Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

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In many cases I pay half their salaries to keep them working so that I may watch them develop — if they do. Show something — if they can. They seldom can. "I believe it has something to do with the fact that the European women are trained, are brought up to please men. It shows on the screen. They do please them. In America the women are trained to be pleased. That shows, too. "The Europeans have more fire — that Continental fire. They are more finished. They seem to have more intelligence; that subtle something." "Can't you," I said, "tell me how you make these discoveries. How you know that you are right? " " Can you tell me," parried Mr. Goldwyn, "how you know when you have written a great story. Can you tell me how you do it?" I couldn't — but not for the reason he implied. "There is just something," Mr. Goldwyn said — and the nearest he came to being specific was when he said, "I look into their eyes." He discovered Lili Damita in Paris. Saw her in a restaurant one night. Her pictures, the few he saw, were pretty bad. He would never have chosen her on the strength of them. But when he had talked for half an hour to the golden-haired, brown-eyed, svelte Parisienne, he knew that he had found the ideal running mate for Ronald Colman. She had that something of which star-stuff is made. It isn't nameable. Walter Byron came to see him in London, sent by Ronald Colman. A youngish looking man, clean-shaven, with a pair of eyes. Oh, yes, girls, a pair of eyes, certainly! Mr. Goldwyn surveyed him. " I wonder," he said, "how you would look with a mustache?" Walter Byron, who must believe in the parable of the virgins with trimmed lamps, immediately produced a mustache from a vest pocket and tried it on. Mr. Goldwyn immediately signed him on the dotted line. He brought him to America and had tests made. They were very bad. He hadn't found the right lighting, the right make-up, the right angles. It was a question of further experimentation. In one of his projection-rooms Mr. Goldwyn showed me the first tests. I had to admit that he was, even then, a charming young man — but you could take him or leave him. That is, if you were not Sam Goldwyn. Then he had the later tests shown and a few rushes from "The Awakening," the first BankyByron production. And lo, a man had been made! A star had been made! The Goldwyn touch had evolved a heart-breaker, consummate, sophisticated, fiery and debonair. You won't have to watch for Walter Byron, girls, he will crash into your dreams and undo you. The Lili Damita tests were not ready for showing. Mr. Goldwyn explained that they have, in Europe, different methods. Pictures cost far less over there. Twenty to twenty-five thousand is a goodly sum. Mr. Goldwyn has spent hours and days with Lili Damita. There have been moments when he has been on the thin edge of sending her back. Moments when she was on the thin edge of going 106