Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Jun 1929)

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^nJ ■(§ m and 'K eap This Henry's Does To All Hollywood All Night And All Day TH t \' & a \ CharlieChaplin started it. Maybe he did. Our Charleshasstarted lots of things in his rime. But if he reall}played Isabella, and pawned his comiccrown to further the enterprises of this Columbus, his faith in man must be renewed. Albeit his opinion of woman remains in statu quo ante helium, so to speak. For Charlie has been rewarded in the discovery of many a midnight delicacy. His financial interest in the kingdom of Henry, the Ate, ma} have ceased. But his gustatorial enthusia&tn shall endure forever. Charles is Henry's constant customer. Indeed, an honest poll of patrons might well divulge that next to the hamburger and herring, Chaplin is one of Henry's chief attractions. In the telephone book, fairly diligent s( arch discloses a modest notation that Henry's Delicatessen is situate at 6321 Hollywood Boulevard. It gives the 'phone number, too. But that doubtless has been changed. Aside from this scant information, there is nothing. But be not deceived. The same prosaic volume may also list Swanson, Gloria; Garbo, Greta; Crawford, Joan; Page, Anita; Bow, Clara; and White, Alice; without a single romantic line of exposition. Or perhaps explanation is the better word. Now that the telephone company is m the picture business, the numberplease industry may develop emotionally. Then its old opus may attain descriptive rhetoric. Thus; "Henry's: ."/here gods become men, where idols are human, where chivalry buys beans for beauty, where Ohio gazes on (.)lympus, where great lovers get goose livers, where hams and eggs mingle, where stars smile on schnitzels, where— " but you get the idea. Henry's Delicatessen, forsooth! Why Henry purveys viands to Venus, nectar to Narcissus, lentil zof)p to Joe Schenck. If the way to a man's heart IS through his stomach, then Henry is Hollywood's best beloved. Bv HERBERT CRUIKSHAKK H' Moss MENU Where stars go to feast themselves and tourists to feast their eyes: the interior of Henry's and, belcw it, the menu with its coat-of-arms Henry's Heraldry IS 'scutcheon, like his food, is not lacking in subtlety. His shield IS topped by a coronet with which to crown supervisors. Beneath it is symbolized the ancient and honorable slapstick. In the quarterings of his arms are two poor fish couchant, to represent producers caught in the very act of jumping from the frying pan of silence into the fire of sound. Directorial genius is portrayed by a goose engaged in laying an egg. A Iamb, bleating on its way to the slaughter, warns the profession o*" players regarding its ultimate end. And in the fourth quarter appears a mystic design variously described as Lon Chaney, Will Hays, a conventionalized microphone or a question mark signifying "What's wrong with the movies.'" Beneath are three locks of Sid Grauman's hair, pendant from a movie screen. When Henry first presented his hospitality to his friends and his public, the key to his kingdom was cast into the Los Angeles river. It lies there yet, covered with the dust of ages. Thus for twenty-four hours each day of the year, his establishment has accumulated the atmosphere which lends it fame. Paraphrasing Scott, he might declaim, "Come one, come all! A star shall fly from before a spot light as soon as I." In two words, Henry's is never closed. But its aspect changes with the hours. Of the 165,000 lowans, who, with sundry odd Kansans, Nebraskans and other embattled farmers, form the drab background against which Hollywood splashes its color, there be those who have squandered their substance at Henry's without ever getting star-dust in their eyes. Of these, many wouldn't recognize their favorites without the aid of a catalog and identifying numbers on the posteriors of the players. Others have erred in their choice of hours. Pbr if hunger be not of the belly kind, but more a longing for (Continufd on page 88) 27