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HOW •
THEY • ACT
AMOS AND
ANDY AND
LANG
By Freeman Lang
(As Told to Mae Brightman)
CECIL De MILLE takes first prize as the outstanding male hello-er. Conrad Nagel is a close runner up. Charlie Chaplin will never talk, but that's not strange either as he won't even talk from the screen. But he's af
fable. Doug Fairbanks offers the usual "hello," a pleasant smile and lets it go at that.
Doug says his voice is not so hot and that the radio audience is getting a break even if they don't know it. Mary Pickford hello-ed at "Morocco" which was unusual.
Gorgeous Gloria Swanson goes shy
MARJORIA WHITE SMILES
before the microphone. She's willing, but a trifle tied.
Constance Bennett broke her silence endurance contest at "Cimarron" with the classic remark, "I have nothing to say."
As a matter of fact many of the big stars won't talk because they really don't have anything to say. They come unprepared and dislike the usual trite remarks. Jean Harlowe and Clare Luce are plain stubborn. They turn out with boy friends who brush past with a negative shake of the head. He'll tell us they don't want to talk. He ought to know.
The comedians are the best bets. They're affable lads and always ready to give a free laugh.
George Sidney, Charlie Murray and Jack Oakie are only too willing to help out. They get off a wise crack, a grin and add life to the whole thing. Bert Roach and George Stone let out a gag or so apiece. El Brendel talks with his famed Scandinavian dialect; Benny Rubin breaks into Hebrew.
Bob Woolsey and Bert Wheeler, as well as their lovely little pal, Dorothy Lee, add plenty of laughs. Amos and Andy, who didn't find the mike exactly foreign, spilled their usual line at the "Check and Double Check" premiere.
"Coquette" was one of the snappiest premieres I've put over. Doug and Mary hopped across the gutter. It was a slick shot. At "Rio Rita" I collected a dollar from everyone who said hello over the mike. I got $25 for the Community Chest.
And when "City Lights" opened in the new Los Angeles Theatre we put on a great radio show. The arc lights were smashed, the crowds blocked traffic and the taxis would dump their fares and pick up the wounded to rush to the hospital. What a night!
RADIO DOINGS