Screenland (May-Oct 1928)

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If we know that we have something to give and let anything stop us we are a lot of saps. One thing is important though. We must be sure that we have something to give and then try to present it a little better than anyone else. The world has no place in the front ranks for mediocrity. Taking the careers of the screen people you will see what I mean. About fifteen years ago when a man with a handsome Grecian profile, blond hair and the body of an Apollo tried for a job in pictures he was out of luck. He was given a sour look by the casting director. A young man in those days had to have black curly hair and dark eyes to be good in pictures. Acting didn't count at all. But it counted whether you could ride, swim and play tennis and golf. You might never be called upon to do any of these things but you were blacklisted if you didn't say you could do them. The casting director would clear up these points for you in a bored manner between two yawns, or snappily without giving you more than a scathing glance, according to his type. Never did he use his brain. He was not casting director for that purpose. Of course even the average casting director had his intelligent moments, but generally speaking he was the perfect machine carrying out the orders of his world. Every dark, curly haired and dark eyed young screen actor was then in clover. But all rules are made to be broken by some adventurous soul who sees beyond them into the possibilities of the future, and so, eventually, Bill Farnum came along with curly hair to be sure, but it was not very dark. He was as blue eyed as the noon day sun and had Herculean proportions. He crashed the dark haired, dark eyed screen taboo in The Spoilers and set a new standard for the screen hero. The perfect hero must now be strong and tender. The blue eyed menace was over, but in its place loomed one quite as ridiculous. It was, that if the hero couldn't hurl all the villains over the cliff with one hand and hold the girl quite easily with the other, he wasn't a hero at all. Then came Valentino with his sleek, suave, graceful manner, and his smile that smoldered into the hearts of men and women alike. He marked a new epoc in pictures which permitted a wider choice of players. But with the slender, esthetic Valentino as the vogue, what a gate crash ing Jannings had on his hands. Of course we come inevitably to Jannings who can do every sort of hero with equal grace. By no stretch of the imagination could Jannings be called a handsome man. Distinguished yes, but not handsome. What did that matter to him? He does everything in so convincing a manner that no one cares whether he is handsome or not. If he had a part to play where the man should be handsome he easily arranged it. Look at him as the Archduke in his palmy day in The Last Command. But Jannings is a type alone and has not fallen into the rut of matinee idol. He is too versatile an artist for that. Blond heroes have had an uphill road so far. Why the producers have been unable to see a blond hero is a strange thing. But they are beginning to come into their own. Conrad Nagel was perhaps the first who became prominent, but he has made good in such a variety of parts that he cannot be thought of just as a hero. Jimmy Murray is on the up grade but he is not a decided blond. Bill Boyd then seems to be the man of destiny. Bill is almost a tow head and I don't have to tell you that his eyes are blue; but they are dark blue enough to give them solidity on the screen. Bill has been stepping right along but when he bursts forth in S\yscraper I predict a sudden increase in his fan mail. He's there with the cave man stuff that every gal likes once in her life anyway, but there is tenderness too, and his fists know how to double up when he needs them. So perhaps Bill Boyd will be the first blond hero. The girls have had just as hard a struggle against the menacing taboo. For years, really its influence lasts even to this day, heroines had to have blonde curls because Mary Pickford had them. It was as though everyone thought it was Mary's curls that made her dear to us; but it doesn't seem possible that everybody could be so stupid. If it was just Mary's curls I should think there would be more Marys. But there is only one. Mary's curls however, caused many a raven haired beauty to drip bitter tears into her morning coffee and the world perhaps lost many talented, lovely young actresses because of the bigoted idea that heroines must be blonde. A few to be sure defied the scourge. There was Mary Fuller, Clara Kimball Young, Alice Joyce and Norma Talmadge, but three of these girls married men powerful in the producing world and while they were both very popular, Norma Talmadge and Alice Joyce lastingly so, they didn't noticibly smoothe the way for other dark haired girls. Later, Betty Blythe landed the Queen of Sheba, but that was a special picture and Fritz Leiber, who played King Solomon was a very tall man. Also although Betty made a tremendous personal hit, her success didn't open the doors for further leading parts either for herself or others. But it did weaken the taboo on that particular point and gradually dark haired girls have been accepted until now there are several favorite raven haired lassies. Dolores Del Rio, Patsy Ruth Miller, Estelle Taylor, oh and a dozen others. Their advance was so gradual, however, that there was nothing sensational about it. Rob Wagner, — (whose \nowledge of the film colony dates bac\ to the days when pictures were only infants, super productions were single reelers and actors were cowhands, — writes every month for Screenland.