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Normal, Though An Actor
By
ROBERT FENDER
A
NI) to-day, readers of all nations, we take up Klliot Nugent, or hf)w to be normal though an authorac t.ir. tlliot's history is closely conrn red with his new picture. "For \\v Love of Lil." That picture ni./v not yet have arrived at \( ir local fiijoN Palace or it may have come and gone.
If you have followed your H .llvwood, however, you uill know that the story (ii lis with the life of an aver.iL.' Iiome-loving American man — a II n like the thirty-odd others on ,r block, with a wife and chilli 1. a car that could stand a little •r, and a golf game that could (I quite a little improvement. I ' who is as kmd and gentle as . come, vet one who is known '•ave the breakfast table occa.illy in ruffled m(x>d, slammed r and all. One who tries valiV to keep up with the modern kknacks on a salary that pror little more than a knickss living. One who laughs I ' ;lits and makes up. niir, ; ,1 ,,. who manages to
/(""It through It all, iinemo
nafly fine and brave, the salt of i^BHMII^BB^Hi
earth.
Iliot Nugent IS the first of his i I've met in Hollywood. Be
a friend of his and mim mkrud that . rrf-ar " Nugent," he said, " is different."
•.illv different from his Holly;) here a year r he here ten years he would remain '•'r |.,, .il infections.
.An, I
and a half, but immune to the
A Pound of Prevention I, MOT could never "go Hollvwood,"
never II that \ ■
he " went '
l\ w(H>d or
for the very Dover, Ohio, worse, he will flicring posti<«ts from the
Elliot Nugent Will Never Contnict Those Hollywood Diseases
parent disease of showdom. There is enough native human nature in him to act forever as a charm against the evils of professional life.
^ oung Nugent is a specialist in human nature. He is the average man's ambassador to Broadway and Hollywood. His "Dulcy" and "The Poor Nut" are plays of the people, by the people and for the people. I he fact that they may rate sniffs from snooty critics doesn't bother Nugent. He is out. quite openly, to supply wholesale enjovment. If dilettantes find his handicraft a little too earthy, thev will just have to find it a little too earthy, that's all. He knows his business too well to be sidetracked by clever columnists.
He let me in on that business. ( He talks like a young college instructor. Precisely clipped speech accentuated bv the use of his thin, almost hard mouth and delicate hands.)
".Average people." he told me, "have to be pampered in their plavs and movies. I hey won't stand for their lives to be portraved in a cold, analytical manner. They won't tolerate anyone who holds the mirror too closely up to life. They find the reflection too displeasing. No one's daily life is all that it might be. We don't go to the theater or movies to be reminded of that fact. We go for entertainment.
He Prefers the Public
FROM the critics' point of view, that play or movie is probably best which allows no quarter in faithfully presenting the daily scene. These fellows would have whining wives written in as whining wives, and cross, tired husbands depicted as they actually are. Unpleasantness, they sav, figures prominently in everyday life and so has (Continued on page lOi)
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