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Prepared in !l »hade». I'riee »1. Send lOC for namjiles of Ma.sii.rillo. Kxora liouife. Cream and Powder. CHARLES MEYER, 29A--East 12th St., N. Y. C. {Continued from page S5) I would report at the studio every morning and then I would run home because I was afraid they would telephone me for something before I could get there." Here he hopped off the desk and showed in pantomime just how he looked after that wild dash home from the studio. I got the idea that he was always disheveled and highly breathless. "One day they called me up and said I was to play a page-boy in Raymond Griffith's picture, 'He's a Prince.' Let's see — that's several years ago. I believe it was in ." He paused, trying vainly to give me the exact day of the month and the year of his picture-debut as Ray Griffith's page-boy. He sighed imperceptibly when I told him he could let that little detail pass. "Well, any way, I carried Mr. Griffith's train for several days and that was my start in pictures. "After that I went to work in a picture of Emory Johnson's for F. B. O. called 'The Last Edition.' No — wait a minute — I think I worked first before that in 'Hold Everything' at Fox." His brow wrinkled under the weighty problem. Then he smiled. I was glad everything was all right. "That's right — just like I told you. I remember now that I worked in 'The First Edition' before I went over to Fox." Belle Bennett's Boy, Billy PAINFULLY we went through his other picture engagements in their proper order. If there was any mistake, Billy would go back o\-er the discrepancies, ironing'out the mistakes with pantomime and facts. He played "small but good " parts in " Whispering Wives," " Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl" and "Elsie of New York." But it wasn't until he got the role of Belle Bennett's son in " Mother " that he considers his professional activities of much conseciuence. "Gee, Miss Bennett is a lovely woman," he said, "and she has certainly done a lot for me. Every time she has had the chance to put in a good word for me, she has done it. As I said before, it was Miss Bennett who recommended me to D. W. Griffith for the part I played in 'The Battle of the Sexes.' " He might have gone enumerating his picture-experiences far into the night if I hadn't suggested that perhaps his public would be interested in knowing what he does outside the studio. He brightened. After all, it was rather pleasant to be allowed to drop those weighty names and dates. "Oh, I go to Catalina and swim and ride surf-boards," he continued in the same enthusiastic pitch. It was clear that Billy could get just as hepped over his recreations as over his movies — for publication. " I pal around a lot with Arthur Lake and we go to movies and take girls out and things. A Hand from Coolidge SAY," he broke in, as though he was on the verge of kicking himself for having forgotten it this long, "When we went to Baltimore on 'Annapolis,' I met President Coolidge!" He nearly exploded with the very remembrance of it. And, gee, when he also remembered that he had been all through the ^^'hite House and the President's yacht, the Mayflmver, it was just hard to hold him. " I wish you could have been along," he added generously. Hollywood — movies — D. W. Griffith — Belle Bennett — New York — Washington — Coolidge — Yes, sir, Billy has certainly had his thrills. As the lady press agent suggested, this local boy has made good in a great big way! The Mammy Man {Continued from page ^i) he's prodigal — he's human — besides he's real. Bye, Bye, Blackface NO MORE "Mammy" stuff. That's what he says. And he means it for a while anyway. His next movie will be "Mammy," but he won't be in blackface. Frankly, he prefers himself straight. "Boy, did you notice how I photograph in 'The Singing Fool'? Like Barrymore or somebody! No more blackface for me!" California — the films — have changed Jolson. He lived an outdoor life out there, pretty much. Ruby Keeler was out there filling a vaudeville engagement. The two went swimming together — played golf together. They fell in love. Jolson has wholesome ambitions. He wants happiness — and it must mean to him a little peace and quiet after the clamor of years on Broadway and the accumulation of a fortune. He showed another side in the scenes with Davy Lee in 'The Singing Fool.' He says he cried like a fool for those scenes. He cries every time he watches that picture run off on the screen. And apparently he became childconscious. Because he said not so long ago he'd like to have a kid of his own. And his eyes filled with tears as he said it. He believed it himself. He surrounds himself with few of the usual tra[)pings of the important theatrical star. On the other hand, he refused to relate the story of his life to a reporter once because he said it was too well known and why didn't the reporter read up on him? A book about Jolson, the first to be published, is now under way. Jolson and Mark Hellinger are working on it. Razzing the Pompous PITY the poor movie stars who have been the butts of the Jolson jokes. Hollywood is still in a pet about him. He wasn't very nice. Stars gave elaborate dinner parties for him and he laughed at them. He cracked about Clara Bow. And he is still cracking. Al Jolson can say anything about anybody and get away with it — and Al Jolson knows it. He loves to tell how he perpetrated a hoax on Hollywood — he introduced a pal as Signor So-and-So, movie theater magnate of the Argentine or somewhere. Lovely cinema ladies beamed — until Jolson egged his partner on to telling the ladies how their films played to empty theaters down there. He is on his toes — or somebody's — every minute. When he isn't actually working in a revue or a picture, he is working just as hard at being Al Jolson. He didn't think much of "The Jazz Singer," although he is proud of the fact that it was a picture of his that started the talking craze. "A monkey coiilda played that part," he says thoughtfully, " — and did." But "The Singing Fool" — he's frankly crazy about it. He says now he knows a little bit about acting whereas before he didn't even know what "speaking a title" meant. He's converted to the films. He loves 'em. He may never play in a revue again. Pictures and a concert engagement will probably be his program. 84