The Picture Show Annual (1931)

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Picture Show Annual 101 A CANADIAN HIT WALTER PlDGEON is a Canadian. He was born in East St. John, New Brunswick, and here he joined a glee club when he was quite young. As an amateur singer and piano player he was winning some fame, and had headed towards a career on the concert platform, when the war intervened. In 1915 Walter Pidgeon was sent to France, where he served witli a Canadian artillery regiment at the Front for a year, and spent the following eighteen months in French hospitals, badly wounded. He returned to Canada in 19l 8 and went into a brokerage business, but his artistic leanings were still pronounced, and he went to Italy, France and London each year to study music. Losing his money through investments, he decided to make music his career, and got a )ob with Elsie Janis at a concert, following it with touring Europe and America with the star. This launched him as a musical comedy player, and he was singled out to introduce " What'll I Do ? " " All Alone." and other popular songs to the public. Then he decided to try films. Although he no longer had his voice to help him, he scored a success, playing in " The Desert Healer," " Miss Nobody. Mannequin," and other silent films. The talkies have helped him even faster up the ladder of film stardom. His first talkie part was in " The Melody of Love." Then came " A Most Immoral Lady," with Leatrice Joy," Her Private Life " with Billie Dove, and, in " Bride of the Regiment," the talkie version of "Lady of the Rose," he was given the part played by Francis X. Bushman in the silent film that starred Corinne Griffith. SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE" IT is to her Scandinavian blood that Jeanette *\*/ Loff owes her bright gold hair, her sea-blue eyes, and clear fair skin, for although she was born in Orofino, a little lumber town in Idaho, her father was a Dane, her mother a mixture of Dane and Norwegian. From her father, a clever violinist, she inherited a talent for music, which she displayed so early that at the age of fourteen she earned pocket money by playing accompani- ments at the local picture house at a dollar a night. As the show opened only two evemngs a week, it was not tremen- dously profitable. When she was seventeen, a household move enabled her to study music seriously, including voice production, which has been very useful to her since the talkies came. A job as organist in another picture house bred in her the desire to be an actress. She took a holiday and went to Hollywood, where she obtained small bits in " Young April " and " Uncle Tom's Cabin." Her holiday came to an end, but Jeanette did not return. She hung about the studio, and one day as she sat by the set watching, Cecil De Mille noticed her. A screen test was followed straight away by a leading part opposite Rod La Rocque in " Hold 'Em, Yale " and " Love Overnight," and her role in " The King of Jazz" was so excellent that the Dart was enlarged in order to include more of her singing.