Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

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18 All Photos by Clarence Sinclair Bull Nils Asther lives quietly, his sophistication being a state of mind that keeps him aloof from the thoughtless gayeties of Hollywood. That describes Nils Asther, who doesn't "belong" in_ the movie colony for reasons that cannot be disputed after you read what he says about it. By Walter Ramsey HE doesn't know whether he likes working in the movies or not. He really can't decide if he likes Hollywood. So Nils Asther is going home to his Sweden. No, not lor long — just long enough to slow down his new-found American speed, and look back calmly over the hectic days since he landed in New York about two years ago. Because he is tall and handsome, Hollywood took to him from the first. But because he is rather serious-minded and given to simple tastes, he couldn't quite understand Hollywood. A few of Hollywood's exponents of "make merry, for to-morrow we die" took his rather spiritual and shy aloofness to mean snobbishness. The fact that he hid away in a little home in the hills, gave basis to the rumor that possibly he didn't consider his colleagues in the movies up to his social level. And when that rumor had gone the way of all gossip, and the good-time-Charlies decided to give him another chance, it was found to the utter chagrin of all concerned that Mr. Asther's address and telephone number JR| ,were not given out except at his V-^ ater request. He was immediately stamped as a new, but strange form of actor life. But now he is thinking of leaving. While he is gone, probably just a few of his thoughts might not be amiss. He has told me, in our little talks on many occasions, the reasons why he should never quite acclimate himself. In the first place, let us understand a few things. Nils Asther is an educated young man. He would be considered, even among men \ of letters, quite a brilliant chap. We should not forget, in forming our opinions of him, that he is from a land where life is lived in a different way; where his name is known as a member of an illustrious family ; that he is from a country which has a national theater of great artistic prominence, and that Nils Asther was the youngest actor ever to be accorded the greatest honor in Sweden's artistic life — membership in a noted theater. He comes from a society into which money cannot buy entree. It is the society of Stockholm, the capital of his native land — a society that recognizes only members of known families. He is an old-world gentleman. Nils talks like an artist and boxes like a champion.