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

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theatre and watch the great of that day perform. He even went so far as to confide his great desire to his father. Here was the first obstacle! His father was dead-set against any member of his family becoming an actor. He went so far as to warn his son that should he ever so much as set foot on a stage he would be thrown out of his home and left to shift for himself. He battled this out with himself mentally during his youth. His dream and the wishes of his father were so diagonally opposed to one another that he never forced himself to come to a definite conclusion until a few years later. Came the World War. He happened at the time of its outbreak to be serving in the army. It is the law of his country that each young man must spend a year in military training . . . and Paul had chosen this time as the best. Thus he was immediately transf erred to an active company and sent to the front. He was wounded and sent to the And now Paul Lukas is being starred on the Paramount lot. His latest picture for them is "The Beloved Bachelor" (below), Vivienne Osborne and Guy Oliver with him. (Right) As he appears in "Strictly Dishonorable," for which Universal borrowed him. Photograph by Freulich hospital within a few weeks after his arrival at the front lines. When he had fully recovered, he asked to be placed in the aviation corps and soon he was flying for his country. After a year in that branch of the service he was wounded again . . . this time much more severely. By the time he had partially regained his health the high officials granted him a year's absence from actual duty. He went immediately to his old home. A few days of thought brought him to a sudden conclusion : that he might be sent back into the service at the end of the year's leave — and that he might never return ! This year then was the time for him to work out his life's greatest desire. He must try for the stage now! His father no sooner heard of his plan than he ordered him from the house with the command to stay away until he had come to his senses. So Paul Lukas took the few dollars that remained of his last army pay and boarded the train for Budapest. He gave himself less than a year to accomplish the impossible when he first started ! Is it any wonder that he was willing to try the {Continued on page 109) 61