Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

Advertising Section Spanish — xtfith English Reserve Continued on page 74 That, surely, is an original idea. I've heard actors compared with many things, but never before with an humble turtle. It is a descriptive simile, and just the sort of remark one would expect from this very conservative and polite actor. "When I heard they were casting 'Seventh Heaven' at the Fox studio," said he, "I went to see if they would consider me for the role of Chico. While I was looking for the casting director, I met Charlie Farrell, who was then playing in another picture. He took me to the director, and recommended me for the part. There was some delay in starting the picture, and meantime Charlie had finished the one he was making. In the end, they gave him the part he had tried to get for me. " 'Drums of Love' did more for me than any picture I have yet made. I also have a good part in 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey.' " "Why didn't they let you play both twins?" I wanted to know. "If I had played both, I would have been the star of the picture, and that wouldn't do. More than that, it is very difficult and expensive to have an actor play two parts. I would have had to enact one charagter, while the director timed each gesture by counting. Then I would have had to get on the other side of the dividing line, and make the gestures of the other character synchronize. "Lily Damita is going to be a sensation in this picture. She looks like a real, old-fashioned beauty, a charmer from out of the past." He pronounced the word "beauty" with considerable feeling. The chief trouble in trying to get a story about Don is that he continually talks about the people he likes, and the people who have been kind to him, instead of talking about Don Alvarado. I ask you, what is one to do in such a situation ? Where were those flapdoodle ideas I had expected to unearth? When I finally insisted that he tell me about himself, he thought for a moment, then, after counting on his fingers, announced that he had five sisters. "Last summer," he said, showing more interest than formerly, "I sent for my mother to come and visit me. She had never been out of New Mexico, so you can imagine what a thrill it was for her. My father couldn't come last year, but this summer I intend to have them both visit me. "All my ancestors have been just good, ordinary people. None of them were rich or famous. My father is in the cattle business. At home we all spoke Spanish, and I am wondering if my English is good enough for talking pictures. I surely hope so, for I want very much to make one." Another thing he wants to do is to change his name, for he does not like the one given him by the Warners. Did I think it was a good idea? I didn't think it was a good idea, and said so. His present name is now well known to the public, and a change undoubtedly would cause much confusion. Still, I may be wrong in this matter. What do you think? Don would be glad if you would write and tell him your opinion. Just one thing more — he is married. "Old Clothes! Old Clo ^3S • Continued from page 32 carefully preserved from his cinema infancy the cantor's robes from "The Jazz Singer." Harold Lloyd has many mementos of the past — the abbreviated mustache he wore in his first comedy characterization, Lonesome Luke, and the first pair of horn-rimmed spectacles. Charlie Chaplin is another sentimentalist. Wrapped in tissue paper in the trunk upstairs, are not his baby shoes, but the first pair of elongated footwear that made his fans roar. It was recently proved that others besides himself are interested in such relics, for these celebrated boots were borrowed by Symon Gould as a display to the public when the Film Guild Cinema was opened. 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