Screenland (Dec 1933-Apr 1934)

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Sorry as he was and frank and honest as his explanation was, he was promptly fired by his employer, and unless we the public demand his return, his screen life is over — after only a few years of success and while he is still a young man. Let us hope there will be no governmental supervision causing a scaling downward of all of the players' salaries. Let us, therefore, be free to demand that Janet Gaynor continue sweet and that Marie Dressier make more pictures regardless of her age and that Jimmy Cagney give us his fast, hard impersonations. We don't want stock company players who can act every part well but no part superlatively. We want stars who typify certain crosssections of human lives and affairs. That is a cruel demand, but we know _ every screen player is not a Sarah Bernhardt or Edwin Booth — we know they are frequently only the creatures of our demands, cleverly manipulated by able directors, make-up artists, playwrights and technicians. And while we demand them to remain our certain, definite types, let them be well paid so that when their part is played and forever done they can be happy in the recollection that we the spectators might have been cruel task masters but we gave them a break because we paid them handsomely. Meet Mary Esther Ralston, who so demurely takes a bow with Mama Esther. The elder of these two ladies plays in "By Candlelight." The Man Who Replaced Lee Tracy Continued from page 27 pilgrimage through life. Alas, his face didn't come up to his expectations ! Nevertheless, he kept his notions of evolving into a Great Lover in his heart throughout his uneventful childhood. When he was a senior in the high schools at Porterville, California, he got his first taste of dramatics. He performed in the class plays and that convinced him he was destined for the heights. But there had never been an actor in the Erwin family — his two brothers and a sister still live in peaceful obscurity near their birthplace — so he discreetly enrolled at the University of California in Berkeley, and supposedly began majoring in journalism. "The summer following my freshman year I worked in the fruit cannery in Porterville," he told me as we talked in front of the fire, "and, at the last minute, instead of returning to college I took the money I'd earned for my tuition and headed for Los Angeles and a dramatic academy." Can't you picture him murmuring, "Darling, I want you, I must have you?" as he sliced peaches endlessly all that summer? "I firmly believed — then — that I could play heroic leads," he confessed to me and June. Visions of Stu melodramatically acting before his boarding-house mirror floated before our eyes. Like Merton, in reality Stu gaped at Hollywood's stars and confidently planned what he'd do when he was one of the sacred circle. "Fortunately," he laughed, "by the time I'd finished four months in the dramatic school I had come to the realization that I was humorous rather than 'hot.' " This was casually stated, but you can bet that facing the Facts of Hollywood was just as much of a blow to Stu's ego as it was to Merton's. Stu quit the training academy when he was offered a part in the local production of "White Collars." Produced in a small theatre, it ran a whole year. It gave him the necessary theatrical varnish, and he continued in Los Angeles stage shows, alternating occasionally as a stage manager, until a Fox scout noticed him. His film career thus began with a role in "Mother Knows Best," one of the early talkies. "I'm thankful I have a trick, quavery voice," Stu pointed out. "It's an asset to my type. I have tried to develop a distinct comedy style. "Compare myself to Lee Tracy? Well, I'd say that our methods are just the opposite. He's high-key ; I'm low-key. He overplays, gets his laughs by his speedy delivery and his flair for bluffing. Whereas I underplay, talk too slowly, and appear vague." It may seem easy to wander through a talkie looking dumb, but it isn't. Stu explains that, in life, a funny fellow isn't that way all the time. He is apt to be most laughable when by himself and to be perfectly ordinary when with others. On the screen one has to be funny when it can be observed. Furthermore, it's difficult to be amusing and maintain the slow pace when the rest of the cast is playing straight. That Stu and June should have hit it off so marvelously has never ceased to astonish those who don't really understand them. Squaw Valley and Park Avenue