Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Jun 1929)

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State^ 78 Forbidden to Fall {Continued from page «/,) fir . ftO Knifing His Own Heart 'OU see, I've just had to break up the irst real big romance I've had in HoTTywood — because of my work. .See this on my wrist?" His fingers played with a heavy bracelet made from a pair of spurs, and locked around his arm. "Well," he went on, "that's it. I met a girl who began to get me — here — just like a disease. And it was getting so serious that before long I should have been staying away from the studio to be with her. 'That's how I am over things of this kind. They monopolize my thoughts to such an extent that there isn't room for anything else at all. The studio would have seemed absolutely unimportant — the good old weekly salary — everything. I felt as if all I wanted to do was go off away up in the hills some place with her, and tell the rest of the world to go jump in the lake. So I cut the whole thing off short. It couldnit go on. I told her I'd been kidding — that she was simply one of the crowd. And that ended that. " If you want my opinion," Charlie said with vehemence as he got up and paced the floor, "the dollar simply kills all romance in Hollywood. There isn't any romance here. It's always starting to grow, and then the old dollar comes along and beans it. Just compare it with the way things are in Havana. I got a glimpse of that on my way to California by boat from New York. Why, those guys know how to live. They don't sweat from early morn till dewy eve to make more money than they need. They work just as much as is absolutely necessary, knock off at a good sensible hour in the early evening, then go get their guitars and whathave-you and have a good time with their girl-friends. " In Hollywood, nobody dares enioy himself. They're all thinking about their jobs twenty-four hours in the day. When they're not actually working they're figuring out who they can meet that'll be of use to them. When I first came here, people at the studio gates, where I'd be hanging around, used to push me aside with a 'Get out of the way' and maybe sometimes a little ' please.' Now the same people say 'Hello, Charlie,' slap me on the back and ask for the loan of a quarter — yes, I'm talking about guys who make up to seven hundred a week. They're most of them broke all the time — their dough vanishes and they get nothing for it. In this town you have friends when you're in — and when you get kicked out, just try and find 'em. Kisses, But No Fun " '\/''0U see, that sort of condition is espeX cially tough for fellers like me, who are naturally inclined to be romantic and friendly. First thing, we find we can't trust anybody. Then we find that what from a distance looked like such a romantic sort of setting to make our daily bread in, is as tough and unromantic as nails. What if you can make hundreds of dollars a week for kissing the grease-paint off your leading women's faces? Your life isn't your own. You can't tell when they'll let you go in the evening, or if they'll keep you there all night. Not that I mind that, but look what it does to your private life. It turns a really romantic feller into a romance-machine. "Me, I'm just naturally that way. I had my first crush on a girl — she was fifteen, and a blonde — when I was twelve. I remember we used to play house together in the back yard and pretend we were married. I'd been with my family's act since I was seven, at which age I first joined it at Walla Walla, Washington. I got all my early schooling from my father, who, while he was teaching me to play the saxophone for the act, taught me reading and writing from the advertisement slides they used to put on before and after the show. The first thing they ever taught me was not to whistle in a dressing-room. Once last year Barry Norton did it in my room at the studio; I went on the set and a lamp fell and broke my head open. "For six months I went to the University of Wisconsin — and was kicked out of it, just the same as Lindbergh was. I only lasted that long because I was on the football and swimming teams. That was where I had my first serious love affair. It was hectic while it lasted. I was older and wiser when I left the University. "Three years ago I left the act flat in New York City, sick and , tired of the whole darned show business. My family was Sore at me for a time. I lived in Greenwich Village and had a real taste of romance — the Boheme kind, on nothing a week. I did a few days' extra work at the Paramount studio on Long Island, my first job being that of an angel in "Sorrows of Satan." Then one day William Cohill, the castin director, threw me out of the studio and decided to come to Hollywood. I borrowed the fare from my brother and came out by boat, arriving with eleven dollars. Smiling Through I WALKED right into my contract with Fox. Someone on the street told me they needed a man with a smile over at Fox studio — to play a lead. I had no hope, but thought I might as well try my luck. I saw Ryan, the casting director, and smiled, and smiled, and smiled. He seemed to like it, as he arranged for me to make a test. So I got up in front of the camera — just as inexperienced as hell — and smiled some more. For several days I heard nothing. Then they called me up suddenly to make another test — and I smiled some more. I got the part. Three weeks after I started work they gave me a five-year contract. People say I got in easy and never had any struggles. Well, just ask my Dad about that. He's out here now, with my mother, and acts as my business manager. He'll tell you I was born in a theatrical trunk and was on the railroad every week from the age of three weeks to about nineteen, following the act around. I may have avoided the early extra work days in Hollywood, but I've certainly known more of the struggles for a place in the sun than most movie actors. And I may as well tell you that the success and the money don't mean a thing to me except for what independence it may bring me later on. " Well, here goes to forget about romance for the time being and do something good and worth while in pictures. Romance is out for Charlie Morton until he can say good-bye to movie studios. The two things don't mix. But some day I'll meet a girl who'll make romance worth waiting for. " Meanwhile, at least I have three friends I can trust in Hollywood. There's my Dad and my mother and my car. Only, you know, the Hollywood atmosphere is so strong that even my car sometimes doublecrosses me and gets me a few tickets. Things like that just show you what you're up against!" 'J Speaking of people . . . and things . . . that can be trusted, there's the matter of magazines. 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