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He was "Ruggles of Red-Eye"
But now, "Stew good to be true," says Charlie, scoring in sober roles
By
Ha^el Hairston
DOES the screen public want its favorites to be versatile? Charlie Ruggles is going to find out. For the past two years he has played nothing but "drunk" roles. Now, in his first starring picture, "Girl Habit," he doesn't take a single drink.
He played so many souses that he had a perpetual hangover !
"Playing such parts is no easy matter, either," he said to me the other day. "It's hard enough to distinguish one character part from another without having them all scrambled together as 'just drunks.' Getting the various roles lubricated with hooch in various ways is no simple parlor trick."
If you inquire how he manages to enact the parts so realistically, he'll tell you, "playing 'drunks' is just like anything else in acting — it's 70 per cent intelligence and 30 per cent imagination."
From his first talking picture, "Gentlemen of the Press," Ruggles took to drink. Then came "The Lady Lies," "Young Man of Manhattan," "Oueen High," "Roadhouse Nights," and "Her Wed~ ding Night."
In each picture he was highly praised by fans and critics alike for the veracity which he put into his impressions.
And strange to say, not one of his admirers has written and asked that he "sober up !" They like him drunk. Maybe it's because he never gets sloppy and falls down, or lies in the gutter. He is always the amiable "drunk" whether he is society Beau Brummel or newspaper reporter. And his {Continued on page 113)
Driven to drink! Ever since "Gentlemen of the Press," Charlie Ruggles' screen job has been to see the world through the bottom of a glass. But now he can be himself again — and his favorite drink is milk!