Motion Picture (Feb-Jul 1930)

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BATHASWEET is so inexpensive. 25c, 50c, $1.00 and$ 1. 50 at alldruganddejpartmentstores. PRPP ^ can sent ^ree' anY where *M\.L2iSJi Jn t]rie u. S., if you mail this coupon with name and address to C. S. Welch Co., Dept. M. B., 1907 Park Avenue, New York. Bert Longworth Standing up for their favorite screen star: Louise Fazenda's two terriers, one white and the other black, do a trick or two for her amusement, outside the home she has built for them in the front yard before her Malibu beach home They Made Him What He Is Today (Continued from page 55) and out of scenes and does a lot of fast muggin' and cops the woiks. Lead On, MacDuff " ABOUT the next picture I'm teamed up •^* with Evelyn Brent. She's heard about my rep, so she walks on the set and says to me: 'So you're a leading man? Well, go ahead and lead. Go on, MacDuff, and lead.' And then when she sees I'm really dumb about the racket, what does she do? She spends half her time helpin' me get the most out of my part, puttin' me in front of the camera and loo kin' out for me. She sure taught me a lot of tricks of the trade. " But you see, I had just come from the stage where they do things different. When you're back of the footlights, all you have to do is to be careful not to watch the backdrop. If you aren't actually turned with your back to the footlights, why you're a cinch to be looking at someone. So I never quite realizes that the camera lens was only a coupla inches of audience. All I was careful not to do was to back into it. "Then I gets a part in a picture with Clara Bow. After a few shots she takes me aside and asks me if I really don't want to be in her scenes with her. I tells the lady that her crack don't register with me, so she explains: 'Jack, boy, you're a great one to be called a scene copper. You haven't had your face in one scene today. You don't know where the camera is, do you?' And then Clara takes her lunch hour to show me how to get in the center of the picture. And when you stop an' think that that is where the star belongs — you'll get some idea of what Clara did for me. They All Helped IN FACT, everyone I've worked with has gone outa his way to help me. Dorothy Mackaill taught me how to get my pan in a still picture and, believe me, that's an art in itself. Zazu Pitts played her part slower than usual so that my ordinary speed would look like a whirlwind. An' Betty Compson gave me lessons that are almost responsible for what little degree of success I've had. "O'course by this time I'm all set. I'm doin' all the stuff they've been teaching me and I'm beginning to think that the old boy is goin' to amount to something after all. Then they teams me up with this Orpheum headliner, Helen Kane. You know her? The gal that just goes boo-poopi-doup, and the audience is in the aisles. Well, she ain't never made a picture, so I says to myself, ' Here's where I use all the tricks and steal the woiks.' "All during rehearsals I keeps backin' the gal into the piano and she doesn't get a chance to get her puss within shootin' distance of the camera. Why, if they'd been really shootin' those scenes as we was rehearsin' 'em, all you'd of seen on the screen woulda been Oakie with his pan closed and all you 'da heard woulda been boo-poopidoup from behind the piano. And Baby Did " "D UT before we starts shootin' I thinks -L' it all over. Here they've been teachin* me how to keep from showin' my dumbness and when I finds out I tries to hoit somebody with it. And Helen is in the same spot I was in two years ago. "So when times comes to shoot the picture, I grabs Helen out from behind the piano and shoves her up in front of the camara and says, 'Go on, Baby, knock 'em dead !' And she did. "Hey, we been here an hour and you ain't ast me a question yet. Pretty soon it'll be time to eat and you'll still be stalling on this interview. Ast me something!" I thinks real hard and then I says, just for the fun of it, "All I wants to know is — who was you and Skeets Gallagher supposed to be imitatin' in 'Close Harmony'?" "We was doin' a Van and Schenck, see? But the critics says we wasn't no bargains." 100