Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

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L-690, Chicago. III. I Like To Interview (Continued from page 68) and it gives you a sense of having a special performance given for your particular benefit, when Lupe Velez leaps and shouts or John Barrymore does his "bad boy" stuff. The Barrymore quirks are particularly amusing. He says perfectly frightful things to you at first — especially if you are a lady interviewer. Apparently, it pleases him to try to disconcert you. But if you decline to be disconcerted and simply wait with what patience you can muster, until he has exhausted whatever ideas for this little pastime he can produce, he will eventually smile at you and remark, "AH right. I'm through. Now, let's do the story!" After that, it takes only a short time, because Jack has a pungently interesting mind and knows, through long experience, what is good copy. Slightly Mad Ones Preferred I PREFER to interview people who are a trifle insane. The illogical ones, the slightly mad ones, are much more fun than the reasonable, ordinary, every-day folk. I enjoyed the pak, blonde, exquisite "Follies" girl who screamed suddenly, "I want wine! Red, red wine! Life is so short!" And there was the actress who beat her breast one day at the Montmartre and moaned, to the mild astonishment of people at near-by tables, "God! If I were only a mother! " It was fun when Lupe leaped up in Madame Helene's to bite "her Garee" upon the ear. (I might add that this also considerably enlivened the luncheons of divers ladies from Iowa who were eating there.) Joseph Schildkraut is a diverting subject for an interview. He is likely to go frisking about the room on all fours, barking like a dog. Or to tell you, with dramatic abruptness, that he likes women who possess a "subtle, mental eroticism!" Which I consider really elegant. With smug faith in his own perspicacity, he picks out what he thinks are your pet vanities and proceeds to flatter them in what he doubtless considers a completely irresistible fashion. If you write, he tells you that he prefers the " mental type " of woman. He tells you, in any case, that you are "strangely interesting." He summed me up, at the last, by telling me that I was "inhibited and afraid of life!" Which would surprise my mother some. Watching Jack Believe I LIKE to watch Jack Gilbert (who is one of my favorite people, anyhow) pacing up and down and declaiming with terrific intensity whatever it is he is believing today. The fact that he will believe something entirely diflPerent to-morrow makes not the slightest difference. He is so picturesque, so vivid and emphatic about his believing! He does everything so hard\ I like the people who surprise me. Ramon Novarro — our spiritual and detached Ramon — pounding on the table and averring in a tremendous voice, "I do not believe in birth control ! " I like comedians. All comedians. Buster Keaton, who is likely to punctuate his remarks with funny falls. Harry Langdon, who is terrified of interviews and has to be lured out from behind a bit of scenery and coaxed and cajoled before he will talk at all. Wallace Beery, who once took me to the zoo at Universal and -made the elephant do tricks for me! Harry Sweet, who tried, without much success, to teach me how to do a "nip-up." (In case you don 't know what a "nip-up" is — it is sort of like a cartwheel and sort of like a backward somersault and the effect. if you are inexperienced, is distressingly Hfee falling downstairs.) The Labor-Saving Kind I LIKE the people who give the thing a little thought before they come to meet you — and have something or other to say and are willing to say it. People like Clive Brook, who talks in neat paragraphs, beginning at the beginning of his subject and ending with a tidy "tag," so that all you have to do is go away and put down what he said, without any business of trying to piece it together or figure out what he really meant by what you thought you heard him say. I always feel that if I could just have a dictaphone with me when I talk with Clive, I could turn it on and then, take the record home with the story on it — • all finished! People like Dorothy Mackaill, who will really think about what they are saying and try quite earnestly to reach some conclusion..* which will be worth printing. The people who are troubled with pains in their souls are interesting — for interviewing purposes only. I should hate to acquire one for an in-law or something. These folk, who become so utterly lacerated and devastated by the mere process of living and what they call "associating with clods" (they are always involved with "clods," somehow), reduce a mundane person like me, whose soul is pretty well-behaved and hardly ever aches, to a state of wide-eyed wonder. The Teeth-Gnashers THE people who wail and gnash their teeth over what "they" are doing to them give me nice, eerie little thrills, too. There is something so sinister about the mysterious "they" who are responsible for all the failures, all the suppressions and all the unpleasantnesses of life in the picture business. I have never determined exactly who "they" may be. Certainly they have a lot to answer for. But really best of all are the people whom the publicity departments do not want you to interview. And next best are the ones whom press-agents insist upon accompanying while they are interviewed. You may be certain that, if the department objects to your seeing an actor, he not only has something to say, but is pretty determined to say it. He is probably a person who dares to be himself (which is heresy in this business) and it is undoubtedly an interesting self, too, if his guardians are intent upon keeping it quiet. If I Were One of Them IF I were a motion picture actor (quaint notion that is!) I should pick out a fascinating and capricious personality for myself and then I should work very hard at trying to be like that. I should do strange and startling and novel things — if I could think of them — and I shouldn 't let anybody cram me into a pure-and-noble-and-kindto-animals mold. If I were naturally like that, I should try to keep it a secret. I 'd be a nuisance to the press-agents, but the press would think I was grand! I like, naturally, the people who are on time for appointments — at least, arriving on the day set for the interview. I like the ones who do not take this business too seriously and who do not susfiect me of malicious plans to ruin them with their public. I like the naive people and the honest ones and the funny ones — the exotic ones and the original ones. And — usually — the ones who don 't like me. There are quite a lot whom I do not like. I 11 list them for you on page 69. 96