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tains anything worth expressing he will hold his audience, and if there happens to be any appreciable amount of meat in his role he will send his audience home boosting. In fact, support troupers with fat roles have a habit of clicking for results that are terribly disturbing to our stars. But "stealing" .the picture represents only a small part of the havoc wrought by smoothe trouping in the support ranks.
When the sound frequency wizards made the screen audible — changing the whole entertainment picture — actors departed Broadway and hinterland stock companies like boarders leaving a ravaged dinner table; and Hollywood got the pick of the nation's best support troupers.
Having won the approval of discriminating theatregoers— drama-devotees educated in the finished performance— they were bound to add tone and authority to screen acting. Post-grads in their art, they could not fail to heighten appreciation of regular movie fans, and they did start a fresh tidal wave of interest in the movies. But better than that, their trouping put an entirely new face on old movie fare, on old threadbare plots long familiar to the regulars. Then look what happened :
Cameras and sound recorders began to weed and grade and only the best of the best support people surviving, individual troupers established new highs at the box office, support creating a "demand" of nationwide proportions. And what business, art or profession in its more lucid moments will ignore a demand for something it has in stock?
Whether or not the build-up of individuals will mean that development of anything bigger than individual roles is to become one of the lost arts, is beyond prediction.
And now, if the reader will recall one or more support troupers and the movies in which their work stood out, he has put his finger on the reason the judges failed to appreciate his enthusiasm for those movies.
Among other things disqualifying potentially "great" movies is the stand-out support role, or roles, the picture "stolen" by one or two character people who outshine the star, topping all other featured players,
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