Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1922)

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I should never have believed you could make a home in the very heart of a hotel." "Here we live without any worries over the servant problem," he went on. "If I want to bring home one, two or a dozen guests for dinner, I dont have to shiver all the way home for fear the wife wont have enough lamb chops to go around. And yet we have our beloved privacy. It is a splendid solution of the housing and servant problem. But shh .... come here, do you want to see the cutest thing in the world?" He opened a door and drew from the depths of another room a tiny laughingeyed, more or less shy, little woman. "I want you to meet my wife !" The pride with which he said wife was not only the result of being still in the honeymoon stage, but settled without a question what Hobart Bosworth thinks about marriage. There was nothing more needed to be said concerning his views on that subject. So we turned to his career. "Life is a funny proposition," he said, lighting his great-bowled pipe, "it plays tricks on us. Each time success has sought me it has been in another line from that in which I was seeking it. It is like adventurous souls who journey restlessly around the world in search of happiness only to find it at the last in their own home. "As a boy of twelve I was absolutely illiterate. But I had a great ambition burning within me. I wanted to be a painter. For three years I was at sea on old merchant sailing-ships, and it was good, hard physical labor. Every cent I earned I spent on books, determined to educate myself. Then in San Francisco I wrestled and boxed for a living and sometimes starved. "There a lady who knew I had spent my last nickel for paints asked me why I didn't supe in the theater evenings and take painting lessons in the afternoon. I thought this was a wonderful idea. You can imagine the rest — how the bright lights of the theater enmeshed my boyish imagination. Soon I was taking parts and I spent my spare time studying the Elizabethan drama." Later Mr. Bosworth became a member of the famous Augustin Daly Stock Company in New York City. He played leads with Julia Marlowe, Henrietta Crosman, Amelia Bingham and Mrs. Fiske. Finally he was starred on Broadway by Harrison Grey Fiske in "Marta of the Lowlands." It was during the successful run of this play that he was stricken with tuberculosis. Far from being terrified or heart-broken, he said : "At last I shall have time enough to read and paint all I want to." He went West and for years lived in a hammock in the open, reading and studying the classic and Shakespearian drama. In 1909 Frank Bogg, who was producing pictures for Colonel Selig, asked Bosworth to play in a picture. "We'll give you one hundred and fifty dollars for two days work," he urged. Bosworth needed the hundred and fifty so he took a chance, and he enjoyed the work taken in the midst of lovely locations. That was the beginning .... He stayed with Selig until 1913, playing in one-reel productions, historically correct and beautifully produced. He wrote the scenarios for "Evangeline," "Miles Standish," "The Sins of Marcus," "The Eye of Conscience" and a hundred other classics. In 1913 he produced Jack London's "Sea Wolf" which was one of the earliest multiple reel subjects ever made. A great success, it proved his contention that a fouror five-reel film was possible. I have dwelt on the Bosworth career so that you may see for yourselves that he knows pictures from the ground up. Now I want to tell you a few of the things he told me concerning them. "The reason pictures do not progress faster is that the big men in pictures are all ruthless egoists," he told me. "It is true that most genius is egotistical, but it is not the callous selfishness which our foremost directors practice. "It is queer that I should be playing these brutal he-man roles when I cant bear to even hit a man. Several months ago I broke the bones in my hand because I preferred my fist should hit the floor rather than Niles Welch's nose against whom I was fighting in the picture. "Foolish overhead is eating up the profits in pictures. I made the 'Sea Wolf for $9,000 in 1913; today a similar production would cost $900,000. Why? Because then I didn't pay a mint for the scenario, nor for an assistant director to remind the director what he should do, nor an assistant assistant director to lift the camera and stool for them. We had one camera and one set of lights and we arranged them ourselves, and in doing things ourselves we knew they were done and done correctly. "No star is worth $7,000 a week to a producer. He cant poesibly make that much out of her pictures, yet the producers go on paying such salaries. "I love my horse, my wife and my dog. My horse first, because my wife can call out for food when she wants it, but my horse is absolutely dependent on my remembering to hand him his bag of oats." And so I leave Hobart Bosworth to you — his public. In life a gentle, kindly figure, a prophet, a poet-painter, a cultured scholar of his own teaching, a brave gentleman and an actor of blood-thirsty roles at the Thomas H. Ince studio today. Dash of Scarlet (Continued from page 55) in Hollywood with her maid. For a while she had Teddy Sampson (Miss Teddy Sampson) staying with her, but Rosemary was working very hard, getting up early in the morning, and she found it more restful to be alone. She would enjoy dancing every night of the week, but not at the expense of her career ; so, periodically, she swears off and will not go out for weeks at a time. She has the divine spark, the flame that makes one person stand out on the silversheet, and the lack of which makes an actress just a beautiful figurine. •* With her ability, she should be further than she is today. A flame, Rosemary, who only needs the proper harnessing to create great things. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE By James B. Clark The Ingenue: The art director speaks like a book. The Heavy: Yes, but, unfortunately, he cant be as easily shut up. 1A££