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Stuart Erwin. < 5 > Left : Slim Summerville. fails to bring in the public, then it is almost certain that the contract will not be renewed. It may be that the story was not good, or that the scenario writers did not do justice to a good story. Also it may be that the big public were not ready for the story the film tells. But the star is blamed. No producer ever blames the supporting cast. He is too good a business man for that, although he may not be clever enough to give the fallen star a third trial. Looking back on the pictures for a good many years, 1 cannot think of a single instance where a first-class supporting player has been sacked. Some of them have left the screen, but in nearly all cases you will find they have retired on the money they made on the screen. They richly deserve their luck, for they always give full entertainment value for the salaries they earn. Looking at the photographs in the order they have been printed, we find that the two first positions are occupied by Charley Grapewin and Frank Morgan. Charley is getting on in years—he was born in 1875—but he is still young in heart. He has lived a full life. When a boy he ran away from home to join a circus and toured the world with the famous Barnum and Bailey circus. After that he went on the stage, and when he came into pictures he had thirty years of stage experience. He is a grand character actor. Frank Morgan is not so old as he sometimes looks on the screen, for he is only forty-nine. He, too, has had an adventurous life. He left an American University to become a cowboy, and it was his brother Ralph who persuaded him to take up acting. He had a spell of silent films and then returned to the stage. But with the coming of the talkies he came back to the screen and has beer, there ever since. He is an all-round actor, but his best role is that of a fussy old gentleman who is either the parent or the guardian of a modem boy or girl. Maxie Rosenbloom was a boxer and a champion at that game before he came into pictures. Many prize-fighters have tried their luck on the screen, includ- ing Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier, but with the possible exception of Max Baer (one- time heavyweight champion of the world), Maxie Rosenbloom is the best at acting. Noel Madison was bom in New York, but he made his stage debut in Chariot's revue at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London. You will remember him in “ Climbing High " and “ Crackerjack." Erik Rhodes began acting the stage as a comedian Right: Guinn Big Boy ” Williams 152