Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1927)

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Bushman said — "The saloons may have been a curse to the nation in general, but I want to tell you they saved me from starvation one time, when I arrived in New York — penniless. The contents of my trunk and bags saw me thru as to the hotel bill, but I just had to eat ! "What easier in those days," laughed Francis X., "than to stroll carelessly into a different saloon each time I became hungry and grab a free lunch ! I chose times when they were too busy to see whether 1 had bought beer or not. "I managed in the course of three weeks to secure an engagement, but in the meantime managed to be able to pay for a little beer now and then, to go with the lunch, thru posing for some artists." Gardner James decided motion pictures and Hollywood were to be his objective at the inconvenient moment of financial disaster. His face and form was all he owned in the world. He shipped as a stoker aboard a vessel coming to Los Angeles via the canal. He landed in Los Angeles harbor with ten cents. He caught a free automobile ride to Los Angeles and then spent his last dime on carfare to Hollywood. He hastily looked up some old theatrical friends and stayed with them overnight. What'd he eat ? Mostly nothing ! Ten days later he heard some men talking on a street corner. One of them said : "Over forty-three fellows have tried for that part over at Vitagraph and they still are not satisfied !" At his rope's end, not having been able to come close to a job, he walked the five miles to the Vitagraph Studio. J. Stuart Blackton engaged him to play the juvenile lead in "The Happy Warrior." Today he has a five-year contract to take the place of Richard Barthelmess on the Inspiration Pictures Program. It seems to pay to be — stranded — from these accounts ! Estelle Taylor confesses after graduating from Sargents Dramatic School in New York, she boiled eggs in a baking powder can over a gas jet. She bought stale bread at the bakery, two loaves for a nickel, boiled corn meal in the same baking powder can, washed her own clothes and stretched them on the window pane to dry. And in general practised all the known and unguessed of economies the world has ever known, before she was given her first stage part in "Come on, Charlie." "After this I went into pictures — and they've been good to me ! I've never been broke since !" said Estelle. Creighton Hale said with a hearty laugh, "Have I ever been stranded ? Ask me if I ever drank milk as a baby! Any stage actor has not only been stranded once, but many times ! "In fact," went on Hale, "it was the constant discomfort I was going thru each off-season on the stage that made me turn to pictures. "Things became pretty serious for me in New York one summer. My clothes dwindled to one suit and my habits to one slim meal a day before succor came in the form of one House Peters. "I was walking down Broadway in my last pair of fresh pearl spats and sporting a fat Havana, bought with my last dime. I was inwardly wondering what queer twist of fate would be apt to present my aching stomach with a square meal. House Peters proved to be the "queer twist," for as soon as he saw me he said, 'Come have a glass of wine and a bit of lunch with me at the Brevoort !' "Did I go— -I did! Did I have a 'BIT of lunch'' — I did not — I had a meal!" laughed Creighton. "House Peters told me how it happened he was able to eat so well during the summer and the next day found me at the old Biograph Studio — after which I was eating regularly, too — and have ever since! Long Live the MOVIES!" cheered Creighton as John Gilbert came on the set to see how "Annie Laurie" was progressing. "What's the idea of the Rah-Rah party?" asked Jack Gilbert. I told him and then he told of a time he and his father were stranded in a town half destroyed by a cyclone. They washed dishes to get enough money to get out of the town ! Think of having John Gilbert washing dishes in your home ! Methinks the feminine members of the household would have an epidemic of kitchenitis about that time ! — and you couldn't really blame them ! Dear old Charlie Murray — always a laugh — a witticism — something different to say ! I said to him — "Charlie, were you ever brpke?" He looked at me out of the corner of a mischievous eye and twinkled as he said, "You making fun of me? Why, child, I was never anything else but broke until pictures came along ! "My worst experience was when I lost my job as chambermaid to a skating Shetland pony— an animal act. I stood on a corner with a patch over one eye, looked pathetic, and held my hat out until I had gathered enough pennies to get back to Cincinnati in a sheep car. "Everytime I see a lamb-chop now, I say — 'Baaaa !' " He finished with a flourish and wrinkled his Irish face into a knot and shrinkingly (sheepishly) wandered off. It was too much for me and I left with what little dignity I had left trailing in the dust. Dorothy Dwan, just recently returned from a location tour as Tom Mix's leading lady, said, "I know what it feels like to be 'broke.' Mother and I went into town from the location camp to have a facial, manicure, shampoo, wave, and all the rest of it (and we needed it after three weeks in the mountains, working every single day). We had twenty-five dollars between us ! "It was Sunday and the girls had planned on being there especially for us. When we left, our bill was twenty-three fifty. We certainly felt, under the circumstances, we had to give them what was left, so we said grandly — 'Keep the change!' "When we got outside the door we didn't feel so grand. We were broke! Every advertisement in MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE is guaranteed.