Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1931)

Photoplay Magazine for August, 1931 107 little to do with box-offices. He simply failed as a politician. While other actors lunched with directors, talked their personal problems over with them — in blunt language, "played" the men who had the choice of roles for Paramount pictures, Neil lunched at a solitary table. He realized he wasn't getting the "breaks." He consulted a friend. "Why don't you go to Mr. Schulberg (director of West Coast studio) and tell him that in all modesty you think you are as good looking as other actors and as capable. Ask him why you aren't getting anywhere." NEIL took the advice. Mr. Schulberg admitted that Neil had created a pacific resistance. When executives suggested Neil for a part, directors said nothing against him. They merely counter-questioned "What about Arlen or Cooper?" Neil had never learned that politics rule Hollywood, as it rules the world. He has a new chance at Metro. We shall see if he has learned. After "The Big Parade," Renee Adoree should have soared to Garboian heights. But Renee is a child of nature. An adorable creature who can inspire love in many men, but not inspire political cooperation. When she forgot to push herself — there was no one else to push her. Dorothy Sebastian; Alice White; Clara Bow — bad politicians. Dorothy is a great little trouper. She spent five years as the hand-mewhat-you-please girl of the M-G-M lot. Sent here by New York executives, she was never received with open arms by local ones. The local boys want to make their own discoveries. Only a human, natural situation. If Dorothy had possessed the intuitional, political sixth sense, she would have erased that opposition by adroit handling. She was big hearted, genuine, but not clever. Five years on one lot! A salary, the last year, of S1,000 weekly. She had been loaned out for much larger sums and had made a nice profit for her company. Then — the end of her contract. An offer for renewal at the same salary. She wanted more; she was entitled to it. She went to an executive's office to ask for it. She was kept waiting in a reception room for an hour. She was furious. Human, but not politics. "I can't understand why you should keep me waiting — " A complaint as her greeting to a man who held her fate in his fingers. Executives are human; they are often vain — self-interested. Probably salaries of half a million a year entitle them to self-interest. " Do you know to whom you are speaking — " Dorothy lost. She has not worked at a major studio since. You can blame whom you please, but the fact remains that Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo's manager, Ruth Chatterton, Libyan Tashman, Gloria Swanson, Janet Gaynor and Lillian Gish would have handled a man in a different manner! You are probably surprised at the last two names on that list. Yet I consider Gaynor and Gish two of the shrewdest politicians who ever worked in this city. 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