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

Modern Screen Underthings Tinted This New Way DON'T FADE Color Holds Through 25 Washings! be all she would permit herself to do. "Playing on the screen," I said, "this Hollywood — what do you think of it?" "I think it is desert land,* she said, "and was never meant to be lived on. It does not want to be lived on. One cannot make a home here. When I look about me I have the feeling that one of these days a Master Carpenter will come striding over the hills. He will cry 'STRIKE !' in a tremendous voice and all — all of this will disappear, the funny houses, the painted people — all of it will be gone and the desert will be its own again." "If," I said, as the third call came for Miss Barrymore to return to the set — she had disregarded the first two, "if you had your life to live over again, would you change it? Are you one of the legion who say, 'If I only could do it again I would do thus and so. . . '?" "No," Ethel Barrymore said. "No. I wouldn't change one thing in my life, not one thing. I would do everything all over again, exactly as I have done it. I would want it all again just as it has been. I have no regrets. I have no vain repinings." I had forgotten, all the while we were talking— and drinking black coffee — I had forgotten that I was face to face with Ethel Barrymore of the Royal Family of Broadway. I had forgotten the fantastical legends, the grand tradition— I had thought only that here was just another woman, with three children and work to do and money problems and little, funny human failings and timidities and her fingers on the pulse of life. Which is why she is great, of course. George Raft— As He Really Is {Continued from page 27) "Then you're not superstitious like most actors ?" "I should say not ! Why, I can give you the low-down on most of those goofy ideas." He was stern now. He was New York's Tenth Avenue, wanting and only accepting facts, New York's Tenth Avenue well able to protect himself. "I've just been looking over a book about superstitions, and when you get right down to them, they're the bunk !" This was said enthusiastically, with a sudden boyish bravado of Broadway. "Take the black cat. People thought it bad luck because it was supposed to be the companion of witches. "And the nine lives of a cat. That belief started in old time Egypt where they worshipped a goddess of cats who had nine lives." He paused. It was a thoughtful pause. "You know one of the oldest human instincts is fear. A man feels before he thinks." Tenth Avenue groping for knowledge. Tenth Avenue thinking. Instinctively, you are certain George Raft is not afraid of anything. You can tell that by the way he looks, by his firm mouth, by his sure manner. You can tell he gets down to rock-bottom reasoning. He continued. "And thirteen. I read that that started in a Scandinavian legend. They had twelve demi-gods, and a thirteenth, a bad one, joined them. He was full of the devil, and so from then on thirteen was thought unlucky." "Got any more?" I asked. "Plenty." He smiled. "There are black letter days. They started because the Romans marked their lucky days with a piece of chalk, and their unlucky ones with charcoal." PERILOUSLY, he tilted back on his chair and went on with his theme. "You can find a reason for nearly every superstition. They say the one about Friday started because Adam and Eve ate the apple on that day. "As for breaking the mirror, that began centuries ago, because people believed that the will of the gods was in the mirror, therefore, to break it was a warning that the gods were trying to keep a person from seeing into an unpleasant future. "Seven years hard luck started because the Romans thought the health of a person changed every seven years, and so, when a mirror was broken, that meant breaking the health for seven years. "Then there's changing one's seat during a card game. Gamblers frequently do this. Evidently, they believe with the primitives that any change was a means of escaping from bad luck. "And spilling salt. Years ago salt was of such great value that people were sure spilling it made all good spirits angry." He sat forward in his seat now. He was warming to his subject. Again he smiled at me. "I bet you don't know why you say 'God bless you' when a person sneezes," he said. "In the early days people thought that when someone sneezed his soul immediately left his body. The Princes of the East, who were good merchants," his eyes twinkled as he said this, "thought they could fix things for themselves and their relatives by asking a blessing each time anyone sneezed. And that's that !" 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