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and give him hot love scenes, he would be the most thrilling screen lover of all !"
Muni wasn't grateful. Or, rather, he doubted it. (Even though he has the most magnetic eyes of any male in Hollywood!)
"Some stars register on the strength of their good looks and personality. But me — no ! I am not handsome enough. And, even if I were, I should not care to be a matinee idol. I have studied acting too long to receive any satisfaction from being a puppet. When the story calls for a love scene, I do my best. But I don't want people to come to my performances just to see me kiss !"
Being treated with respectful solicitude by Warners, he has little by little become quite fond of pictures. Despite all pleading, though, he will not do more than two films a year.
"I want to give outstanding portrayals," he contends. "It is not possible to rind more than two convincing stories a year."
"But if the fans forget you because other stars are doing so many more films?" I prodded.
"Well," he mused, "it is better to be half-forgotten, if that be the penalty, and then to arouse interest all over again each time you do appear. They won't have a chance to tire of you, and they'll anticipate your next show.
"I endeavor to present a surprise in each film. 'Scarface' and 'I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang' were strong propaganda against two of our country's greatest evils — the gangsters and prison cruelties.
"They had news value, you might say. Whereas 'The World Changes ' reveals the evolution of a family. A dramatic tale, but hardly an influential one. My second picture for this year, just finished, is still very different from these predecessors. 'Hi, Nellie!' is a boisterous, rowdy newspaper comedy. It will prove that I, too, have a sense of humor !"
That Paul Muni is sold on the talkies is evidenced by nothing so much as his choice of Hollywood for his permanent residence.
"This is really our first home. We did own a small place at Brighton Beach, in New York, but we only lived in it a few months. When I am doing a play I have to take an apartment near the theatre. To get into the country in the East would necessitate too many hours commuting.
"When we came out last summer we rented a house in Beverly Hills, having resorted to apartments on previous excursions to Hollywood. We learned the joy of having our own fireside. But Beverly was too formal and crowded. We finally discovered this ideal spot in the country.
"We probably will spend half of our time in the future here. I don't care for night clubs or stiff social functions, and neither does Mrs. Muni. This peaceful hide-away, with our books, our dogs, and the company of our few intimates, is all we ask."
Although he is unanimously hailed as a leader in his profession, Paul Muni indulges in none of the eccentricities dear to the heart of stage and screen royalty.
He is not a back-slapper. In fact, he declares he has only about twelve really personal acquaintances in Hollywood. He lacks other stellar tricks. The show-off complex, for instance. Invitations to glittery affairs are declined. He doesn't go for premieres, splashy autos, Malibu, celebrity-chasing, or stepping out on his wife.
There is no fear of the Muni marriage crashing now that they are a part of the Hollywood scene. They are in but not of the movie crowd.
"If one wishes to be extreme and af
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fected, that is his inner self creeping out, and not to be blamed upon the acting business. Perhaps by going away half the year Mrs. Muni and I take Hollywood less seriously than those who get no perspective. We feel as though we participate in the worth-while things of the city, but are onlookers to the gaudy side, I honestly relish working in pictures now that I have a say on my stories. And the studio executives? They are just like Broadway producers."
Pressure was brought to bear upon Muni to enact the valiant attorney in Universale "Counsellor-at-Law." It was in vain. Every inducement was dangled before him — whatever director he wished, his okay on all scenes. When Warners could not make him do it, he recommended John Barrymore for the role which he himself originated on the stage.
The reason?
"I don't believe it will be so good as a picture. The important objection, however, was due to the playwright having neglected to ask me about it. He sold it to Universal on the assumption that I would jump at the opportunity to play it on the screen. Everyone knew all about it but me. Had I been asked /"
Which admission betrays to us that Paul Muni has the genuine brand of artistic temperament. He doesn't strut or brag, nor fight for superficial prestige. But he does like to be accorded thoughtful treatment !
His devotion to his wife is one of his most admirable traits. He includes her in all his discussions and "we" is a busier word than "I" in his vocabulary. Though he was not able to finish high school, he is a well-educated man. Intensive reading and studying for his hundreds of parts have done more for him than a college course does for most men.
Music is his hobby. He neither sings nor dances, (they couldn't inveigle him into any of the Warner musicals!), but he is a fine violinist and is an authority on Beethoven and Bach.
Politics and crusades for relieving unjust situations intrigue him. When it comes to culinary tastes, he is frankly plebian. Scrambled eggs is his favorite dish, and to heck with fancy diets !
At the studio, when doing a play, he works at fever pitch. Nothing is spared to make his performance perfectly-rounded. At home — in Hollywood — he prefers to lounge around in cords and shirt-sleeves and wonder when his truck garden will begin to furnish the household needs.
"I am wearing this suit today," he informed me with an astonishingly naive grin, "because I wore it to a studio conference yesterday, and it was the first thing that came to hand this morning !" Mrs. Muni nodded at this confession and murmured something about her chief duty being to keep him from going wholly native.
That, again, is our wholesome Hollywood influence !
As a final indication that he has tasted of California home life and found it unbeatable, you will kindly note that he has purchased two small ranches near his own. His mother, now retired from the stage, is installed on one. The other is being run by a musician brother who had' been having tough sledding in the East.
Paul Muni and the lady in his life are getting out their fine feathers to do Europe in the proper style. But I know that they'll be thinking of their little pink nest in the West, worrying whether the caretaker is watering the walnuts, and envying him for suspected dips in that front-yard swimming-pool !