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Excerpt from The Screen Guilds' Magazine, Vol. 1: September 1934 As a pastime she learns plays - not a side or two, the whole thing, from first to final curtain. A quick study. It comes of being in stock - one of the fea tures of stock-trained actresses and ao tors lost forever, according to Jeanne Houghton, who bemoans the fact. Where can you get such training? A play each week - possibly two a week all the best plays, all the roles, good and bad what training! Born in Virginia, she made her debut in Richmond at the age of four. And early in her 'teens took up mummery as a profession. In slack periods she studied at schools of dramatic art, and dancing, riding and well, all the things, in cluding voice, which might help her grasp of this subtle art of acting. Curiously - like the irony found in story books, and still more often in life having prepared herself as a dramatic actress and having specialized, so to speak, in illusive pathos, Miss Hough ton 's debut on the screen was in a Mack Sennett short. That was good training, too. She likes Hollywood, likes the screen never tires of watching those who have attained stardom acting before their severest critic and best friend the camera. The big opportunity will come, and she will be prepared to grasp it. In the meantime, it delights her to speak a line or two, or to be among the voiceless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to prese