Holubar

Plaintiff, a California corporation engaged in the business of acting as a broker or agent for actors and others engaged in the business of producing motion pictures, sued the defendant for two thousand dollars for services alleged to have been rendered in that capacity for the benefit of the defendant Dorothy. Holubar, also known as Dorothy Phillips. The other defendant, Allen Holubar, who was sued as the husband of Dorothy Holubar, died during the pendency of the action and the suit was as to him dismissed. Judgment went against the plaintiff, from which it has appealed on a typewritten record.

The action is based upon the ground that the plaintiff, at the special instance and request of the defendant, acted as a broker for the defendant in procuring for her a professional engagement as an actress with the Principal Pictures Corporation, a corporation which was engaged in the business of producing motion pictures. The trial court found that the defendant was not indebted to the plaintiff because she had not employed the plaintiff as her agent to negotiate for the engagement mentioned; that the plaintiff rendered no services in her behalf, and that the plaintiff did not procure…