Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Jun 1929)

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Even more than the esteem of the public he values hers Grinding Out Grins {Continued from page 6s) was shiny and threadbare. So you see he was good to his mother. Today Dorothy Vernon plays in pictures herself. Not that she has to, Bobby will hasten to explain. He's still good to his mother. But mamma needs something to occupy her time, and she really is a clever character actress. Falling Like Fatty FATTY ARBUCKLE gave Bobby his start nineteen years ago, when Fatty was producing and starring in tabloid musicals in a Long Beach Theater. Good training, and Bobby was an apt pupil in learning to fall like Fatty. Always got a laugh. Clever stage comedian, Fatty. There were many weeks when the theater was shut down and all actors out of a job earned their coffee and rolls playing in the movies. Bobby found himself one of the many comics in the old Universal-Nestor one-reelers. He and Louise Fazenda played everything from the young honeymooners to grandpa and grandma. When Ford Sterling was the vogue, he wore a Sterling goatee and used the same facial mugging. Not until he moved over to the Sennett lot did he discard the exaggerated character make-up. For three yeai's he remained with Sennett, (jloria Swanson — his leading lady — and Wally Beery — then Gloria's bridegroom— Lon Chaney and Clarence Badger, the director, taking what they could get in the way of bits and small parts. "Gloria hasn't changed at all," he told me. " Lots of people tell me she is up-stage, but she's always been nice to me. Sends me Christmas cards every year and things like that. We used to have a lot of fun. I'd kid Gloria about her nose. You know, it dips in in the iniddle like a shovel and I'd rail her shovel-nose. She didn't mind. She wouldn't be Gloria with a different nose. Gloria's Unhatched Glory NONE of us had any idea she would become as famous as she did, of course. But she was very ambitious and attractive and we knew she'd make good. Marie Prevost was also with us then. She doubled for Gloria." Bobby's final move was to the Christie studios, where he seems to be a permanent fixture. He has seen a plain, gawky Colleen Moore on a slapstick lot develop into one of the leading screen stars, while more beautiful girls about the studio faded into oblivion. Betty Compson, Laura La Plante, Dorothy DeVore and, more recently, Doris Dawson and Frances Lee, have found his pictures a stepping-stone to movie fame. He speaks in awed tones of the big fellows— Chaplin, Keaton, Langdon. He had returned from New York on the same boat with Harold Lloyd several months ago. At thirty-three this modest young man is producing his own comedies, with no illusions about their being art. I brought up the subject of the talkies, expecting him to swoon in my arms with enthusiasm or damn them with expletives. But Bobby would not be shaken out of his phlegmatic calm. "We're going to make talkies within the next three months. I like 'em well enough. Most of ufe comedians have had stage experience and have nothing to worry about. It's the girls and boys whose acting has been confined to pictures alone who are being hit hard. The only difference it will make to us is in the stories. They will have to depend more on situations and less on slapstick. The talkies are all right." And so is Bobby. 82