Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

They'll Pay You to Insult Them {Continued from page 48) T Lady Stanley knows her stuff. She will "■ ' "1 in a large way. To all is an excellent contempt ,:. ustry and everyone in it. )o surer way to succes.* and "that I l i" than to take that attitude. I'l l > ers will pa.y you in exact proport: \'t .our contempt for them — and for ires. The more superior you are, the you sneer at them, the better will be > uur jol). Broadway Buzzards N the upheaval that followed the advent "t t ■ Hires, hundreds of con at this and that were ii-: . .s \'ork. The very name, ■ w York," IS imprcsai\e to Hollywood, ro is a general impression that New <:rs consider us provincial or some That they laugh at us (and not in cs, either), that they look upon us as a Da \ inci might contemplate iis and his Jiggs. \V'e are amusing. I n M icv out of our pro<luct. our heads in shame anil • not "true artist." We and we know it is degrading, ines. We are clo<ls. We are .J. Mountebanks. Buttonholers. There are wrinkles in our vests and ' ' ' • ■ ' ' ' ith crumbs. ' >ld all these things ■■ ... I ,,,, l,,„._,.r IIh 1,1 Mticre they are wrong — at the 111. i<11 ^' expense. They pay the sncerers iiiorr ■ V than they ever saw l>efore to do it — arc pathetically grateful for the It ail M-ems to be part of a curious little ' ' ' M stop you from doing it if they II pay you money for doing it Jim's Their Pal Now TIM I l 'LL^', for iiist.ince, lampoone<l the U: fnr \f ir in iirifU. He laid bare revealed em-.•W9. He was \ , 1 1 0111 111 .11 1\ i'\ cry lot. '>unt iMiiKht till' nights to t in , . . ; . ..y it ith rhaffertnn admits that she used to nipt for mofiDii pn tiircs. I. silent <l.i\> .iiid tlu-\ |>f glittering oilers, I her piquant and ■• came along and 11 by achieving a lliis VH.'M|x>iiil, »lic All! |iinii,il>l) »ur\uc. Charlie Tells Them Mir.RF U Ch ulrs Hm kf )r.| rxrrutive* "lousy" and "fools" and "rotten " right out loud. Folks mutter that he is "talking himself out of a job." But I observe that directors squabble over him and studios strive eagerly to borrow him — while a good many meeker souls are slinking away to return to the stage whence they and he all came. Look at Eric von Stroheim! For goodness' sake! No one could possibly have less respect for the holders of picture pursestrings than he has. No one could have a greater contempt for producers and their formulas, for commercialism, for restrictions, for practicality, for any of the accepted picture tenets, than \'on. He Hings their money, with grand gestures, to the winds. He insults them to their faces and to the Press. He sneers at the mentality, the race, the habits and the aims of all producers. Yet there is always some one of them who will give him a job, open his purse and attempt to cope with \'on, while he shows them how a picture should be made in ninety-eight reels. He has had more quarrels with Universal, perhaps, than with any other studio. But he is returning there, at their urgent request an<l for plenty of money, to remake " Blind Husbands" in talking pictures. Doubtless there will be fireworks, hot words, namecallings, maylK' (goo<JyI goody 1 1 a little fighting. And someone will make him a nice, fat offer as soon as it is over. Or perhaps while it is in progress. Pay Dirt A YEAR ago, there were in Hollywood two young men — a title writer and a nress-agent by res()ective professions. Neither had a job and their prosjiects were growing less of getting them. .So they s.i» f': -1 down and wrote a book alMlUt •<n\. An insulting lHX>k. They > . , >ple names by name, if you know what I mean. Thr iii.lustry was indignant. It wanted si 1 about them. They were "in ! "biters of h.inds that fetl them." I \ idn't fed them so very And then they sold til' : ..,..1 > i ' their insulting book for a -I" ; ! ular sum and are now in the • l>. in. l..-,:,v-,! t'-.r ..n.-ni ,! Ih'Ioi L1 When \'irta Delm.Tr w.is .nt W.nmers, a . .;est tll.ll '..11 I. . h 1 . lil I ir 1 II w ith her. " That is," they would add, "if you don't mind '..n. •n-iih.l' She insults nrrymir:" was nothing more nor !■ I assure you. They werr is could be of her. She w.is their i on th* iiKv liciick w • man, a-s That « .1 scream urk and won .\riliur lo^ids and loads T' ' ' ' ■ ■ rs. You ■111 tralUc reach .i III make ' iiid-a-half iicii you are ready to collect in ill in tKe United States celebrates tKis year its Jubilee. Fift)> years ago one man and seven lassies landed at tKe Battery, Nev? York City, the pioneer band of a new eVangel. Since that day tKe organization Kas steadily advanced to tKe KigK place it now occupies in tKe esteem of tKe nation. Rel igion in action IS tKe basis of all Its endeavor. No barriers of race, creed or color are recognized. 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