Motion Picture (Aug 1938-Jan 1939)

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But I do get temperamental when I hear some little would-be Napoleon of a director, some little killerdiller of a petty czar cursing out extras, grips, electricians. I've walked off sets when things like that happen. And will again, if and when they happen again. I've said to the pettifogging Nappies, 'Why don't you bawl me out if that's the way you feel about it? You don't dare to bawl the stars out, do you? They could bark right back at you, couldn't they? So you have to light on the litile fellows, the ones who can't talk back, don't you ?' It's an obsession with me," said Carole, savagely, "the bullying of men who can't defend themselves by men who, not necessarily stronger, are in stronger positions. I've tweaked more than one nose, twisted more than one ear until it rasssppped for that sort of thing." "Any other pet hates?" I quizzed, professorially, "like lizards, you know, or pencils scratching on blackboards?" "Affectations," said Lombard, "I can't STAND affected people — or snobs. And 1 don't stand them. 1 do something horrible to them to break them clown. I hate to be yessed, too. If someone doesn't like me in a picture, for instance, I don't want them to purr over me, I want them to TELL me so." I SAID, "Do you take people on faith or are you apt to be cynical about them?" "On faith," said Carole, "then, if they prove to be wrong, I'm through." "Any fear of anything? Old age, for instance . . .?" "I don't like height," said Carole, laboring visibly to dig up a sizable fear [or me, "I fly, I don't mind that. But 1 can't stand on high buildings or high places and look down. Apart from that, no. There is nothing 1 am afraid of. Least of all, old age. I NEVER want to be Sixteen again. I think that eighteen is the DULLEST age in the world. If ever I was unhappy, it was when I was in my teens. That's because you don't understand anything when you're that young. You're puzzled and so you're hurt. For only the things you don't understand have the power to hurt you. like the Power of Darkness. With age there comes a richness that's divine. Age takes on a beauty everyone can't see, perhaps. But I see it ... I don't know of anything in the world more beautiful, more fascinating than a woman ripe with years, rich and lush as velvet with experience, her humor as tangy and flavorous as sunripened fruit. If women wouldn't get so self-conscious about getting old they wouldn't get old mentally and then they wouldn't be old at all, only wise and simply divine. I LOVE the idea of getting old," said Lombard, thus loving one aspect of life which is nightmare to nine women out of every ten and The Bugaboo, certainly, to every celebrated Beauty. "Clothes . . . shopping . . . how much part do clothes play in your life?" "So-so," said Carole, "clothes don't stimulate me very much. I buy good things but not a great many things. Two or three outfits a season and let it go at that. I like sports things, sweaters and slacks and suits ... "I save my dough, I'm no fool," grinned Carole. "The terribly important thing to me is a home. I have a lot of fun out of having a home. And I know exactly the kind of a house I'm going to build one of these days, probably in the San Fernando Valley. It will be terribly small but every detail will be exactly as I want it. I'm not the type to say it's my Dream House," laughed Carole, "but IT IS!" CAROLE was having fun when she said "I save my dough, I'm no fool." But, matter of fact, it was one of those many-atrue-word-spoken-in-j est things. For Carole is one of the few who doesn't figure her income in terms of what you may read she gets paid for a picture. She figures her earnings in terms of what she has left over after she has deducted her income tax, her living expenses, the amount she sets aside and labels "Savings." She is an excellent business woman, La Lombard. You can mark that down on her slate. She knows exactly how much she earns, exactly the numerals she must put on her check for income tax, exactly how much she must "set aside." She says, "I get 13 cents on the dollar and 1 know it. So I don't figure that I've earned a dollar, I figure that I've earned 13 cents. And that is all right with me, too. We still don't starve in the picture business after we've divided with the Government. Taxes go to build schools, to maintain the public utilities we all use, so why not? But I live accordingly, that's all. I've had girls show me diamond bracelets, say, "I bought this little thing the other day, such a bargain, only $20,000 !' If I bought a little trinket for $20,001) — and I never have yet — I'd say, 'There goes my profit for the year, in a hunk of diamond!' It's my disposition again," said Carole happily, "I was born without cosily cravings!" (There was not, 1 ma} add, a jewel to be seen upon Miss Lombard. ) "I run my house economically. I live comfortably. I loathe the miser in man or mouse. Detest skimpers and hoarders. I just don't cut paper-dolls out of greenbacks, that's all. 1 use my head before I whip out the checkbook. I've rented a house in Bel Air. By paying three years rent in advance I was able to get a deduction of $300 on the whole term of the lease. That's the kind of thing I like to do. I have the one car, my Ford. I have no personal maid, not even here at the studio. I've got a pair of hands and know how to use them. I've got one extravagance — giving people things. It's a form of self-indulgence. I get more out of the giving than the recipients do out of the getting, no doubt." I said, as Lombard laughed again, "Are you always gay? I mean, don't you ever get low in your mind, feel depressed?" "Not for more than five minutes at a time," said Lombard. "I'm very seldom depressed. Never morbid. I wouldn't let it get that far. And the only time I'm depressed is when I'm bored. And when I'm bored it's always with myself, no one and nothing else. And when I get bored with myself, find myself uninteresting, it's because my vitality is in low key. And when that happens I just strap on a sandal and DO something about it. I never sit and brood. "The whole thing is," said Carole, "I never blat T HAVE to do it,' I say 'Let's get it done !' I believe, too, that we bring to the screen the same qualities we bring to living . . ." And Carole brings to the screen positiveness, directness, a great enthusiasm for living. And God pity liars, snobs, poseurs, phonies, poor-mouths from coming under the scrutiny of the Lombard lens . . . ! MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT