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30 Picture Show Annual Adolphe Menjou has a half-cynical. If-humorous tlook on life. Getting, There and Keeping, There Distinct Types that are Popular DOUGLAS Fairbanks once remarked during a dis- cussion of the popularity of film stars, " It's hard to get there, but I'm not so sure that it's not a still harder job to keep there." The genial Doug, with all his love of life and keen zest of fun (which is as natural to him off the screen as on), is a shrewd man of the world and a good authority on the many problems of his own profession, and he voiced the opinion of most of the stars when he made that remark. His own grip on the affections of the picture-going public is as secure as that of any other famous star, but in that talk I had with him he confessed that when he made his break into romantic drama he knew he was making a big plunge. Douglas Fairbanks' career hung in the balance when he appeared as D Artagnan in " The Three Musketeers." It was the parting of the ways with him. He was shedding the old Fairbanks type of play, and nobody knew whether the public would like the new kind. That they did, and liked it better than the old, is now history. Doug had faith and courage, and he deserved his reward. The truth is that the average cinema star who has got there can only keep there by sticking to type. It may be bad art, but it is good business—and, what is more, the public demand it. Ricardo Coriez is the romantic looer. A scene icith Florence Vidor in " The Eagle of the Sea. Novella