| Show Sheilah Graham Those Hollywood Dumb Ones Ones' It Seems Are Really Pretty Smart People HOLLYWOOD Aug 27 You 27 You have to be smart to be dumb dumb in in Hollywood Take the long list of I boys and girls who earn a handsome living acting acting acting act act- ing as celluloid fall guys guys and and gals They are not so dumb dumb if if you look at their real life records Marie Wilson tagged the blonde dumbbell and now emoting as the cute cute but but stupid waitress stupid waitress I in In Boy Meets Girl has certainly capitalized on her ga-ga ga appearance With a face like mine says I Marie expects me to be silly So when I first came here I pretended to be dumb I bought I a mink coat coat to to impress the producers with the fact I didn't have to work Marie was down to her last can of beans before they caught on Im I'm still dumb but Ive I've got my mink coat Because It was a sensible thing to do Marie prepared herself for a movie career at the Pasadena Pasadena Pasadena Pasa Pasa- dena Community playhouse playhouse but but even eyen there they said I looked too dumb to act Marie has a pleasant habit of ot smiling innocently innocently inno inno- I into eyes It gives them a protective protective protective pro pro- feeling for me saves me-saves saves me s so much trouble This dumb blondes blonde's favorite literature comprises I works on philosophy James Branch Cabell's Jurgen Jurgen Jurgen Jur Worlds World's Illusion etc gen The etc Franklyn the dressed best-dressed fool on the screen takes his dumb roles very seriously He has been acting since 1908 starting 1908 starting as a stage heavy with Nazimova William Gillette and Pauline Frederick It took the movies to to which he came in 1927 to 1927 to see the comedy possibilities of his plump pan dead-pan face works out each piece of dumb business business business busi busi- ness with diagrams showing his exact position before before before be be- fore the camera canera and the exact timing for his movie inanities If Ive I've got to be dumb says Franklyn Franklyn Franklyn Frank Frank- lyn I might as well be successfully dumb His private private life l e culture includes mu music ic vocal less lessons ns' ns and a library filled with books DOOKS on the theater 1 Nat Pendleton who Mho Is always cast as 85 the most minded feeble-minded I member of his picture is so Intelligent intelligent intel Intel- I in private life that there are very ery few people in Hollywood who come up to his intellectual de de- de- de mands Consequently he is pretty much of a lone wolf Pendleton gra in economics at Columbia university speaks five languages in addition to English English- Portuguese Spanish Italian French and German German- and Is very fond of ot music Nat does not neglect the brawny side of his make up make up is still the best wrestler in Hollywood very natured good-natured and can be ribbed by byi I youngsters youngsters-or or undersized men If I youre you're a big guy what do the little fellows matter says Na Nat little Slow Burn Edgar Kennedy bean began bekan be- be kan gan an his successful dumb career by accident Several years ago an irate director yelled Wipe that smile off your face All right said Kennedy Kennedy Ken Ken- nedy and proceeded to wipe it off oft with his hand at the same time peering through his fingers to see how annoyed the director was Do Doit it again said the mused 1st And Edgar has done it again and again in each cach subsequent pic- pic ture Lure It always gets a laugh Edgar admits to only one dumb deed in his private ate life UCe Some years ago he ho was offered the present site of the Lakeside Golf club for club for a song but song but I didn't know a song The property is now estimated at half a million dollars Being dumb is a tribute to my intelligence Maxie Ros- Ros boxer boxer actor and restaurant restaurant res res- owner tells owner tells me adding with great insight in real life or for the screen the smart guys like to have a dumb guy around People flock lock flock to MaxIes Maxle's night club just to I hear him give out similar witticisms 4 c 4 j jf 1 l 4 t tA A AI f I I Nat Pendleton s a d dumb toughie on the tho screen he speaks six languages and holds a Columbia degree One of h his funniest gags is a I cover charge of ot 15 cents to cents to keep I out the rif In h his night club he Is a very genial host host and and a a smart one sits one sits down at your table orders drinks all around around lets you pay for them Dumb is he Like a fox Hugh Woo Woo Herbert al always always always al- al ways seems on the verge erge of enterIng entering entering enter enter- ing an insane in asylum in his pic plc- tures In real life he is smart enough to be elected mayor major of Studio City runs a profitable ranch and Is head of a concern bottling Woo Woo water |
