Movie Classic (Mar-Aug 1936)

Robert Taylor — Hollywood Aladdin [Continued from page 39] PEPSODENT ANTISEPTIC Keeps breath pure and sweet 1 to 2 hours longer . . YOUR NAME ' ON BROADWAY V Possible ! Read carefully. Movie companies need "star material". Have scouts out looking for the right types. Perhaps your personality is what they want! SEND US YOUR PICTURE ... so that we can recommend you for a screen and voice test if you appear the right type. Remember, it's personality quite as much as appearance that counts. YOU may be the one they're looking high and low for. Pictures selected will be submitted to various movie studios for approval. Yours may be among them. With your picture (a snap-shot will do) send $1 for a full 8-ounce bottle of the marvelous LOCHELLE lotion ... a lotion to make your skin "expressive", to give your hands and face the smoothness of a baby's tender skin. The ingredients in this beautifying lotion are famous for their skin-glorifying effect ; unexcelled for sunburn, windburn, powder base. Coupon is for your convenience. Use it today. And be sure to wrap your picture carefully. THE L^THETLV7:0rirPA"NY""~ Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Cincinnati, Ohio. Dent. F-l For enclosed dollar* send me 8-oz. bottle of LOCHELLE. I also send picture to be submitted to movie studios if suitable. Name Address City State •Ouio orders, send 3 cents additional to cover sales tax. about elaborate schemes. I feel if I don't count on a thing too much I've a better chance of getting it." A S FAR back as he can remember, r* Bob never took anything for granted. Regardless of what he may read about himself and how much in demand he seems to be, he views everything from a tentative standpoint. "Inferiority complex?" we asked. "The word has been well overworked," admitted Bob. "But I guess that is the real explanation of the thing. Understand, I don't go around imagining people would be bothered enough to dislike me. But I can't bring myself to assume that they like me, unless I actually have tangible reason for believing they do. "I don't want to lose perspective on myself," he went on. "That's one reason why I'm going to take a little time out the first chance I get. I've been very lucky. For that reason I can't afford to lose my sense of values in the rush. "No one can keep on going without something solid behind him. That's what I want to build — something solid." Bob is deeply in earnest. And his words brought to mind something he said after finishing his trying work in Magnificent Obsession. We were struck with the change in him. He seemed graver, with a quiet poise and something in his blue eyes that hadn't been there before. Bob had been through an ordeal, and had come out with a new warmth and understanding. His face was leaner, and he appeared more handsome than ever. At the remark that he looked older, Bob said at the time, "I feel older — much. I didn't realize before how much there was for me to learn. "It was the first part which caused me to carry a heavy responsibility. Previously I got along by just being myself — and there were many others in the casts whose roles were more important than mine. In Magnificent Obsession, for the first time, I knew I had to carry a large part of the picture and actually act. Each scene had to be right. Our director insisted upon the best and would shoot a scene ten or twelve times until satisfied." That sense of responsibility has made a deep impression upon Taylor. With this role of his in Small Town Girl he feels the urge and necessity to do his best. He studies zealously, and endeavors to widen his knowledge and experience as much as possible. "I would hate to be just a fad," he confessed. "I want something genuine to offer. That is possibly the most important conclusion I've come to since getting this far. There's a long way yet before I am at the top — and the only chance I have of making the grade Movie Classic for May, 1936 is by having some firm ground-work behind me. "Another thing I've found at this stage," continued he, "is that the higlier you go the greater are your responsibilities in every direction. Everything is relative — with each boost there is a counterbalance. "People tell me how lucky I am. Granted. No one realizes it better than I, but there's something I read recently which strikes me as being only too true. It was to the effect that it is all very well to be in the spotlight while treading on a purple carpet but annoying when you step on a banana peel. There's always the chance of that skid, you know. "But, really I'm not as gloomy as all that. One has to take his chances in anything, and I'm certainly not complaining about mine. "In what other business imaginable could I have won such rewards as the screen has given me in one short vear ?" June Knight bids warm weather a sunworshipper's welcome on famous Malibu Beach, summer playground of Hollywood's stars. With the season of sparkling water and golden sand at hand, Hollywood, en masse, is going down to the sea in bathing suits