Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1928 - Feb 1929)

Advertising Section The Saga of the Hobo Continued from page 59 job — grip, usher, super — and, when he got fired, move on to some other small town with a stock company, via the beams. A lot of great men probably were hobos, if they would admit it.'' Self-pity is the first thing the road takes away from you. If you aren't a weakling, and crushed, you learn to fight. "Fearlessness, the primitive fundamentals, human nature, and wit — these the road teaches you," 'Beery said. "You have nerve — but no nerves." "The intelligence of many of the several hundred thousand hobos of America would surprise the citified 'reformer,' " Tully broke in. "Oddly the 'bo is at once a cynic — stripped of illusion, he has no chance to develop ideals — and a blind dreamer. Many of them make for the libraries the minute they hit a town. After seven years in an orphanage in Ohio, I hit the road, an untrained, scared, and miserable kid. Soon I was as hard as nails. But another kid, somewhere, took me to a library with him, and I began to read. I'd write doggerel on scraps of brown paper, and when I was still in my teens I had read Balzac, Dumas, and classics that the cute college lads never learn. "Of course, the life wasn't perfect. You were hungry sometimes. And there were the dicks. They'd round you up, along with the other vags, and try to pin on you everything that had happened in the State of Kansas — or Illinois or Ohio — in the last five years. What chance had a 'bo of proving an alibi, when he had no last name, and only a 'nick' for a front name ?" In his customary way, Wally does things with gusto. First, his heavy, steady tramp, that threatens to shake the building. His thunderous laugh. He is louder, broader, merrier, than the equally huge, but more gentle, Noah. The story of "Beggars of Life," as it has been changed to meet movie requirements, concerns the adventures of a swashbuckling yegg, the high-class gent of the beams. Oklahom Red is his moniker, and he is modeled after a pal of the author's. Only — there's a love story here, and love is something that the cynical soul of the 'bo does not know. Loyalty, generosity, and other fine qualities he comes in contact with, but the right kind of a girl he never meets, except in those books in the libraries. The movies, however, are elastic. There is a girl in this hobo's life. Just out of an orphanage, the heavy hand of the law grasps her fbr a crime she believes she has committed. She is aided to escape by a road kid. Dressed in boy's clothes, she accompanies him. Louise Brooks plays the girl tramp, Richard Arlen the kid. They are found and taken into the jungle before the "kangaroo court," where the lawless gents, who have their own code, are given mock trials. The swaggering, big brute of a yegg, Oklahoma Red, sits as judge. The kid's fright provides great amusement, as he is tried for being a sissy. Oklahoma Red awards himself the custody of the girl — of course, the blustering Red does the noble selfsacrificing act. A wow of a role, it would seem, for Wally, and those who complain of the ornate unreality of most movies won't be annoyed by gorgeous settings in this one. While we talked, Wally outlined another role he would like. " 'The Bull Man!' Get that title? He breaks elephants. Cruel. Strong. Girl — snappy little Clara Bow temper— falls for him. Wants to be an elephant trainer. He teaches her. He thinks he can crush her spirit. She breaks him — he turns yellow — she's in danger, the bull turns on her — he pulls himself together, rescues her — egoism." The ease of effete civilization has not made Beery soft. He is still, in many ways. Jumbo. His humor is broad slapstick at times. Yet it is not without subtlety. Recently he carried a new mutt dog around the studio, to acquaint it with picture making, in order that it might hold its conversational own in bow-wows with Hollywood canines. Poking into an office, where a conference between executives was in progress, he surveyed the scene solemnly, said to the dog: "Now, you know what a conference is," and slammed the door. Style is a word not in his vocabulary, though the lovely chatelaine of his home speaks it beautifully. During the filming of "Old Ironsides," when a fleet of sleek yachts skimmed over the Catalina waters, outside camera range, he rigged up a boat with a pop-gun motor, apparently made of tin cans held together by strings, and sailed proudly among them. When he can "take off" the grandeur that is Hollywood, he is in his element. Yet his heart is big, beneath his gruffness. Many a hungry kid has been helped by his bounty. 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