Screenland (May–Oct 1927)

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C[ Lon Chaney is seldom photographed out of character Out C[ Pretending fun in a scene from "Rolled Stockings". the Crowd <lAu Editorial by Eliot YJsen and with what a 'nJHE two illustrations here are scenes from different pictures difference! One scene is happy, gay, joyous life and the other the grim machine-like grind of industrial slavery. Perhaps your life is a job, regular hours, negligible honors and niggardly pay. And perhaps you envy the life of a Hollywood extra, romping with laughter and jostling gaiety through happy days. But if you were an extra and passed through the studio gate each morning you would find on the lot the same problem that is now yours. You have got to stand out of the crowd. Lon Chaney, in the days when he was only an extra, used to spend three hours put' ting on his make up. He realised that his success depended upon his ability to stand out of the mob. Your success is the measure of your individuality. C[ A scene from King Vi dor's great effort called "The Crowd". Vidor is the screen s first philosopher. 16