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Here are three trial make-aps created by Walter Huston in preparation for plaj'ng Lincoln. Mr. Huston points out that his greatest resemblance to the historical character will be in the calm, intent gaze he has.
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By DOROTHY SPENSLEY
N HOLLYWOOD they say he is America's greatest
aaor.
Boy, bring up another, and when John Barryrriore rings, tell him I'm out/'
In Hollywood they say he is the foremost thespian on the stage. But really he is Scotch-Irish, born in Canada, and don't let them kid you.
David Wark Griffith, who has selected him to plav Abraham Lincoln in his four hundred and thirty-second votive offering to the Great God Motion Picture, stood beside his desk and vowed that no finer actor trod the soil of this land of the free and easy.
Clannish, you know. Hollywood's that way. But Griffith, Birth of a Nation Griffith, Clansman Griffith is not alone in his contention. A rival producer, one who thinks Ben Hecht wrote Humpty Dumpty — and he did, but not both of them — has a smart scenario editor who also says Walter Huston is America's foremost actor.
Above, an etching of the great statesman and, left, a portrait of him taken in the year 1860.
Lincoln's famous plug hat and umbrella. You may be sure his apparel will be faithfully duplicated on the screen.
Walter Huston, actor par excellence — famous on the stage for many characterizo^ tions and already well-known on the screen — will achieve unparallelled talkie fame —
THE object of all this adulation, this man who is going to bring to the talking screen his characterization of the Great Emancipator — the revered figure of American history; the gaunt, lonely man who guided America's destiny while civil strife was gnawing at her vitals — reached across the desk for another cigarette. There was something of Lincoln, Honest Abe the railsplitter, in the set of his broad shoulders; something measured and slow in the timing of that movement. Little shawl, high silk hat, Abraham Lincoln. This man reached for an Old Gold.
In New York, Walter Huston packs them in at all performances. Jt's a quaint old Manhattan custom. And has been since 1923 when he made his first Broadway ap
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