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BY RUTH BIERY
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FOR once wood has colloquial, unto-itself spirit It has stepped from the rut of movie humdrum into the big world of politics and other than movie celebrities.
It has gone Jimmy Walker.
Just what the Mayor of the world's largest city has done to mspire such a revolution is no mystery to those who have watched him.
He has merely picked up the sidewalks of New York, moved them to the . motion picture city, and walked his sartorially perfect self upon them.
' He has told the hard-boiled press agents that they "are shrinking violets engaged in turning the search-lights upon others."
He has addressed the ultra-sophisticated opening-night audience of "Lilac Time" and held tnem spellbound until he had finished.
He has acted as a star in a motion picture; played the organ for the set-orchestra on a production.
He has ridden a hobby-horse at the elite Breakfast Club after thanking a dignified political opponent for the publicity the veiled sarcasms of his speech had given him.
He has gone flying with Phyllis Haver; he has stirred the patriotic souls of the American Legion.
He has talked at this and at that — at everything strictly Hollywood except the 233 Club, which is composed wholly of Masons.
Liked for Himself
ALL in all, he has made Hollywood for±\ get that he is the mayor of seven milTion people, but remember, forever, that he is a hail-fellow-well-met Prince of Good Fellows. ^______________^__________
Yet, through it all, he Above is the Mayor of New York with Colleen Moore; and below,
has maintained a certain with a pair of longhoma presented to him in Hollywood
mayor-like dignity even in face of the fact that everyone in town was immediately calling him "Jimmy."
"Well, now that I've seen myself as a motion picture actor, I think I'm a really good mayor!"
He breezed into the sitting-room of his entire-one floor suite of a Hollywood hotel, the same twinkly eyed, crinkly mouthed, one hundred per cent Irish Jimmy who had captured Hollywood, the mecca of 'traveling celebrities, as no other visitor has ever conquered. He waved me to a divan and took a straight chair irectly opposite. "You know, I came out e for a holiday and a rest 've got to go back home t: to work for the 'rest.' The motion picture people have been so actively nice to me!' Which, translated, means that New York's political maelstrom will be a haven of peace after Hollywood's whirligig of social activity.
"No, I can't recall what has been my most pleasant experience." A real politician. New York and Hollywood's Jimmy.
The Best Actor Not Acting
BUT a few moments later his eyes tell-taled the secret when we asked him about the quickie he'd made at First National with Colleen Moore as his leading lady.
Now we'd seen that picture. It preceded his personal appearance kt the "Lilac Time" opening. And we'd heard the press agents and cameramen and electricians and the rest of Hollywood's unbiased critics announce that "Jimmy Walker is the world's best offscreen movie actor.'.'
There's no doubt that he's taken to
acting as naturally as the first fish
took to ^ater. When Colleen blinked
her eyes and snuggled up
close and then closer:
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