Silver Screen (Feb-Oct 1935)

Something ON ™E Side The Happiest People , In The Movies Are The Ones Who Can Walk Out Any Time And Never Miss It. Maxie Baer may be as good an actor as any screen hero, and some think that he is, but Maxie keeps the old TNT punch tuned up — in case. WHEN Ed Sullivan, the Silver ScreenDaily News writer, was appearing at the Capitol Theatre in New York, George Jessel introduced him something like this:— "Suppose you are a flop, it doesn't matter, you can always go back to writing, but if I flop, I've got to spend the rest of my life in front of the Palace." There's nothing quite so good to loosen up the old self-confidence as the proven knowledge that there is something you can do if you flop. Do you remember the man who married the homely soprano, and, after he had looked with disgust at her sleeping ugliness for a while, shook her violently, crying:— "For heaven's sake— SING!" Grace Moore, Astaire and Maxie Baer are good anywhere, but when we see some performers who have crashed the movies because they had become famous on the radio, we feel like the distracted husband and yearn to waken them to the fact that acting is an art. Or isn't it? Fred Astaire (left) has a fine screen personality and he can put over a song, but, nevertheless, he never lets those dancing feet get out of practice. He knows they will click anywhere if everything else goes wrong. has won Rudy Vallee s of friends who are enough to see him on Screen. But for Rudy il , Music is always the Life's Work. The Metropolitan Opera is the very summit of life's ambition for most singers, but to Grace Moore it is just something to fall back on.