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If you want to know why Thin Man Bill is a hero even to his movie wives, read this outrageously amusing interview
By Elizabeth Wilson
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UST as there is always some one person whom you dance with better than you clo with anyone else, someone whose steps are in perfect rythm with your steps, just so in acting an actor occasionally finds an actress who plays scenes in perfect harmony with himself. And oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, it's heavenly ! As far as Myrna Loy is concerned, every waltz is taken by me." I sat back in one of Mr. Powell's most comfortable chairs, ate another sandwich, and relaxed. After all, there is no point in my taking up acting now. Myrna Loy is quite evidently Bill's Best Girl of the screen, and judging from the size of the photograph of Harlow in Bill's upstairs sitting-room Jean is still tops off the screen. It's all quite discouraging for a girl who has secretly adored Mr. Powell ever since as Philo Vance he solved "The Canary Murder Case" with the greatest of charm and humor ; but with competition like Loy and Harlow it's just no use. I don't think I'll even bother to reduce.
"Yes," Bill continued on his pet subject, Myrna Loy. "Any actor who has a chance to play opposite Myrna is a lucky guy. The 'Thin Man' would never have been the success it was without Myrna. She has the give and take of acting that brings out the best. When we do a scene together we forget about technique and lights and camera angles and microphones ; we aren't acting at all — we are just two people in perfect harmony with nothing better to do than discuss life and love and things over a pot of coffee. Many times, particularly in the old silent days, I have played with an actress who seemed to be separated from me by a plate glass window ; there was no contact at all ; as far as I was concerned she might just as well have done her scene in Halifax while I did mine in South Africa and the two pasted together on a split screen. Ah me, those were my worst performances. Myrna, unlike a lot of actresses who think only of themselves, has the happy faculty of being able to listen while the other fellow says his lines. Did you know {Continued on page 96)