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Fresh new slant on a fine old favorite — or, Ronald's revenge on those interviewers who have always branded him as "stuffy"
Distinguished veteran, Colman can't miss — his every film is a hit. Below, the star with the director and leading woman of his new film, "My Life With Caroline," a sophisticated comedy.
By Fredda Dudley
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NOW there's a fascinating thing about Ronald Colman. You emerge onto the set after having maneuvered your way past several red lights and a pair of dog winches, and you note a dapper greying man seated quietly in a canvas chair studying a script. You think-, Hmm — looks like a bond salesman who was clever enough to get out of the business in September, 1929, and has never fully recovered from the astonishment occasioned by such luck. He has a look of mingled success and surprise at that success.
You and your escort approach and Mr. Colman leaps to his feet to be introduced. His eyes kindle, his face wreathes in a smile charming enough to warm the degrees right out of a glacier, and he becomes — abruptly — one of the most colorful personalities in pictures. When you confess about the bondsalesman-business, he chuckles. "Perhaps that's because, when I was nineteen, I went to work as a junior accountant. I've never felt so triumphant since, upon getting a job of work to do, as I did when I wrote to my mother, telling her that I was earning what amounted, in American money, to fifty dollars a month," he says. "The war broke out before I had a fair start in accountancy, but, even so,
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that experience may be responsible for my — er — solemnity." He smiled when he said that.
Solemnity he has only in repose. When he is talking or listening, he is a study in animation. He lifts one evebrow ; he waves his left hand ; he crosses and uncrosses his arms; he props one foot (Please turn to page 63)
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