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Show THE DEVIL, YOU SAY m k ma m Fancy, a Star Who Won't Be Interviewed By Edwin Juttu Mayer folng to Chfrafo, whir he mad hit Irat appearance on the Btage, a super In a huf dramatic product loa of "Parsifal." Thia "eperienca" enabled en-abled Mm to t a job with a road company, which eventually left him Stranded. In fact, he had uniform hard luck In hia ft rat three road en aajrements; all three companies went broke, and when road compantea pro broke, "broke" is not a aufriclently significant word to apply to the abators aba-tors who are left. Nevertheless. Tom survived and found various enarairrnentri with a took companies which were more suceess-fill. suceess-fill. He drifted Into the movlfi during aBaaanSBacaBnataesBtKcapeji a lummrr that aad period for an - tor under an assumed name because he feared that If his connection wild the atlcnt drama were known. It mlxht injure hie standing- la the legitimate! In the winter he wlas a sain with a stock com pa nr. and in the following summer embarked finally on that career ca-reer In the silent drama which haa lifted him to the altitude of a star. He has, therefore, several unique claims to fame first, his talent; sec ond, hla popularity, and third, his refusal to be Interviewed, a refusal which In Itself shows that he la mad of unusual qualities as you have AS KVERYBODT knows, there are are all kinds of stare la the heavens, big- ones. Utile one, far ones, near ones, and so forth. The range of that otJier bret A of alahs who light the traiU nf hhtf i.owUnu la also large, but no one ha avr 'lia-i covered that uniuqe qual.ty of shy-! nes. amounting to nwuej'.y. In any I of thi nk, when it came to the matt.rj of publicity. That is, not until now,! when It develops that Tuni Moore, hei of the Immortal smile, lefujea to let himself t nterviewfd. The Uoldw n press department is ; brokea-hearifit and no body aeams to know what to do about the matter. You gee. tr.ete is no precedent in the case. Mr. Moore refuses to He Interviewed en the perfectly sensible ground thai he has. in times paat. told publicists and Journaliwts every thing he knows; ao why repeat ? Now the Idea of a star being sensible in this reipect Is startling enouah. but the reason a till more amusing. Kor, as the tiold-wyn tiold-wyn press agent a point out. what would become c.t them if Mr. Moore a attitude should become a national rule? What would become of all prsa agents? What would become nf candidates can-didates for governomhlp and for t he cabinet if they decided never to repeat re-peat themselves? Or with the magazine mag-azine writers and successful I'lay-wrivhts I'lay-wrivhts and song composers.' The Imaginat ion Is staggered by 4e peaaibilUrl Those who know Tom Moore aa-aeru aa-aeru incidentally, that he Is to inoJ -eat. for they declare that his personality per-sonality Is one that daily gives forth raw ideas; you see. he is j'lih bo-n! In addition, he is a great reader (' O. We 11a la one of his favoritss). end ha la, m'po, greatly interested in the Irish nationalist movement. laives there an Irishman with tongue ea nun that he can t think up new in.ti.fs to aay about Ko gland? Recently, the star was wearing a grean vyeshade. while working on. KH61d Your Horse" his latest production produc-tion and Hupert Hughes came along. "Uok here. Mr. Moore." said Mr. Hushes severely, "you are carrying your prejudices too far?" Tom born, as was said, on the Aid sod.' and the way In whlcn hia family emigrated to thia country I" highly entertaining. His falier was a cattle farmer In dava when farming n the old country wasn't too proa-peroua, proa-peroua, and finally, the family decided-to decided-to tr h. Thev were alt packed up and In the donkey cart and still undecided as to where they should move; Dublin Dub-lin and America were almost equally alluring. Finally the matter was deeljed t'V Elacintf two slips of paper In Turn's at. one altp marked ''America" and the other "lublin." Joe. the youngest of the family, was allowed to act the tart of J-'ate. and picked "America.'' fto here they came, and went to Detroit, De-troit, via New York. At the age of 1 Tom decided to look for wider avenues for his talents t hsn Detroit afforded and beat his way to New York. He will tell you, if you ai-n't an interviewer, that when he arrived in .ierney City he didn't have the ait-kei aagaanarir to cross la Tura, Later he returned home, out not until un-til ha had acquired enough mom y to buy a retpectahle suit and ive the appearance of prosperity. The wander-luet wander-luet was in h is blood, however, snd once more he hit the road, this time |