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in rising trimphantly over the reputation for beauty which their previous films have brought them. But more often than noPthey fail dismally and are forced back into the groove from which a conservative public are loath to see them go.
Cor years Norman Kerry struggled with weak, ineffectual parts that called for nothing more important than a perfectly creased trouser leg and slick hair, until he showed us in Mcrry-GoRound that he could be something more than an animated tailor's dummy.
Rudolph Valentino had the same difficulty to contend with, after he had gained a reputation as a " romantic lover." But he had by this time gained such a host of enthusiastic fans willing to see him in any sort of film, that he could afford to rebel against those in authority. He had a hard fight for it,
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becoming I professional beauty.
It is a significant fact that hardly any of our great acton and actresses are, strictly speaking, beautiful. That, perhaps, is the main reason why they are great. Nobody has ever taken them on face values. They have had to work for their recognition, and in the working they have developed personality and a dramatic sense that their lovelier brethren have never been allowed to need. That is the whole secret of their success — they have had almost to re-model themselves into somebody else.
Whereas the beautiful arc never encouraged to be anything other than themselves, and are consequently less able to submerge self in the interpretation of their screen roles.
In other words, they suffer from the burden of beauty !
E. E. Barrett.
Above : Kenneth Harlan had to fight
hard for the role of " The Virginian."
Usually he is cast for society roles like
this one.
but he has gained his point at last, and now it will be nobody's fault but his own if he does not prove himself an actor.
"Then there is Katherine MacDonald whose name has long been almost a synonym for beauty on the American screen. Nobody has ever seen her in a film likely to stand out by reason of its dramatic value. She has never been anything but beautiful in any role she has essayed — but then she has never played any part that has called for anything beyond mere physical loveliness. And yet, who knows that she had not the potentialities of a successful actress, hidden behind the mask of beauty on which she has learnt to depend?
Little Mary Philbin is a star whose beauty may either make her or break her, if she is to become an actress of any account.
Let us hope she will never be tempted to take the easy road to film fame by
Reading d o wn wards : Claire Windsor, Carlyle Blackwell, Herbert Rawlinson, Mary Philbin, and Owen Nares and Gertrude McCoy.