Screenland (Nov 1931-Mar 1932)

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Gloria Swanson, for instance, has kept the world agog with her rapid rise from Sennett comedies to the ranks of a star-producer and has made freakishness a keynote in her career. Under Cecil B. De Mille's direction, La Swanson became the talk of the film world. No one wore such extreme and freakish creations as this former Sennett beauty. For a while the freakish wave threatened to dim Gloria's glory, but she seemed destined to survive the deluge of ostrich feathers and gee-gaw furbelows. If Gloria is freakish now, it's altogether a different kind of freakishness, for she is featuring an eye-compelling simplicity. Vicki Baum, who gave "Grand Hotel" to the stage and who is now in Hollywood seeing it safely onto the screen, thinks that one must have abnormal magnetism with which to thrill the more placid and normal beings. "Artists should be a law unto themselves," says this noted writer. "Genius should be excused for any shortcomings. The artist lives under a heavy strain. Hours of intensive emotional work will often drive a person to certain extremes. Highly-strung nerves which respond readily to dramatic situations must be part of a successful stage or screen personality. We know that these people have to keep vibrating at a high rate. It is almost impossible for them to continue this pace without some let-down. That let-down finds expression in so many different ways — a gay party with discretion thrown to the winds, or a walk in the woods, according to the mood or nature of the individual. "So far I've found Hollywood parties very formal — almost like a Court affair in Europe. Very impressive, but not exactly amusing." This Vicki confided when I asked her if she thought Hollywood very gay. "I have not been to any party like we read about, with all kinds of freak goingson. Perhaps they're just to be read about, not experienced — but I have not been here very long ; perhaps I will see one of these parties before I go back to New York. "It is so strange the way simple actions are made to appear freakish. Look at Garbo — no matter what that poor girl does, people talk so much. If she were just a little country girl she could take all the walks alone she wanted to, and wear any kind of clothes, without the whole world pointing a finger at her and stamping her a freak. Why shouldn't one wear simple clothes and brogues when walking? Why shouldn't one walk alone? It is a great joy. I find much of my happiness in walking alone in the woods, and I'm sure that does not make me a freak," laughed Vicki, shaking her mass of golden hair vigorously. Vicki Baum didn't look a bit like authors are supposed to look. She had a Peter Pan expression as she sat in a green and yellow flowered chiffon dress, in strange contradiction to the Continental type of philosophy she expounded. Not quite master of the English tongue, she appealed to her secretary to help her find words with which to express herself. If there's anything freakish about Vicki it lies in her delightful lack of ego. "Who are these scientists to take it on themselves to be the judge of what is or is not freakish in human nature?" asks Ricardo Cortez between scenes in "Twenty Grand." "Actors are not quite the same in conduct as bankers, for instance, nor are they at all like circus performers, although the layman might consider them in that class. It's all a matter of proportion or the relation to something else. Humanity should be measured in general, not just by our own personal viewpoint. For instance, I don't think 'Peter the Hermit,' a wellknown Hollywood character who goes about barefooted, long-haired, bare-headed and in scanty clothes all year round, is a freak. I think he is merely a good representative of his kind of human being." Dorothy Lee comes right out and admits she's a freak. "Sure I am — I can't help it," says this diminutive star. "I like to play jokes like handing some dignified person a chunk of ice when I shake hands or something utterly silly like that, just for a laugh — to see the puzzled or astonished looks on those around us. Just a clown ! That's me. Bert Wheeler is the same — always doing something that people on the outside call freakish. But don't think all comedians are that way. Bert's partner, Robert Woolsey, is just the opposite. He's the most normal and natural sort of person off the screen." Pola Negri is stamped a genius by many. Those who know her well prophesy that Did Tom Mix, with his huge white sombrero and riding clothes, start the freak furore in Hollywood?