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Clarence Muse Has Won Laurels In So Many Fields He Is a Very Difficult Person To Classify. Stage and Screen, Radio and Music All Claim Him For Their Own. This Is the Story of a Gifted Colored Lad, Who Gave Up a Career in Law To Follow His More Romantic Quest of Art, and After Twentyfive Years of Successful Trouping, Settled Down in Hollywood For Radio and Motion Picture Work, Secure in the Glory of Innumerable Conquests
by
Michael Kelly
perhaps be no better exemplified than by the wide range of requirements exacted by his roles in his other eight pictures. His parts in these productions included a southern "cullud" boy, a Sengalese, an Indo-Chinese, and an English Negro with a Oxford accent, and a Chicago gangster — all different dialects, most of which he had to invent.
KNX audiences have invariably remarked in their response to his many appearances in varied roles that his mode of expression is a realistic one. For the most part, his is the primitive, simple reaction of the
Here are a few of the many movie roles played by Clarence Muse. Recognize him in any of them?
FEW modern day radio stars, with all the talents and accomplishments which are prerequisite to success in the highly competitive field of broadcasting, compare with Clarence Muse, featured Negro entertainer of KNX, in Hollywood.
With a vast and rich background on both the legitimate stage and in pictures, this picturesque colored actor appears every morning in the role of "Jackson" with Bill Sharpies' Breakfast Gang, a popular program on the Hollywood station.
Recently signed by Metro-GoldwynMayer for one of the important character roles in Upton Sinclair's sensational novel, "The Wet Parade," with a stellar cast, the famous colored actor has completed nine talking pictures within the last year. Among these are such feature productions as "Dirigible,"
"X Marks the Spot," "Huckleberry Finn," "Secret Service," and many others.
In addition to his many laurels, in the theatrical profession, Muse recently won nation-wide recognition for his song, "When It's Sleepy Time Down South," now the rage over the radio. This plaintive melody of the old south is heard nightly being played by orchestras in the smartest clubs all over the country. Muse himself sings it often in his appearances over KNX.
The Negro trouper, with a background of 25 years experience on the stage, plays in the most difficult and exacting parts. The picture "Dirigible," was enacted in three languages, English. French and German, all of which he speaks fluently. His versatility could
elemental man. This is by no means because Muse is such a man; but rather because he knows this is a primary characteristic of his race, which he more or less represents, and personifies.
A college man, cultured and wellread, Muse nevertheless plays an illiterate Negro porter with finesse. His understanding of human nature runs deep and full. He wanders waist-deep in the stream of life. He is distinctly of the people — an integral part of them.
One of his chief distinctions is his gift as a composer of spirituals. His song, "When It's Sleepy Time Down South," has already been mentioned.
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