Asides - Down the Garden Path

I recently acquired a copy of College Humor and Sense magazine, the June 1933 issue. I was intrigued by the art and the cover story, "All-American Girl Contest for Movie Stardom." The magazine was aimed primarily at college coed's and contained columns like Campus Beauty and Fame, Collegians, Majoring in Fashion, etc. The contest is shown on a two page spread and begins by asking "How do you know you're not the next Garbo? Or Hepburn? That you can't win fame and fortune on the screen?"

All that is really promised is "$100 a week, for at least four weeks. All expenses paid to and from Hollywood." Wow.

Cover art by Jefferson Machamer

The rules and regulations

Does fame and fortune await this blindfolded miss?


And now the reality.

In the same issue, Margaret McConnell is featured as a Kappa from Indiana University, now with M-G-M in Hollywood. A look at her career reveals the following: Two films, the first indeed for M-G-M as an uncredited chorus girl in Dancing Lady (1933), and the second in Superior Pictures Million Dollar Haul (1935), starring Tarzan the police dog.
So much for fame and fortune. I wonder how many went down this garden path.