Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

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Scenes from all the recent photoplays. 8 x 10 photos 25c. 10 for $2.00. Send 2c. stamps or money order. Satisfaction guaranteed. 14 Valentino poses, alBO scenes from his various photoplays. S. BRA M STUDIO Film Centre, 9th Ave. & 45th, Studio 296, New York City DEALERS INVITED She Pa^s the Penalty Continued from page 43 Any Hollywood zany could serve in the roles Myrna is called upon to play. The general idea around the Warner studio seems to be "Well, here's a part, and Myrna isn't working right now, so — — -" It doesn't need profound perspicacity to recognize the Loy possibilities. I don't know if she is a good actress — no one has had a chance to find out yet. Because she is more than ordinarily intelligent, I should venture a guess that she is. Even if the contrary were true, in intelligent pictures just a series of Myrna tableaux would be sufficient to delight the aesthetic sense. But that is beside the point, which is that we assume her abilities match her beauty, and still her status is that of a program-picture cutie. Were my disposition nasty, I might make similes such as Nijinsky being hired by Western Union, because he's quick on his feet. "I have," she says, "an uncomfortable yen to do Ibsen. His women are such perfect drama, such understandable people. Also I should love to do Viking sagas — that is a field that has never been touched, and is fertile with drama and beauty "In the meantime, between now and this Utopia I spout about, I do dark-skinned ladies with bad tempers. The last few have been Vitaphone and I've raised so much Cain in them that my voice has become hoarse and tragic. "But I'm not asking for the impossible. All I ask is that a part be consistent. No part can be completely dull, if it is an accurate picture of a human being. The principal satisfaction in acting is taking a word picture of a person and making it live and breathe. Most of the roles I've had have been so appallingly inconsistent, so painfully fictitious, that nothing could be done with them. And I don't derive enough pleasure, otherwise, out of my profession to be content to just stand in front of a camera, and open my mouth and turn my head when the director tells me." She had just finished playing the famous Nubi, in "The Squall," and looked forward eagerly to the release of the picture. "It's one of those things that will be either very good, or very bad. I'm trying not to be sanguine, but with Alexander Korda directing, and such troupers as Alice Joyce and Richard Tucker and Loretta Young, it does seem promising. "At first, I was not at all anxious to do Nubi. I had seen the play, and had not liked it, and such a person as Nubi, with every male in the cast falling into a faint when she looked at him, never existed. Then I decided that since nothing could make her human, I'd try to make her symbolic— a symbol of the various suppressed desires of the men about her, and a symbol of the conflict among them, of the storm, the squall. It was the only way of injecting any reason into her, but I don't know whether or not I got it across. Maybe when the picture comes out, I'll find it's just another dark-skinned wench with bad intentions." Might I respectfully call the combined attentions of the Warner brothers to the thought and care and intelligence which their young player brings to her roles? And, just as respectfully, suggest that they do something about it then ? The idea is that bringing such intelligence to bear on roles such as "The Girl from Chicago," and "State Street Sadie" is — well, like that Nijinsky simile I tossed off so cleverly a while back. So now that I've mentioned it to the Warners, I'll sit back and see what happens. Because that is the quarter from which the change will have to come. Myrna, despite her red hair, is gentle and quiet, and not at all the volcanic type who know how to get their own way around a studio. It is the psychological moment and, after her long apprenticeship, she is all set to go. So it is only civil of the Warner brothers to let us see the lovely Loy in better, rather than bigger, pictures. She Refuses to Glitter Continued from page 104 course she was not an immigrant, nor did she wear nine petticoats, as the heroine does in the first part of the film ; but Vilma was bewildered at everything. Little by little, just as she does in "This Is Heaven," she has adapted herself to the customs and habits of the New World. You will see her playing golf, tennis and other sports. Yet she always maintains true feminine grace while doing so. No longer do you see Vilma Banky, a shy newcomer, bewildered at everything around her. To-day you meet Vilma Banky, an American and a star who refuses to glitter, but is seen all over the world.