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There is always a bar for the parents, and puppet shows, ponies, merry-go-rounds, magicians, movies, food, and heaven alone knows what all. Vincent Barnett may have ceased pouring soup down people's necks and insulting everyone, but he has now taken to blowing jets of fire in people's faces. Perfectly harmless, but sort of distressing when one has nerves. So perhaps you are beginning to agree with my contention that the reports of the deadness of Hollywood are slightly exaggerated. The huge super-colossal premieres may have been abandoned, but the opening of almost anything is now an event. Several months back the Westmores opened their beauty salon with cocktails and a buffet that numbered most of the whole top flight of the films. More recently, Max Factor opened his cosmetic factory, with engraved invitations sen! to five thousand of the Flickers, and the whole five thousand appear to have arrived. Sid Grauman was Master of Ceremonies. There were arc lights, mobs of sightseers roped back from the entrance, footmen and limousines Inside, free drinks for the thousands, the cost liest canapes in the city by the ton, hostesses and entertainment and such a crush as has never been seen in Hollywood before. There was a preview later at the Chinese, but nobodv remembers much about it. It seems there is no getting around it. You bottle up Hollywood's fantastic sort of gaiety at one point, and it simply pops out somewhere else. No matter how manners and custom.-may alter, the California sunlight, or something always appears to render them slightly groggy So we're sane now, are we? Well, prove it to me. I dare you! Gene Raymond Is Really a "Lone Wolf" [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 60 I found that his attitude was sincere, not just another subtle bit of showmanship. But the fans had acclaimed him in his first picture and continued to do so. Right or wrong in Hollywood, he was completely right at the box-office. Four years have passed since that advent Four years that have changed Gene Raymond, the boy into a man. They've done more than that. They have brought him much that is fine. They have taken from him a little that makes one miss the excitement sometimes caused by that w ilful boy. "You know, Gene, you've changed a lot since I first met you?" I said, voicing my thought. Glancing up from his glass, he grinned The same grin he had four years ago but warmer, somehow. Slower in its arrival but just as real a grin when it does arrive. "I know," he acknowledged quietly, "that I have learned a lot." "Do you like what you've learned?" "Urn . . . uhuh," speculatively. "And I realize that I needed the learning. I must have been pretty insufferable that first year I was out here. I didn't think so at the time, certainly, but I see it now. I was headstrong Cocky, even " He shook his head somberly " I've learned that success should not come too early. It's a lot harder to stand than failure. It should come when a guy is ready for its responsibilities, for the problems it brings. I've learned it's better to have the tough breaks first. The tough breaks toughen a man so he can 'take' success. "It isn't that I would change my ideal of what I want to do. I'm still stubborn as ever about that. But I have learned that there was no need for me to have been so obviously stubborn. I've learned a little finesse about getting my own way. I've learned it isn't good to be so sure I'm right all the time Not being so sure gives you a chance to consider, at least, the other guy's viewpoint. Tempers your judgment. It's far better to decide you are right, after you've given thought to every angle, than to take a stand simply because you think you're right You've got to know what others think, what they feel, what they're working for in order to place a real valuation on your own thinking. When you've decided you are right, hop to it. Don't tread water then." GENE'S fans helped him learn this. A year ago he went about his work with a certain indifference. The conflict between what Holly wood wanted of him and what he wanted for himself had been persistent enough to take the zest out of everything. He finished his picture and left on the next train for New York. He didn't say when he'd return — or that he would return. His attitude crystallized into a nostalgia for the theater — for an audience He accepted an offer for personal appear ances in Chicago and Detroit. Not since Valentino had there been such a turnout of eager fans. House records were broken and from the darkness of the theaters there came across the footlights the wholesome, warming encouragement of the loyal friends his shadow self had made. He's grateful to those friends His personal contact with them — talking with them, finding out what they wanted him to do, gave him, literally, a new perspective, a new lease on ambition. His recently signed contract with RKO reflects much of this perspective. "What have you done that hasn't turned out right?" I asked him "That isn't what I mean I think I've made pretty much the right decisions, as it happens. It's just that I think I nee;! n.>t have gone about expressing myself as I did " "After all, you were pretty young."