Motion picture acting (1947)

Page scan 000144 from Motion picture acting

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture acting
Date:
1947
Publisher:
New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co
Volume:
Motion picture acting
Leaf #:
000144
Language:
English
Contributor:
Internet Archive
Sponsor:
Internet Archive
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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MOTION PICTURE ACTING give me a piece of the show, and I had a chance to get somewhere. And then what do you think happened? Along comes the United States Government and they drafted me! You're in the army now. They slapped me into a uniform and for three whole months before the Armistice, I was parading up and down guarding the Asho- kan Reservoir. They were afraid your peo- ple might poison it. I've always figured that that little interruption ruined my career. But I've remained an optimist . . . I've re- mained an optimist because I'm essential- ly a student of human nature. Now, you dissect corpses and rats and similar un- pleasant things. Well—it has been my job to dissect suckers! . . . And what have I found? Now, don't sneer at me, Doctor—but above everything else I've found Faith. Faith in peace on earth and good will to men—and faith that "Muma," the three-legged girl, really has got three legs. All my life, Doctor, I've been selling phoney goods to people of meagre intelligence and great faith. You'd think that would make me contemptuous of the human race, wouldn't you? But— 118