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Silver Screen for February 1935
Isabel Jewell, Talented" Actress.
WHAT gives us a definite feeling of weariness are those stories in fan magazines which tell you that the star who is being paid a thousand dollars or so a week is in reality just a regular fellow, just like your own pals. We have never known anyone who was able to do physical work and get a star salary for it, who was commonplace. They have something, and we do not mean the beauty of their voices nor the regularity of their features. The one essential reason why these people are highly paid is that they are able to forget about themselves and throw themselves into "pretending." We all could do it when we were children. But as we grow older and conscious of our limitations we lose it and become self-conscious.
It is the most valuable quality that a man can have and the best paid— to be able to forget about himself. If I point a camera at Leslie Howard or Mary Pickford, not one muscle tightens, not one look from the eyes suggests that the camera is there. Let some one point a camera at you or me and we smirk and try to look smart. You can't blame us for trying. But greatness lies in the other direction.
If you can walk across an empty dance floor with the same walk that you use to cross your bedroom ... if you can stand up and speak to your board of directors or your Sunday school class in the same fashion that you would talk with your brother, you will become a success. Watch Charles Laughton in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" or Isabel Jewell in the courtroom scene in "Evelyn Prentice" and you will see how to do it.
In an unusually long close-up Isabel tells the entire story of a murder. As she describes, move by move, the actions that culminated in the horrid climax, her voice gathers intensity, agony leading to greater anguish until nerves can stand no more. And never once during this remarkable crescendo does Isabel think of herself.
Complete lack of self-consciousness may be achieved by practice. Join a political club and make speeches, be a member of a dramatic society or— go into the movies.
A Movie Fan's Crossword Puzzle
By Charlotte Herbert
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1 Expression of delight
2 A great favorite of young and old
11 Expression of approval
13 Anna Sten's first American picture
14 The star of "Stamboul Quest"
15 A corner
17 Ardor
18 Parent
20 Three-toed sloth
21 Percolate
22 Skill
23 Negative
25 First name of most famous aviatrix 28 To grow old 30 A cleaning fluid
33 Pertaining to the nose
34 Ruby Keeler's husband
35 Measure of weight (abbr.)
37 The happy violinst in "Caravan"
38 Prefix denoting from
39 The lovely child actress from England
41 Eastern state (abbr.)
42 Paid publicity
43 Prince Dimitri in "We Live Again"
44 Type measure
46 An amount on which rates are assessed
49 Snare
50 Shut in
52 Her latest picture is "Maybe It's Love"
54 "The Girl From Missouri"
55 Letter of Greek alphabet
56 With Ricardo Cortez in "I Am A Thief" 59 The male sheep
61 Toni in "Now and Forever" 64 A bluish gray metal
66 Fifty-one
67 Measuring device 69 An offense
71 Elder (abbr.)
72 Melody
73 A single unit
74 Organ of hearing
75 In a state of eager curiosity
76 Tellurium (abbr.)
77 The famous fan dancer
78 To Walk laboriously
79 A denial
DOWN
1 Tom Martin in "Gentlemen Are Born"
2 A human being
3 Within
4 A great Hollywood director
5 Mode of transportation
6 The loveliest nurse in "The White Patade"
7 Possessive Pronoun
8 The act of uniting
9 In a like manner
10 Goddess of dawn ,
12 Soon to appear in "The Little Minister
13 Nominates
16 The professor's daughter in "She Loves Me Not"
19 Near
20 Indefinite article 22 To be ill
24 A tag
26 The "Belle of the Nineties"
27 The silent prisoner in "Judge Priest"
28 The mother in "David Copperfield"
29 To choose
31 He was born in Mt. View, Ark.
32 Pronoun . . 34 Endeavor
36 Expression of disgusr
40 He appears with Garbo in "The Painted Veil"
42 Essence of roses
45 Star of "One Night of Love"
47 He made a big hit in "The Gay Divorcee"
48 Spoon for serving liquids
50 The choicest part of anything
51 She returns to the screen in "Music in the Air"
53 A child actor (initials)
54 A famous radio and night club entertainet (initials)
55 Splendor
57 To wilt
58 One time
60 She gave a remarkable performance in "Crime Without Passion"
62 The great Persian poet
63 A boy's school
64 A maiden
65 Guide . 68 Finish
70 A quick sharp blow
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