Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1926)

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.. got into the skin of the character, but it was Yon who taught me the technique. Night after night, when we'd worked all day. Yon would come to my house and work with me before a great mirror, explaining camera angles, teaching me what the dreadful black box will pick up and what it will lose. """The monocle — ! I see that one critic remarks that it is evident I am unused to a monocle, because it was always having to be adjusted. The fact is, the constant adjustment of the monocle was taken from my real-life man and showed his nervousness. Why. 1 wore that monocle on and off the set — I even slept in it, so that half the time I thought I had it on when I hadn't, or hadn't when I had! It's one of the points in my death .scene — the last thing I do he fore 1 die ! ,* ''I shall never fonget my entry into pictures. Talk about low rungs of ladders! There was the uniformed band playing 'God Save the King'; there were the streets Edward Earle of "The declares that there is Medley" ? They'r nth .Miners : the hv cheering and throwing up their hats ; there were the lovely ladies of the court smiling, and the flower of the army saluting ; — and there came the crown prince, with hs guard of honor. . . . Why, tat wasn't Roy d'Arcy doing a ne to tion ' ctur< The thing had happened before my eyes a dozen times — but this time / was the crown prince and it was happening to me. "That's that. . . . Talking about the new villain. ... It seems to me that comedy relief is the most essential thing for him. The boulevardier, the dandy, the ultra-smart man in any age is funny to the he-man1 that you and I admire. My struggle is to show the heavy as we call him, as he is. ( Continued o'n page 114) "Dear Old Golden Rule Days" School of Acting. chaperoned by Mrs. Grey. Dorothy Nour ; will have to stop calling them the pupils of the Pai "he students will soon receive their diplomas and nice little contracts. Here are the students J. Walter Taylor, all ready for a swimming lesson. Reading from left to right, they are: Iri e, Mona Palma, Mrs. Taylor, Marian Ivy Harris, Thelda Kenvin and Harriet Krauth. Seated o, the floor are: Josephine Dunn and Thelma Todd 45 f PA/Sli