Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Jul 1929)

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CALIFORNIA George— As He Is Continued from page 34 In due time — a bit overdue, George was beginning" to think — he was relieved of the precarious routine of extra work. After bits and negligible roles he was "discovered" and placed in celebrity by "The Iron Horse." His popularity has been gathering momentum ever since, but it was not until "Sunrise" that he was recognized as a fine actor instead of, as heretofore, a pleasing person. He likes being a star, but doesn't take it to heart. He would like all his pictures to be good, but when one falls short he isn't depressed. He maintains a healthy balance, rare in Hollywood, by virtue of the fact that he has activities just as absorbing outside the studio as in it. Physical fitness is important to him and, although he does not make a fetish of it, its attending routine is his chief pastime. There are swimming, riding, tennis, football, handball, and basket ball. He is on the Fox basketball team, composed of Charlie Farrell, Barry Norton, Charles Morton, and other Fox actors, and the notices on his last picture did not afford him as much glee as^the account of how they licked the Richfield Oil team. Fie has a boat that is dear to his soul. On it he cruises indolently up and down the coast, exploring sea ways and courting storms. He loves the sea and is never happier than when either in or on it. He feels a kinship with all sailors, and one of his greatest sources of pride is the unfailing Christmas telegram from the gang on chaser 297 . The deepest and finest influence in George's life has always been that exerted by his father, Dan O'Brien, chief of police of San Francisco. Almost anything you say or do is apt to remind George of something his father pulled. His filial pride and devotion are intense and unwavering. One of his close friends is F. W. Murnau. The two are often together, sometimes solving the difficulties of the universe, and sometimes sitting in comfortable silence for hours at a time. When he is seen at the Cocoanut Grove or the Biltmore, it is usually with Olive Borden. George likes to dance and is more than ordinarily proficient at it. He is well informed and his wide range of interest and information makes him an agreeable conversationalist. He is not opinionated but, on the contrary, facile in ideas and receptive of logical argument. He has a streak of moodiness in him, periods of melancholy which he has trained himself to expose to the light of reason, and blame on the weather. Over events he does not worry. Things happen — if you anticipate them, you're likely to get fooled, and if you mourn them afterward, what good will it do? He is an actor without a grievance. Even the loss of a big chance, as when Cecil DeMille wanted him for a tremendous part in "Dynamite," and the Fox program prevented George's acceptance. He wanted the role, for it would have meant important things, but he couldn't take it. Too bad — maybe some other time ; that was that. . He lives at the Hollywood Athletic Club. He is the despair of the studio publicity department, because he is scarcely ever available for interviews. He sincerely tries to be accommodating, but there are so many things to do. The beach, the boat, the horses and, whenever there is a week between pictures, a flight to San Francisco to be with his father and mother. He drives an expensive car, wears well-tailored, brown clothes, likes avocadoes for lunch, and all the prop men and "juicers" call him George and bum cigarettes from him. The Vainest Dog in the Movies Continued from page 63 Mr. Henry took King Tut to the Beverly Dog and Cat Flospital for inspection. Doctor G. M. Eisenhower looked him over. "He needs to have his face lifted," the^ surgeon said. "Really?" "Yes ! And he needs to have his eyebrows plucked. Too much hair all around his eyes, too." They put King Tut on the operating table, administered an anaesthetic and the surgeon went to work with tweezers, scalpel, and needle. The annoying eyebrows were plucked, the lower lids slit just beneath the lashes and narrow strips removed, and then the incisions were sewed together. The result was wider eyes and enlarged vision, and King Tut emerged with a new face. Now he's back at work with a new outlook on life, full of pep, and very much of a sheik. "He high-hats the other dog actors who haven't had their faces lifted," his owner says.