Screenland (Nov 1928-Apr 1929)

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102 SCREENLAND Are You Afraid to Face the Truth About Yourself? There are occasions in he life of every man when he realizes how miserably he has fallen below what others have expected of him and what he had dreamed for himself. The "big" man faces the truth, and does something about it. The "little" man finds an excuse for his failure and does nothing. What are your answers when you ask yourself "questions like these ? Things They Don't Talk About Am 1 not drifting along aimlessly? What, after all. is my purpose in life? Am I trusting too much to chance to bring me success? What is my greatest weak point? Is it lack of will, poor memory, mental laziness, mind-wandering, or what? Am I "licked" by life, am 1 a "quitter"? What can I do, now, to "find myself"? Continued from page 35 How 650,000 People Have "Found" Themselves Through Pelmanism Pelmanism is a scientific system of mind-training; it takes the well-established principles of psychologj , simplifies them so that they can be understood by everybody, and arranges them into a really remarkable" system, which is designed to re-arouse and to train ' certain mental faculties, which in most of us lie absolutely dormant and atrophied. WHAT IT HAS DONE Pelmanism originated in Great Britain. Members of the rmal family, leading statesmen, distinguished military and naval officers, world-famous authors, artists? actors, editors and publicists. leaders in industry and finance, people of the highest distinction in the Empire— became just as enthusiastic PelSanis s as clerks and ••tommies" and day-laborers When the movement spread in America the same storv was repeated— captains of industry and finance, men of affairs, jurists, writers, leading business men, P?ofessional people of all types-adopted as enthusiastically as wage-earners and college students Andnow "over 650,000 people in . every part 0 flip world men and women usually of the highest, t.vpe ^f in'telUgence. have adopted and use Pelmanism to help them "find themselves." SEND FOR FREE BOOK ■When people like General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Judge Ben B Lindsey. Frank P. Walsh. Major General Sir Frederick Maurice. Admiral Lord Beresford. T P O'Connor. H. It. H. Prince Charles of Sweden. Jerome K Jerome. George Lunn. Sir Harry Lauder and thousands of others eaually famous find that ?here is "something in Pelmanism," can you afford to i-nore its possibilities lor you? We win be glad to send you., without charge a book called "Scientific Mind-Traimng." This tells the romnlete story of Pelmanism. what it is and what it Si is filled with stories-some of them almost urfbeUevUle^f People whose . lives have been completely made over by Pelmanism. To send for U s hook involves you in no .obligation Address ine Pelman Institute of America. Suite 161. 71 west, 45th St., New York. Offices in London, Paris Stockholm, Delhi, Durban and Melbourne The Pelman Institute of America, 71 West 45th St., Suite 161, New York I want you to show me what Pelmanism has actually ft fit-f-JBsffi ^TrS"^^ me under no obligation whatever. the Biltmore, and made the young man go down to his attorney's office where he coniessed all. He was to have been sent to prison but when Ben heard that his thumb prints would be registered and his picture put in the rogue's gallery, Ben called a halt. "He is only twenty years old, Ben told a close friend who told me. "It is a boy's prank, and while it is a bad one I wouldn't want a boy marked for life with a prison record on account of it." Ben gave the culprit a good talking'to and told him what he was heading for if he kept up such actions. So the boy went back to his home and as far as Ben knows he has not repeated the offence. That was a thoughtful thing for one boy barely over twenty to do for another whose idea of 'right' was a little bent, wasn't it? A young man told me about a recent severe illness he had suffered which had found him pretty close to the financial margin. He had made a lot of money and had immediately bought two or three cars, several bits of real estate and taken on a retinue of servants. All would have been well had he remained on the payroll as he expected to do instead of landing in the hospital. This turned the comedy into a tragedy. He could dispose of the servants and two of the cars, but he could not sell the real estate without taking a terrific loss. In the meantime what was he to do about hospital bills? Well, Jack Gilbert, who was a friend, heard what he was going through, sent word to the hospital to spare no expense in giving him the best of care and told the young man to relieve his mind of all secuniary worry. Bebe Daniels, I've been told, is unusually kind to her .servants. Her personal maid attends her both at home and at the studio and Bebe is very exacting. But when it is time to play Bebe wants her maid to have as good a time as she, herself, has; and for this purpose she gives her many pretty clothes, not left-overs of her own always, but new ones. And recently she gave her a new Chevrolet so that she could go about and visit her friends, an impossible thing out here for one who has not much time and no car. It was Mrs. Joe Brown who told about the nice thing Marion Davies did. Marion is always doing nice things for people. She is one of the most generous-hearted stars in Hollywood. She and Mabel Normand have become legendary where their charities are concerned. It was said of Mabel that she gave away half of what she earned. But here is what Mrs. Brown related. She was in a hospital visiting a friend of hers. On her way down the corridor she passed an open door and glanced in. The room she saw was a veritable flower garden. It was a bower of roses and every other imaginable lovely blossom. Moreover, it was the room de luxe of the floor. Mrs. Brown asked who the lucky occupant happened to be. And she learned that the patient was a young mother — the wife of a property man on Miss Davies' set at the studio. The film girl, learning that the prop man's wife might not be able to afford the luxury of a private room, arranged everything. Moreover, she made it possible for the mother and baby to have the services of a trained nurse for as long as was necessary after leaving the hospital. Maybe that property man doesn't swear by his star! Al Jolson won't like it when he reads this. And we'll make it easier for him by not mentioning any names. It seems that a little actrress in one of his pictures was downright hard up. She had a family to support and she wasn't making very much of a salary. Al made it his business to try to get her a raise. Failing in this, he went to her and said: "Look here. You're doing splendid work in this picture. _ I know you aren't making as much as you're worth, so as long as you are working in my picture I want you to accept an additional check for good work in the right spirit." And Al was supposed to be a hardboiled guy from blase Broadway. George Fawcett, whose name gives prestige to any picture he is in, continues to do a very gracious thing for two daughters of a life-long friend. These young ladies, partly from necessity, partly from the thrill it gives them to be in movieland, came to Hollywood and asked Mr. Fawcett whether he could help them get into pictures. The result has been that they work in almost every picture Mr. Fawcett is in. and a good many that he is not in. Several times during the first year they were out here, Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett — who was the lovely Percy Haswell of the stage — took them to the studio in their car for some night scenes they had to work in and remained until they were through work. This, just so they would not feel embarrassed and out of place. Because I know of many kind and helpful things the Fawcetts have done for people I asked Mr. Fawcett the other day what he thought about giving. Whether he thought it helped. His answer was very interesting, I thought. He said one must have above all things imagination in giving. An ability to discern what a person needs or is capable of doing and then help him to it. And I think that's a pretty good summing-up of the case. Name Address LUPINO LANE'S KOLSTER RADIO SET has been awarded to MR. EARL A. McINTYRE University of Missouri 6 Woodson Way Columbia, Missouri For his clever and original letter. Of all the letters received this college boy's was the best. City City.