Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-06-16 | Page 15 | Famous 'No' Man of Film Colony in Big Demand

Famous N No 0 Man Manof of of Film Pun Colony r in hi Big BigBy Demand By By ROBIN ROBI COONS HOLLYWOOD The yes men of Hollywood are famous Only recently re- re rn-i rn since talkies brought complicated com corn problems that required the advice ice of uncompromising clans have no men arisen to speak their frow frowning ing- ing negatives But Edward Phillips Lambert was was' saying saying- no to directors and pro pro- duc rs fifteen years ago he ago he Is the original t no of Hollywood Lambert was was the first probably of pt that Inspiring awe profession known as technical advisers al althoU although al- al thoU though h he himself dislikes dislikes' the term Until fifteen en years yeaTs ago he was a publisher with a bookshop and a vision vision vision-a n-b n a. a vision of or the movies at that time floundering through it un uncertain un- un certain fortunes as a means of visual education The movies th then n were just m movies vies the sort th that t ex ex- ex cx- cx an a audience to believe belleve for In instance In- In stance stance that the theman man In the powdered powdered pow pow- dered wl wig und and nd colonial costume was Geor George e Washington Just because a subtitle said so so ENCYCLOPEDIA I Then I D. D W. W Griffith made The Birth of a a. Nation the first picture Lambert believes th that t used technical al cal research He helped on en n that Then Cecil cU B. B D De- De DeMille MIlle made Joan JoanI I the Woman and Lambert assisted in ferreting out such details as I whether the French peasants peasant's cotI cottage cot cot- t tage ge of or the period had mud floors straw straw covered or Just plain mud or what they Since then there has hag been teen scarcely a picture pi of ot any Importance for tor which he lie has not been called In to advise and assist and he has b been en called the walking encyclopedia dia din of Hollywood He Re has become a collector of at rare hooks books as a result of his hi's calling and there is no subject too foreign to too ancient for tor him hini to supply adequate Information He has been asked to give Louis XIV's Cleopatra's Cleopatra's Cleopatra's Cleo Cleo- patras patra's measurements and other ather data equally foreign to the lay mind but bOt sometimes regarded as extremely extreme extreme- ly important In movie His telephone is mono one of the busiest in Hollywood wv FORMULA And speaking of yes men mm a R Rone new on one is being told on Arthur Caesar Casar aesa irrepressible wit ana Ilna pungent ent satir sati stir stir- 1st of ot Holly ri foibles foibles- I L lave have lost s jobs J by pe Wy nd r a he e is quoted a as saying that now I ha have ve a a. definite morning exercise to be taken on arising When the alarm clock sounds I start cr cranking my my- ear winding up Then by the time I Iam Iam am tn ready for lor work my he head d is all aU set set-It it bobs hobs up and down up and down yes down yes yes res yes