Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-10-06 | Page 27 | [Illegible] Rivals Lon Caney with His Seven New Roles

Rivals Lon icy ey With His Histen ten n fl New Roles I u roOD Lon Ion Cha Chancy Chaney ey of ot ind faces nd faces soon oon may have tho person of bt Paul Muni MunS isec nd movie movle Is under under- eUy to r year wear ar only ottly seven wUl will have seven se voices I out o t the characters of nit all the a various ous roles lie he he assumes assumes In Sn the talkie Tor For on one essaying thus a a. sevenfold sevenfold sevenfold seven seven- fold characterization blunt Muni appropriately rl teb enough enough- began his s 's stage age career by playing an on old man part Ills His actors actors act act- at at the age of ot 11 parents ors needed someone to play tho the old man In their play and with none other available the tho boy was m made up and carried the role roJe nobly talkie a ri straight His first was r role J that ot of The Tho Valiant But even then h ho he did not nO play j It straight for tor forI I 11 should be he a n. failure If It ever eer I tried to bo be myself whilo acting he ho sa says 15 I In Seven Faces Faces' Muni Is portray portray- I t 1 Ing Ing- Ingas as ns many characters One of them Is Iss real that of at atan an old care taker In III a l museum The others museum statues which come pome me to life Ute In a dream are arc Na Napoleon oleon Joe Cans Gans negro one time lightweight lightweight light light- weight champion Don Juan Franz Schubert Muni Is Is- Isan an accomplished musician and an ann old Cockney With the aid of Jack Dawn studio makeup up artist Muni Mun has been studying and ex experimenting t to achieve like life characterizations of oC all aU He has had a n. cast made of his ifs own face tice so so It JO ho may try the effect of v various makeupSOn On It he molds facial Is- Is tics as ns n. n sculptor would Ho lIo must build build other faces than his own o own own- If It I nm nm recognizable lc u under det the the- makeup p. p then 1 I am am- bankrupt Me lie declares But But far far more than on makeup k uP he relies on thought l to build his characters projecting himself Into the soul of o the person portrayed Muni Is something some new in do Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood something different There Is nothing of or the actor about him off oCt He Is young oung virile ac active active nc- nc tive yet ct prefers to play weird unwholesome un unwholesome un- un wholesome even cen erotic eroth character t types to cut heroes heroes he he dislikes dis die I likes heroics His face Is Interesting but but is heIs hels he- he Is not n t handsome He does docs not dress likos n ri n actor a nor ner talk I like like lne one 1 He He- e speaks of ot acting as as' a 8 business B not an an- art f Ha fl frankly docs does not believe belleve that acting In lt It Its present state Cons constitutes 8 an art H carn his thoughts r carne earnestly racing racing- ahead of his his his' words so 50 that sometimes he must pause to call calf them ba back k to order i er He Is d dup Up In his work his w work r but refuses retus s' s t to take himself lc seriously He reads reads' and nd studies much ch chi and takes little part partIn In the toe usual Hollywood life Ure yet he heIs heIs Is Js not n a a recluse He 19 Is very fond ond of ports Of f but hay has little time for tot th them in Ex Except pt for r prizefights Muni Is little known to movie fans tans I as yet et But It-Is It a a. a safe bet th that t. t ere lon one long ho will wUl b be