Silver Screen (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

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The more pictures Michael has made, the more recognition he gets from friend actor, which is terribly Hollywood and terribly amusing. Do you know what Michael said when I asked him how he felt about the above situation? He answered, quietly, and not without sincere emotion, "Its all right. He's got a lot to take in the way of fame. And he's young yet. We can't censure him too much. I merely feel sorry that he hasn't grown in\vardly too. But I must admit he's grown outwardly. He's really got something!" "Got something? What?" I queried. "That indefinable 'thing,' personality, you might call it, that is so po\verful— " "I know, Mike, but what is it?" "Yes, ■\vhat is it? And why haven't I got it? I'm not envious. I'm a fairly good looking Irishman. I've worked hard to develop a good voice. I still work hard at everything I do. People like me I like people. But ^vhat has he got that I haven't?" "Nothing!" I said, and believed ray statement. "Oh, yes," Mike broke in, "I know differently. But I do know this, also, that I'll work harder to last longer. That's a compensation." "Mike," I suddenly yelled, "I think I have the answer to our problem. AV'ait! Have you bought a new car yet?" "No! I still have my little year old Chevrolet roadster. Muddy at that. None of the girls will ride with me," he laughed. "Do you plan getting that Zephyr we talked about?" "No, I can't, Gertie. Not yet. It isn't necessary, really." "What are you doing with your money? " "^Vell, I'm saving a little and being a family man with the rest of it." "I see, Mike. Now I have my answer. You're unselfish and generous. I've kno\vn it from the beginning. All during vour career you've thought of Claire because she \\as ill. And you've thought of Dorothy and your mother because you loved them and you wanted them to have the things they had before your father died. Is that right?" "Yes, and I'm happier about their being here than anything else in the world. Don't you like mother?" "Yes, Mike. I sincerely do. She's a charming, intelligent woman." And she is, too. She resembles Pauline Frederick and she's the best cook ever! She does her own cooking now because she loves to be occupied. In Philadelphia she was a great welfare, civic and political leader. Dorothy and Claire, Mike's sisters, take care of his fan mail and secretarial work lor the same reason. They're not a lazy family. Dorothy is beautiful, fragile. Claire is extremely good looking, firm, stable and so hospitable. And they're both highly intelligent and witty. "Michael," 1 continued, "don't you see that these great personalities, a lot of them, are l)uilt on selfishness and ego? That is their po\ver." If that's triie I couldn't be a tremendous personality, then. I must dilVuse my personality in my part. "Just the other day, after finishing my new |)icture in which I am featured with Rocliclle Hudson as star. Miss Hudson turned to nie and said. 'Mike, vou're wearing u)urscU out. You \vork too hard. Just Mr. and Mrs. Jack Oakie at their home in Beverly Hills. Jack will next be seen in "Robber Barons." relax and ooze personality, which you can do. That's all they really want in this business.' "^Vel!, Gertrude, 1 can't do it! Furthermore I know that isn't all they ^vant or they ivouldn't worship at Katharine Cornell's. Helen Haves', Elizabeth Bergner's, Charles Boyers, Charles Laughton's and Luise Rainer's shrines. Those men and women act! And I want to and will! I can't just smile and look pretty. I must -(vork, as \ou know I've always done." "Mike, what are you going to do if—?" "If pictures don't bring me the success for which I'm striving?" "Yes!" "I'm going to New Y'ork again— and the stage. I'm going to take every part they'll give me, as long as it's a good part in which I can develop myself, and I'm going to just begin again. You know my ancestors were not 'shanty Irish' nor lazy people. They ^vere all full of that adventure that I love!" "Any of them, besides yourself, in the theatre?" "Yes, two of them tried the theatre. Our families, both the Shovlin's (my father's family) and the Whalen's (mother's) were against the theatre. I'm terribly proud of mv family and its accomplishments. "Lately so many people have read stories about me that suggest that I was the only one of my family that had the nerve and stamina to stick it out, to try to achieve! It s wrong. "My grandfather, Michael Whalen, was burgess (mayor) of Avoca, Penn. He manufactured fire brick in Virginia, was an original member of the company that supplied water to all of Wyoming Valley, and had several other local business interests. He had an ice house from which was never sold one piece of ice. Every summer it was all given away to those who needed it. "He also held open house every Sunday for the entire countryside who dropped in after church to have one of his prolonged chicken breakfasts. "Mv mother's mother was of the Murray Clan. They were pioneers in the Anthracite coal region. They moved there in the seventeen hundreds, when coal was first discovered. They sunk the iMurrav Shaft, one of the first and deepest in existence, and todav the Murrav Breaker still stands and still runs in the heart of AVilkcs-Barre. Sort of like I'le town pinup. \ou know. "Mv Grandfather Shovlin was in the hotel business, retired, and lived to a ripe 68 Silver Screen