Screenland (Oct 1923-Mar 1924)

SCEEENLANB 93 lie is a persistent seeker after, truth, a diligent delver into the complexities of life. He wants to know why people are satisfied or dissatisfied; why they react to this or that. He takes a special delight in meeting prominent people and dissecting them. He loves to take apart a famous personage and discover what makes him tick. Chaplir.'s Interest in the Famous Some years ago, a famous English actor, now dead, came to Hollywood. It wasn't long before Charlie managed to meet him. It was a great thrill for him because in London this personage was as far out of Charlie's reach as the king himself. But within a week after the first meeting, Charlie gave orders that if Sir What's-His-Name called up. he wasn't "at home." In that time Charlie had plumbed the intellectual depths of his famous countryman. As fast as they are squeezed dry they are cast aside. And if they ever get into the Chaplin studio once they are passed up and "given the air," they can qualify for Houdini's job. Year by year, Chaplin has grown mentally, partly through reading but more largely through his associations. Famous people who call upon him and then give out statements to the papers invariably refer to his brilliant mentality. There was a time, I am firmly convinced, when Charlie fooled some of them. His brilliance was just a reflection of another's mentality. Perhaps it was Karl Marx, or Wilde, or Shaw. He could, in uttering the most commonplace platitude, make his fascinated hearer believe that he was giving forth scintillant spontaneous comment on a vital topic. I may be mistaken and perhaps may be doing him an injustice in picturing him as a poseur, but at that time it always seemed that the things Charlie said had a familiar sound. Finding Way to Mental Independence It's quite different now though. He has gradually found the way to independent thought. He doesn't have to lean on another's mental props. Nowadays, when he makes a wild irresponsible statement, it is with the definite purpose of drawing a certain response or reaction. For some time Charlie's closest friends have been Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Edward Knoblock, the English playwright. It is a rare treat to listen in on them — the brilliant but utterly phlegmatic Knoblock; the ebullient, effervescent Doug; the sensible, both-feet-on-the-ground Mary and Charlie trying to convince the trio of something or other, declaiming histrionically with lighting and mechanical effects. And the argument usually ends or simmers into a down-to-earth, honest to-goodness discussion when Mary says : "Now Charlie, you're just talking and not thinking." Charlie has always been addicted to fads which have ranged from socialism to the Dr. Abrams electronic system of diagnosis and treatment of all human ailments. Just at present, I understand, he is convalescing from the latter. And the Ladies! A, kND then of course : The Ladies ! It seems as though there has always been a girl just around the corner, so to speak. At least according to the newspapers and magazines which specialize in the gossip of the film luminaries. And how the public does "eat it up !" Well, there will be no drawing aside of boudoir curtains here. Let future biographers with a better command of the language of Eros attend to that. Only this tiny bit of gossip, that the dynamic Pola will not, according to present indications, ever sign her name as "Mrs. Charles Spencer Chaplin." I have always thought, and always will think, that women are only "copy" to Charlie. He is insatiable in his research into human emotions and women furnish an inexhaustible supply of interesting and puzzling emotions. d, Movie Gossip of Holly ivood and New York — From Page 75 The Listening Post to recall the days of Weber and Fields you undoubtedly remember Frankie Bailey, who a couple decades ago was regarded as the premier chorus girl of them all. All she had to do in the various revues and burlesques of that period was to just let herself be seen. Tired business men used to go just to see Frankie's figger and saps with a leaning to rhyme found delight in inditing odes to Frankie's nifty ankles, etc. All of which is preliminary to the fact that Miss Bailey is in charge of the theatrical make-up department of a Hollywood drug store that caters to the film trade. Oh, yes, she's been playing in pictures Earle E. Liederman as he is to-day Pills Never Made Muscles Wishing Never Brought Strength NO one can paste muscles onto your arms ami shoulders. 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