Picture-Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

Advertising Section 105 As Others See Him Continued from page 74 In person, in direct antithesis to his screen personality, he is to all outward appearances a gentleman without a care. He has a gorgeous and very English sense of humor. He is wholly the Briton, tall and fair. His compatriot, Ronald Colman, is a "black"' Englishman. Another countryman, Reginald Denny, is an English-American. Percy, on the other hand, is just an Englishman, unqualified. He looks English, talks English, and is as English as a broad "a" in "afternoon." When he speaks he has a way, decidedly British, of accenting descriptive words. It was very cold. They are awfully nice at Lasky's. He or she is perfectly charming. You remember he had asked me to be perfectly frank about the picture. I had every intention of doing so, As I had been mentally comparing the real Percy with the shadow Percy, the film had clicked by until we now found Lord Jim about to commit the act that would brand him among seafaring men for the rest of his life. He was on the verge of abandoning his ship. He paused for a moment, the rain and sleet blowing into his agonized face, and then — he jumped to the safety of the lifeboat below. A gentleman had become a coward. That was a piece of splendid acting. "Ah," said the gentleman who had done the acting, "that was cold. Worked at night to get those scenes. Just like ice." Such is art to the artist. Later, during the tragedy of the courtroom 'scenes, when Lord Jim is on trial for his honor, Percy leaned over to tell me an amusing anecdote about the dog in the story. In a rage, the villain is supposed to kick the dog. Of course, the actor didn't kick the little hound very hard, and to save their lives, or the picture, they couldn't keep him from wagging his tail when he was kicked. "This is a man's picture," I remarked, after the third reel. "Men will be crazy about it. Women won't hand it so much." "Yes?" inquired Percy. "Why?" Knowing my sex as I do, I answered, "Because this is the fourth reel, and the love interest hasn't begun yet. Where is the girl?" "Why, of course," Percy affirmed, so quickly that my vanity inflated like a balloon tire. "Of course. I hadn't thought of that. What a romantic sex you are — you women. But there is Shirley Mason now. She is really worth waiting for. What a little trouper she is. I love her work." I'll admit that Shirley was worth waiting for. In the brown make-up of the island girl, she was like a little bronze. And so we watched the romance develop, reach a climax and end tragically. Percy told me they had taken two endings. One was Conrad's. The other was absurd. "They had us eating bananas or something like that," he said, "on a raft as we floated down the river. That would have been the orchestra cue to play 'Yes, We Have No Bananas !' and the audience would have gone home feeling happy and comfortable. Thank Heaven ! that won't be shown." Although Mr. Marmont passed not one comment on Mr. Marmont's performance, I think he enjoyed playing Lord Jim. He played the role with dignity and repression. I haven't read the book, but I am sure he has. He has every shading of such a man as Conrad would have written him. I told Percy I was sorry I couldn't criticize the picture, as I had promised, because I sincerely enjoyed it. I enjoyed Percy, too. Both of them. A Star Turns Reporter Continued from page 50 I should have loved to stay on in that restful room and dream a bit, forgetting for a time that there were such things as studios and the like. 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