Screenland (Jul–Dec 1946)

and the worshippers. For every successful person, there are twenty-five worshippers But in Hollywood actors mingle almost exclusively with actors, and so there are no worshippers. \ ery often the actors themselves realize that going around with the same clique all the time has a deleterious effect on them and they sigh, "We must get away from the same faces all the time. We must get away from Hollywood." But the very next party finds them mingling with the very same group, the same clique, the same faces. And if an actor does start going with someone from a different clique, he is apt to be condemned by the members of bis own clique, who decide that he is no longer their friend, since he has been seen with a member of a different clique. I do not believe in this clique method of Hollywood. My wife and I mingle not so much with movie actors, as with musicians, stage actors and writers. The life of a "movie actor is really anything but glamorous. YSe wake up at five or six when working on a picture, go to the studio, are made up. play in a certain number of scenes, go home and go to bed early so that we can rise early the next morning. Often a movie actor might just as well be living in a monastery. When he is really working hard, he has little time for reading or seeing people. He has no opportunity to get new ideas. If he mingles only with other movie actors, they will have very few ideas to exchange, because what is there for them to talk about.' What could two men in different monasteries both conducted on similar plans have to tell each other!' If such men mingled only with each other, a new idea would rarely reach either of them. It is this sort of society to which movie actors who will talk only to other movie actors confine themselves. Of course, it is true that some movie actors manage to keep well-informed, but -they are usually actors who are not bound by the ridiculous idea that they must choose all their friends from their own profession. However, I believe that the choice as to how one should live is up to the individual. He need not live just as everyone else in a given environment does. I believe that every individual has a chance to choose the kind of life he wants, to a large extent. I am not a fatalist, as you can see. I believe that there is some form of survival after death: but that God alone is the judge of how we have lived and of what should happen to us after death. I do not believe that the Power beyond all power will be governed by petty manmade ideas on morality. I believe that happiness comes through learning to share with others, and learning to find joy in small things. Friendships, too. grow from our willingness to share with others, to give as much or more than we take. 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