GERTRUDE OLMSTED is another player who was started on the road to stardom
by winning a beauty contest. Miss Olmsted was the winner of the Elks-Herald-Examiner
Beauty Contest of Chicago, conducted immediately after she graduated from
high school in La Salle, Indiana.
Miss Olmsted won her honors as a striking screen type of beauty. This
rare beauty that gave Miss Olmsted her start in pictures has made for her
increased success in succeeding productions. Hers is not a cold, classic
beauty, but an unusually warm and breathing beauty.
Miss Olmsted has chestnut brown hair and gray-blue eyes. Her complexion
is fair. She is five feet two inches tall and weighs 110 pounds. She is
a typical American girl type in appearance. She is a devotee of dancing,
and the two sports which claim her enthusiasm are golf and tennis. She is
a great reader and her favorite books among prose authors are Hall Caine's
"The Christian," and Bulwer Lytton's "The Last Days of Pompeii."
Among the poets she admires most the English master, William Wordsworth,
and the Hoosier poet of America, James Whitcomb Riley. Miss Olmsted's histrionic
ability is not inherited, as her parents were not theatrical people. She
states that her great ambition is a "dim and dark secret, but worth
while." Universal features in which Miss Olmsted has played leads or
ingenues are: "Tipped Off," "The Drifting Kid," "A
Key Too Many." "Fighting Fury," "Three in a Thousand,"
Neely Edwards' comedies and "The Lone Hand."
In these feature pictures Miss Olmsted has acted in support of the screen's
most prominent male stars, among whom were: Hoot Gibson, Herbert Rawlinson,
Frank Mayo and others. But it is predicted that the producing company under
which she is signed will soon be looking about for stories especially suited
to Miss Olmsted's personality, for starring purposes.
Miss Olmsted lives in a Hollywood bungalow with her mother. |