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BV ROBERT TAYLOR
AS TOLD TO GLADYS HALL
ACTING is the most unstable of the professions. It and politics are the only two pursuits of man which depend solely upon public favor. In other lines of work,, you fail or are fired because you are not efficient at your job. An actor may be completely efficient at his job but, if public favor veers away from him, that efficiency counts for nothing.
The question I want to ask my fans is this: What makes a star slip? What are the contributing factors that cause a star to fall? Do you get tired of his face? Is it a question of bad stories? How much does adverse publicity have to do with it? How great an influence is the star's private life? In other words, just what is it that makes a star and just what is it that breaks him"'
Because I know my own case history best, I feel that if I can get the clue to my own toboggan, I can get the answer to the whole question. I don't know why I slipped. I know there are a dozen routine answers, but I'm not satisfied that they are the real ones
I do know just when it all began. "They" said I was
slipping before 1 went to England to make "A Yank at Oxford." The bad publicity I got in New York before 1 sailed, the "pretty boy" shrapnel they let me have was "they" said, my death-knell. But curfew did not ring that night. Because, if I'd started to slip then as disastrously as was predicted, "A Yank at Oxford" wouldn't have done the business it did
No, I skidded when I made "Stand Up and Fight," and well I knew it. Don't think we stars don't realize when we begin to wobble. We don't soar around with our heads blandly in the blue while our feet are walking the plank. Why I slipped with this picture is one of the things that confuses me. It was a good picture and brought in the shekels, yejt it was not good for me. Which seems to indicate that, for the individual actor, the play's not always "the thing." You can slip even when you have a good picture
Now it may be argued that the picture was no good for me because I played a tough guy in it — fighting with Beery, biting the dust and all that. I bet some of you said, "It's
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