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FEBRUARY 1925
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In " The Man Life Passed By " with Jane Novak.
parts they are always wanting me to play. If ever there is a hero who is inclined to be unpractical and dreamy, send for Percy. If «ver there is a .hero who makes the devil of a mess with his job, send for Percy again. And if ever there is a hero who is unquestionably weak in the upper storey, send for Percy every time I"
" You shouldn't suffer so attractively," I told him.
" Bless you, they wouldn't mind. They let me make the most horrible faces and behave in the most horrible way without turning a hair. They say it's Strong and that in moments of Strength men do carry on like that. For my own part, I believe that the twitch of an eyelid,
the wrinkling of the forehead, or the ■lightest movement of the mouth, carries far more dramatic impression than emphatic gesture So 1 try to
bom down my icttaj m much as ]* hie. Hut it isn't always easy in the life of agony which my characters have to go through !"
" tTvcr get any holiday from persccution?" I asked. " Very seldom. But of course it varies in quality, as well as in quantity. The shortest and most drastic persecution was my very first — was, in fact, my introduction to theatrical life. They seem to have spotted me as a sufferer from the start I
" What happened?" I asked.
" I ran away from .home in England, when I was still a boy. I was mad to go on the stage, and tried my luck with a touring company •which was playing " The Only Way." The manager looked at me and decided that I would do very well for a young French aristocrat on his way to the scaffold. The part took about three minutes to play, and was painfully vivid for those three minutes. So that was when the suffering began."
" And it has gone on without a break ever since?"
Left : Percy and his pipe.
In "Love is Everything, ne was a sculptor.
A studio portrait.