Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

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Is Jack Gilbert Through? [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 29 ] none on the lot. His manager was included with a nice job and the right to handle Gilbert's affairs as well. An iron-bound document, without options! But as the great financial powers of the studios battled for Gilbert's signature, another force was working. Warner Brothers had "used a trick device whereby the shadows of the screen stepped up and spoke words. The device was crude and the wise guys shook their heads and said, "Oh, it can't last. It's just a novelty. There will always be silent pictures." (GILBERT returned to Hollywood with his ''-'contract in his pocket. He watched his bungalow grow on the lot. He was anxious to rid himself of the old agreement and start on the new. He was happier than he had been for some time. Fox bought the controlling interest in M-G-M. All was saved. But the little talking device had been perfected. The films had learned to speak and all the stars must speak, too. Gilbert's voice! What about Gilbert's voice? What about the voice of the man who is virile as a steel mill, lusty as Walt Whitman, romantic as a June moon? Gilbert's voice! You heard it in "His Glorious Night." It is high-pitched, tense, almost piping at times. His friends have known for years that it was completely unsuited to the strength and fire of the man. Jack's great art is pantomime. Remember those remarkable clo'seups of intense eyes? Gilbert is always keyed up to the highest pitch of excitement. It is the thing that made him the great actor he is. It was tremendous on the silent screen. He spoke through his eyes. But any singer will tell you that the voice is right only when the body is relaxed. The voice, to be convincing, must flow calmly. Gilbert was caught unprepared for the talkies. While other stars were trotting to elocution teachers and voice specialists, Gilbert was flying to an obscure town in Nevada and getting married to Ina Claire. TUTE had one more picture to make under the -* -'■old contract, and he threw in another for good measure because he was happy and because he was a boy with a new wife, a new contract and the anticipation of a honeymoon in Europe. "Redemption" was his first talking picture. It was a great mistake. He tried too hard. He was nervous in the new medium. He had been so sure of himself in the old. All during this time, sitting across from Jack at the breakfast table, was a woman who could have taught him every nuance of line delivery. Ina Claire could have taught him to speak. If you have ever tried to learn any Ina Claire's own Hollywood home, after leaving the hilltop manor of Husband John Gilbert. Located in Beverly Hills, Ina's little home is stucco, glass and tile, in the best nouveau-Hollywood tradition. It isn't the House That Jack Built! Every advertisement in TIIOTOPLAY MAGAZINE is guaranteed.