Modern Screen (Dec 1938 - Nov 1939 (assorted issues))

MODERN SCREEN lenses out of the six dollars a week he still arned selling papers, the balance he paid iut of the five dollars which Angelo Patri oaned him each week. He got a job with the Eva Le Gallienne Civic Repertory Company then. No salary, nut what did that matter? Worth selling lewspapers late nights in order to carry pears, speak a line now and then in a eal theatre. Angelo Patri said, "You're on 'our way now." Roberta Mann said, "We an wait." The summer he was nineteen, he humbed his way clear across the contilent to California. He worked in fruit orhards, saw the plenty of the earth. Why lad it been necessary to steal from pusharts? He "rode the rods" back to New fork. A small producer offered him a role in play titled "Lost Boy," a story of life in reformatory. That was pie to do. The lay only lasted three weeks but the imression young Garfield made in it still ists. As an immediate result he was hipped off to Chicago to play in "Counseljr At Law" with Otto Kruger. He stayed here six months and then was sent back to Jew York to join the Broadway producion with Paul Muni. Muni is one reason /hy Garfield is in Hollywood today — 'luni and Tracy and Melvyn Douglas and immy Cagney. Because they do real lings, honest things, because they care. Lnd so they gave him the assurance that ou can do real things in Hollywood. This is the young man who didn't want 5 come to Hollywood. He didn't want lovie money. He was broke and still he idn't want it. He didn't want movie fame, le proved that he wasn't just talking beause, for four years, he turned down ontracts. At last he signed with Warner Irothers because they finally capitulated Grantland Rice's pretty child, Florence, will be with Bob Taylor in "Stand Up and Fight." and gave him the kind of a contract he wanted. It contained a clause permitting him to go back to the stage once a year, and further provides that he may remain on Broadway for the run of the play. He was afraid that "he would fail in Hollywood. He was so sure that he had failed that, after his terrific performance in "Four Daughters," he did actually beat it back to New York. He was even more afraid of success, especially quick "overnight" success. He saw Robert Taylor on the train when he went back to New York. He saw how Bob couldn't get out at stations for a breath of air without being surrounded, mobbed, his clothes practically torn from his back. He said, "But that is tragic, that is awful, his life is not his own, he has no freedom !" I said, "But the same thing will happen to you." "No!" he said, hushed violence in his voice, for he speaks quietly, "it won't. I'd quit pictures before I'd let it happen." He thinks that Hollywood is a funny place. Especially the way some of the stars live — the limousines, the private swimming pools, the pomp and parade. These are not actors as he knew them in the Little Theatre Group, poor, struggling, sacrificing money and opportunity in order to stick together. He says, "These people out here shut themselves away from life. They become Royalists. Maybe it's all right for them. It's not all right for me. "I don't want that sort of thing. I came, to make some money, but not for luxuries. I want it so that I can produce plays of my own some day, so that we can travel, Roberta, the baby and I. If ever I get to the place where I have servants picking up my handkerchief, I'll blow my brains out. "We have one servant. I have a car. I'd like to buy a combination radio and phonograph. That will be good. That's all money can do for me. This industry has more to offer than money. It can raise the cultural level of the world. I'd like to be a part of that. I want to play real people. I don't care how small the parts are, so long as they are not phoney. I couldn't be a 'Glamor Boy' if I tried and I wouldn't be if I could. I'll work like the devil to do honest things. If I can't, I'll go back to the stage." He was born to be a mug. He has grown up to be a scholar, a gentleman and an artist, and all America is giving this East Side boy a great, big hand. NOW when you smooth your skin for powder with Pond's Vanishing Cream, you give it vctra skin care. Now Pond's contains Vitamin A, :.he "skin-vitamin" necessary to skin health. Skin that lacks this vitamin becomes rough and Iry. But when "skin-vitamin" is restored, it lelps make skin soft again. Use Pond's Vanishing Cream before powder md for overnight to provide extra "skinritamin" for your skin. Same jars. Same labels. Same prices. ^Statements concerning the effects of the "skin-vitamin" applied to the skin are based upon medical literature and tests on the skin of animals following an accepted laboratory method. Tune in on "THOSE WE LOVE," Pond's Program, Mondays, 8:30 P. M., N. Y. Time, N. B. C. Copyright, 1939, Pond's Extract Company 89