Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1920)

CeM°^!C.IURft The Creed of Raymond Hatton (Continued from pa e 58) "No one i^ wholly bad," Mr. Hatton replied, simply. "The love of the beautiful is \erc in him. needing only to be awakened. We have to concentrate on a lew vital points in building up our roles re the camera so that the entire character of a man is revealed in the flashes on the screen. This is necessarily accomplished thru suppestion — a stroke here, a stroke there, a little filling in, and before you is the man— if the strokes have been true and telling ones." During his years with the Lasky Company. Mr. Hatton has proven his versatility, that much-coveted jewel in the ac• crown, for not only has he played dramatic and emotional roles with his exceptional skill, but comedy as well. It is easy to laugh with him. for he has an inexhaustible strain of merriment ami he plays comedy with a deftness and lightthat makes it all very plausible and human. "I love it. tin." he confessed, with a smile. "Somehow you let yourself so in comedy as you never do in heavy roles. 1 ould like to work on a schedule of two dramatic pictures, then a comedy, for that would indeed balance one's moods very satisfactorily." Raymond Hatton comes from Iowa, having been born in the little town of Red Oaks, but when he was ten the family moved to Des Moines and shortly afterward he announced his ambition to become an actor. His father, a surgeon, tho thoroly surprised and somewhat disappointed, gave his consent to Raymond's joining a read company, and the lad became an actor-in-the-making. During the following years he played every kind of laying the foundation for his splendid characterizations which have made him conspicuous in motion pictures. Mr. Hatton is now one of Goldwyn's featured players, with stardom looming just ahead. Probably the first picture to place him among the astral lights will be W. T. Locke's charming story, "Septimus," with its theme of sacrifice, which Ge ;s made famous on the stage. Should this be his first medium, it will afford ample opportunity for those qualities of gentle wistfulness, sublety and simplicity with their profound appeal and dignity, in which this actor excels. "I am making my first picture since going to Goldwyn's." Mr. Hatton as he seated Mrs. Hatton and me at the luncheon-table in the Mary Louise Tea Room, overlooking the city from its twelve-story height. "It is with Will Rogers in 'Jmt Call Me Jim,' a strong play with a deep undercurrent of faith. I play Paul Benedict, the half-demented but dear old inventor, a sympathetic role which I am enjoying. Rogers is a splendid fellow and one of the fairest men I have ever known, clean and fine. too. His little boy. Jimmy, is jn the cast and he -lever kiddie— the other dav he said ill, 'Father, how high is high?' "I find children are good critics in our biased and arrive at the truth quickly. 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