Screenland (May-Oct 1934)

for July 1934 finally they decided to excuse me from doing the picture with Miss West. I was mighty glad of it. I had worked twentytwo weeks without a rest, and I was plenty tired. Now I'm rehearsing for this personal appearance at the Paramount. I'll do two or three weeks more of that, and then I'm due on the coast the first of June to make some more pictures." Mr. Raft's flow of language ceased as suddenly as it had begun.. He took a deep breath and lit a cigarette. I felt as though I had stepped six fast rounds with Max "Adonis" Baer in a night-club. "Thank you, Mr. Raft," I said. "You have told me every consarned thing I want to know, and I want to thank you for a very pleasant visit. "However, I feel that you have been slightly gypped. You have been doing all the work, while I have just been sitting here absorbing information. Perhaps you would like to interview me. I am sixtyfour years old on Monday mornings, and neither make much money nor have much fun. The newspaperman who coupled my name with that of Miss Katherine Hepburn is a liar, while I have not seen Miss Jean Harlow in the flesh since 1931. I was born — " "Well," said Mr. Raft, "I guess I had better be getting along back to my rehearsal. Glad to have seen you, and thanks. And I think Miss Pine is a very fine young lady." With that, Mr. Raft got back to his rehearsal. So ended one of the most amazing interviews of my fifty-year career. George Raft is one of the most interesting laddybucks to crash films these many years. No wonder he made a rapid ascent to the top of his acting profession, and even less wonder is it that he is NEWS whenever there is any hint of some romantic development in his life behind the screens of this broad land's picture palaces. Item One. He thinks very highly of 95 Miss Virginia Pine, now the possessor of a divorce decree from the Chicago Mr. Lehmann. Where there's romance — smoke in Hollywood, there may be a hot blaze. Item Two. ' He has a lawful wife, thus blowing up a mine laid by publicity men years ago. Item Three. It is probable that Mr. Raft pulled a very smart piece of business when he stepped out of the supporting cast of Miss Mae West in "It Ain't No Sin." This Miss West has a way of sort of filling the screen, not only hiding the other actors but the scenery, too. Certainly Raft was right when he refused to play in "Temple Drake," that grisly story of bad business down south. That picture didn't do anybody any good except the author, Mr. William Faulkner, who dredges his fiction out of swamps. Raft decided, wisely, he would have no part of or in that film. I think that Raft has handled himself magnificently in Hollywood. Anything but an actor in the usual sense of the word, he has done notable work in several pictures. Will you soon forget his magnificent death in "Scarface?" One of my favorite talkies of all time is Raft's "Night After Night," in which, oddly enough, Mae West supported him ! Ah, not for nothing did this slim, sleek bird consort with the gaudier side of Broadway for years ! There's more than bear-grease to that shapely skull ! What an interview that was ! If there were more movie actors like Raft, sneaking up on the stars would be as simple as playing Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the mouth-organ! More power to. the boy. I hope he gets a mess of good parts. Yes, and I hope that if he wants Miss Virginia Pine, he gets her, too ! P. S. Dear George, you know — all in fun. You gave me a swell story, and if you like it, you can always find me in New York. But George, if you shouldn't happen to like it, my address is General Delivery, Budapest, Hungary. Yours, Len Flail. His Best Friend Was Failure Continued from page 51 was but a memory, as soon as he could pack his few belongings the youth stealthily left the theatre, without even waiting for his pay. Scarcely had he stolen out the door than the manager of the company hailed him. And praised him for his quick thinking ! The performance, of course, had ended disastrously, but the manager, who also appeared as the company's star, realized that Talbot had acted with the play's best interests at heart. Talbot's swift presence of mind, as evinced by this happening, brought him thus to the attention of the manager and his wife, who schooled him then as best they could in the finer points of acting. What had seemed like the most miserable failure to the boy really worked to his advantage. The actor, tall, personable, athletic in appearance, recalls these earlier efforts with a grin. "I was so discouraged at times I considered tossing my 'career' into the pit and going home," he reminisces. "When my magician days were over — I still carry a scar where the glass cut my hand — my giving up meant the darkest, blackest days in my life. Kid-like, you know, I figured that nothing mattered, since I couldn't be a magician. I had planned on it so long. 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