Talking Screen (Sep-Oct 1930)

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Lon Chaney finds that fame makes a fellow bashful and keeps him hiding out from the public. To Blanche Sweet, fame brings an added seriousness about life which some people are apt to dub high-hat. As for Richard Barthelmess, he seems to think that this thing called fame merely brings added responsibilities, obligations and duties. "It's a great feeling: you know you can get a check cashed in a strange town if they know who you are. It also helps get service from Pullman porters." Said Al Jolson: "I don't notice any difference except that I eat regularly," and Frank Fay added, "Now I don't mind when the first of the month rolls around.'* Warner Baxter says: "It's a funny feeling the first time you find out that the reason the papers wanted your photograph and biography is to be prepared for your death." "Do you remember how great it was going to feel when you got those roller skates you longed for?" Charles Farrell said. "And the day you first started down the sidewalk on them, you saw the boy across the street with a shiny new bicyle.'* That's how fame feels!" "Yeah!" added El Brendel, who was present. "It's a million steps to the top and just one step back to the bottom. And this ladder certainly is crowded." "You feel as though the article you bought was misrepresented," chimed in Janet Gaynor, "but you wouldn't take it to the exchange counter for anything." Marjorie White reached for her lip-stick as she gravely observed: "It's like walking on a street paved with banana peelings." Not exactly pleasant. Mary Pickford says that the sense of being famous is one of awe accompanied by deeper accountability. FAMOUS Marjorie While, perl miss, says that fame is like walking on banana peels. By DOROTHY WOOLDPUDGE Kay Johnson has found, somewhat to her surprise, that fame has made her worry over her work more than ever before. Alice White says that it's a sense of satisfaction at having done something. fame upon recognition of a single achievement, I imagine the thrill !s overwhelming. For myself, whatever degree of success ^ happened to experience was very slow in coming and full of bitter struggles and discouragements that take much of the sweetness from acmal realization. Personally, I feel bu dened with responsibility." \tary Pickford declares the sense is one of awe acconpanied by a feeling of deeper accountability, while Doug, her elebrated husband insists that a person never really know., when he is famous; the term is confused with current populanty. AIL I know about it is just what little I read in the t papers," said Will Rogers. A lot of players refuse to take seriously the weight of fame. Lftwren*,*? Tibbett, the latest and greatest addition to the talking ■ -r^n among the men, soliloquized in this fashion: And from El Brendel we hear that it's a ladder that's crowded — and easy to fall off. Clara Bow tried to tell it all in fourteen words. Said the red-headed "IT" girl: "In the beginning, it is thrilling. Later, it's like living in a glass house." TO WHICH Nancy Carroll, another Paramount star added: "It's a warm sense of discomfort." And Margaret Livingston said: "You have to look better, guard your actions and live'as though every eye in the world were focused upon you. There is a censorship on everything you do." "I don't get the thrill out of it I used to think I would," said Alice White, "but it's rather a sense of satisfaction in accomplishing something. Most girls who read stories about 65