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

/REDUCE F WAMTandHIPJ 1 »INCHE5-«rtDAVS' $ IN IV OR 1 IT WON'T CO/T L YOU ONE PENNV! Modern Screen Seven weeks of that, and then he hurried on to New York and, with no trying, fell plump into the New Playwrights Theater, a semi-Communistic organization of bright young hellions like himself, putting on the rebellious social plays of John Dos Passos, the champion in literature of the American workingman, and John Howard Lawson, and Mike Gold, editor of The New Masses, which is the workingman's own magazine. And he rebelled against them, and in the next year was playing in "The Age of Innocence," with Katherine Cornell, on Broadway. Then he rebelled against Broadway, and joined up with the Theater Guild. And then he rebelled against the Theater Guild. "I got sick of the hypocrisy of their talking about themselves as an art theater,'' he says, "when really they were just a commerciallyminded theater with a little more taste than most. I wanted to quit them and get in with a theater whose intentions I could respect." He wanted to quit, and they wouldn't let him quit. He had a contract, they said. You know what that meant ! But even so, it wasn't long before Franchot Tone did not belong to the Theater Guild and he was where he was happy to be, in a smaller organization which he could respect, called the Group Theater. It does happen that way, it seems. They get what they want, and they end where they want, these rebels ! But, will you believe it, just a little while passed before Franchot was a rebel again ! Not against the theater for which he was working, this time. No. It was all right. The people in it were doing great and fine and splendid things for the American theater, which Franchot loves above his life. (And that is no exaggeration at all, but the simple and honest truth.) But he rebelled against the public and the critics, there in New York. Here were these people in the theater, breaking their hearts and going without their dinners to put on fine plays. And the critics paid little attention to them, and the public paid less. That was cruel and unfair. So, decided Franchot, he would go to Hell ! And he got on a train and went to Hollywood ! AND only then did his friends learn ' that Hollywood had been offering him screen tests for a year and a half, and that he had turned down every one of them very firmly. And so now the lad is in Hollywood. And he lives in solitude, 'way up the beach at Santa Monica, with a New York pal who rebels against everything, and a Korean house-boy who rebels against the English language. And — at latest reports — all is quiet on the Western front. No rebellion, just now. Well, that is to say — ahem! — there was a little rebellion, the other day. Just a little one. The, ah, the studio asked him, very politely, in a nice quiet voice, if he would mind changing his name, you see. Well, the— well, to tell you the truth, they say pieces of arms and legs did fly out of every window in the studio for a few minutes. Franchot was his name, he had been born with it, his mother liked it, and it was good enough for him, he said. And he kept it. But that's the only rebellion so far. Absolutely. Except — oh, well, if you insist upon knowing every little thing, of course ! It's very unreasonable of you ; yes, very. And it didn't amount to anything much, anyhow, really. It was just that a newspaper writer the other day asked Franchot a question which Franchot thought was silly. "What was your greatest emotional moment ?" the question was, that being the kind of question that writers ask movie-actors. Franchot answered it, all right. He said : "— ." Still on the whole, you must admit, things are quiet right now. The fans have taken to Franchot like a house afire. So has Hollywood. He's going to all the parties, and being very handsome and agreeable and charming. He's a good boy at the studio, where the stenographers step into wastebaskets and drop their pencils every time they look at him, and he's doing all the things they tell him to do. No more rebellion. No. None at all. Everything quiet and peaceful. Everything happy. Everything harmonious and lovely. Everything gentle and sweet. BUT JUST WAIT TILL THEY TRY TO SHOVE YOUNG FRANCHOT TONE INTO A POOR PICTURE! JUST YOU WAIT! Wild Animals— Beware! {Continued from page 29) animals while working with them. The last time I smelled that familiar disinfectant odor and saw those familiar white beds was in January, 1932. That time I very nearly slipped right over into eternity. And while laughing at death is a pretty phrase, even animal trainers have as much desire to live as you and you. At least I have. 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