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Show BEVERLY HILLS.-Well all I know is just what I read In the Jape or what I run Co here and v there. Back out here in oiQ ur-mgejuice ur-mgejuice Land again, toiling to try and hand a traction of the folks a laugh on the screen when your bea&ty has deserted you. When you are getting old you have to resort to pure skill or 1 trickery. 1 take up the trickery. Now in the old days just looks alone got me by. I had the men love interest in my pictures stepping out to keep ahead of me. The Lord was good to me in the matter of handing out a sort of a half breed Adonis profile, (well it was a little more than a profile that you had to get). Straight on I dident look so good, and even sideways I wasent to terrific, ter-rific, but a cross between a back and a three quarter view, why Brothers I was hot. The way my ear, (on one side) stood out from my head, was Just bordering on perfect. That rear view give you Just the shot needed. The ear dident Just stick out, it kinder kin-der protruded Just gently. In those old silent day pictures that back right ear was a by word from Coast to Coast. You see all screen stars have what they call their better angles. an-gles. Well they dont pay much attention to lighting with me, the more lights go out during the scene the better. So we toil and we struggle to maintain main-tain what is left of our beauty and manliness. Of course the Radio helps us. Any any hour somebody is begging beg-ging us to go to the drug store and buy something that will take the wrinkles out of our ears, lift our eyebrows, eye-brows, bring back that rudy, (thats spelled rudy) complexion. There is a3 many gadgetts on the market to overhaul men as there is women. I doubt if women have got much on man when it comes to trying to outlook out-look themselvs. But I got to get back to the Movies and tell you what we are all doing out here. I am working on a picture they say they going to call It "Doubting Thomas". Well I dont know why, there is not much that I doubt either in the picture or out. I am a mighty trusting fellow and believe most everything. Its from a very successful play a few years back called, "The Torch Bearers". It was very clever, and we got us a fine cast, a lot of old friends among em. Mrs. Flo Zeigfeld (Billie Burke) is playing my wife. She has duplicated dupli-cated her stage hit in the movies. You know about all good stage people are good In the movies. Some of em might not have gotten off good in their first picture they tried, but it wasent their fault, it was the story, part or something. Give any good stage performer three or four parts in pictures and they would be just as good. But they turn em down too quick sometimes some-times on just one missfit showing. I can remember her, (Miss Burke) when she was first married to my boss, Mr. Zeigfeld. At least they had-ent had-ent been married long when I started on the Midnight Frolic Roof. How proud of her he was. They and the Barrymores, and the John Drews and partys used to come up on the Roof and sit at a ringside table. Gosh what a place that was, the first Midnight Show, and the greatest and most expensive. ex-pensive. Those girls woultlent think of leaving N.Y. with a show. But I am getting old and rambling I guess. Andrew Toombs, who used to be with us in the fn mnna 1009 Follies that ran two years in N.Y. He and I sang and burlesqued the famous Gallagher Galla-gher and Shc-an song. He was afterwards aft-erwards with me with Dorothy Stones Show, and he Is the one that Bang the full dress suit song, only we were 64 1 barefooted. (A " nut idea that went over). Well Andy Is with us in this. He is the most versatile performer in musical comedy, com-edy, and will be just as big on the screen. Lord bless her .Miss Alison Skin-worth, Skin-worth, that grand old performer, she Is Playing her original role from the stage in this play, and Helen Flint hat wm the bad girl la the saloon ;cene in our c stafi, 8how Ah Wilderness." a fine trooper. Sler-ng Sler-ng Holloway, a great comedian, oh ve got a lot cf em. Its like a real oh itage reunion. Fred Stone waiting for his pcUlro start visits us often. Gee "w tage people do honor and look " ; o the achievements of that g y ye r tti;-nbOXO"lcoov a course years than any actor or actress i Vmenca. Well I Eot to J'V" st pure stratc-v lb-,t , fcir lighting ow ' m " |