Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

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We must keep ourselves clean and decent. "It's a small thing to do — and it may mean so much in many little lives . . . Other Worshiped Players TAKE baseball pla>ers — fellows like Babe Ruth. Think of the thousands of small boys who idealize them and take them for their models. What a terrible thing if one of them is found wanting in decency and sportsmanship! Why, that baseball scandal, several j'ears ago, was a tragedy to untold numbers of lads. "It's a good deal like that with us. They see us on the screen, read about us and think we're all right. We can't afford to disappoint them. "That's wh) I don't go out very much any more. I used to like to go to nightclubs and places like that. But sometimes that is misunderstood. Vou ha\e to be careful. "I like to clown, you know — naturally. And once I was at a party and \\ as pretending to be drunk — just fooling and trying to be funny. I never take a drink, you know. Haven't in years. "But someone at this party thought I really was drunk and the story went round: 'Brown was drunk!' People said, 'We saw him staggering around and making a fool of himself.' "It was pretty bad. One of my friends, defending me, got into a fist fight about it. It taught me a lesson." It occurred to me to wonder what the kiddies thought of Mr. Brown's pretending to be drunk on the screen. The Less Seen, The Better IT just shows you that you can't be too careful," he continued. "I have reached the conclusion that it is better and safer not to appear in public at all, if you can help it. "It is a great privilege in one way to be a comedian. To make people laugh. To make them forget their troubles for a little while. And especially to make children laugh. "People of the stage and screen who become involved in scandals — whose divorces and love affairs get into the papers in an unpleasant way — do more harm than they can f)ossibly imagine. They don't realize the influence they ha\ e. They don't realize how youngsters imitate them and look up to them — how they idealize them. It isn't so difficult to beha\-e yourself — to be decent. And it is our duty." Lines from "Hold Everything" and similar pictures kept popping into my head. The jokes about — er — "pansies." The gags about gentlemen being pinched and kicked behind. The sly winks. The innuendos. Conversations concerned with — but, after all, this magazine is also read by kiddies, and besides, the postal authorities just might have something to say about my quoting these things. What, I wondered, did the kiddies think of those matters? And did they, by any chance, imitate those gags in their own li\'ing rooms? Sorry He Cried " T LO\'E children," Mr. Brown rattled on. A "There are my own boys. If anything should liap[)eii to them — "U'you know, once I did a terrible thing! It was sacrilege and I know it. I was making a picture at Warners' in which I had to die. There was a very sad scene in which I was supposed to weep. But I couldn't. "The director talked and talked to me and I tried anil tried. But the tears wouldn't come. I was not in the mood. Or something "Finally, in desperation, I went and sac down in a corner by myself. I thought an j thought. I pictured to myself my tun youngsters, dead and lying cold and stiti in two little graves. And I cried, all right !|j You bet I cried! "But it was a terrible thing for me to do and I have regretted it many and many a time. What if anything should happen to them? How would I feel?" I could only guess. Fans Who Matter HE discussed his fan mail — such of it as comes from children. He reads it and often answers it himself. But not unless he perceives that the writer is a real, honest-togoodness fan of his. "If a letter just says, 'Dear Mr. Brown; [ enjoyed your work in "No! No! Nanette! ' (I wasn't even iti that picture!) If a letter reads like that, I just throw it away. Bur if they show that they really have followed my work and are interested in me, I ofteti write to them and send them pictures." There was the little girl who told him that her Daddy never laughed and jokeil with her and that she thought it must be wonderful to have a Daddy around the house like Mr. Brown. Joe wrote to her arn! explained that maybe Daddy was too tired to joke after a long, hard day in the office, making money to buy her pretty things. There were a number of such incidents. I was getting all befogged. I just couldn't reconcile all this purity of thought and action in one's private life with the indubitable suggestiveness that is constantly being exploited in musical comedies upon the screen. I interrupted him to bring up the subject of popular song lyrics and asked him if he didn't think some of them were pretty awful. He looked a little vague. "Like 'Turn on the Heat' and some of those — " I urged. "Say!" he cried, "I have the words to a couple of new songs here. Songs for my next picture. I don't know the melodies very well, but I can give you an idea of how they go — " ThemeSong Themes HE produced a piece of paper with some \-erses on it and burst into song — to the high edification of the aforementioned small miss opposite us — beating time on the table, making more or less appropriate gestures as he sang. One song was one of those high-stepping collegiate dance numbers, with the con\entional suggestions about heightened temperatures. The other was concerned with something about, "Whatever I do — when I do it with you — I want to do it harder — " Something like that. Mr. Brown explained it to me. "He is in love with her, you see. It makes him feel intense." 'Oh! " "But aren't they pips? Cute and catchy and peppy. With a chorus and a ballet, they'll be great!" "Mmm." I went away presently and shut myself in my room and concentrated upon these matters. I had never given much thought to protecting the innocence of the kiddies before. Evidently it was a problem to be considered at some length. The rules, as quoted, seemed to be that you may be as suggestive as the law allows upon the screen, in full view and hearing of the little dears, so long as you behave in the most exemplary manner at home where they can't see y ou. After concentrating upon these matters for an hour-and-a-half I was still confused.