Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1928)

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By the time he was ten, his impressionable brain knew what it was all about. At twelve the retentive memory could recall facts and figures regarding Universal and Universal's product. There were tutors who taught history, geography and the like of that. But the study of a coming king is his kingdom. Young Laemmle was most interested in motion pictures. More explicitly, in Universal Pictures. History could be obtained from the Research Department. And what better way to learn geography than to tour the countries that seem so unreal when visualized merely as red or green blocks on a musty map? At fifteen Carl, Jr. was in high school. His activities there included participation in the lesser athletic sports, such as basketball. And he made a creditable record as a writer in connection with the student publication. He was still the constant companion of his father. They went everywhere together: from coast to coast and across the oceans. The boy showed promise. He was cleareyed, alert, erect. Already he had produced pictures for his own amusement. And these amateur efforts caused the Old King to emit his kindly chuckle of approval.. He had a son to be proud of. At fifteen he took his first active role in the affairs of his realm. He wrote some stories of prep school life, and took them to his father. They were received with acclaim. And so the first series of "The Collegians" reached the screen. "I could have fooled around in college," he says, "but my father had been such a good father, I thought it was up to me to try and relieve him as much as I could." So when the 'varsity year rolled round, Junior (as all the world calls him) left the lists of learning and girded on the armor of the fray. In other words, he became actually identified with the projects of Universal. He had his name on an office door. And his own personal yes-men. He labored indefatigably. And became a personality rather than a name. Within two years, before he was twenty-one, he was entrusted with important assignments. And added cubits to his stature by the manner in which he despatched them. His judgment was respected. He was consulted. And he was feared a little. He had become a Power to be reckoned with by the army of self-seekers. He was every inch the Crown Prince. .\s his strength, his knowledge, his wisdom and his vision has broadened, the Old King, still holding every string in his cunning grasp, burdens the boy with greater responsibilities. Before he is twenty-one he will be promoted to the eminence of an associate producer. Meantime he has been thrust into one of the most perilous breaches in the industry. It has been put up to Carl Laemmle, Jr., to make a picture out of the play, "Broadway." By something that looks like somebody's blunder, Universal paid $225,000 for the screen rights to this daddy of underworld stories. .And agreed not to release the film version before 1929. Along came sound and dialogue. And Uni versal was hooked £25,000 more for talkie privileges. It will cost $500,000 to produce the photoplay. Thus Junior has the terrific task of spending three-quarters of a million dollars on the screen translation of a play which has been emasculated of every vital essence by the pilfering of sequences and situations by predatory picture pirates. .And mind you, in the eyes of the law, he won't be a man until next April. He's a good-looking kid, slender and personable. He pays some attention to his tailor, and his haberdasher is probably the best in town. His eyes are dark and hold a tremendous sparkle. But if he should vanish into thin air, like the far-famed cat of Cheshire, his grin would be the feature last distinguishable. His smile is wide and dazzling. For his teeth are strong and white. It is almost too much in evidence. Somehow it creates the impression of a mask, a disarming mask, behind the protection of which the boy's real thoughts and emotions are carefully concealed. Perhaps his most obvious characteristic is boundless enthusiasm. He is very young. With something of the naivete of youth which causes a smile, and also a little admiration. For instance, in mentioning a mediocre director under his jurisdiction he vouchsafes the opinion that the megaphone man must be all right because he's so good to his mother. You may snicker, but you've got to like the kid for that sort of thing. He likes music. The sort they play at the Cocoanut Grove. And he goes to hear it with one of his few intimates, or with a carefully chosen girl. He deplores the fact that he can't find more time for books. But adds that he makes out fairly well. His preference in literature seems to be for biography, the popular-classic type of stuff written by Emil Ludwig. Of course, he speaks and reads German. His English is American. He says sim-u-lar instead of similar. He says he won't marry for ten years because women interfere with a man's work. But one wonders what the Old King thinks of this. .And whether or not he would wish to see his dynasty established to the third generation. Junior used to be seen most with .Alice Day. Now Lois Moran and Sue Carol are held in very high esteem. He was born in the same house, or the one next door to Sue's. Her name was Lederer. Her father almost became the Old King's partner. Junior has a host of acquaintances, but few friends, \\hich is wise for a Crown Prince, because there can be no entangling alliances. He is very conscious of being his father's son. This fact tips every scale in which his career is weighed. It freights him with a somewhat false modesty, for as the heir-apparent he wishes to avoid the suspicion of forcing himself forward. .As he puts it, of being a glory-grabber. Necessity nas developed within him a certain shrewdness and secretiveness, a bit of suspicion and calculation. Which will doubtless be strong assets when Der Tag arrives. But which, nevertheless, mar the full light of a sunny, frank disposition which engenders love, and which without doubt was a natural heritage. It is difficult to draw from him any admission that his path is fraught with the terrible dangers of flattery, insincere approbation, the smirking obeisances of an ever-present clique of courtiers who would delight to see him ride for a fall. Yet the baby-smoothness of his well-shaped brow wrinkles with doubt and perplexity as he remarks that it is sometimes hard to be sure of just who one's friends may be. But he will learn that this is something no man knows. Not even the Old King. 80