Motion Picture News (Oct-Dec 1930)

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46 Motion Picture News December 2 0 , 19 3 0 'p^iiy&^i^SCTSSEgs^ I 1 s MANACE-RI' HOUND TABLE CLUB oJ\Coments A young man who is ambitious complained that he is in a rut. "For the last two years nothing has happened. I work just as hard, but I can't see that I'm headed anywhere." It cheered him to be told that every man goes through the same experience. Even great careers do not present a straight line of steady progress, but rather a jagged fever-chart of rises and dips. "Take for example the life of Nathaniel Hawthorne," as a writer in the "Century Magazine" said recently. "Even his biographer cannot tell what he was doing for ten years after leaving college. What occupied Tennyson between 1832 and 1 840? Or Woodrow Wilson between 1 885 and 1900? "Actually, no man knows that he is destined for immortality or high office; he only knows that he is living from year to year, storing up accumulated energies and experience, waiting and hoping that his chance will come." In the old book of Joel is this promise: "I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten." What are the years that the locust hath eaten? The years when men work hard, yet reap no harvest. These years, by BRUCE BARTON This article, reprinted by special permission of Bruce Barton end "Red Book Magazine," seems particularly timely for showbusiness. Those of you who constantly complain that you are wasting your time in your present positions should read it over twice. Why some folks think that promotions are going to spring out at them from behind every ashcan will forever remain a mystery. To get anywhere, whether it be showbusiness or any other business, means long, hard work and the ability to stick to what you are doing, firmly convinced that each day's work adds to your stock in trade. We know all about the stories of the men who were Jumped into big executive jobs over night and without any experience, but take our word for it, they are mostly stories, not facts. "CHICK" LEWIS says Joel, are not lost; they have subsequent value. All of us have seen that promise fulfilled. I recall a long stretch of months when every single thing went wrong. Poor health, many outside obligations, no chance to do any writing. A wise friend met me when my mood was rebellious. "You ought to know better than to fret," he said. "No experience is wasted. Everything that happens to you now puts something into you that will be useful later on." It seemed then that he was just being kind. Today I look back on that tough period as profitable beyond all price. Life consists not of years, or months, or days, but of moments. There are glorious moments of friendship and happiness, to be enjoyed to the utmost. There are moments of disappointment to be endured. The locust is sure to get its share of the moments. And even restored. THESE are sometimes m^rTgirm^frtvir^rffrit^irrfrTra^^ jWytflirl