Modern Screen (Feb - Oct 1933 (assorted issues))

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Hollywood, Calilornia NO JokeTo be deaf rvervDealPersonKnowstlul tori P WM made himself hoar, after beiwl deS for 25 years, with Artificial Ear Drams-Mi lown Invention. Be wore them I day and night. They stopped head noises and ringing ears. IThey are invisible and per> feetlycomfortable. Nooneseesi them. Write for his true story, •'How I Got Deaf and Made oMnyDeafnBessrkda'rlss "'^^ Ear Vrun | GEORGE P. WAY. INC. "717 Hofmann Building Detroit, Miohigan salary didn't salve that hurt. In spite of the fact that he knew that a movie contract wouldn't pay him one third that amount ! BESIDES," smiled Buddy, who had just returned from signing his M-G-M contract, "I'm a better business man than most people give me credit for being. I knew that my huge salary in New York was, in a great measure, due to my movie reputation. I reasoned that if I didn't make a picture occasionally, even that gold mine would disappear! One field promotes the other. No movies . . . no fat checks for personal appearances! The public forgets mighty fast, let me tell you." So ' Buddy wired his agent that he was willing to return to Hollywood. With a certain professional vanity, he figured that it would be comparatively easy to arrange a good movie contract. Hadn't they wanted him eleven months ago? Eleven months, however, is a century in Hollywood. Many things can happen . . . including shut down studios, curtailment of production and financial trouble. Contracts were getting fewer and fewer. Many stars were returning for "brief appearances on Broadway"! For six weeks, Buddy waited to hear from his agent . . . nothing happened. He was face to face with the facts. He had his choice of hanging onto his New York contract for fifteen weeks ]onger — at six thousand a week — or dumping it overboard and taking his chances in Hollywood. Remember, he was absolutely sure of his next fifteen weeks, during which he could _ have earned enough (when combined with his movie savings) to have allowed him to retire as a very graceful has-been ! But twenty-nine is not an age for "retirement" — or at least not to Buddy. He thought his added experience and poise made him even more valuable to the screen than before. So he made his big decision. And you might call it a gamble. Buddy kissed the $6,000.00 a week good-by, and without any assurance that he would get a movie contract, returned to Hollywood ! "Such a move as that leaves you with a funny feeling in the pit of your stomach," Buddy went on to tell me as we sat on the spring-board overhanging his Beverly Hills swimming pool. '• These movies are the damnedest business in the whole world!" (Yes, it was Buddv Rogers speaking . . . the same kid who almost got snowed under in Hollywood by a series of Peter Pan roles!) "There is nothing else with which it can be compared. In any other line of work, a man who is actually worth $6,000.00 a week is considered valuable to his business. But when I walked out on that amount of money, I wasn't sure I was wanted any place! It's haywire, it's crazy. No wonder people think actors are crazy, they are driven to it by uncertainty every day of their careers !" He has grown up, this Rogers fellow. In fact the name "Buddy" hardly fits the new Rogers ! When he left Hollywood he weighed 152 and he now returns carrying 181 of solid beef and muscle. He no longer looks like a "Buddy"— and we have a strong hunch that you will see him in a very different type of role than he used to do in the old days. Very small lines are beginning to appear around his eyes and mouth, giving him character and an entirely different look. His manner is less eager, less boyish . . . and yet he has lost none of his charm. THE big trouble with me when t was here before," he went on, "was that I was so grateful! Gratitude is alright, but it doesn't make for good business sense. When you're so darned grateful for being allowed on a studio fot, you can't argue very forcefully for better parts and a good salary ! In spite of the fact that I knew my pictures were making money, a fast-talking executive could make me feel like an orphan who was lucky to be alive ! "Well, I'm still grateful ... but this time the gratitude will extend only as .far as the good roles and decent salary extend ! In short, gratitude only when gratitude is deserved. I'm no longer scared of movie executives." P. S. A lot of things have changed about Buddy Rogers ... but evidently NOT his taste in ladies! Mary Brian is still "first lady" in his estimation! Movies Crowing Up? ^ BeaNurse 'MAKE S30-S35 A WEEK You can learn at home In spare time. Course endorsed by physicians. Thousands of graduates. Est 34 years. One graduate has charge of a ten-bed hospital. Another 9aved ^.^ZJ1 $400 while learning. 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