Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

Advertising Section He Doesn' Continued His voice petered off in a hush, but I presumed that he meant to convey that he was never so happy as when alone in the garden of his flowers. "Do you know how I spent Christmas Day?" His voice had regained its magnetism, and the question was fairly shot at me. I was just getting ready to guess, when he suggested that I would probably laugh. I promised not to. "I spent the day in red pajamas," he began, and stopped abruptly. I thought to myself that the color scheme was most appropriate. Christmas and red pajamas. "All day long I lay on my bed and played Bach ! Drinking in his divine melodies. Opening my heart, my soul, to them. Bach. Bach. Bach. Without a peer. Bach. You know his music, of course?" Never in his most embarrassing moment, when caught at a Hollywood part)' without a high ball, could Mr. Schildkraut have felt so lacking as I — who am practically without any understanding of Bach with, or without, a peer. My blank expression must have served as his cue to let that one pass. He added tactfully, "Anyway, I can see that you are a very sensitive person. A person.with such long fingers as yours is necessarily sensitive. Why do you bother with these uninteresting interviews?" Just to see what would happen, I told the truth. "Money ? Nonsense. Money doesn't really mean anything to you. To me it means less than nothing. I am probably the only actor in Hollywood who will tell you that I am not in pictures for the money. You may ask me, why do I remain here? Why do I not return to New York, or Europe, or to my beloved Vienna, fc Like LiVer from page 43 center of the world's culture ? I will tell you. "I remain in Hollywood for my health. Unfortunately, the climate agrees with me. Again, I like pictures. I am extremely enthusiastic about 'Show Boat,' for instance. I think it should be a great picture. I think, in Ravcual, I have the best male role of the season. It has everything— romance, life, color. "When I was in the hospital recently, the picture was previewed. Naturally I did not see it. But in my place went my father. You know my father, Rudolph Schildkraut? Well, he is a beloved, impatient, and restless old devil, but he liked the picture and paid me the supreme compliment of saying he could remember no outstanding performance in it. That means that it is good. When we remember the acting of one particular player, it means that there is something wrong with the whole. Do you see what I mean? When the unit is perfect, the parts cannot be noticed !" He continued, "No, as long as I remain in Hollywood I want to be identified with pictures. Not for any amount of money would I consent to return to the stage — naturally I refer to the Los Angeles stage. Let them think of me always as Liliom, or Peer Gynt. I do not care to be torn to pieces by audiences with whooping cough, or by pseudocritics." Though I didn't say so, I thought that seemed too bad. It's a shame to deprive even Los Angeles of the opportunity of watching Joseph in the flesh. There's a part of his personality the camera doesn't pick up, if you know what I mean. A certain suave, exquisite charm that he saves for the garden of his flowers. Irisk and Proud of It Continued from page 100 spectator remark during the showing of "Easy Come, Easy Go," in which Miss Carroll played opposite Richard Dix, "I'll bet that girl's a hot baby!" "Indeed, she is not," exclaimed Mrs. La Hiff , in high dudgeon ; "that's my daughter !" Once Mrs. La Hiff began to talk on the subject, there was no stopping her ; she talked her way right into the manager's office in the local theater. Next day the electric light sign outside the theater no longer read, RICHARD DIX, in "Easy Come, Easy Go," but NANCY CARROLL, in "Easy Come, Easy Go." But with all the good roles that Miss Carroll's fine work has earned for her — and every one remembers "The Shopworn Angel" — she says that she prefers her part in "The Water Hole" for its genuine humor.-1 For you see Nancy Carroll, nee La Hiff, has inherited from that fine, old mother of hers the fund of real humor which enabled Mrs. La Hiff to pilot twelve children through their sorrows, struggles, and pitfalls, and retain a winsome twinkle in her eye. 109 to skin beauty 1. Germ-covered cloths 2. Harsh towels 3. Non-absorbent cotton Avoid them in this way: rub cold cream off, not in DO you rid your pores of the day's grimy, poisonous accumulations or do you rub cold cream and dirt further into your already abused skin? Absorb cold cream by using Kleenex Cleansing Tissues. Their gentle softness lifts embedded impurities to the surface. They leave the skin smooth, fresh, healthy, clean! And they cost only a few cents a day, though you use three sheets at a time and discard them after one use. Send for a sample package. Try it. You'll be delighted. Kleenex Cleansing Tissues Kleneex Company, Lake-Michigan Bldg., Chicago, Illinois. Please send sample to PP-5 Na?ne. Address City Stau