Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

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FAMILY MAN By JACK JAMISON . 4 , On the screen Buster Keaton is a grand comedian ♦ But off-screen he is amazingly different from what you'd expect a Hollywood funny-man to be OFF the screen, Charlie Chaplin is an even more sensitive artist than on. Off the screen the Marx Brothers — outside of the time they are playing bridge — are insane. Off the screen Laurel and Hardy are wistful, El Brendel is stupid, and Charles Butterworth and Roland Young are cultured and cosmopolitan. Off the screen, Buster Keaton is normal. Buster is a normal, everyday man who happened to slide into fame on the seat of his pants. He knows it. No one will ever be able to accuse him of being high-hat. He takes no credit for anything. He got into pictures by accident. "I belonged to an organization of vaudeville 54 artists called "The White Rats." This was years ago, of course. About that time, vaudeville was taken over by the trusts. That made it plenty tough for all of us. "The White Rats" struck. I didn't want to get mixed up in the strike, so I quit vaudeville and signed up for a Winter Garden show. I happened to meet Joseph Schenck. 'Ever play in a movie, Buster?' he asks me. I told him 'Nope.' 'We're making a comedy with Fatty Arbuckle,' he says. 'Go down to the studio and play a bit in it, just to see if you like it.' That's how I got into pictures. That's all there was to it." But it goes back still further than that, Buster's falling into his profession! That's what he did — literally fell