Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1926)

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A Big Guy in the Movies Editor's Note. — Here's where we reverse the order of the old adage which says a prophet is without honor in his own country. Only to the folks in his home town does this assistant director appear as an important figure. His letters to Mazie were compiled from anecdotes furnished by WILLIAM HOLLAND. Illustrated by Charles Joseph Mulholland OUT in Salina, Kansas, my home to w n , t he y think I am the p u m p k i n s . "Yeh, he's a big g u y in the movies," they say when they talk about me. And then when I go back home for the wellknown vacation, all I've got to do is strut down the Main Street past the Globe Hotel to let the home folks know that their Great Big Movie Man is once again back in the fold. I just swells out my chest and makes the most of it, because these visits home are the only preventatives [ have from getting that disease called an inferiority complex. You see, And Hollywood difference, too : Ihu if the hoi I All except Mazie. Ma extra work, so she knows gettin' married some day, e to fame is never spoi She's a good girl, Mazie i 56 home calls me Director. ne as one of th ■ t director. Then ;re's some difference. lling to think me a great think it 'cause if it wasn't ne there wouldn't be any 1 go farther than that— rood, and more than all. We made that town, and he credit we get. It takes le credit where the credit est. and warms myself in on thinkin' it. been to Hollywood doin' ropes. Mazie and I are and the great story of my nor made smaller by her. . . ^ was talkin' the /Q£p=v other night about how / [ . y-\ A t"^" things was goin' and I was tellin' her it was the same old story. The directors were all gettin" rich, while the assistants did all the work. '" 'Tain't fair, you know. Mazie. It'< the guv with the drag that gets the job." I -ays to her and she says. "Yeh. I know it. you've got to know the guy tli at owns the thing before you ever get any place in movies. It's hard sleddin'." Well. I had a swell time out home, but it only lasted for two weeks : -o I packs the bag and beats ii. back to Hollywood where nobody's appreciated, has a million dollars. About the only fun I get in Hollywood is writin' to Mazie. We write to each other e\\" 'cause we're gettin' married soon, you know. June P\e.\r Mazie: I pulled in at six o'clock *-^ I ate supper at the depot, then took a stroll ilevard past the Studio just to see how things getting along since I've been gone. I no sooner a the gate than 1 meets Wally Worsley. He just be) his happiness at seein' me and told me to and put on my work clothes. I told him that nv tion wouldn't be up till twelve, so he says. "All right, but be sure and be here then." I was a darn fool : s my face around that studio. I might have known they couldn't get along without me. 1 showed up on the dot. 'cause when I'm on the job. 1 believe in doin' it right. Everybody was havin midnight supper when 1 arrived, so I had time I