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Georgia Hale Lives the Moment by Being Natural and Accepting Gracefully What Life Has to Offer
By Dunham Thorp
"If you plan beforehand, you see what you thought, and then decided, you would -.(■c, rather than what actually exists."
Nor does she think it much more profitable to look hack, and try to tit in your present actions with your past — to try to be consistent to an idea at the expense of that truer consistency -the fact that nothing an individual docs can possibly he inconsistent with him who does it. even tho at times it may seem inconsistent with the general trend of his actions.
"1 always act as the actions of the other actors, and the environment in general, make me think natural.
'"What 1 mean is this: I never stop in the midst of a scene to think that I am not using the same twist of the hand that I used two weeks ago. That wouldn't be life; the actions of any moment are made by the feelings of that moment.
No Mannerisms
"Mo villain always scowls and heroines 1 sometimes do."
"Then you dont believe in mannerisms?"
"No, no! — not at all! Certainly people have them, but no actor should ever put his own into the character of another person."
That's a fine observation, and one made by very few of those who tread the boards and screen — in fact, most of them act as tho this were an edict of the devil. But it should be modified enough to allow for certain quirks and traits in the character presented, so that the character will have individuality, and as a sort of cord to bind its other, and more diverse, manifestations.
I know she does this, but how does it fit in with her theory?
"But you gave a solid and consistent performance in 'The Salvation Hunters' — you always smoked a cigaret in the same way. and your sneer was never different."
"Certainly ! I study my character sufficiently to be at home in it — so as not to have to think what she should do.
"But I didn't always sneer in that picture. I laughed often enough, and in many ways — not only in derision.
"If you study your character well enough to understand it, rather than study the actions of the different scenes she is to appear in, you stand a much better chance of really living her life.
"For, after all, if you are living the moment — and that moment is one in the life of another person — you are acting as that person would, rather than working out a preconceived and rigid plan."
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Georgia Hale came into recognition thru her performance in "The Salvation Hunters," and she lived her character so realistically that Chaplin engaged her for "The Gold Rush." Her next appearance will be in "The
Great Gatsby"
The Business of Being Natural
"T'hen you never plan your scenes ahead of time?''
*■ "Never! I simply study my character until I feel I have mastered it, and then act as circumstances move me."
And as it is in one facet of her life, so it must be — and is — in all. When she was a ballad-singer in Chicago, Chicago was the world, and ballad-singing the world's only occupation. And when she moved to Hollywood, it seemed Chicago had never existed — the world now {Continued on page 82)
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