Screenland (May-Oct 1930)

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SCHOOL OF MUSIC 3228 Brunswick Building New York City PLAY BY NOTE Piano, Organ, Violin, Cornet, Mandolin, Harp, 'Cello, Trombone, Flute, Clarinet, Piccolo, Saxophone, Ukulele, Guitar, Voice and Speech Culture, Drums and Traps, Automatic Finger Control, Harmony and Composition, Banjo (Plectrum, 5String or Tenor) Piano Accordion, Italian and German Accordion. him. That constant stretching of his neck as though he were Mary, Queen of Scots, getting ready for an appointment with the ax and chopping block, is just a habit. Powell doesn't know how and where he first contracted the odd trait, but one of his friends once laughingly remarked that the great Philo Vance of the screen spent many hours as a child, bobbing for apples! Lilyan Tashman has an odd way of throwing back her head with a quick jerk when anyone speaks to her suddenly. If Lilyan ever should come to your town and you see her on the street, just say, "Oh, hello, Miss Tashman!" and watch her head go back in the air! It is a distinct manner* ism and possibly Lilyan doesn't even know she possesses it. Victor McLaglen has a trait of sticking his thumbs into his upper vest pockets and waving his fingers in the air! Vic does this off the screen all the time and recently he's done it in one or two pictures, probably unconsciously. No one can quite move their eyebrows around like Catherine Dale Owen! It's her one very famous mannerism. In fact, it's a standing joke in Hollywood that if you see a moving eyebrow, look behind it and there you'll find Catherine! She can raise either or both eyebrows high in the air and rejoice over it! It's her distin SCREENLAND guishing mannerism both off and on the silver sheet. Looking at you through half-closed eyes is Hedda Hopper's pet trait. If you don't believe it, watch for Hedda in "Such Men Are Dangerous," starring Warner Baxter. Practice has made perfect this mannerism of Miss Hopper's and she does it unconsciously on the screen as well as off just about all the time. One mustn't forget Paul Muni, who has a habit of clasping his hand over his chin. Paul had to do this a lot in "Seven Faces" when he portrayed the role of Napoleon. Evidently, the habit had 'sticking' qualities, for it's getting to be a real mannerism of Paul's in his private life. Then, of course, there's petite Fifi Dorsay of "They Had to See Paris" and "Hot for Paris" fame, whose pet mannerism is throwing her head way back in the air and laughing gaily and loudly. And Helen Kane, who made 'Boop-aDoop-ing' the favorite pastime of Hollywood, whose little trait consists of coyly sticking her finger up to her chin every so often, both off and on the screen. Mannerisms! Our little town has 'em and to spare. You might say they come in all sizes and shapes and in all wrappings! For they certainly do! ROGERS: GINGER — Continued from page 34 a career, should be Ginger's. To have relented and allowed Ginger to be drawn into pictures at that early age, would have automatically nullified her own choice of a career; would have stamped her with the theater. The choice should be her own! When at twelve Ginger had progressed into a local personality in Fort Worth, the Texas town to which we had migrated, the hit of every home-talent affair, in constant demand even by local theatrical managers as an 'Extra Added Attraction!' to their regular bills, it became apparent that the theater was to be the scene of her future. With this decision our ambition began reaching out for motion pictures, the high goal to which all actors aspire. The sooner we began the foundational work, to study the technicalities, the earlier in life would Ginger's success be won. No faith in 'chance' or 'lucky breaks!' Experience] That was the thing most to be desired. Long hours Ginger and I would sit at home dramatizing incidents of Texas history from her school books, writing them into playlets, producing them, using the boys and girls of her classes under the auspices of teachers and principals; giving the plays for the benefit of one school fund or another — to buy a piano or a play-ground apparatus; times rich in experience for the other students as well as Ginger; and a genuine local hit in one piece we called "The Death of St. Denis," with thirtyfive children playing grown-up parts of the Texas-Mexican-French regime — political strife, Indian troubles — it was grand! Teachers and mothers wept at the death of St. Denis and the shooting by an Indian of his lovely wife, Maria (played by Virginia Rogers). Stage-poise, the 'feel' of audiences, enunciation, the voice over the footlights, were all gleaned in this childschool. Then came the Charleston! Always a natural dancer, the Charleston gained an ardent disciple in the fourteenyear-old Ginger, and when contests began to filter into Texas, she won medals and cups. The State Championship Contest! Ginger won it. The reward— a four-week tour of the key cities of Texas in vaudeville. From the first performance, Ginger was hailed as an embryonic star. Grateful for this beginning, we yet never took our eyes from the high goal — pictures. Gaining renown and success in the home State is a far cry from Broadway. Encouraging, yes. But we lived to learn through the next four years what the word courage really means. Cancelling at the height of a successful tour because Ginger was working too hard; learning to sing instead of dance, and relaunching Ginger as a singer; long tours with seemingly no progress. Occasional bright spots: a long engagement with Paul Ash in Chicago; recognition from Publix Theater officials; the weeks with Ed Lowry, dean of picture house comedians, in St. Louis. Then New York— and a drastic decision to stay there until Ginger should get a Broadway show. For by this time we had learned that a Broadway show was the stepping stone to motion pictures, talking motion pictures. Long weeks of waiting! Paul Ash again to the rescue with an invitation for Ginger, while she waited, to become one of his stock personalities at the Paramount Theater, Brooklyn. This substitute proved to be Ginger's great opportunity. It was here Messrs. Bolton, Kalmar and Ruby saw and signed Ginger for their musical sue cess, in "Top Speed." Over-night, Broadway made Ginger Rogers a star! (Inwardly I chuckled, for hadn't I known it since that cold gray dawn in Independence, Missouri?) Three weeks after the Broadway opening of "Top Speed," Ginger began her first Paramount talking picture, "Young Man of Manhattan" with Claudette Colbert, Norman Foster and Charles Ruggles. She is now working on her second "Queen High" — which, it has just occurred to me, will never be finished unless I wake her up right this minute!