Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-02 | Page 18 | Back to Screen

I Back to Screen II I i S jl a n fi r rz t z f 4 T Theodore Roberts is back backon on his feet Theodore Roberts CantSee Cant Can t tSee See Why Public As Him With Smoking HOLLYWOOD CaY Theodore Cal Theodore roberts Is back cigar Iga and all This grand old actor absent from the screen for nearly five e years has again donned makeup Sickness drove Roberts to the seclusion ct cf his Hollywood home But his absence absence ab- ab sence did not drive him from the memories ot of screen fans True he e has been seen een on the vaudeville stage during the thein last a of but always In a aa couple years butis ns wheel chair Now he Is on his is again Roberts Roberts' first film Is The Mask of the Devil In which pla s 's Johne the therole e old family friend i fend of John role ot of an Gilberts s 's It Is the first picture he ever's ever made In sane any other than the studio d Mayer must be given credit for having the foresight to get him himas as soon son as he was able to work I o didn't want to smoke iii 1 The Mask of the Devil sa says s 's Roberts because the character didn't seem to call for It But they Insisted Insist Insist- ed that I must have a. a aciga alwa In my mouth just because peOPle alwa always s 's think of me smoking I guess 1 cant ant understand why have they do though bee because I hava never smoked In my bIggest films Th actor Is another member of the old school who Is going going to Iene- Iene fit greatly by talking talking P c s. s lIe on n has a good voice and his rears the stage taught him inn how to use Il to the best adv advantage It is 15 seldom that en an actor or disappears from the actress someone else doesn't Immediately immediately Immedi- Immedi that her shoe Dut his or Into shoes But step nobody ever was found to the by Roberts gap ap left open