLL;
completed, the 11en1 were givenl fc w 1 By the' Month or for the Semester Your
chaInces during the rcma<inipg 51t; UNDER. WOODL, ROYAL, L. C. SMYITH, I
weeks, many diayvs not seeing;t11 h y eTemi re
lo at all, Wilcox said, Public al, - KeepThmiOre
pearances ai xl_? eature en1terta ;inmen f: R D R" E
played a'.-I g pa 't in the w ;c ly run-RIRS P N H P
tine. The :finalists in the <contest wei'o REi IRI
frequently gessat, loiliwod and
San Frncisco theateris, whtere they
were introduced to the auienices. i
Wilcox is spiending a fewv days ii-i'
Ann Arbor, pre-paratory to takig lugi_)!"~

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