Talking Screen (Jan-Aug 1930)

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Elinor, I am sure, would have put him on the IT throne alongside Clara Bow. Bickford is probably the champion man of both stage and screen. That's one reason he is looked upon as a hero by the stronger sex of Filmtown. He's about the only man who ever worked for Cecil B. De Mille and told that personage what was what. Mr. Bickford refuses to portray the character of a coal miner wearing the clothes of a Fifth Avenue tailor's model, nor will he appear before the cameras clean-shaven and massaged when the part is that of a sailor marooned on an uninhabited island where it would be impossible to obtain a razor. 1IVE the character, be the character," > is Bickford's advice. "Otherwise, don't take the job." And Charlie goes even farther. The remark, no doubt, is original with, him, when he says: "To hell with the audience." Now don't misunderstand this blustering, titian-locked fellow. He doesn't mean it in the way you might take it. "I don't care what they think of old man Bickford so long as the folks out front are satisfied with the character whose name I bear for the particular performance," he explained. "That's my job and I've never been accused of neglecting my work, whether it was before the footlights or cameras or building bridges or shoveling coal at $17.50 a month for Uncle Sam." CHARLIE BICKFORD'S highly impressive physique and flaming hair have made him one of the most picture.sque figures in the American drama. For five years a stage star, he successfully resisted the call of motion pictures until De Mille ofi^ered him an exceptional part in Dynamite. He hadn't worked more than a week in that picture before the producers, somehow or other, managed to successfully induce him to sign a three-year contract. Bickford was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of a coflfee importer. He was educated in the Boston schools and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then he enlisted in the navy and made a cruise around the globe. Returning to America, he became an actor, although that was a question frequently disputed by his employers. Between stage jobs, he worked very successfully as a construction engineer. Charlie showed me, his face beaming, the plans and specifications from which was being constructed, at a California shipyard, his new two-masted schooner yacht. It won't be long now before the craft rides at anchor right in front of his home. And wheri, finally, he had given me every detail of the boat's design, accomodations and equipment I led him back to the subject of his sole ambition in life — whale hunting. "Oh, yes, I've been on several whale hunts off the Atlantic coast, and I'm pretty good at handling the harpoon," he said, "but they were just short trips — a month or so." At once his enthusiasm was riding high. He was like a child describing a game of marbles. IGHT now he is doing something he doesn't want to do, but he is doing it mighty well. The real reason is that he is eager to get a stakfe to do the thing he wants to do. While Charlie was working in a scene for Anna Christie, in which he plays a derelict sailor who falls in love with Greta Garbo, I sat on the set watching him. He didn't know it. "Explain him, if you can," I dared a famous director who occupied a chair next to me on the sidelines. "Why, he does things in his own way — the natural way," responded the F.D. "When he plays the character he makes it real, even if he has to punch the director in the eye, and he plays it in a way that makes the audience realize that somewhere in real life they know a fellow who is just exactly like the character he is doing." Which is the real secret of Bickford's sudden, tremendous and well-founded sue Hollywood's Famous Family Tree [Continued from page 50'] governor of New York. She has in her possession a number of heirlooms which have been handed down to her from her famous statesmen progenitor, including pewter and silver dishes, candlesticks, candlesnuffers, and pens which he used during his term of service as govern'or. VIRGINIA LEE CORBIN is descended from a princess of Holland. In 1905, John C. Corbin her paternal ancestor, financed a war of conquest for the French, being knighted as a reward. His .son went to Holland where he married Princess von Vorhees. Virginia is a direct descendant of this union. Her great-great-great-grandfather, on her mother's, side, was Colonel Garrett, and his daughter, Ann Garrett, was one of the first woman attorneys in the United States. "Virginia has been acclaimed for her success in the role of a princess in her childhood and she is noted for her wilfulness and her strong desire to handle her own affairs. Were Hollywood to compile a blue book, many famous names would be among those present. Even though the aristocrats of the talkie colony do not mention the circumstances of their birth, they have that indefinible something which stamps them as persons of background and culture. 96