Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1924-Jan 1925)

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JOHNSON CO., Depf. 869,-&&OT?g'fc. Lloyd Hughes is now starring in The Lost World The Confessions of a Free-Lance Confessed to JUDY McGREGOR THEY said that if Lloyd Hughes saw an interviewer coming, he could give a jack-rabbit pointers on running. One of those strong, silent men, that's how I had him sized up. But we got quite chatty, sitting on the banks of the Nile which, tho the geographies dont mention the fact, flows at present thru one corner of the First National lot. Lloyd Hughes brought us a box to sit on whose fragility was distinctly flattering. An alligator paddling at the end of a hidden chain in the sluggish stream was the dens ex machina. "What a life Props must lead," we suggested idly, "with such items as alligators on his morning's shopping-list." "Oh, you can rent anything around Hollywood," said Lloyd, shying a pebble at a brightly feathered cockatoo tethered to a palm tree-top, "anything from a cradle to a grave. Most studios dont try to keep props on hand any longer, they . even rent the casts they need." The controversy over the respective merits of contract and free-lance playing rages hotly in Hollywood wherever there are two or three actors gathered together, each side accusing the other of acidulous grapes. But here was a screen player who had tried both systems. "Do you," we wondered, "prefer lovemaking by the year or by the piece?" "Well, of course, free-lancing has its pros and its cons," hedged Mr. Hughes, "its greatest pro is the larger salary of an independent player while he is working; the greatest con is the possibility that he may not always find a chance to work. Personally, I wouldn't go back to a long-term contract for anything." "This way a leading man plays opposite all the lovely screen ladi instead of only one," we suggested flippantly. The hero of The Lost World smiled enigmatically. "It's always pleasant to have a change of — scenery," said he. "If you stay too long on one lot they make you one of the family, and expect you to put the cat out and lock the door every night." We thought of what a well-known star contracted to a big company once told us : "They call you upstage if you forget to kiss the cameraman good night !" he had wailed. "Three hundred and sixtyjfour days you come in and scatter sunshine, 'morhin' Bill!' 'Hullo Tom, how's the wife?' and then one day perhaps you've got a touch of Kleig eyes or you dont feel so good. You dont give a darn about the wife and you just say 'Morhin'. And the first thing you know it's gone around that you've changed your hat size." "Of course," Lloyd Hughes admitted, "the transient player is nobody's darling. He doesn't get much publicity, because, all that the company f or ^ which he happens to be working is interested in, is the picture. But in the end he's probably better known, for he has half a dozen releases instead of only one." "In short," we commented, "it boils down to a paradox that when a player is so popular that he is sure to be in continual demand, it's safe for him to risk the uncertainty of free-lancing!" It is safe enough for Lloyd Hughes certainly. In his two years of film freebooting he has only been without a part three weeks. The supply of screen lovers is very low in Hollywood — indeed, many of the beautiful women stars are unable to find one at the present moment, and all the reliable lovers in the business are rushed to death. And Hughes is not merely an operacloak holder, like so many leading men, a mere lay-figure for the star to shed costly tears over. He usually plays in all-star casts, tho when the occasion demands he can give a very fine performance on the second fiddle. "When a slump comes tho," we suggested, "it's the fellow with the contract who is sitting pretty," "But there's more adventure to freelancing," replied the Wandering Boy ; "you never know what is coming next ! And it keeps an actor always on his toes trying to make good for new directors. No siree, no more contracts for me — unless," he grinned, "unless somebody offered me a pretty good one!" Here the alligator put an end to the conversation by yawning close at our elbow with startling effect We knew that box wasn't strong enough ! 88 Every advertisement in MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE is guaranteed.