A hundred million movie-goers must be right... (1938)

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fused with the hard, cruel, pitiless, embittered, grasping and cynical any more than charitable types should be confused with open-handed, generous, righteous and virtuous types. Those extremes, we repeat, are not found in the star roster and any suggestion of those qualities as fixed characteristics automatically place the star in the featured or supporting lists. Charitable star types are usually distinguished by generosity of features, but in proportion ; understanding, tolerant, patient, kindly, but never in the best sense of the word credulous or implicitly trusting. The non-charitable star types are usually distinguished by lips, chin and nose finely and firmly chiseled, with eyes analytical, perceiving, appraisive, chin more or less aggressive and unyielding. Vitality is the essential life force. Vitality in a star means health, tip-top physical condition, virility, potency, pulchritude, which every star must have to hold his public. Sensitive faces are alive, like a mirror or silver nitrate on a movie film, reacting quickly to shades of light. The more and finer the shades of emotion and feeling an actor can register the more sensitive he is as a type. There are no insensible types among the stars, blunted in feeling or perception, but there are nonsensitive types whose feelings and emotions are under perpetual restraint; any show of emotion or feeling either implied or expressed, or inherent in their roles. Non-sensitive types are the inscrutable, mystical or suspense types, usually non-charitable — not uncharitable— and non-emotional in action, wfhile sensitive types are usually but not always charitable and emotional. As for emotional types, that is really a misnomer. Emotion is a reaction, not a condition. Charity, inscrutability, sensitivity, time, place and vitality in star personalities are definitely conditions, or fixed qualities. In earlier chapters we established that inherent reach or extent of appeal and non-appeal in main pursuits or roles was basic to any sympathy those pursuits might provoke or induce, that when enhanced and enlarged by kindred or complementary pursuits, sym 110