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Alfred Lunt is a comedian of decisive originality, and quite as engaging and likable a person as his appearance would lead you to believe him to be.
WHEN an artist of the stage ventures into the movies, something happens. Either he develops an entirely different personality, is submerged altogether, or, in rare instances, is brought out by the camera to such an extent that he acquires new values and achieves a position far greater than the stage seemed ever to offer.
For example : Douglas Fairbanks. In his first Triangle picture, "The Tamb," he found the touchstone of success. His appearance on the stage, Broadway star though he was at the last, had neither the scope nor the definition of his screen acting.
The celluloid record of his buoyant comedy at once was flung, after the manner of film distribution, to the four quarters of the country and, in fact, the globe itself.
He became a star of the first order because he offered no subtleties, either featural or histrionic, that eluded the lens, and gave much that was fresh to the screen. More
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over his first picture was shrewdly chosen to display what he had to offer to the best advantage. It enabled Fairbanks to emphasize on the screen precisely what he had' given to the stage.
All of which is by way of a preamble to the case of Alfred Lunt, adroit and ingratiating comedian of the stage, wdiose picture debut was effected in "Backbone" and further exploited in "The Ragged Edge," but hardly with that distinction; wished fibr by those who admired! his ability behind the footlights.
Why should a player with methods facile and individual, unique in the field of high comedy, elect to mask those qualities in roles of straight heroics? we asked among ourselves.
That inquiry sent me in quest of Alfred Lunt. The same brings this story to the moment he entered his rooms, resigned to an interview, to find me bent over a book.
"You've got hold of the best one in the house. I found that in a second-hand shop the other day. Fascinating, isn't it ? but involved and awfully expensive to practice. I'm glad you're interested. Such a book is an index to character. Few nok tice it."