Screenland (May–Oct 1927)

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He resolved to enter films. As he was earning but twenty dollars per week, and was not always able to work steadily at that amount, he was three years in saving enough money to pay his fare to New York. On the way east he stopped in Toledo to visit his mother. There they went to see Owen in a picture. In the picOure was a young man who was playing a sort of juvenile "heavy". Matt felt that he could do as well in similar roles. The next day he went on to New York. Owen met him and introduced him to his director. Matt was immediately engaged, and strangely enough, took the place of the young actor whose work he had seen in Toledo. Owen was playing opposite Florence Lawrence in the picture. Matt was cast and made-up. He had one of the principal parts. Motion picture technique confused him — the lights, camera and lack of audience, as well as the radically different effect of the sets. After he had rehearsed his fit it scene a few times, all the other members of the company left him and had a conference in the corner. Later he learned that no one was satisfied with his work. . . except Florence Lawrence. She insisted that he be retained. As it happened, he made a hit in his role, and was considered a "find". He remained with this company, a branch of Universal, for just six weeks. Owen was, of course, the leading man. As Matt had no wardrobe, Owen supplied him with says Eddie Cantor been a stor\. clothes. It was soon discovered in the projection room that the brothers resembled each other on the screen. The cut of their clothes being the same the resemblence was accentuated. Matt was fired. However, he immediately went to work with Universal, where he remained in comparative obscurity for many months. Producers at the time felt that two brothers in films were enough. It required two years before he got a foothold, and another year before he could get from behind the shadows cast by his more famous brothers. Meanwhile, he kept working continuously — and learning. He remained with Universal until given a leading part in "Traffic in Souls", a film directed by George Loane Tucker, who later became famous as the director of "The Miracle Man". This picture was the vehicle in which Lon Chaney, Thomas Meighan and Betty Compson rose to fame and fortune. Matt then directed, wrote, cut, and costarred with Jane Gail in domestic comedies for one year. His next important role was that of playing opposite his sister-in-law, Mary Pickford, in a film entitled, ironically enough, "The Pride of the Clan". There followed a picture with Elsie Ferguson called "Hearts of the Wild". Matt's finest screen work was in "The J^arrow Street" and "The Unpardonable Sin", both Marshall Neilan productions. His most sensational picture was made a year ago and entitled "The Cave Man". It was directed by Lewis Milestone, a young Russian Jew who is considered by many critics to be the most promising of all the younger directors. Milestone arrived in this country at fifteen, and unable to speak a word of English, he worked at everything that offered the scantiest livelihood. After six years in America he was still a house to house canvasser of photographs. He became interested in motion pictures and after many months succeeded in obtaining a position as a drudge in a film lab