Screenland (Apr-Sep 1924)

SCREENLANB a Still Small Voice; A Splendid Hazard. Then came the beginning of the end. Never strong at best, under the strain of the exotic life of a famous star, Walthall's health failed. For weeks at a time he would not be able to work. His nerves grew abnormally sensitive. He was often moody, even irritable. His engagements fell off. For several years his face vanished from the screen. He took a home at Santa Monica and waited, perhaps reading in the dull booming of the waves against the rocks the final doom of all actors grown old in the harness. A few remembered him in his exile. The faithful few wrote to the editors of film magazines, "Where is Henry Walthall? What has happened to him?" And the editors could only say they did not know. The producers were not interested. Walthall? Why, he was the chap that played in The Birth of a Nation, wasn't he? And that was way back in — why, it must have been around 1910! Say, the man's old, now! This studio ain't no Home for Retired Actors, y'know. Oh, well, if he's that good, maybe we can work him in a character part. And sometimes they did. Small, trivial parts that must have hurt Walthall to the quick to play, and surely hurt the faithful fans who remembered his past glory. It did not even occur to producers to give hirn a romantic part. The man was forty. In those days the romances of the screen were chronicles of puppy love. Half-baked boys of twenty-one were making half-baked love to sixteenyear-old girls who wouldn't have recognized adult passions if they had met them on the street. And so Henry B. Walthall remained in obscurity foi another year. Then sophistication came to the screen with the advent of foreign stars and foreign directors. Grown-up men and women portrayed the love scenes. Lewis Stone, Adolphe Menjou, Irene Rich, Huntley Gordon came into prominence. And the audiences applauded the experience of their touch and called for more. 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