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COLLEGE DEGREE NEED NOT CRAMP THEATRICAL STYLE“Ex-collegians,” Claude Binyon dis-rcovers in the May College Humor, “are sprinkled throughout show business so indiscriminately as .to cause someone with time on his hands to wonder how and why they got there. A. study of their academic training reveals that most of them intended to enter some other profession, if j they intended to enter any.“Tim McCoy went to West Point and then turned into a cowboy actor for pictures. Ed Gorman sudied for the ministry and awoke to find himself a monologist in vaudeville. Paul Whiteman, no less, once studied mining at Boulder. Richard Ringling, whose dad, John, collected considerable birdseed in the ci.’rcus game, landed in opera after several years of intensive preparation as a student of electrical engineering at Montana University.“Jules C. Stein, whose Music Corporation controls more than forty jazz bands, studied at the University of Chicago, Rush Medical College and the University of Vienna. He became an outstanding eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, only to return to the fiddle that helped pay his expenses through school.“Richard Dix rested for some time at the University of Minnesota, not thinking of much in particular, and eventually slid into pictures where • his contract calls for salary even“Considerable choice money and fame is being garnered in Hollywood by college graduates weilding the directorial megaphone, or—in the case of talking pictures—waving a silent finger. On the Warner Brothers lot five of seven directors who once said ‘yes’ to profs now have enough yes-men surrounding them to start an anvil chorus. Included are Howard Bretherton of Stanford, Lloyd Bacon of Santa Clara, Archie Mayo of Columbia, Bryan Foy of De La Salle, and Michael Curtiz all the way from Budapest U.“One of these mean persons that would grab your hat through a subway window has started a rumor that most of the big picture stars will be ruined by talking pictures, because the microphone picks up head rattles. At first it was believed that this would be a great break for college students with ambitions to enter the lithping lithograph game, as collegians (believe it or not) are supposed to know a thing or two about adverbs and how to say them. .Then it was found that the ranks of picture players already were full of college graduates who couldn’t talk despite their degrees.”GREENE’SOPELIKA, ALA.
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Auburn Plainsman
Auburn, Alabama, US
Thu, Apr 11, 1929
Page 3
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