Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1925 - Feb 1926)

Advertising Section 105 Mr. Dane from Denmark Continued from page 19 Von' Bethmann-Holhveg in "My Four Years in Germany," made shortly after the outbreak of the war. "When I married about five years ago, my wife thought it better that I should leave the films," said Dane. "I said: 'All right — I'm willing. We'll go into farming instead.' And so we did, near Hollywood. "During that time I used to go to pictures a great deal. I watched the new actors, the changes, the successes made by men like Torrence, Wallace Beery, and others. And I said to myself, 'If I ever go back into pictures I bet I can make a success like that if I can get the chance.' About a year or so ago, Dane's wife died, but he still entertained no thought of returning to films. Then, one day, an old friend of his, Charles Hutcheson, who makes small independent films, met him on the street, and induced him, after coaxing, to take a part in a serial. The Hutcheson engagement might have continued indefinitely, had it not been for the fact that Dane happened to encounter Robert Mclntyre, the casting director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Mclntyre, who knew him from the old days, literally pounced on him when he saw him. "You're just the man for a part in 'The Big Parade,' " he said. Dane had no idea that the role would mean much to him. In fact, ?11 the formalities that went with the tests and with his selection irked him considerably. After waiting late one da} for an expected answer that was not forthcoming, he finally went home and decided to forget about it. The company had meanwhile approved of him, and as is usual in such cases, they bombarded him with telephone calls and telegrams throughout the night, telling him to report the very next morning. He was so bothered by this barrage of calls that he got up the next morning in a thoroughly disgruntled humor. Then, upon arriving at the studio, he was immediately thrust into the muddy, sticky semblance of a shell hole, which was the setting for the opening scenes — not very enticing after a much-disturbed night. "A young fellow was in the shell hole with me," said Dane. "I didn't know him, or at least I didn't remember him, or care to if I did. All that I knew was that he made a terrible lot of noise talking all the time. "Finally I told him to shut up, but he didn't pay any attention. . "It made me mad. I got hold of him and yanked him into the shell hole, and said, 'Now you shut up!' "Whereupon he turned on me and we had a big tussle in the mud." You may guess who Dane's adversary was. None other, indeed, than Jack Gilbert! And that chance tussle was a fortunate thing for everybody concerned — though perhaps chiefly for him. "King Vidor saw it," he continued, "and said, 'That's great ! Keep it up. It's just the spirit we want — the real war spirit !' "You can see that scene on the screen. It is the one where Gilbert and I have the quarrel about who should go after the Germans." So sure were Metro-GoldwynMayer that Dane would be popular with audiences, that even before "The Big Parade*' commenced to show, they started writing in parts for him in other pictures. In "La Boheme," for example, he appears as the studio janitor in the establishment occupied by Rodolphc and Marcel. But he knows that really fat parts like the one he had in the war picture are a raritv. The Sketchbook Continued from page 29 so well, so Lubitsch consented to film a few feet of Marie. It was one of those spur-of-theminute things, and there wasn't an actor around to play the "dummy," so they recruited Paul Bern, the director, to play opposite her. She says it was the "darndest" test she ever had. She says she took a couple of flying leaps and landed in Paid Bern's arms with a lot of emphatic fervor. Mr. Bern is shorter than she is. Every time she landed, she nearly upset him. 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