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Lean, awkward, lazy — with a deplorable tendency toward practical jokes on the set. During the filming of "All Quiet," he made life miserable for a certain plump Teutonic gentleman who was connected with the company. Slim carried a stout rubber band and a supply of tin-foil which, as any small boy can tell you, makes a formidable "wad" for a "sling-shot." And whenever the Teutonic gentleman leaned over, he was in dire danger of receiving a tin-foil "wad" in the — er — rear. In vain did the director storm. In vain did the plump gent threaten revenge. Slim always looked so imiocent . . . I visited his current trench the other day. I explained, nervously, that I was very gunshy and he assured me that there would be no explosions. Just dialogue, that afternoon. "Don't sit on the steps of the power truck," he warned me. "We have it electrified— just to play little pranks on people." I thanked him. "If there should be a charge exploded — which I am sure there won't — relax your muscles and open your mouth," he told me. I concentrated on that. A prop man was complaining that there was a shortage of firecrackers, which were needed for some shot or other. Slim, it was explained, had used them all up, putting them in the backs of the pants of unsuspecting visitors on the set. (I began to wish I hadn't come!) It Was to Laugh ACAMERAM.'\N remarked, ostentatiously, "I guess there won't be any jokes played to-day!" "He thinks you're my wife!" Slim whispered, twinkling. {That was a revealing remark!) He found me a chair, amid sand-bags and things. There was a brief rehearsal. Suddenly I saw a prop man about to throw a switch*. Suspicion came upon me. I covered my ears, relaxed and opened my inouth. There was a terrific explosion — about ten feet away from me. We were swallowed up in a dense cloud of dust and smoke. A large portion of the San Fernando Valley got into my mouth. When the dust cleared a little and I dared open my eyes, I found the So-and-So beside me, shaking with laughter. "I'm terribly sorry!" he said, belying his looks. " I really didn't think there would be any explosions." "Four more for this shot," murmured the script girl. I was brave. I bore it. And when I went back to the publicity department in my clothes that had been white — and with my face that had been fairly ditto — and said, "Guess who this is!" they all chorused, "Amos 'n' Andy! . . . Miss Pittsburgh! ..." "VVell! Well! That's what you get for being an interviewer! Soldier of Fortune SU^IMERX ILLE led a vagabond sort of existence before he came to Hollywood and went to work for Sennett as an extra. He ran away from home while he was still a youngster and wandered about the country learning an amazing assortment of trades. He worked in brickyards, lumber mills and machine shops. Once he worked in a coffin factory. And once — just once — he promoted a prize-fight. It was a preliminary bout in some series of matches or other and he hired both the contestants. One was a big, tough taxi driver who had but one eye. The other was a little bird he picked up on the street. It looked like a pretty one-sided match. "I thought I'd better sit in the corner of the big guy," Slim says. "And I bet all my money on him. Do you know — that big fellow never struck a blow! The little one just chased him 'round and 'round the ring until I got so mad I jumped up and hit him with a water bucket!" Another episode in a prize-fight ring nearly ended Slim's career at a very early stage. And what in the world should we have done then for a typical enlisted man to fight our mock movie wars? He and another comedian from Sennett's were to put on a comic fistic encounter for a charity benefit at Santa Monica. The climax of the fight, as planned, was to come when the seconds would rush into the ring, smack the contestants over the heads with break-away bottles and drag them away. The Joke Came Hard THE bottles were made of resin. Just before the performance, it occurred to Slim that it would be funnier if they were filled with water. So he filled them. Water, it seems, hardens resin and makes it as solid as any glass — if not a little solider! So when he was smacked, the bottle didn't break. But his head did. There was nothing make-believe about his unconscious state. Later he arose, amid the tweeting of the little birdies, and wandered unsteadily out onto the pier nearby. He was just on the point of stepping off into the Pacific Ocean when som^ne saw and rescued him. Mercy! Slim will do a series of two-reel comedies in which he wins various pretty girls of various nationalities, despite the machinations of the big, tough top-sergeant — the natural enemy, one gathers, of all privates. The supervisor on the series, a shrewd gentleman named Kaufman, explained to me that Slim's chief charm is his wistfulness. "A comedian must look helpless," he said. "He must look as if he would always get the worst of it. There must be a sweetness about him. Then, when he triumphs unexpectedly, in the end — everyone is pleased!" The Chaplin legend, you see, is still doing a lot for the sad-faced boys! So far as I am concerned, the moment in "Troopers Three" when Slim fell oflf his horse rind then rose to give it a long, long look of hurt reproach was one of the brightest in recent pictures. Because of it I even forgive him for those bangs on the set! For an unusual Hollywood diet, which gives you That certain feeling of having gained What you wanted to gain, digest Motion Picture CLASSIC 100