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And, when news of the Armistice tame he was so excited, he says, that he ripped oil the life-belt .mil Kissed it into the sea. And what do you think happened? The blamed thing immediately sank to the bottom of the sea! Was Herb's lace sr~stUdy? You said it! And Paul Lukas and Buck Jones and )a<k Holt and Lucien Littlefield and Melvyn Douglas— all were very much right there in the thick of things, too. Other World War participants in Hollywood today, who honor the day in their own way with varied memories, include John Miljan, Richard Arlen, Robert Arm strong, Ken Maynard, Hoot Gibson, Reginald Denny, Reginald Owen, Walter Connoil). Conrad Nagle, Otto Kruger, Alan Mowbray, Lynne Overman, Edgar Kennedy , Nelson Eddy, Spencer Tracy, Waller Pidgeon, Bruce Cabot and Porter Hall. Yes, Armistice Day is a day of memories for them— and for many others like them in Hollywood as elsewhere. In the midst of the mad whirling of the motion picture cameras, your favorite actor undoubtedly pauses ... to reflect once more . . . for a fleeting moment, if no more ... on the shadowy scenes of another day . . . twenty years back. . . . Picture-Stealers Spotted [Continued from page 17] carry a picture. The advent of talking pictures marked an advance in the literacy of the moving pictures, and as the I. Q. of Hollywood moved up in decimal points the barons of film imported the great dramatists of the world. The greater writers brought rounded stories and rounded plots that depended not upon ONE characterization, but upon many characterizations. That was a happy day for the players who never might become stars because of physical limitations, but who, cast in a supporting role, could turn in a bit of make-believe that 'was enthralling and absorbing in its completeness. As the discrimination of movie fans was enlarged and sharpened they turned more and more from the star of the piece to comment upon the excellence of a minor principal. As appreciation developed and was manifest in fan mail, the supporting players took on new dignity. In "Rain" a minor principal played a drunk scene so brilliantly that a star was born in the person of Edward Arnold. In "100 Men and a Girl" a taxicab driver, allotted only a few minutes on the screen, occupied himself so aptly that his performance caused hats to be tossed in the air. His name, you remember, was Frank Jenks. In "Mannequin" Joan Crawford was the star, but what about Elizabeth Risdon, whose celluloid etching of the dishwashing, patient mother added strength and sincerity to la Crawford as the daughter? It is worth while to note, however, that while the rest of the country acclaims the supporting player, the Hollywood stars take a different slant on the entire matter. In Hollywood the supporting player is known in the professional ranks as a "scene stealer." The Academy may reward a supporting player, but the stars look upon him suspiciously, for many a star has learned to his or her sorrow that the supporting player of today is the star of tomorrow. So the star calls them scene stealers and attributes grand larceny to their every move on the screen. More than one star having seen the rushes of a picture (the daily grist of the celluloid mill), has rushed to the head of the studio and demanded that certain scenes be deleted or reshot because in those scenes a supporting player, either through talent or camera tricks, has usurped the dominance and authority of the star. The Hollywood gag, now trite, about "the face on the cutting room floor" was no gag or joke to the supporting players. Too often had they found themselves scissored out of a picture in which they had only sinned by performing too well. Stars, protecting themselves against the day of release, watch every member of the cast with hawklike eyes to see that thev are not pho tographed too glamorously, that they are not given choice lines, that they are not given scenes that are "fat" in dialogue content. You can sympathize with the star, while indicating the methods used, because this is a dog-eat-dog business, to put it in its most unsavory light. The star, once he or she is on top, knows from the experience of others that it's a short life and not always a merry one. So they protect themselves by a twenty-four hour a day guard against those supporting plavers who are smart enough to steal the picture. Gregory Ratoff, Beulah Bondi, Etienne Girardot, Leo Carrillo, Allen Jenkins, Walter Brennan, and Akim Tamiroff are a few others so expert that they can pull attention away from the star of a piece and focus it upon themselves. Recall Brennan as Swan Bostrom, the Swede timber boss, in "Come and Get It?" Recall Tamiroff in "Buccaneers" when Brennan and Tamiroff were thrown together in the same scene. Here were two of the most accomplished scene stealers in the business directly at grips, and on the night of the preview the entire Hollywood audience leaned forward in its seats to see which one of them would come off the winner. It was a draw right up to the last seconds of the scene they were playing, but Brennan, chewing tobacco, suddenly bethought himself to make believe that he was going to squirt tobacco juice in Tamiroff's face. Tamiroff for once could not top another player and so retired with great dignity from camera range. Brennan, according to the Hollywood referees, had earned the decision by a shade. In "Life Begins at College" the Ritz brothers were starred, but it was Supporting Player Nat Pendleton, as the bewildered Indian student, who almost stole the picture. Because of their numbers the Ritz brothers are almost immune to the scenestealing threats of supporting players, so Pendleton's feat takes on added importance. In "A Star is Born" astute Fredric March and film-wise Janet Gaynor had all thev could do to stand off Lionel Stander as the press agent. The late Ted Healy, because of his instinct for stagecraft, had stars tearing out their hair. In every scene the brilliant Healy would do something with hands or face to pull the audience attention to him. Spencer Tracy is one of the few Hollywood stars who do not fear supporting players. The reason is that Tracy depends upon a low key for his effects. He talks softly, he reacts almost imperceptibly. As a result he makes almost any other performer look crude and violent by comparison. Now, Luise Rainer is a pretty fair actress, if you enjoy that sort of histrionics. M-G-M teamed up Miss Rainer with Tracy in "Big