Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

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B I g ■ g Address ■ B I B Employed by ™ flBBsaBSBBDanBBBaaaaaaaHaB LEARN the BANJ0rt>f under Harry Reser theWorlds Greatest Banjois The Famous Leader of the widely broadcasted Clicquot Club Eskimos offers you an amazingly simple, new Banjo course by mail which anyone, even without musical bent, can master at home in a few spare hours. Positively the only method of home learning thru which a person of ordinary intelligence may become a Banjoist. Each lesson easy to understand. The course is in 5 units of 4 lessons each. SEND NO MONEYPAY AS YOU LEARN No restrictions! No conditions! Take as few or as many units as you wish. Send your name for explanatory booklet, "evidence," testimonials, etc. A postal will do. Harry Reser's International Banjo Studio No. 8 148 West 46th Street, New York, N. Y. J) "Ver? Well, Sir" Continued from page 83 Charles Green, the dean of butlers, died last year after having played nearly a hundred roles. He was butler at one time to the late Queen Victoria, to the Duke of Cambridge, the Maharajah of Lahore, King Edward VII., Grand Duke Michael of Russia, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, and so on. He was the most widely known technical adviser on etiquette in Hollywood. The screen butlers earn more money than butlers in real life if they know their stuff. Also the maids who know etiquette earn more than the average housemaids. • A story is going the rounds in Hollywood about a star, who had a tiff with her maid on the day when she had invited a dozen friends for bridge. When the maid walked out, the actress called up an employment bureau and related her predicament. "I want some one," she explained, "who will prepare and serve sandwiches, a bit of punch, some cake and ice cream. If she does well, I may have steady employment for her." The maid came — a middle-aged woman with a hooked nose. She carried a bag and a bundle. A frayed cape was about her shoulders, and a bird perched upon her hat. "Can you serve?" the actress asked. "Sure, Oi can!" the maid replied. "There'll be a dozen or more guests. I'll tell you when we are ready." The guests gathered. The card games were played. Then the hostess called for the refreshments to be served. The new maid did it beautifully— bringing in everything in the proper order and generally qualifying as a jewel. She refilled the glasses, replenished the dishes of salted almonds, placed ash trays for those who had elected to smoke. "She is a darling," exulted the hostess, "and I'll keep her here if I can." Came time for the ice cream. The efficient, careful maid heard the hostess' signal. She knew the first course had been served to the satisfaction of her employer, because the star smiled sweetly over the way the servant had performed her task. But a moment later the ship was wrecked. The card party — so far as the hostess was concerned — went down in deep water. Because? Well, because the glorious new maid poked her head through the kitchen door and shouted, "Everybody, stack plates !" If Phyllis Haver reads this story she will never speak to me again, because I don't think she wanted me to tell. Anyway, Phyllis, it wasn't your fault. HoW a Star is Mad< Continued from page 96 mental simplicity is more human than mental facility. "Nobody since Griffith has changed the business so greatly as Murriau. With two pictures he has exerted a tremendous influence. Lucky is your Susie if she can learn his minute detail. You can tell from a comparatively new player's work, by whom she has been directed. Fortunate is Susie if she acquires some of James Cruze's humanness, or Frank Borzage's sentiment. King Vidor has the American understanding. He knows the average man's psychology. Lubitsch teaches subtlety. Griffith shapes raw personality into the replica of an image he has created in his own mind. "But if Susie has a poor director, or one who will not take the time to crush those first faults, only a rare chance, and actual suffering on her part through criticism, may eventually coach her right." Susie's career must not sag after she has become a favorite. Initial success doesn't assure her of stability. Her stardom must be maintained with judicious choice of plays, clever work, publicity, a private life in keeping with her public character, and no false notes anywhere ! And after all these factors have contributed to her success, it is up to the public. All these stages of progress, all Susie's tears of failure and whoops of joy are meaningless unless the fans approve of her. With the vast resources of the studios back of her, she will have failed, unless you fans have liked and boosted her. Thus you see, Susie, stardom is a far cry from mere chance, with the many factors in the process besides a pretty face, or pleasing personality. If you must have your try in pictures, start facing the facts. But if, as one out of a thousand, you do achieve success, Susie — may I interview you for Picture Play?