Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

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He is a good-looking, noble youth who never has a wrong impulse, or a moment of human weakness. "You are chosen for the part because you more or less look that way. You dress very much as you do off the screen. You walk through the part and really 'play it straight.' "If you are supporting a woman star you have few close-ups and practically no dramatic scenes. These, naturally and rightfully, are thrown to her. There is no arguing the fact that in most silent pictures all the characters except, perhaps, the star, have been shadowy symbols. They haven't been real people. "But here is a funny thing. The moment you make a character speak, the moment you hear his voice, he becomes real. He remains no longer a shadow. He is a person. "You wait and see. After we have had talking pictures for a while you won't hear much more about 'types.' You won't hear the roles in a picture distinguished by the terms, 'hero,' 'heroine,' 'heavy' and so on. You will hear those characters called by name. Each part will have an identity of its own. And you won't have 'leading men' and 'mother types' and 'comic heavies' any more, either. You will have actors. "I don't mean that we will have men of sixty playing Romeo, as has been done on the stage sometimes. There is no need for that and it isn't practical, because of a disconcerting way the camera has of finding out your defects. People still will be chosen for certain parts partly because of physical attributes which go with certain characters. But there will be more to it than that. "Despite the augmented opportunities for experienced actors, youth will still have its place. But it will have to be talented and trained youth. As a matter of fact, any actor is a better actor in many ways in the years before he is twenty-five than he ever is again. He is more enthusiastic, more earnest, and more spontaneous than he will be when he is older. After a while acting becomes a matter »of routine. He learns the tricks and he dpesn't have to give so much of him self to put a part over. If he is smart, he studies those tricks and learns a technique which will let him be convincing in any situation, without making any violent effort. "He won't be as emotional and as spontaneous as he was in his younger days. But he will look that way. Because he knows how. And it isn't nearly so hard on him ! "While this business of screen technique versus stage training is being so much discussed and is the subject of so many experiments, I think it is interesting to observe that many people, who have had very little stage training, sound better over the microphone than people who have been legitimate actors for years. Your legitimate player is so likely to 'elocute.' "First-rate stage actors, who seldom appear outside the metropolitan centers, have taken great pains to learn to speak what they call 'pure' English — which means that they speak with a distinct British intonation. Audiences in large cities — people who are habitual theatergoers — are accustomed to that. They know that is considered the proper way and they value it accordingly. "But when you attempt to tell a story about ordinary, Middle-Western Americans — and then show the picture in the Middle West — it will sound strange to people who live there if the hero speaks like Lord Somethingorother in a formal moment. I am afraid they are going to titter ! "The ability to act is an inborn thing which can, of course, be improved by study and experience. If a chap is one of those born actors — and there are many of them — and has learned what to do with himself in front of the camera, and can develop the knack of speaking lines naturally, he won't need to study elocution ! "A stage actor is likely to sound too loud on the microphone, anyhow, because he has learned to pitch his voice for the back rows of a theater. He has things to unlearn. And the screen actor has things to learn. I think their chances are about even." Bob, it would seem, is likely. He has the knack, coupled with years of experience in both mediums. Fusing of the two should be easy for him. It is nice to see these people with real ability getting the breaks at last. It's one thing for which we can thank talking pictures, however we may feel about them as entertainment.