Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

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(Continued from page 50) "Gee, Dorothy," he said enthusiastically, "I've had some great breaks in my last couple of pictures — not only in the good parts I have had to play but in the opportunity they've given me to travel around and see the world. The Marines have nothing on the movies for covering territory." You can imagine what that must have meant to a kid who might never have seen those far-famed and expensive locales if it hadn't been for the movies. "New York was a revelation to me. I stood around and gawked at the tall buildings just like the proverbial hick. Believe me, I didn't let any chance go by to see everything there was to see. I went up in the arm of the Statue of Liberty and I rode up to the top of the Woolworth Building. One day I hired a taxi and rode all through Central Park. But most of the time I just walked around. Those taxis went so darn fast I was afraid I would miss something. They're cheap, though, aren't they ?" observed Nick, who comes from a place where taxis are higher than orchids. "You can ride all over New York for fifty cents. The rest of the things are so high I guess they have to have something cheap there. "I met the Honorable James Walker at a charity ball there and after talking to him a little while it wasn't Hard to understand why the New Yorkers call their mayor, 'Jimmy.' He's one prince of a fellow and seemed awfully interested in the movies." Talking to the Mayor of New York — and only a couple of years back he was doing odd jobs in Hollywood. Hey! Hey! And on my sets, too ! I thought of my own recent trip to New York. I hadn't met the mayor. You can bet your savings account on that. "Palm Beach was mighty nice, too," went on Nick, in the manner of Burton Holmes. "While we were there I had lunch with Gene Tunney and while I had read about what a nice, quiet fellow he is, even so I wasn't prepared for his shyness. I think a lot of people mistake Tunney 's quietness for the high-hat, which it isn't at all. He hasn't Dempsey's happy faculty for glad-handing everybody, but some people just can't do that — and I think Gene Tunney is one of them. "I saw him around on the beach in his bathing suit often and I was a little surprised at his physique. He isn't as muscular as I imagined a champion would be, but maybe that was because he was out of training." But to get along with Nick's travelogue, he found Havana a slightly dirty place of narrow streets that is worse than Paris in the practice of gypping tourists. "The only thing they give away free in Havana is the beer," he commented. "Those free-beer gardens down there fascinated me. These gardens are very picturesque— and you can sit there as long as you like and drink all the beer you want — free of charge. "But the thing that got me most about Havana was the graveyard! Talk about gypping — why, they even gyp the dead down there if they haven't money to keep up their payments on their lots in the graveyard. Here is the way they do : they bury all the dead and keep them buried if their families have the money to buy the grave lot. But in case they haven't the money, they dig them up several months later and make way for some other body that can afford the resting place. The bones of the others are tossed together in a huge iron vault-like thing in the center of the cemetery. This seemed almost heathenish to me. But at that it was kinda interesting to find out how the other half of the world lives. "It's almost all settled that Sally Phipps and I are going to Europe to make a picture, sort of a sequel to 'The News Parade' called 'Touring Through Europe,' " Nick wound up our little talk. 116