Screenland (Dec 1933-Apr 1934)

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From director Norman McLeod, who produced the picture, to the least important "props," her co-workers admire and love this little newcomer for her unselfishness, for her willingness, and for her sweetness. "Not once during production of the picture did Miss Henry ask for time off," McLeod said. "We worked steadily for fifty-six days. Each morning she was among the first on the set ; every evening — and far into many nights — she was one of the last to leave. "There were times when I and others working on this picture reached the end of human endurance. We were working night and day in order to complete the picture in time for Christmas showings throughout the English-speaking world. When we were so tired that we felt we could no longer go on, we would look at Charlotte — smiling, cheering us with a smile that toward the end became a little wan at times but never disappeared — and we would pull our belts a few notches tighter, square our shoulders, and plunge back to work." It will be a pity if a girl with such courage and ambition finds herself barred from success by a seeming good fortune that backfires ; that is, by having won a screen role so great that it cannot be topped, and therefore will prove to be the one big event of her career. Carefully hidden by her studio, (in an effort to not spoil her Alic e-characterization by having it contaminated by past filth parts), is the fact that Charlotte Henry is no screen newcomer. She has played in other pictures before "Alice in Wonderland," among them "Huckleberry Finn" and "Lena Rivers." Not only did she take part in those pictures, but she clearly demonstrated that she is possessed of a magnetic personality and real ability ; she presaged a real future for herself. Only one thing barred her immediate ascension to screen success after "Lena Rivers," and that was her age and her even more youthful appearance — the very thing that won her the title role in "Alice in Wonderland." Charlotte is not the "growing-up" type. She is destined to look very, very young for j'ears to come. Perhaps this fact may open a way to her future success. Perhaps Charlotte Henry may be cast in talkie versions of some of Mary Pickford's earlier productions. This seems a most logical step for her. In more ways than one, little Miss Henry is comparable to the Mary Pickford of fifteen years ago. She should fit admirably into the Pickford parts in "Suds," "Tess of the Storm Country," "The Hoodlum," "Daddy Long Legs," and other of Mary's child-roles. There is no sham or pretense about Charlotte. She has not become affected as a consequence of all the fame that has been suddenly heaped upon her slim shoulders. If there is any change in the immature girl who walked, half-afraid, into the Paramount studios and asked for a test for the part of Alice, such change is not apparent on the surface. She says her sirs and ma'ams to her elders, which is unlike the majority of too-fresh children who have been spoiled by film success. She speaks quietly, and never has much to say unless she is first spoken to. She is more than wise ; she is intelligent. She has a remarkable memory. Although she studied her dialogue for "Alice in Wonderland" religiously, there were times when that dialogue was changed on the set. Charlotte had only to be told her new lines once, and she was thereafter abic co repeat them without error. For instance, there is a Cheshire-cat sequence in the picture that runs slightly longer than four minutes. When the scene was photographed, a mistake in timing caused the cat's mouth to move before the actual conversation, (spoken by Richard Arlen), was heard. Three weeks after that scene was first photographed, it was remade, the second time without conversation — Charlotte had only to repeat her pantomime. So perfectly had she remembered her previous actions, when the new scene reached the cutting room, only the absence of talk in the second take provided the The blondes keep coming! But there's always room for more light-haired ladies when they're as pretty as Dorothy Dell, who has just joined the Paramount forces. cutters with a means of distinguishing the new from the old negative. Charlotte was asked one day if all the attentions and the publicity being given her were not having an effect on her own opinion of herself. "Why should it?" was her surprisingly wise reply. "It all goes with the part I am playing. The same fuss would have been made over any girl chosen for the role of Alice. It is not I who is being feted; it is the part I play." Unlike just about everybody who knows her, Charlotte is not worrying over her future. She believes that she is a capable artist. She is a shrewd and impartial critic of her own efforts. She admits without hesitation that she has little or no opportunity to prove her ability in "Alice in Wonderland," but she knows that when the time comes, she has the necessary talent to succeed in any part assigned her. From the moment of her selection for the picture, and no doubt until she is given another role, she has been Alice, Alice, Alice. She has been photographed at the studio, at home, at meals, at play, and even in bed — always in her Alice costume. She has made radio speeches, and on every occasion she appeared at broadcasting stations in the same familiar garb. She made a long personal-appearance tour on which she was introduced to more than a million people. During that tour, she met Mayors and Governors ; she dined with Rotarians, Lions and civic organi