Hollywood (1942)

economics to work as an extra for $1 when he could make three as a barber. "From now on you're a three-dollara-day extra," the amused, clipped voice said. It was Charlie Chaplin, who was producing the picture. This was the turning point in his life, but, of course, it had its drawback. For that kind of money directors expected a man to work himself into the grave. Among other things, they began demanding that he climb aboard a horse. Chris-Pin had ridden wild mustangs as a boy back in Tucson. But 230 pounds is 230 pounds. Most horses don't like it. Like it or not, he did a lot of pony-pushing those next few years, playing Mexican rancheros, corpulent Latin soldiers on horseback, and honest but insolvent peons who managed somehow to be in possession of fancy Morgan horses. Mostly he played these roles for laughs. Came the year 1936 and he was virtually the Alcalde of Los Angeles' Little Mexico, veteran of lord knows how many pictures, and averaging $100 a week or more. People on Effie Street began taking their hats off to him. Didn't he own a huge 11-room house, not exactly a mansion to be sure, but a house (thanks to five wings he had added) big enough for his four married children, nine grandchildren, and any number of relatives up to twenty-two? And didn't he own the only telephone on the hill? And sign checks when he paid the milkman? Si! Si! Senor Martin was rocking along as content as could be when the afore-mentioned year 1936 rolled around. It mixed him up all over again, just as Chaplin had done when he made him a three-dollar-a-day man. What happened was that in 1936 he was handed the fattest part of his career — the role of the lazy, jovial and rollicking bandit in The Gay Desperado. He turned in such a nifty job that Darryl Zanuck remembered it for three years, so that when he decided to let Cesar Romero do a new Cisco Kid series, he promptly recalled Chris-Pin, called up his manager (who happens to be Mrs. Martin) and asked what about it? Mrs. Martin said she hadn't heard Mr. Zanuck mention price. Mr. Z. apologized, suggested $350 a week. Mrs. Martin thought $400 a week was a better deal — and for seven years, with options. Mr. Zanuck came around and the papers were signed. As a $400-a-week man (he costs five times that amount on loanout from T. C. — F.) Senor Martin is mostly the same lackadaisical fellow who took off from Tucson some thirty years ago to find a job that wouldn't kill a man off too quick. He doesn't give a whoop about billing. He doesn't hanker to play fat parts. In fact, he would just as soon the studio didn't break its neck finding him parts with such astonishing regularity: he'd prefer just idling around or maybe cleaning one of his countless revolvers in that outlandish manse of his, a modest little house before he started adding stories, wings, and partitions. Chris-Pin, in short, is sitting on top of the world and enjoying it. As he puts it: "Thees word 'worry' — wot ees she?" ■ Be Lovelier! So very Soon! Go on the CAMAY MILD-SOAP DIET ! This lovely bride, Mrs. Alfred L. Powell of New Tiork, N. Y., says: "I'm so devoted to the Camay 'Mild-Soap' Diet! I tell all my friends about this wonderful aid to loveliness." Start this exciting course in beauty care ! It's based on the advice of skin specialists-praised by lovely brides! WHISPERED praises in the moonlight —"Your skin is so lovely to look at, so delightful to touch". . . Every woman should hear these compliments. Do you? If not, then the Camay "Mild -Soap" Diet offers you a promise of new loveliness. For, unknowingly, you may be clouding the real beauty of your skin through improper cleansing. Or, like so many women failing to use a beauty soap as mild as it should be. Thousands of brides have found the key to loveliness in the Camay "MildSoap" Diet. One such bride is Mrs. Powell who says : "My skin has reacted so beautifully to the Camay 'Mild-Soap' Diet I'd never try any other beauty treatment!' Skin specialists advise regular cleansing with a fine mild soap. And Camay is milder than the 10 other famous beauty soaps tested. That's why we say "Go on the Camay 'Mild-Soap' Diet . . .TONIGHT!" GO ON THE "MILD-SOAP" DIET TONIGHT! Work Camay's milder lather over your ?kin, paying special attention to the nose, the base of nostrils and chin. Rinse with warm water and follow with thirty seconds of cold splashings. Then, while you sleep, the tiny pore openings are free to function for natural beauty. In the morning-one more quick session with this milder Camay and your skin is ready for make-up. 15