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Donald Ogden Stewart leads Lew forcibly from the stage.
John Gilbert, Again.
A lady out in Utah wrote me a sassy letter the other day. She was sort of sassing things in general, and John Gilbert in particular.
A few months ago, I wrote an essay on John in this department, and described him as boyish, eager, and unassuming. The lady out in Utah said she didn't believe it. That, she wrote, was an old story. She had read the same thing about X and Y and Z, and look at the way they turned out. Why couldn't the truth be told ?
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if some of the rest of you aren't wondering the same thing about Jack — as to how he is taking all this adulation, and what the people out here really think of him. Well, as nearly as I can make it out, some people like Jack, and some don't. That is only reasonable. Some are jealous of him. Some are jealous of any one's success. Some pride themselves on disapproving of any one or anything that
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If people insist on writing in to argue about Jack Gilbert, the magazine writers have to keep on writing about him. And who, hist now, is more interesting?
achieves popularity. Others don't know him at all, but like to pretend they do.
Personally, I think he is amazingly level-headed. And charming.
If he is slightly aloof at times, it is not because he is Jack Gilbert, king of the roost, at the moment. It is a quality he would exhibit if he were a coal dealer or a bill collector. He is delightful to people he likes and not so delightful to those he doesn't. But aren't you?
I almost said that he has an amazing sense of humor, but I realize, on thought, that he has little humor at all. He has a marked sense of irony. Things aren't funny to him. They are perfectly ridiculous.
Both orally and in print, he is very grateful to his employers for the remarkable opportunity they are extending, and swears allegiance to King Vidor, Irving Thalberg and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer triumvirate.
Soon after "Bardelys, the Magnificent," Jack is going to make "The Back Slapper." The title tells the story. It is all about a man who goes around slapping prominent people on the back and calling big men
by their first names. This character is a hypocrite, a bluff, and a social climber. I could name a couple of young
Dorothy Manners tells a lot of reasons why she likes [Virginia Valli.
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