Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

116 | Ohe | Best Magazine | | for the Girl j of To-da$> | I MODERN | I GIRL | 1 STORIES | | Vivid LoVe | | Stories and | | Adventures 1 | of Present | | da$ Girls | I | | On Sale on tKe % | First Friday of I | Every Month | 1 Buy it Now! ( Advertising Section Jack — As He Is Continued from page 34 thinks that romance is just as real among everyday people as it is when ornamented by dinner coats and diamonds. And, for himself, he finds it most interesting. Chaplin and Fairbanks are his idols. He considers Fairbanks a tremendous force for good, and believes that his pictures spread a sound philosophy more widely and more beautifully than all the works of Epictetus, Homer, et al. Off a picture, Jack's time is divided between the ocean and the golf course. He swims magnificently. His golf game, though energetic, is quite bad. He claims that the only way he could burn up a course would be with a can of kerosene. But the game is his passion, and he continues to enjoy it blithely. The one flaw in his inherent gentleness is the unappeased desire to kill those persons who wisecrack while some one is making a putt. He has several distinguished relatives— doctors and lawyers. These do not figure frequently in his conversation, but no one can know Jack for two days that he doesn't tell, with ill-concealed pride, about his brother Eddie who is engineer of the Wall Street Special, which runs between Tuxedo and New York, and who has the bronze nameplate on his engine which is the recognition of ten years' faithful service. He doesn't talk about "his books." His favorite reading is periodicals — Life, Judge, College Humor, The New Yorker, and Time, for which he discarded newspapers. His one highbrow weakness, to which he admits guardedly lest it appear an affectation, is paintings. Fine pictures reduce him to awe. Could he afford to indulge in such an expensive hobby, he would go in for serious collecting. His knowledge of painting and painters is extensive. He would like to be able to wield a brush, but cannot draw a straight line. He thinks that education in the arts should be compulsory in Ameri can schools, as it is in Europe. He thinks that it is a mistake for the educational system here to concentrate on turning out good business men, the pupils thereby missing some of the greatest elements in life. His eleven-year-old son shows promise of becoming a remarkable pianist. He has given recitals in Los Angeles, and is already famous among men who never heard of Jack. Jack is introduced as "John Mulhall's father," and glows with pride. He likes well-made clothes, and has patronized one tailor for years. He always manages to look well-turnedout, without resembling a Boulevard fashion plate. His wife is one of the best-dressed femmes in Hollywood and together they make a stunning appearance at openings and restaurants. He likes dogs and his idea of heaven is a place quite overrun with Aberdeens and wire-haired terriers. He also likes football, and after a game, is amused by the recollection of his collegiate, noisy abandon. He does not, on the other hand, like talking pictures, except when used for comedy, with long intervals of music and singing. But he is still open to argument, as the process improves, and is doing his second dialogue picture. The first he did fifteen years ago, when Edison was experimenting with records. He likes California, but tires of the serenity of the climate. He likes to travel, and during his later boyhood took every cent he had made and went to Europe. There he reveled in the old towns and unfrequented byways until he was broke, and then worked his way back by shoveling coal on a tramp steamer. While he enjoys Europe and European customs, it is only as a spectator. America is his country, and he genuinely loves it — in spite of, he says, evangelists and Prohibition. Which is fitting, for if there is in this polyglot land such a thing as a hundred per cent American, Jack is it. MARRIAGE PACT Curly locks, curly locks, Will you be mine ? You shall not wash dishes Nor stay home and pine. We'll go to the movies, Have dinner, and then, If you wish, we shall go To the movies again ! Blaine C. Bigler.