Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

inother Lon Chaney {Conlinmd from page 94) i 1 is drawn to those to whom life had been r iind, rather than to those upon whom its \ ssings have been showered. During a recent visit to New York, his . re time was spent in observing the fa, iars of the night court, in company with \ friend, Commissioner Enright. His in ■spicuousness, off the screen, enables him I mingle freely with people without fear of > ognition. \ part of his knowledge of the underworld , of course, come from books; but a far :iter portion of it has come from his own sonal observations, made on park benchin cheap " flop houses " and other obscure ints where the world's flotsam and jetsam igregate, tossed up by the tide of adsity. Many a "peterman," gunman and lerworldling has spoken freely to a hea\ yluldered, roughly-clothed individual with irered cap pulled low over strong, deeplyhed features, speaking his own language, 1 gone his way, little realizing that he has itributed something of himself to the irvelous perfection of Lon Chaney 's ten characterizations. 1 shed no maudlin tears over our crimils," is the way in which Lon sums up his Mtude, "but I believe that our entire Mtude toward the man beyond the law uild be just one thing — a square deal, .e Golden Rule is still a splendid idea It doesn't grow old-fashioned; and man, iL-r all, is still his brother's keep>er!" Menace or Messiah ? {Continued from page $8) ibitious, eager to learn new ways, better \ s. For the first time in our history, the i^ants are looking up off the ground, '^'ou cannot make a new Heaven and u'w Earth in a day or a year — it takes icrations to straighten bent backs. Rut le motion picture is giving them someling they have never had before — Hope, n my picture, 'The Old and the New,' you ave the whole story. The Old, men and omen no better than the beasts, tortured y a Devil, the implacable devil of the soil, hich must be turned by hand, seeded by and, reaped by hand; the New — mahinery! Men freed by tractors. Instead of ighteen hours a day in the fields, six. " Picturesriue? Of course, the Old order as picturesque— shawled women flailing he grain with sticks, peasants in blue louses cutting the fields with sickles! Fiut be world wasn't made for the tourists to ake snap shots of. "You should wa^ch an audience of peasants seeing 'The Old and the New,' seeing with their own eyes the great beautiul powerful machines sweep in an army cross the grain fields, doing their work for hem. None of your American movies ever tiad such a breathless audience. They understand dimly that it means what even the Revolution didn't mean for them — Freedom. Time to live like human beings, to enjoy life. Time to learn. "\Vhat will they do with this freedom? Who knows what the leisure of two hundred ion people may mean to the world? lOn pictures can teach them what to ith their new hours of life, perhaps, first to give them these hours! This I showed in my picture was the first turned to the great experiment of ration. It is the largest farm in the A hundred tractors work it! So were not needed, but when it means to the experiment, the Soviet is ih. They provide more tractors than {Continued on page loj) These Pictures Are Free! Yes, these six handsome sepia-finish pictures of well known Motion Picture Celebrities have been specially prepared as a gift to you and your friends — from Motion Picture Classic. The size of each picture is five and one half by eight inches. Here are the subjects: Greta Garbo Nancy Carroll Janet Gaynor John Boles Clara Bow Maurice Chevalier Start saving pictures of your favorites now, or add them to your collection. All you have to do is just send us your name and address, and we will mail this fine set of pictures to you absolutely free! Tell your friends about this offer. Fill out and mail this coupon now! i MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC ^ 1501 Broadway ^ 5^ New York City. ^ I i 5 Please send me the special set of six gift pictures, absolutely free. 5 ^ Name ^ ^ Street Address ^ ^ Town ^ y State ^ f ^ 97