Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

Advertising Section 109 Shifting from Low to High Continued from page 24 could make it into capital travesty. Comedy is based on two sure-fire recipes — making fun of other people, or having other people make fun of you. I have been a goat comedian for years. So is Keaton. So is Chaplin. Ray Griffith is an excellent example of a comic who gets his laughs at the expense of others. But Chaplin and Keaton suffer." Sterling further proved his contention that serious acting and comedy were of a kidney by pointing out the fact that such dramatic stars as Mansfield, Sothern, and Barrymore all started as comedians, and retained the comic spark in many of their characterizations. Even in his S'ennett days Ford Sterling was enthusiastically engaged in amateur photography. He has kept up this hobby, and captured highest honors in this country, and abroad, at international exhibitions. "Why don't you commercialize your fine talent for photography?" he was asked. "Because it's my favorite hobby, and as soon as I made it a business proposition it would cease to be a hobby. I enjoy it sheerly for its own sake, photograph whom I choose, and putter around the developing room as long as I choose. There's no order to fill, no patron to suit, no hurry about the finishing. Doing it for money would rob the thing of its beauty and spoil it for me entirely." In "The American Venus" Sterling has done work that is said to equal his excellent performances in "Stage Struck" and "The Trouble with Wives." "Now that I've signed a long-term contract with Paramount, I guess I'm slated to do legitimate comedy for keeps," he said. "I'm not sorry, either. Slapstick is all right. It's great training, and a pie in the eye is a wonderful teacher. But there's a bigger kick in doing a neat bit, and getting it across neatly, than in taking a plaster statue on the nose. Both bring laughs, and, after all, that's what the object of the game is, but the wise chuckle is harder to get than the hollow howl. And when you hear it, it sounds better, if you've tried your hand at getting both. "I'm shifting from low to high, and I hope the going will continue to be State road all the way !" A Three-hundred-thousand-dollar Gamble Continued from page 19 ing hero who is apparently dedicated to the pleasant cause of serving her. Midge's lassitude is a contrast to' the jazz spirit of the day. She seems always to be a little apart, studying the passing show with languorous appraisal. Her charm lies as much in her restraint as in her beauty. Occasionally the kindling of a little flame in those sleepy, magnetic, topaz eyes is permitted ; but shades are drawn that they may not give too much. She has that rare and charming grace of listening, a delicate art which so few women bother to cultivate and which so enslaves a man. SO a certain delicacy has held taut John Bowers' love. His home that will so grandly crown its hill will incorporate Marguerite's every material desire, and Hollywood is wondering if she will capitulate before this magnificent expression of a man's undaunted love. For months, John has had art dealers buying lovely and odd furnishings. As Marguerite's fancy leans toward old things of quaint charm, treasures of a mellow beauty will embellish this medieval castle of fifteen rooms. Antique lamps of amber glass — one is eight feet high and weighs four hundred pounds — will hang from heavy iron chains, dimly to light the long rooms. A spiral staircase leads to a turret. From the balconies there is a splendid view of the San Fernando Valley, with Hollywood a cluster of tiny, colored pebbles far below. The dining-room furniture will be massive peasant pieces. But the suite which John hopes Marguerite will occupy as his bride will be a dream of beauty, decorated in gold and Napoleon green, with white polar-bear rugs on the floor. It will contain two "grand couches," as they are called, of the fourteenth century, of gold leaf intricately carved, through the interstices of which is glimpsed a network of tiny, inlaid mirrors. There will be a sunken bath, of green tile, four feet deep and eight feet long. The decorations of one room will conform with a seventeenth-century bed and clock that were among Sarah Bernhardt 's prized treasures ; and another suite will contain a perfect Louis Quinze collection. A fit setting, indeed, for Midge. Can't you easily imagine her there, purring like a contented kitten, her golden fur so smoothly glossed ? Learn to Dance i at If u Wonderful Invention Brings You Actual Movements of Each Dance ! 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