Picture-Play Magazine (Jan - Jun 1930)

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New York City (108) Introducing An All-star Cast Continued from page 104 SAMUEL RICHARD MOOK Being invited to write his autobiography is quite a strain on an author, because there is the temptation to Actionize and peddle all the goo you would like the public — or that small part of it that reads your truck — to believe about you. As a reporter, however, you dislike having yourself try to make a fool out of you by expecting you to believe the rot you tell yourself about you. The reporter finally wins the mental conflict, and I shake an admonitory finger at myself and say, "Here ! Can that stuff and give me facts, or I'm going to throw the interview into the wastebasket, and print all the things I've heard about you." In a panic, I throw discretion to the winds and tell the truth and the whole truth so help me Munchausen. I have been accused of being moody and temperamental by friends, but my family explain that I have merely a screw loose, and point to the fact that I quit a lucrative position to come to Hollywood and write for Picture Play, and that I joined the air service during the War at the age of sixteen. My own contention is that those facts cannot be used against me, and merely prove that the editor of Picture Play and the government have the loose screws. I am inherently lazy and notoriously unreliable. I don't like to work and wouldn't do a lick if I didn't have to. This is borne out by the fact that I used to change jobs, in the hope of finding an easy one, so often that it took a calculating machine to keep track of them. Norbert Lusk has described James Murray as wrestling with life, instead of conforming to it. It is that trait in his character that makes me look upon him and, to a lesser degree, Larry Kent, as kindred spirits. I prefer dives to palaces, as I feel that in dives you see life, and in palaces you look on an artificial glitter. Larry has too much money ever to be more than a dilettante dive hunter, and merely dabbles in it for pleasure, while the rest of us take our dives seriously. I have no hobbies — the reporter interposes that that is merely another proof of my loose screw — except that I like to take solitary walks at midnight and in the early hours of the morning. These walks have led me into strange byways and adventures which would make Scheherezade's tales of "The Thousand and One Nights" pale into insignificance by comparison. But there's no good relating them, because no one would believe me. The well-modulated tones stopped. The reporter glances over what he has written and favors me with a disgusted look. "What a lot of drivel this is !" he exclaims scathingly. "Oh, yeah?" says the subject. "Yeah !" answers the reporter with finality, and the interview ends with the two definitely and permanently on the outs. Thus endeth our little journey into the privacy of those whose names you know as well as those of the stars. At least they hope you do now ! It's Just A Gift Witk Claudette Continued from page 50 eagerly, and when assured that across the eyes there was a certain resemblance, she said, "But she hasn't these awful full cheeks. What can I do about them? Do you suppose I shall ever photograph well?" As an answer to that, I suggest that you glance at the photographs accompanying this article. Could anybody want to photograph more beautifully than that? Life in the theater is a grand adventure, to hear her tell it. She had to lie now and then about having had experience in stock when she was getting started, but she got away with it. She has terrible rows occasionally with Al Woods when ink bottles are thrown, but what of it? He is a grand character, even if he is as excitable and stubborn as she is. And he let her play in "See Naples and Die," the first play she had ever read that she couldn't bear to think of any one else playing. It wasn't even a mild success, and he hasn't twitted her about her lack of judgment. Well, not much. Some one is always trying to get her to go to Hollywood to make pictures, but Paramount has promised to make her films in the East and let her intersperse them with stage work. People are awfully nice about giving you what you want. That's life from the Claudette Colbert point of view. And it never seems to occur to her that it is because she has given the theater and films what they wanted — and needed.