The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)

The New Movie Magazine Guide to the Best Films {Continued from page 9) declared dead. An odd character comedy in which Beryl Mercer runs away with a hit as the Limey's mother. United Artists. The Unholy Night. A bully mystery melodrama in which the surviving officers of a British regiment are being strangled one by one under highly mysterious circumstances. MetroGoldwyn-Mayer. Dynamite. Some swift drama and sophisticated spectacle from Cecil B. De Mille. With Charles Bickford and Kay Johnson. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The Dance of Life. The play, "Burlesque," under a new title. And a good show. With Nancy Carroll and Hal Skelly. Paramount. Paris Bound. Amusing domestic drama of a young couple on the edge of divorce. With Ann Harding at her emotional best. Pathe. The Three Musketeers of Hollywood {Continued from page 73) Now it wouldn't have been at all surprising if they had started a rivalry and each attempted to beat the other to the punch, to get the best of it in the race for better things. Later, when stardom, which is the ultimate aim of every screen player, seemed within the grasp of at least one of them — which one couldn't be determined— it would have been quite natural if each one of them had gone out on his own, determined to win the prize if he could. Studios are just as full of politics as the Senate and these things do happen. I have seen girls — but that is another story. There were plenty of times when one of these lads might have benefited by throwing the others down ; when he might have gained favor for himself or a chance for himself at the expense of someone whom the world would regard as a rival. None of these things happened. Instead, Arlen, Rogers and Cooper, having become buddies of the first water on a month's location in Texas during the filming of "Wings," decided to form a combine and to stick together. They were friends. They would behave like friends. Either they could all go up together, giving each other all the help they could, or they wouldn't go at all. JUST the old "All for one and one for all." _ They figured out what each had to give and started from there. Buddy gives to the others the benefit of his business ability and his financial sense, which are considerable. He coaches them and fronts for them when anybody has to talk money. When there are dealings with the producers about salaries, Buddy goes in and does the talking for the three. Producers are business men and it is part of their job to get the players for as little money as they can, while it's the player's business to get as much as he can out of the producer. Gary Cooper is the big, silent immovable balance wheel. Once anything is decided and he thinks it's right, he will stick until you put Lake Michigan in a tea-cup. There is force to Gary's look, to his silence. Where Buddy and Dick, emotional kids, both of them, can be swayed and persuaded, this Cooper bird cannot. Just to see him standing there, grim and determined in the background, is enough to scare anybody — and has. The trio hasn't always stayed out of trouble. In fact, they went looking for it down in Texas, and Gary's additional reach and extra weight told quite a bit. Dick Arlen has the real picture mind of the musketeers. He knows about stories, about casts, about directors. In the "shop talk" which is a necessary part of the actor's career, he takes the leading role. He may not be a better actor on the screen than either Rogers or Cooper, but he knows more about it. And he, since his marriage to Jobyna Ralston, has provided the home center, the social side, of much of their lives. 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