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He
Q^nvies His
ACTORS
And Upon the Least Provocation
Raoul Walsh Stops Directing
And Joins Them
By HERBERT CRUIKSHANK
HE scribbled diligently on a scrap of paper the size of your hand, no matter how small that hand may be. When one side was covered with unintelligible hieroglyphics, he tackled the other, running his hand through his hair as he did so, and moistening the point of his pencd like a school kid not quite sure what to write next. Soon this side, too, was ruined for further use. And director Raoul Walsh beckoned to June Collyer, another New York villager who has made good in the Cinema City.
"Say, June," said Raoul, "wish you'd mind this for me, will you ?" He thrust the rumpled smudge at her. "And for the love of Mike, don't lose it!"
June examined the pa per. But its secret remained buried in a hodgepodge of curlicues. "What is it.?" she asked. "Does it tell where the treasure is buried, or where the body may be found?"
" No," whispered Raoul impressively. "It is the script of 'Me, Gangster.'"
And so It was.
And while they shot the picture, there was no other.
That's the way Walsh works. Sometimes, at any rate.
Moreover, so sure was he of what he was doing, and of what he had accomplished, that he
never saw a single one of the dailies. The dailies, you know, are the sequences taken during the day and shown as soon as they may be developed.
Raoul impresses one as being neither so tall nor so broad as his brother George. And not so handsome either. Nevertheless he is credited with being a two-fisted fighting man capable of stretching three or four bullies neatly in a row without apparent effort. And there seems to be something in the rugged masculinity of his features, his width
Only one thing is stronger than Raoul Walsh's desire to act. And that is his pride in his son.
of wistful smile, the brooding appeal of his Irish eyes, that makes him a lion among adies. For Hollywood has it that more than one scintillating star has climbed down from her place in the cinema skies to mirror her beauty in these same eyes.
At and In Hot Water
UT if he loves 'em, he leaves 'em. He
manages to avoid entangling alliances,
and for a very long time remainedwedded to the same
lady. Just recently he has made a second marriage in his
house, flying to Agua Caliente, in old Mexico, for the
ceremony. Agua Caliente means hot water. Personally, I
should consider it a somewhat ominous spot in which to
take a matrimonial plunge. But those things don't bother
Raoul. In fact, they do say that after the event, he
paused long enough at the gaming tables to collect some
eighteen thousand of those big silver dollars with which
the Southern neighbors pay off the few fortunate gringos
who pick the lucky number. Such good fortune on a
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