Show o Hart Sinks Fortune m in New Film Decries Monopoly of oT Big I p C A wr 1 4 1 Ar 4 BILL HART Ride Frets Once Famed Cowboy Actor By JACK JUNGMEYER N EA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD June 26 Bill Hart Cantering slowly on a swivel chair In his in-his his of office here The greatest screen exponent nt of the romantic old west whose sort son he is now unhorsed from the Fr s- s Corralled Doing as 1111 he says what he Is forced to do do- nothIng So one finds him days dl A lonely and truly tragic re i trying try try- trying ing with gallant gesture to mask domestic and professional tribulations tributa- tributa which have b baet et him the last few years Doing the nothing man whose enormous pictorial en still surge restlessly for outlet t th man who galloped lest through Inumerable pictures and who was once among the greatest of the stars STAKES FORTUN Bill BUI has been been close cloge tethered s since nce his split with Famous Players based on oil of his pIctures which decided to I become an independent actor actor- producer S Since nce the problem of gettIng lucrative release for his output has been a poser He Be put vIrtually his whole for I tune his current i ho he says he will wUl willbe be fortunate if he breaks even with that pIcture At bet best he feels the money will come back slowly The experIence has disheartened him for tor another venture There is no place on th screen as It Is now controlled for the Independent In- In n I dependent actor producer rays raye Bill Bm I am deprived ot of showing ing In run first houses I might get adequate returns 01 o tiny any meat ment I consider sary to 10 make a first class And cheap the run file plc tures ture I 1 will not make So unwilling Ing to compromise the standard of product I built up through though years and not having the fortune sary to operate on stow slow returns I cannot compete Hitching a knee over the pommel of his swIvel chair DIU earnestly disclaims concern for tor mere money beyond the modest needs of his very life which gravitates tes between te- te tween the office and his ranch Bu Bills Bill's whole life lIf has been attuned at- at t- t I tuned to the old west vest He has vast pride In that and t governs his every move and mood He wJ 1 not violate his feelings In this respect I Ifor for the expediencies or of business He knows westerns lIe le S. S Ii and he will not himself In prOduction contracts to anyone anone who might know HARD TO TAKE This isn't mers mer pride Or tub boniness or know know he at- at firms Its a. a judgment ent hued based on l ng experience on stae and screen And then after atter ld made made 27 7 tures turee for Famous which grossed about they he told me I dIdn't know how hw t tl make this type of fIlm On week ends mn Bil leaps from th tb swivel chair to the saddle of his famous Pinto and with his other horses trailing h him takes long solitary rides into the hills bills of 0 his ranch Seeing him thus thua one OlO gets In Bill BillHart's Harts hiatt's real life lite of today a melan- melan melanCholy choly reflection or of th fadeout scene c ne in many of his pictures pictures- s-a. s lon long figure figure fig fig- ure silhouetted the sk sky of ofa ofa a man baffled and of a je JOb halted h but unfinished DoIng what I am forced to do nothing |