Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Jun 1929)

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Years ago Lew was in stock. A man named Mortimer Pebble was head of the outfit. He wasn't very kind to Lew. He had power — and he used it. A while back he came to Hollywood. He was down and out. Penniless. Old. His power and prestige all gone. Lew bought him a house and lot. He buys him his clothes, gives him his spending money, equips him with a radio and other pleasures. And in return he gets — well, what do hearts of gold get for the largesse they bestow? Mortimer Pebble is still unkind to Lew. When Lew phones him and says he is lonely, is coming ov-er to have a talk or spend the evening, Mortimer is inclined to be indignant. He asks Lew where he gets off at, calling him up at that time of night, disturbing his rest. On one occasion, when Lew called on him around ten o'clock at night Mortimer phoned for the police. He said that Le\^' was disturbing the peace. Lew laughs and thinks it's great stafT — and continues to make the old man's waning days padded and happy ones. All at Lew's Expense A FEW months back a youngster of seventeen or so walked out from somewhere in Kansas. He was a fan of Lew's. He wanted to see him. He went straight to Lew's house. Mabel Normand phoned her better 'alf at the studio and announced the young man's unexpected arrival. Lew had seen him just once, months ago, when he was playing in Kansas City or somewhere. Said Lew, "Put him to bed, feed him, give him some clothes." The new young man is still with Lew. He recently had to have his tonsils removed. At Lew's expense. Still more recently he took unto himself a wife. At Lew's expense. While he was in hospital he phoned Lew and said, " I want a radio." Lew's chauffeur took him a radio. Oh, dear! Oh. dear! Lew once had a devoted butler and the devoted butler's wife. They got beyond butlering. Lew bought them a house near the beach. They dwell therein in comfort and prosperity — at Lew's expense. Lew has now a negro butler named James. Lew plays pool with him. He takes him with him everywhere he goes. When Lew goes to a party, James treks along, a dark, devoted shadow. He watches Lew from hour to hour, though the hours be past midnight. He doesn't like Lew to take a drink. If anyone urges him to, James is gently reproachful. He says, " I thought you were a friend of mine." He would die for Lew; and that is no extravagant statement, let it sound as it will. Mabel Is Like That, Too THERE is Mrs. Lew, too. The House of Cody has chalk marks in Heaven, or something has gone awry with the celestial efficiency department. One day a few weeks back Mabel Normand Cody was driving into Los Angeles. En route she chanced to see a poor mother and her inevitable little ones parked on the sidewalk among a few odds and ends of furniture. They had been, of course, dispossessed by the irate landlord. Mabel stepped from her car. She went to the landlord, paid the back rents and several rents in advance, gave the poor strangerwoman some money, hopped her car again and was on her way. That's the House of Cody for you. One night the Codys were entertaining at dinner. Mabel had a gorgeous Spanish shawl for which she had paid a princely sum and of which she was particularly fond and proud. One of her dinner guests, a girl she knew very casually, admired the shawl extravagantly. She postured about in it, oh-ing and ah-ing. She kept it up until Mabel said " Do you really love it so much? Does it give you so much pleasure?" The girl sighed and oh-ed and ah-ed some more. Mabel said, "Then take it, please. I want you to have it." A few years ago. Lew told me, he was sitting on top of the world. Things were going great. He was, he thought, about where he wanted to be. "One morning," he said, "I was driving to the studio and on a billboard near the studio I read the words^ ' I can get any woman I can kiss ' signed ' Lew Codv, the BUTTERFLY MAN'! I knew that 'l was through. I was done for. What man would want his wife, sister or mother to see a man who would say a thing like that? What man would want to see a " butterfly man '? I was finished in pictures — and I knew it. I Roscoe to the Rescue WENT to my director and asked him how long we had to go on the picture we were doing. He said, 'Four days.' I said, 'You're wrong, we haven't four hours. I'm leaving today.' I did. At the moment I had about four dollars and a quarter in the world. I didn't know how I was going to make the grade to New York, but I knew I would swing it, somehow. I told a very wealthy man I knew — and had done many favors for — of my predicament. He said, 'You could take some sandwiches along.' I didn't have to. An hour before I was to leave, Roscoe Arbuckle handed me fifteen hundred dollars in cash. Without being asked. That is friendship." Lew went to New York. He went to Europe. He staged a comeback, slowly, no doubt painfully, but surely. He killed "The Butterfly Man" a sure death. And he stands over his corpse today, a sadder and, I think, a wiser man. Lew is in Europe at this writing. He is billing himself: "Mabel Normand Presents Lew Cody, etc." Vaudeville. If you are anything of a psychologist, this will gi\'e you a hint — that Lew loves his wife, and no butterfly business about it, either. Whenever he goes away, wherever he goes, he always brings Mabel home some "funny little toys." Because Mabel loves presents and toys best of all and because she cries over them, like the child she is at heart. Lew teases Mabel and gets a great kick out of it when the teasing takes, as it usually does. He phones her several times an evening when he is resting at his beach house. And he is unequivocally loyal to her. And Lew'd give you the rug oft' his floor, the door off its hinges, the shirt off his back, the signature off his checks, and never a word about an I. O. U. You'd never go hungry, poor, friendless or alone while the House of Cody stands. So much is certain in a world and among a group of people where almost nothing is. 84