Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

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"Of course, I appreciated the honor of following in his footsteps — but also decided that I had followed quite far enough!" DON'T KID THAT GARGOYLE SO much for fame; if a taste of it was beginning to enter into them, it was soon to be washed away. They dropped in on Lon Chaney's old hangout — the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. "I don't think I've ever been so deeply moved in all my life as when I first stepped into this place from the sunshine and busy every-day life of the outside world. It seemed as though I had stepped back into the Middle Ages, or into another world. All thoughts of my own affairs, which are the only thoughts we usually have, were washed completely from me in an instant ; it worked in me the magic for which it was built, and which had built it. I knew only that I was standing alone in the presence of the Infinitely Great. The serene calm of that vast interior, with its solemn twilight mellowed by the stained-glass windows. It was a void in which one must stand alone. "Such an experience, of course, lasts in its full force only for an instant; but it stays with one, and its echo lasts a lifetime." Even though jazz may follow. For Paris holds other things as well — well, er, rather! And they did 'em all, and high and wide, and in ten hectic daze and dizzy. Just like that! And Paris also holds surprises. "Before I left I swore that I wouldn't buy a single thing in the place. I was one of those who cheer for Hollywood and New York; who feel that we have everything there is — that Paris is just a name, and nothing else. "Well — I bought, and couldn't stop until we left!" But if this be treason, they sure had a staunch patriot in their French maid. Gabrielle was willing to go anywhere with them, even to Germany — until she got there! "When she got one glimpse of the von Hindenburg we had for a chauffeur, she wanted to start back on foot to her beloved Paree!" But a sixty-year old Alsatian woman in the hotel laundry "parlayed Francey" — and international amity was re-established once again. And their own relations with the old home town were re-established too. While paying a properly formal and ambassadorial visit to the UFA studios, who should they unexpectedly run into but little Anna May Wong! Both shores of the Pacific thus rolled back and inward to whisper gossip in the metropolis of Central Europe! If^that had seemed like a "bit o' the ould sod," they soon saw the "little gray home" itself! Old Heidelberg is a bit older — by several time-elapses! — than its "Student Prince"; but — . "I thought someone must have brought over part of the M-G-M back lot as a memento to make us homesick. It was just like it! They couldn't have done better if they had gone to Culver City with the express purpose of copying our sets. And the most diligent search of the Central Casting Bureau's files couldn't have furnished a better lot of types — or the studio orchestra better music than the band in that beergarden. I was half -tensed all the time, waiting to hear the equally familiar cry of 'Camera!' Honest!" And here, if ever, we get our genuine proof that this trip was bona fide incognito — at least, as these things go. As Kathe in the picture, Norma Shearer's every appearance was greeted with dinning cheers from the multidudinous throats of the assembled sons of learning. But that was movies; now she was in the real place, and amongst real people. " How did they greet this lady who had added film-fame to the (Continued on page 105) 98