Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

Advektising Section 117 A Siren is Sublimated Continued from page 46 tion to looking" the type, is my reason for playing so many vamps. These queer, overbalanced creatures, with quivering nerves and explosive temperaments, provide a sieve for my repressed feelings, without which I would probably live constantly at a tension." "Does this denial of natural, human feeling in time blunt one's capacity for emotion?" I wondered. "When, in old age, I take out my stored-up emotion to enjoy," she laughed, "I shall probably find that a lot of it isn't worth the effort. When we let ourselves, we waste our genuine feeling. We permit a lot of petty grievances to bother us. By sweeping" every bit aside that we can, for future consideration, we free ourselves of most of it. For by the time we are able to give vent to it all, without threatening these precious careers, we find that consolation has slipped up to lessen grief, and that the troubles we thought so huge have dwindled away." It sounds sensible. How few, however, have her will power ? She has the determination of a man in a figure that you associate with Du Barry, Pompadour, Lola Montez, the charmers of history, such riotous words as seductive, alluring, compel you to use them to describe that attraction which speaks so eloquently to a man, and which a woman subconsciously resents. A brief resume of a career that has had brilliant spots and then gone slumming, been revived by the independents and ushered, each time with new vigor, into the grand studios, will suffice. Journalism was her ambition during school days, with the stage alternating as a secret fascination. When her father, a Talmudist, was aiding Griffith in research work for "Intolerance," she was seen", given a role, and in time progressed. Valentino was her leading man in starring" pictures for Universal. Her fans requested that the team be made a permanent one, but her effort to persuade Universal to give Rudy a long-term contract was unsuccessful. There have been hits for Carmel — and gaps. Iras, in "Ben-Hur," "Sorrell and Son," "The Girl from Rio," vivid, striking figures, as though tapestries had sprung into life. Dominant notes, with stretches of silence bridging them. Only once has the sway of a personal emotion proven a help rather than a hindrance in her work. After a test for M.-G.-M., shielded by the dressing-room walls, she sobbed out the grief then fresh. Irving Thalberg, seeking Norma Shearer, entered the room by mistake. He saw no pretty, powdered actress, but a face cold-creamed, a head wrapped in a towel, reddened eyes, with a will behind them urging control. As a result, she was given the drab role in "Four Walls," a sympathetic but unattractive Jewish girl. The type that every poster actress and sequin vamp longs to do — and seldom can. She knows showmanship too well, however, to indulge her own desire for the purposeful yet unpicturesque roles. "The Girl from the Argentine" is an electric figure, her activities filmed in color. Shrewd in finances, clever in putting the best foot forward, writing well and composing" songs, and with an artist's appreciation of good music, Carmel loves to go places and do things. All these contacts and interests color and shade her work. To her career's most minute details and exacting" demands she gives conscientious attention. "Why not be honest?" she shrugs. "It means as much to us all. Even though" — a laugh dropped from her exclamatory eyes, riding down her long lashes and skipping off her crimson lips — "we must sacrifice the enjoyment of our own emotions !" The Strangest Interview that I was delighted to have lunched with him, but I hoped if he ever left the movies for another profession he wouldn't be so modest. "I expect to be answering questions in Picture Play for a hundred years," he retaliated. "I'm probably the only man in the movies who doesn't want to do something else. Grant Withers came down to the station to see me off when I started Continued from page 115 East, and he told me that when he gets through with pictures he's going to be a criminologist." "Well, good-by," I said, "but the next time you see Grant Withers, tell him I'm going to go him one better. If I ever leave off interviewing, I intend to become a detective, and the first thing I'm going to do is to find out something about you !" EARLE LIEOERMAN— The Muscle Builder Author of " Muscle Building,'1 "Science of Wrestling " "Secrets of Strength," "Here's Health," "Endurance," etc. How Strong Are Youf Can You Do These Things ? Lift 200 lbs. or more overhead with one arm? Bend and break a horseshoe ; tear two decks of playing cards; bend spikes; chin yourself with, one hand? CAN you do any of them? 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