Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

Photoplay Magazine for February, 1930 thing from your wife, anything that she knows better than you, you will understand. "Redemption" was a sorry affair. It was temporarily shelved. But in the meantime Gilbert had to make a talking debut. He promised to do a picture before he went to Europe if it could be rushed through in four weeks. It was rushed. The result was "His Glorious Night." It was released while he was in Europe. Almost before he stepped off the boat, upon his return, he asked: "How's my picture? What do the critics think of my picture? " For Gilbert's career has dominated his life. His friends had to tell him that his first talkie was not good. He could see the criticisms for himself. He suffered anger, then shame, and then anger again. V\ THAT went on in his mind was masked by Vv a forced gaiety. And the studio officials, bound to him irrevocably under the contract which had cinched a financial deal, heard bitterly the echoes that Gilbert's picture inspired. Gilbert's voice had failed in his first talking release. The fans were shocked when he spoke. He rides into the driveway of his studio bungalow in the morning. The studio is bound to him under a contract that cannot be broken. He gives every outward appearance of a successful man, but his voice has failed, he has lost heavily on the stock market and he is separated from his wife. They call it a temporary separation, but I cannot help but believe that it is the beginning of the end. Gilbert has no talent for domesticity and Ina is a positive woman. His career has gotten on his nerves and Gilbert must fight his battles alone. Garrulous as he is, he remains at heart a lonely soul, as all creative artists are. Well, what is there left for him to do? No matter what happens he will earn a million dollars in the next two years. But it isn't money that counts with him. Gilbert could not retire. His art means more to him than wealth and fame. He would go insane if he were idle. What then? He musl learn to talk. But how? If he could go away and have six months in a small stock company it would make him over. But John Gilbert could not do this for professional as well as personal reasons. Well, then, a teacher. The actor, himself, takes first one side and then the other. One minute he is angry and considers himself the victim of a huge plot, the next minute he is sad for what he considers a failure, but dominating it all is this spirit: ""pNAMNit! I'll show 'em. I'll show 'em I -'-^can talk. I'll get a human story. I'll play a real role and not that of a puppet. I'll make a come-back. I'll show 'em. They can't down me. They can't ruin me with one bad talking picture!" He was caught unprepared. Hollywood said that Corinne Griffith couldn't talk, but she learned. Hollywood said that Gloria Swanson was through, but she isn't. Some folks in Hollywood persist that Gilbert is finished. You hear it from his enemies, of course, not from his friends. Personally, I don't believe it. Or maybe it's because I won't. But I cannot believe that a man who has battled life single-handed, who has taken all the hard knocks right on the chin, will let a little thing like a talkie device down him. I believe that Gilbert will come back strong, that he will wake up, start in earnest, make some vital gesture, hurl some new defiance and really equip himself for the microphone, the terror of Hollywood. Gilbert is not through! He'll learn. He'll equip himself. He'll show 'em. And more power to him' ntimate BEAUTY TALKS with HELENA RUBINSTEIN [ Thousands of women all over the country are continually writing to Helena Rubinstein, seeking her expert advice on the personal beauty problems that are so much a part of every woman's life. Write yourself to this world famous beauty specialist! 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