Universal Weekly (1927-1930)

18 Universal Weekly September 3, 1927 Champion Whisker Raiser On Universal Lot “To Shave or Not to Shave,” That Is the Eternal Question with Lucien Littlefield as He Finishes One Part and Starts Another. As President Coolidge WHISKERS are the vogue with some and a necessity with others, hut they have been the cause of many sleepless nights for Lucien Littlefield. With two months’ foliage bedecking his visage, he was Marks, the lawyer, in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” with long flowing side-burns. Then he was drafted for a role in “Taxi! Taxi!” and he had to shave off the side adornments and acquire a mustache. Getting a two weeks’ growth back on his face, he was cast for a part in “The Cat and the Canary,” in which he had to appear clean shaven, so the razor reigned again. After this picture he encouraged the growth of stubble again, but raising whiskers is a slow process for some and he had to paste a false set over his own for a part in “Twinkle Toes” in which he wears a heavy beard. His own crop came in slowly but, after using patches here and there, it at last reached the proper length for the remainder of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Alas, he was cast by Edward Laemmle for a big part in “Cheating Cheaters” in which he appears clean shaven. To play in “The Small Bachelor” a 1 1 he had to annex was a fullflowing mustache, but when he had completed that part he was so accustomed to wielding the Gillette that he made a ( Continued on page 40) As Marks, the Lawyer scene from “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin ” In The Cat and the Canary Taxi! Taxi! With Betty Compson in “Cheating Cheaters' With Barbara Kent in “The Small Bachelor