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Dut does this mean that these players go in for the outburst commonly associated with artistic temperament? Xot at all. Such explosions belong to the lesser actors. In an industry like the motion pictures, stars crop out and disappear as suddenly as shooting stars in the celestial firmament. Yesterday, they were unknown, but today, because of some curious twist in their physical make-up, oddly slanting eyes, let us say. or a tantalizing smile full of that mysterious allure we speak of as sex appeal, they find themselves star<. They have little of dramatic ability, but they have exalted opinions of their power to act.
Such upstarts resent direction. They grow tempestuous, answer back when they are given orders, blow up, smash things if they can, call names if there is nothing on hand to break, and in general make a show of themselves. That's bad temper, nothing more nor less, and it need not have anything to do with temperament. Need not, 1 say. because temper and temperament are as intimately linked, and in the same way, as sleeping and breathing. You remember the little boy who pointed out that you could breathe without sleeping but you couldn't sleep without breathing. Just so with temper and temperament. You can have temper without temperament, but you cannot have temperament without temper. When marked artistic ability is coupled with it. temper is permissible
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