Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

rhey Know A Thing Or Two {Continued from page 6j) :id acts as a rule, resh and bossy. Sever. Most stage children are But not my Quillans. Business, If Not Pleasure I'D talk to them this way: I'd say, 'If you can't be well-behaved because it's he decent, respectable thing to do, then Id it because it's good business. More flies ire caught with sugar than vinegar. The nore friends you got backstage, the better,' 'd tell them. "Stay out of people's way. fCeep out of the wings, unless you get perTiission to stand there. When you come off rom your act, hike to your dressing-rooms ind get your make-up off and get out of the ; heater.' " It ain't boasting, no, ma'am, when I say niy kids were welcomed back to every theater they played more than once. "I taught them, this, too: to take kidling well when the joke was on themselves — lut to be careful about kidding other leople. That's more important in Hollywood than any place in the world. The •own is full of practical jokers, whose sense )f humor isn't sufficiently elastic to see the loint when it is turned on them. ' But when \ou're the goat,' 1 told my kids, 'grin and lear up under it.' There's nothing worse in •he show business, or any other business, than the fellow who can't see the laugh on J himself. If it doesn't do anything else, it itends toward good fellowship. "As the boys grew a little older, the busilOess of training them became a little more complicated. Saj what we will for it. and I love it, nevertheless life in the show world is a little lajc. The conventions are not as strictly adhered to as they might be. It ain't deliberate wickedness, but it's carelessness. It's easy to drift into the slip-shod way of dealing with things. The Most Important Thing ""DUT before them constantly, I kept the Pj example of the devotion between their mother and myself. Oft-times when I traveled with the act, Mrs. Quillan and I would be separated for months at a time. And yet never once did I let my children see me miss my daily letter to her. I read every word of the letters she wrote to us. I taught them that faithfulness to one woman was the grandest thing of God's scheme. Look at mamma sitting over there laughing at me, will you? ' \'ou scalawag,' she'll say after you're gone, ' Vou old scalawag!' But she'll only say it with her lips. She knows deep down in her heart that what I'm saying is the truth. "I taught them to respect all women. Like they would their own sisters. Maybe the girls they met didn't dress, or look, or talk like their sisters, but my boys learned to treat them as such. When a man loses his respect for womanhood, he loses his respect for himself! "'Don't ever set yourself up to judge other people,' I'd tell them. 'Maybe they ' is en't the same religion as yours. Or the ^aie ideals. Or the same way of seein' things. But judgin' is not for you. Take the good you can get out of them, and leave the bad alone.' "I didn't say they couldn't go out at night after the shows. I didn't forbid them to drink. Or to smoke. I'm too old a dog not to know that forbidden fruit is the sweetest, ma'am. I just put a proposition up to them. It Was Up to Them F you go out and make fools of yourself,' I d say, 'that's your busine.ss. You're {Continued on page gj) I Her Hands lovely as a hncJe s after 10 years liOLisekeepui^ V 1920 . . tliank.s to LUX in tlie cJislipan, .says M.r,s. H. \V^. Simmond.s THIS attractive voun^ homcmaker has di)ne all her own work, having iier hands in and out of the dishpan rhrct times a day — torten years. Yet thev are soft and white and sm(K)th as when she was married . . . thanks to Lux ' "Washing dishes with Lux leaves mv hands lovt-lv looking —Mrs Simmonds sa) s enthusiasticalK . . so snn)oth and white and daint\'. A Great Dwortry Modern young homemakers themselves discovered, in using Lux for their silks and woolens, that the gentle, bland Lux suds work the same magic with their hands as with their tine fabrics. Among thousands of young wives inter\*iewed in 1 1 large cities, 96 out of every 100 use Lux — to keep their hands lovely ... in spite »>f housework! FAMOUS beauty shops — U)") of them — iultisc Lux for the hands! With all our experience, we actually can 1930 ThoinanJt of ivumtn uhn urn f>riJr> hit tears ,tgii itill ban hanJi <•/.( tuith a* on ihtir utJJnii: Jiiy I hunks to iht magic of Lmx.' not tell the difference," they sav. between the iiands of the woman with maids ami the hands of the wom.m who uses Lux in the dishpan. They know that ordinary coarse soaps leave hands red and rough while the gentle. bland Lux protects the beaut\ oils of the skin, keeping busy hands smooth and w hite. Yet Lux for dishes costs less than 1 c a da\ ' For lovely liaiuls • costs Ic.s.s tlian 1* a clay 87