Picture Play Magazine (Jul - Dec 1929)

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"#/ post-office clerk, the bootlegger, and the hot-dog-stand proprietor banded together and put talkies in the local theater to keep the citizens from going to the next town for their movies, shopping and speakeasies. Why must one listen to theme songs at all hours, at all theaters, on all radio programs? That's a simple question to answer. I wouldn't have asked it if I couldn't answer it. Take the example of RKO. It's an electrical company. It's the Radio Corporation of America. It's a motion-picture studio. It's a chain of theaters. It's a radio broadcasting outfit. And soon it will be a song publisher as well. When RKO gets a theme song in one of its pictures you're going to hear it, believe me, whether you like it or not. If you go to the theater they get your money. If you listen to your radio, which might be their make, you hear their songs. The movie you see has their tunes. If you weaken and buy a sheet of music they declare a dividend. If you buy a phonograph record they promptly collect their royalty. Paramount has refused to let any of its songs be played before the picture in which they are used is released. And even then they make all radio stations turn in a schedule of when the songs were played, so the public won't get fed up and can still enjoy them in the theater. When the picture begins to die out, they let the song run wild and try to cash in on music sales. "This is all very bewildering," said the Equity member as he meandered through the labyrinth. Ske Wears tke Badge of Courage Continued from page 45 achievements and failures, all are too emphasized, individually, for balance. They are too greedy for life. Wait, it will come to you, in the guise best for you. Snatching, grasping things means only trouble, and losing them." Only much thought and a gift for analysis could have taught her this truth which, with her disinclination to discuss personal intimacies, she phrased impersonally. "Go with the wind, once you have felt its quality and eased into it. See that little boat, with distended sails? It glides so easily, with the wind back of it. Energy spent in fighting is wasted ; instead of buffeting a gale, find your course and go along slowly." To a cultured mind books offer a blessed solace. Adventure, history, biography, fiction, everything. And she reads, of course, in Swedish, things whose primitive force, under the fogged soberness of her native land and the half-tones of its moods, is mitigated with translation. "But I had to slow up," she said. "Eyes gave out." If her head were amputated, she would mention it in just that ordinary tone. Enthusiasm is brisk for loved interests, but anything that happens to herself is related in reportorial conciseness. When her eyes permit, she sews. Whenever I recall the first time I saw her strong, large hands doing a bit of fancy work, it strikes me anew as an anomaly. Because of some silly tradition, we associate needlework with clinging-vine femininity. But no doubt the vikings' ladies had to darn socks ! What now? Exquisitely embroidered linens, for a betrothed friend, frocks and pajama suits for herself, a patchwork, velvet quilt. Those tanned fingers ply the needle as expertly as, years ago, they held the hoe which earned her passage to America. At eleven, in Ystad, Sweden, her home, she hired herself out to till and harvest an acre of beets for the equivalent of eighty-five dollars. Later, she came to America, a confident Swede with pigtails like braided flax, and worked her way, by modeling for artists, to the movie studios. Probably, in those Ystad days tucked into memory, she visioned freedom from drudgery, only to find, with success, that one form of toil merely is replaced by another. Indeed, she does not wish idleness, after this long siege of it. "Work ! It is all that I want now. I shan't be choosy." Many anecdotes attest Anna Q.'s bravery, the tempered steel of her. Once, to add realism to a forest-fire scene, sixty trees were transplanted to a location and soaked with gasoline. She had to run an engine through. With the engineer crouching unseen at her feet, she opened the throttle wide and roared the engine into the flames. As they licked hair