Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1928 - Feb 1929)

Advertising Section 119 He'll Fool You If He Continued from page 34 Having been the vogue abroad, a great favorite both on stage and screen, he cannot understand why he has been so long in duplicating that prestige here. He found that he must practically start all over again in America. Though his contracts have kept him busy, he has not yet made his name what it was in Europe. And he is puzzled, as a small boy would be at some baffling problem. "Abroad, it is the ability. The public like the actor, because he is good. If not " His hand waved the vague ambiguity that meant "out." "Here, too much the personality. Ya, there I get also much fan mail. But it is different from here — more quiet. It is about the work. Here, it is nice letters, and I appreciate, but it is personal, and questions." He was in Russia for two years, in the diplomatic service. Surely he was involved in adventures? But no, he smiled. It was routine work, even the meeting" with Lenin. The interview Nils simply will not tell glamorous tales. "I have, always a dog. I cannot remember when I have no dog. I slip away from school and we swim, or we go out into the country and climb the hills. We get up high on a rock by the sea, and think. I think, and my dog act like he think. If there is a storm we like it all the better." Following terms at Lunel University and the Royal Dramatic School, he was on the stage for two years. "Abroad you must study at dramatic school. You do not get up and act, as here. No, no actor before me in the family. They do not like it, my parents. But now, ya, it is all right. On the stage, according to custom, he played leads and supers, alternating. Ibsen — the usual things. Something of Eugene O'Neil's, translated into German. When, in glancing across his biography, as recorded by him at the studio, the publicity boys saw "Wings" noted as his first picture, they whooped. "That boy's good ! Trying to kid the publicity department !" Nils patiently insisted that his first lead had been in "Wings," his initial picture. The mention of Mauritz Stiller's name as director brought to light a German production by the same title as our air epic. So, through "Sorrell and Son," "Laugh; Clown. Laugh." "Our Dancing Daughters," "The Cossacks," and others, he has slipped lithely, sometimes as the menace, again more heroic, but never as a person with a sense of humor. "Not until 'The Cardboard Lover,' with Marion Davies, do I play comedy part here." He spoke as enthusiastically as halting English and overworked hands could convey the story of his latest role, in which he is "pursued," according to the plot, by Jetta Goudal. "In Europe I play it much. Comedy I like, the " Words failing, a long, artistic hand illustrated the undulating movements and lightness of comedy. In ten months he has played in eight films — not a bad record. "I reduce me thirty pounds," he confessed. . "Now I weigh one hundred and seventy." Though he gives the impression of slenderness and litheness, there is plenty of him. At the effort to place another thirty pounds upon him my imagination balked. His favorite actor, before he came to this country, was Charles Ray. If in your idols can be seen your own hopes, we can see the dark, somber boy, Nils, with his contradictory mischievousness,' earnestly watching the skillful Ray. Not dreaming. You do not associate anything so vague and tenuous as dreams with Nils, despite his attempt to make you think of him as forlorn and solitary. He is, by nature, solemn ; that is the undertone. He is purposeful. You can readily see him planning, waiting, for success, ^though I'm sure he is less stoic than he would have us believe. Did the signing of his contract to come to America give him a thrill? No. So he said. I wonder? "I have to catch the train in only thirty-five minutes. I work until then. But no, I am not excited. I know for a long time some day I come to America, so I do not do like this." His hand fluttered and wiggled, and his smile flashed. He wants a home. "Not in Hollywood. In the mountains, up high where many peoples cannot drop in to visit all the time. For nine years I have not a home. I sit in the hotel room and I read. I try to read in English. I must learn. But I like better German and Norwegian books." His fan mail is growing. Interest in him is accelerating. He has, without doubt, all the qualifications for success on the American screen, given suitable roles: personality, skill, looks, vouth. xf>r TAKING, lUIJsPlCTURES/ BE A MOVIE OPERATOR We cive projector and teach you athome, his demand by movie and vaudeville theatres. Write for folder. Workin(r in spare time, J.'H, WADE made $2UU in 2 weeks. A. G. MASON earned $617 for a few cay*' work. YOU, TOO, can soon quality for the wonderful opportunities in this big-pay profession. 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