Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

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Premieres, he be-' lieves, are capable of struggling along without his patronage. Often he misses his own pictures in preference to a quiet evening at contract bridge at his own, or a friend's home. He enjoys dinner parties, providing there are not too many people, and once or twice a week he dines out at a popular cafe on an "off" night. He frankly admits that he loves beautiful women, in the abstract; but prefers the society of men friends, in the concrete. For that reason he is not looked on as good engagement bait by the local husband-hunters. His musical activities, singing and piano, date back to the time of his childhood in Canada. Of the four sons of Charles and Fronie Pidgeon, Walter was the musical one. Instead of following medicine or law, as did his brothers, he evinced a talent for amateur dramatics as early as his high school and military days. His rich voice made him outstanding in East St. John's glee club activities, and he would have immediately branched into the study of music abroad, if the war had not sent him there on a little private business for Canada. What He Missed, He Heard IN 1915, he enlisted in the Canadian army as a private in the artillery. After a year at the front he was wounded and spent the remainder of his nineteen months in France in a base hospital within bombing distance of the Heinies. What Mr. Pidgeon didn't see of the war — he heard. He also heard Elsie Janis, "toast of the A. E. F.," on one of her tours through the front hospitals and aided her in staging an entertainment for the boys. Incidentally, Elsie also heard Walter, and made him promise to get in touch with her if he ever contemplated a theatrical career. But it was not until several years after the Armistice that he reminded her of that promise. In the meantime, he had returned home, broken in health, confined to crutches for two years. The war had not embittered him, so much as it had robbed him of interest. He dabbled about in various things. In a desultory manner he traveled to Ita i and studied singing. It was there that 1 ' met his wife, a non-professional. Tiring Europe, he came back to the United Statil and affiliated himself with a Boston broke;! age house. It was not until this enterpris failed, sweeping away a great deal of.h; inheritance in the crash, and after the d( of his wife, that he turned seriously ti stage for a livelihood. Elsie Remembered WITH the implicit confidence novice, he wired Elsie Janis decision. Anyone else might have forgo that promise made years ago to a sick 1 in a French hospital — but not the one only Elsie. She wired him to join her foPT concert engagement at Aeolian Hall in Ne York. It was the beginning of a long successful tour with Elsie through the^l United States and England in "At Home." I In his spare time he made records for the X'ictor people. It was Joseph Schenck who brought him to Hollywood as a leading man. Silent pictures were in exclusive reign at the time of his debut and, like John Boles, the equally personable Mr. Pidgeon found a great deal of his personality wasted before the voiceless camera. He drifted hither and thither in support of very beautiful ladies, rating "satisfactorily — but hardly more than that," he puts it. "I got to the point where I actually envied the character men and the heavies. They at least had something to do, besides wear a dinner coat and rush in at the nick of time to defend a lady's honor. The Untangled Web "/'^N top of what I believed to be my indifferent showing on the silent, screen, I was a sick man almost from the start. My health, which had been miserable since the war, was not improving even in what the boosters call 'God's climate.' Lord, there were times when Hollywood, with all her attractions, looked ghastly to me! "Funny, how Fate can straighten out all our tangles for us with one gesture, isn't it? When I went into the hospital I had little to live for. Six weeks later, not only was I a well man, mentally and physically, but that miracle of talking pictures had taken hold of my profession and given me a new chance. "I've been lucky — awfully lucky. I feel that my real work in Hollywood has just begun, since signing this new First National contract. I don't care if people forget there was ever a Walter Pidgeon of silent pictures. So far as I am concerned, my career really started with the last six pictures I have done: 'A Most Immoral Lady, 'Her Private Life,' 'The Bride of the Regiment,' 'Mademoiselle Modiste,' 'Sweet Kitty Bellairs,' and now this picture with Miss Miller. Not a bad break," he chuckled, "for coming back from the grave." When you stop to think of it — not bad at all! Books are seldom censored. Likewise stage plays. But the movies? Ah, the movies are pure. Or, if they aren't, it isn't the reformers' fault. That is the sob-story of Hollywood. But talkies have remade the movies. Are they likely to remake censorship also? Don't miss "How Free Is Speech?" in the September MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC 92