We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
60
Among Those Present
Photo by Woodbury
Two Kinds of Temperament
CHARLEY CHASE, former director, gives Charley Chase, now a Hal Roach comedy star, some valuable hints, but also a lot of trouble.
His previous experience is at times an aid and yet sometimes a detriment to his director. In many bits of business he quickly grasps the situation and enacts it speedily, saving time. Occasionally, however, his ideas of a scene do not coincide with his director's.
"We argue a while, stop to play a tune, then shoot it both ways. We screen each 'take,' see that both are wrong, and ask a neutral referee for advice," says Chase.
He plays the accordion, uke, and several other instruments, and his director thumps the ivories and evokes melodies from a mouth organ. Working usually in harmony, they furnish a
two-reeler days ahead of the two-week schedule allowed and, having time on their hands, loaf on the squash courts of the Roach studios.
"There's one nice thing about being an actor," he has discovered. "I don't have to worry. I let the director do it.
"But 'he who laughs last laughs best.' I laughed first, in one respect. As a director, I used to make actors do scenes that seemed funnier to me than to them — rain sequences, diving off of piers, running down the street in their B. V. D.s, and standing at the receiving end of tbe custard-pie line. They don't strike me as so humorous, now that 1 have to do them myself."
When he started acting, he loved pies so much that he shut his eyes when he saw one coming.
"I haven't met a pie face to face for some time now," he says. "But if I ever have to again
"Well, remember that I have on tap two kinds of temperament, the director's and the actor's."
An Ambassadress
/%T last the statesmen are showing some sense. r\ In international problems there is inclined to be too much wise argumentation and diplomatic shuttle-cocking. The two "gangs" — mad little boys all got up in frock coats and high hats — dispute over the boundary fence and send delegations to handshake each other into an agreement. After a lot of palaver, the visiting dignitaries go home. And the problems continue to ruffle the peace.
Now, the proper thing to do is to send a clever girl to fix things.
The fact may baffle the philosophers and annoy the perennial misogynists, but it has been proven throughout history that, when a woman sets her mind on something, she gets it. Woman has made empires and ruined emperors, revised laws and broken them with a sweet disdain. Tripping gracefully into a hornets' nest, she smiles. And the hornets remove their stingers and lay them at her feet.
To prove again an ageold truth, the lovely Senorita Dolores del Rio has come to Hollywood armed with the olive branch of tact and blessed with the prayers of her people, in an effort to change bitter resentment into a friendly handclasp over the fence.
Mexico has long been in verbal arms over the presentation of its men on the American screen as villains. When there's dirtv work to be done, according to the slogan of many a director, grab a Mexican.
Our Southern neighbors are peeved that their noble blood and heroes have been overlooked. The slur of having to carry the film cutler)has caused them to ban many films from Mexico. Now on this mission of Continued on page 107