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Lew Cody breakfasts and comments upon the characteristics of the "Beloved Cheater" type of character, which he so admirably portrays.
By Gordon Gassaway
'villains' or 'vamps' do you meet in everyday life? I have never known any." He gathered the loose folds of his gorgeous purple silk dressing gown, luxury in every line, more closely about him, and tilted back in his chair, lighting a fresh straw-tipped cigarette.
"It may be that I have been successful in evolving a more true-to-life portrayal of what the public has for years considered the 'villain in the play' — and maybe not. Some disagree.
"On the stage, and for a long time on the screen, characters were portrayed, not as they are, but as the public had been taught to expect them. The alleged 'villain' was everything bad and nothing good. The 'hero' was everything good and nothing bad. There was no 'in-between.' But they were not the real sort of people that we meet in drawing-rooms or at a dance.
"Every one of us has known men who were a little good — and quite a little bad. Most women have known men who were thoroughly bad, according to the moral law — and they were also fascinating. But this 'little devil' which I have started to portray, and which I shall continue to develop, is never unfairly 'bad,' nor is he 'bad' outside his own stratum of society, whatever stratum that may happen to be.
His work in the De Mille productions slated him for stardom.
You remember him in "Don't Change Your Husband."
"He is a diplomat with a quick wit, and he has it all over the 'hero' in that. He does not 'ruin' young girls. His little red address book is not an index of ruinable innocence — it is rather a 'blue book' of sparkling society ladies who are willing to 'play the game.' But please remember that he is not a pretender, and, above all, he does not pretend to be good!"
Chow Wee, the gray-haired factotum of the Cody household, indicated that it was time we moved if he was ever going to get any work done around there, and so Lew in his sandals and with his pantherlike grace — with him, one has a feeling of being in the presence of a strong, coiled spring — again took the lead and the "little devil" was resumed in front of the fire, away from the temptations of the Hollywood view.
Some way, I couldn't help thinking in sitting there, with the open case of Continued on page 84