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when Al Jolson decided he'd rather go to Europe than make a movie.
Lillian and Mae and Carol may look pathetic — but even these illustrious sob-sisters could learn a lot from Lloyd. He. seems always to be faintly troubled about something. You yearn to put your arm about his shoulder " and tell him, huskily, that you understand. Comedians are like that, anyway. Whenever I see one off the screen I want to break down and have a good cry. They touch me to the heart. It is as if the strain of being awfully funny all the time had begun to tell.
The Wistful Mr. Hamilton
iiKE everyone else, Mr. Hamilton has to pinch himself every so often to make sure he is really, truly working for Mr. Griffith. He was making his two-reelers in Hollywood when the wire came asking him to take the lead in Black and White. The part is that of a young lawyer who clears his client of a murder charge by masquerading as a resident of darktown and unearthing the real murderer. One of the
What happened to Lloyd Hamilton, he of the sad expression and the huge feet, in the presence of Art in the awfully refined Studio of Mr. Griffith
highlights of the piece is the scene where he participates in the baptismal ceremonies in the river and when ducked by the officiating clergyman comes up white. Now you know.
While his too-small cap hasn't become a symbol like Harold's glassless goggles, still it is known. Small boys recognize him on the street. So there was something touching in his humility when Hamilton remarked that he was so surprised that Mr. Griffith told him to keep right on wearing the same old clothes and pulling the same line. Mr. Griffith even did an imitation of the Hamilton walk — imagine. You know the character if you saw Uneasy Feet. A man who wants every one to think he is going somewhere when he really isn't going anywhere at all. Circumstances over which he has no control make him funny.
The Intensely Serious Lloyd Bacon
/loyd Bacon, the son of the late star of Lightnin', and John Noble, director, are other Californians working on Black and White. Mr. Bacon is an intensely serious young man. Kate Bruce remembered him when he was eight and she was a member of his father's company, and she said he was oh, so serious then. Mr. Bacon looked at me and said, "Have you ever been to {Continued on page 100)
(Lin _his new Griffith picture Hamilton plays a young lawyer who clears his client of a murder charge by masquerading in black face as a resident of darktown and unearthing the real murderer.
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