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will see swinging along through the crowd, is given to sweaters and golf knickers, and mient, he's liable to vault into a car without ing the door. At the studios you never know he will do next — it may be a handspring; or king sedately down the stairs, he may sudld on his hands and continue his progre>> I in this fashion.
e, ever since Malcolm has been in pictures, en trying to make a drawing-room ornament i, but He wants to play he-man parts and use his athletic ability he perfected at Yale.
adornment is another valuable adjunct in ig a certain type. In fact, very few outilize just how important beards and muse to the character actors. There is Eric jr instance. He has one of those precisely gray-white Vandykes which, topped by a isely cropped mustache, gives him a senatorial Senatorial, because it represents our popular 1 of what a senator should look like. True, quite a number of real senators who don't to these physical standards we set for them, :reen variety must. Mayne is in constant de
such parts as lawyers, doctors, bank presid generals — all because of this atmospheric 1 mustache of his.
; other hand, Charles, better known as Post periodically raises a shaggy brush which n in good stead for all uncouth, lumberjack, roles. It may interfere with Buddy's sarudor when, in private life, he dons a tuxedo ier party, but his friends have gradually beto it. Nevertheless, there are many curious rid not a few wild conjectures, that follow him when he saunters into ~ 1 the lobby of the Biltmore,
or into the Cocoanut Grove out at the Ambassador.
Gibson Gowland, who will be remembered for many a year by all who saw him as McTeague in "Greed," follows along the same line. He usually has a shock of uncut curls and a stubby beard. Josef Swickard is more of the artistic type. He allows his hair, almost pure white, to grow back in a long pompadour. This, with a soft, black Windsor tie which he affects, gives the impression of an artist, a poet, or a musician ; and invariably, it will be found he plays such parts as these.
Since the advent of bobs, the ranks of ingenues with long curls have been somewhat depleted. Priscilla Bonner still keeps hers, as do Mary Akin, Mary Philbin, and Adrienne Dore. The latter is a newcomer to films, and is still quite young. As a relic of her school days, Continued on page 103