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I have gone to the theatre, watched some fine and poignant bit of acting, heard the crowd around me roar with insensitive laughter and have laughed myself — always to come out of the theatre sick with myself, a bad taste in my mouth, because I was not my own man, using my own reactions. I was a link in the chain, clanking as the chain clanked, an atom in the mad and maudlin mass of the mob." He told me of himself, "I have little — ah — phobias. Once, in Europe, while touring with a theatrical troupe I spent one entire year and devoted it entirely to trying to make a sour-faced actor laugh. It became an obsession with me. I did everything from appearing on the stage in my underwear to laughing in the man's face in an effort to provoke an answering laugh from him. I never succeeded. It haunts me still, my failure. It was a year out of my life — and without result. Insane? Not for me. "I drink lemonade all day long ; sometimes all night long when I cannot sleep. '"I order meals with the utmost particularity. I am something of a gourmet ; something, if I may say so, of an epicure when it comes to food. I order exquisite meals — and never so much as put a fork in them, leave them untasted. I derive my gustatory delights from anticipation. "I dream every year of playing Napoleon. I do not think that I am Napoleon — not yet. But I am constantly dreaming of how I shall play Napoleon one of these days. ''I love crowds of strangers. I get a warm, rich physical relish out of being jammed and elbowed and shoved and suffocated by crowds of people I do not know. On the other hand, I have a phobia about being in crowds of people I do know. Crowds where there are those who may slap me on the back, roar greetings, extend moist, effusive hands. I am exhausted, physically, mentally and emotionally if I have to be party to such a crowd. ''The first and only autograph I ever asked for was that of Man Mountain Dean. I wanted it. I cannot say why. ''I adore Hungarian goulash. I abhor milk. I cannot look at milk. "My favorite hobby is hearing my friends play the piano. They must be my friends. I do not play myself. ''I must have a cup of tea placed right under my nose as I am zvaking. Not after I awaken. For then it is too late. The salutary effect is gone. "I play badminton and tennis. I take long walks on the beach. Now and then, at such times, I sing to myself. Sing, mind you, not talk. Sea chanteys, mostly. I do not go to many pictures. I do not want to know what other actors are doing. I do not want to run the slightest risk of becoming a copyist. ''I am, however," said Peter Lorre, his eyes suddenly, sensationally ablaze, "I am a fanatic. I admit it. And because I admit it. it's not insanity. "Yes, I am a fanatic. I am a fanatic about my work. I would. I have sacrificed everything for it. I ran away from my comfortable home when I was seventeen. I Charles Bicltford and Evelyn Brent, old favorites in a new •film. ran away from my mother, father, three brothers, my sister. W e were born in the village of Rosenberg, Hungary, in the dark Carpathian mountains. When I was six we removed to Vienna. We lived our childhoods closely linked, the one to the other. But I ran away from them and lived from hand to mouth because my father disapproved of the theatre and I — I had to go to the theatre. "I ran away and joined a group of renegade youths who, like myself, found reality only in acting. We played in improvised theatres. We lived. "In 1922, driven by hunger and want, I secured a clerk's post in a bank. I ate again. I slept snugly. It is insane, then, to say that while I ate well and slept snugly, / was cold and hungry. But so it was. In a few months I was discharged from the bank because I was always late for my work. My feet were laggard after something I did not want. I stayed up most of the nights with my theatrical troupe, breathing in the oxygen of greasepaint. "Then, after a bit, I was given a year's contract to do small parts with a company in Breslau. After that year I went to Zurich where a part in Galsworthy's 'Society' brought me my first recognition. Then to Vienna where I played, for two years, roles of both comedy and of drama. It was 1928 when my performance in 'Pioniere in Inoplstadt' was something of a sensation and I was hailed as a star." Even then, Peter Lorre told me, there were those who told him he was insane to follow the stage. He would be limited, they said, to so few types. He was not, after all, of the proportions of a Conrad Veidt, a Robert Donat. What chance would he have in America, his friends asked, pitted against the Gables, the Coopers, even the late Lon Chaney whose heavy make-ups concealed a well-setup and personable man. Not long after this Fritz Lang, noted Continental director, saw Peter rehearsing Wedekind's "Spring's Awakening." Then and there Lang asked Lorre to hold himself in readiness for the starring role in a screen production, as yet unselected. Lorre agreed and in 1931 threw Europe into clammy convulsions with his astonishing portrayal of the pathological murderer in "M." After "M" people on the streets of Berlin backed against the wall as Peter Lorre passed. When he entered a cafe china rattled, cutlery dropped, women grabbed their children and hustled them out and away. He went, one day, to call on old and intimate friends. The children of the family were in the salon. As Peter entered, bearing his customary gifts of sweets, the nurse herded the little ones out of the room where, before "M," kind 72 SCREENLAND