Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1936)

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GLAZO 20 CENTS (25 cents in Canada) plenty to think about. I went through a rather cynical stage with the obvious decision that if I ever came out of it whole, everyone would find themselves dealing with an entirely new Dick Powell. I reasoned that if I didn't look out for myself, no one would look out for me. The fair-haired boy who did everything asked of him was to be a figure of the dim past. From now on, Powell was to be No. 1 boy. If I could do it nicely, well and good; if not, then raise a little thunder. Other players raised plenty of it. I was the one who had been the fool. ''But after the operation had proved successful and I got rid of the bugaboo that I was a doomed man, naturally a great deal of this bitterness left me. This was to be expected. I realized the doctors hadn't been fooling me. Now I knew that a growth had been removed and that I was cured! But even so, you don't come out of an emotional upheaval like that the same man that went into it. No, I'm not going to be radical about it; but in the future, I am going to be the sole judge of my own endurance and when I think I've reached the limit, I'm going to stop right there. "As I said before, this recent trouble has placed a new and truer value on my voice. If my voice is the most important thing I have to offer, I'm going to take care of it with the same attitude an artist takes toward his hands or a great violinist toward his Stradivarius. All the financial success in the world isn't worth jeopardizing the greatest happiness my work holds for me: singing! "In cold figures, it has cost me over fifty thousand dollars to learn this lesson! That is counting only lapsed salary checks and does not include the cost of the operation, doctors' fees and consultations. But if it had cost five times as much, I believe it would have been worth it! "/ know where I stand nmul "I'll never be fooled about Dick Powell again! "It may be that I shall be singing within a month, maybe it will take three. In the meantime, I am starting work on the non-singing scenes of Stage Struck. I am willing to work day and night as an actor, but in the future on days when I record songs, I'll record them and do nothing else. But I'm not going to sing a note for either pictures or radio until I know I can sing better than the last time you heard me. The next time you hear my voice, the rumors are going to have to die a living death. Between scenes, I'm going to rest my voice and if the visiting Duchess of Dudsworth happens to come on the set while I'm in a thirty minute silence, I'm not going to care whether she likes to wait or not. The busiest kid in Hollywood is going to take it very easy from here on in!" Up-lo-lhe Minute Hands [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 71 nails are small, cover the entire nail with lacquer. If they are large, expose the half moons and tips and a narrow strip on each side. 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