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Photo by Wax man
King
Vidor
The Man on the Cover
The Story of A Little Parade When the Camera Jammed and a Big Parade When It Didn’t.
SOME men achieve success, fame and distinction when Fate places Golden Opportunity in their path and when, with the instincts of a football player, they pick it up and race down the field to the goal.
Some men achieve success solely through their grim, dogged persistency and their indomitable resolve to accomplish the purpose for which they set out.
Such a man is King Vidor, whose portrait appears on the cover and whose most recent film triumph, The Big Parade, is already on the tongue of the professional world. King Vidor has “arrived” because he has never for one moment forgotten the objective which he set as his goal, be
cause he has allowed no opportunity pass that might further his purpose and because when no opportunity presented he went out and made one.
When the films and King Vidor were both young there was born within him an ambition to become a dominant figure in the motion picture world. It is doubtful whether at that time he concretely visualized himself as a director. Probably he did not. But in him is the creative instinct— the instinct which is the heritage of every boy but which in so many instances becomes atrophied with adolescence and manhood and is completely subjugated by the responsibilities of life and the burden of making a living. Combine in one
individual creativeness, persistency and ambition, and Destiny will read the result in terms of success.
When King Vidor is asked about his early career in the movies he becomes retrospective and a twinkle comes into his eye as he tells of that day not so many years ago when, as a boy in Houston, Texas, he wagered $5, and offered to sell his bicycle if necessary to meet the wager, on the mechanics of motion pictures. It is a story that he delights in telling and in that incident he believes he received his first genuine inspiration to make the movies his life-work.
The films were still comparatively new in those days and the story opens with