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And After Fifteen Years of It the Buoyant Mr. Mulhall Likes Movie Acting Better Than Ever
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By Carolyn Dawson
LIKE the movies. I like acting in 'em. It may seem funny for me to say a thing like that, for I've , been in pictures fifteen years, and when you've been in this game so long you're supposed to pretend that you're bored with Hollywood and the studios ; that you're fed up with everything; that success is hollow and money brings more unhappiness than pleasure.
"But I don't feel that way, so why should I say it ? Why, in this business, you get a kick out of life every day. It's always changing, full of variety, colorful. There's a seventy-five cent word for you, colorful. As I was saying, you may be up one day and down the next — don't / know! — but just as likely, if you get any break at all, you'll be up again. It's a continuous change. You never know what's around the corner.
"And there's always something to hand you a laugh. I like to laugh, kid around and have a good time. I like people and enjoy amusing them, whether I'm being paid for it or not. I never could act the way a movie star is popularly supposed to.
"For instance, when strangers come on a set where I'm working. I don't need to tell you that there are a lot of stars in this business who refuse to meet visitors, on the set. Even have the set closed in if they see one of the studio boys coming along with a bunch of tourists in tow.
"Perhaps I'd be a grand success if I acted tempera
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mental and mysterious like that. I don't know. But I can't do it.
"Now, I've found that most visitors on a set are a little bit nervous and embarrassed. Perhaps they've just been thrown off another set. You can't tell. So I go up to them and shake hands all around. I answer any questions they ask me, tell a joke or two, and in a few minutes we're all laughing, and friendly. Having a good time."
Too Easy to Last
"LJonestly, I don't do it to boost my stock with them,
though it doesn't hurt an actor to have folks go
away saying he's a regular person. But my real reason
for being friendly with them is that I like people. I can
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