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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1924)
_ bIhind the screen By SAMUEL GOLDWYN V_ J (Continued from Testerdsjr.) Time and again. In fact, studio folks beheld this metamorphosis of the romantic and ardent lover of an other California summer into the in different husband of this. And when It came time for the great prima don na to leave, what a saddening con trast to that former day when Telle gen had run madly beside the train bearing his love toward the east. A recent summer Miss Farrar stood be side her special train. The 14 per sonal attendants she had brought with her were running hither and thither with her baggage and posses sions. she, however, Beerned to know nothing of wliat was going on around her. For Lou Tellegen stood before her. and sho was looking into his eyes. At last. Just before the train start ed, she threw her arms about him. All her dread of separation was in that embrace. You could see what it meant to her to leave him even for a few weeks. And he? Listlessly, with hardly one responsive gesture, he stood encircled by his wife's arms. Yet such apparent indifference nev er seemed to quench the lire kindled by that first glance of Tellegen's on the Lasky lot. It was almost unbe lievable—the reckless lengths to which she, this careful, methodical business woman, was driven by one despotic emotion. I am giving now what was perhaps her most tempes tuous departure front usual standards. During her second summer with the Goldwyn company she had insisted that her husband's name appear on the billboards In connection with hPr . own. For some reason, however, the * tequested mention of Tellegen did not appear. When Farrar became aware of this omission, what did she do but take an automobile all through Los Angeles and tear down with her own hunds every offending poster. I ad mit that 1 was infuriated. She, when 1 called her up over the phone, was scarcely more serene, and for some time it was a case of Farrar versus Ooldwyn. At this moment she was in the midst of a second picture, and sho made prompt use of that advantage. "Very well,” she threatened, "if you will not feature Mr. Tellegen's name 1 am going to stop work right in the middle of this new picture!” “All right,” retorted I, “you do that and I am going to show the first part of the picture and then an nounce on the screen that at this point Madame Farrar would not pro reed because the producer did not fea ture Lou Tellegen's name.” Lost to all consideration of business values as she then seemed, this threat succeeded. She wont on with her story. Strange is tne parallel experience of those two rivals of the Goldwyn studio, Geraldine Farrar and Pauline .Frederick. For each is now separat ed from the man for whom she once so turbulently set aside her own in terests. Nor does tho parallel stop there. Lou Tellegen was at the very most only a moderate film success. The good looks which first caused such a flurry among the feminine por tions of his stage audiences never car ried well on the screen. Likewise, in a different sphere. Willard Mack failed to live up to his stage tradi tion. His stories were never really good picture material, and to Pauline Frederick’s Insistence upon appearing in them I ascribe the fact that her Goldwyn dramas were not so success ful as those made by Mr. Zukor. She herself slowly awoke to such realization. In those California days when her New York romance with Mack was beginning to ebb—and it did ehh rapidly—she saw her mistake. But it was then a little too late. My memories of the great Metro politan opera singer close with the year 1019 In a way that reveals the bigness, tho sweep of mind and spirit that distinguish Geraldine Farrar. At this time I had a contract with her providing a salary of $125,000 for 12 weeks of annual service. The con tract had still two more years to run ■when, very regretfully, 1 went to Miss Farrar and asked If she did not think it might be better to stay off the screen for a year. Gently as I could do so l added that very often a star’s popularity went under a tern porary eclipse and that a limited an sence from films did much to restore the public demand. The reason hack of this difficult ap ' proach was. of course, that lately her pictures had not been drawing. She was prompt to perceive my meaning, and with head up she took It. "Very well!” said she promptly in her familiar tones that are both flow ering and incisive. "Only don't you think that perhaps it would be better to quit entirely? If >ou think so, say so. Mr. Goldwyn. and wc 11 tear up the contract now and here." It was hard to tell her, hut 1 did. BLUE CAB CO. Meter Rates—Prompt Serrice CALL AT-3322 D«i't Neglect a Cold! Take it in time and avoid complication*. 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Of course, she saw that it was in finitely better to be remembered by the pictures in her prime than to go on to a lusterless close. Here was another evidenco of that reliable busi ness Judgment which nothing but her infatuation for Tellegen ever dimmed. But even though self-interest might have pointed to this conclusion, her utter lack of resentment, her failure to voice a single reproach of me, made this experience absolutely unique in my career. My valedictory regarding Madame Farrar is that her w’ord is as good as her bond. This characteristic fits in with that business morality which makes her hate to lose a single hour of her time. I never knew anybody with a keener sense of responsibility to the clock. When she first came to make pictures with the Lasky com pany we provided her with a loom in the studio where she could practice her music. Tho Goldwyn company made the same provision for her. In this way she utilized the long waits between sets. More than this. Every day of her time was so arranged months before hand that not a break occurred in the links of Industry. On the day that sl.e stopped grand opera she started to make records for mechani cal players: from her records she went straigiit to California, and the day she returned from California she went on a conceit tour. This pro gram went on for years. I have already indicated that the prima donna's last pictures were not a financial success. Fully conscious of tho surprise that this later infor mation may create in the minds of many people. I am going to add that even her first films, executed when she was in the prime of her beauty and at the height of her operatic fame, were not dazzlingly remunera tive. Her "Joan the Woman," a great artistic achievement, brought no com mensurate financial ^returns. The fact of it is that Geraldine Farrar’s chief value to the picture producer lay In the 'publicity she brought rath er than in' the films she sold. Not for a moment does this fact reflect upon the great Farrar. If reflection there be at all, it is upon the small town, where, as I have asserted, some obscure little motion picture actress may have a following which the world’s greatest singer can never hope to enroll. I cannot em phasize this point too strongly. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Real Chaplin. Although I had heard much of Charlie Chaplin from various friends we shared In common I did not meet him until after I had been in the industry for two years. That first sight of him surprised me as much as it always does those who know only the familiar comedian of the black moustache and buggy trousers. A slender fellow; smooth shaven; waves of crisp black hair; dark blue eyes that have that peculiar smoky quality of the autumn hills—here la the catalog of his outward self. But of course you cannot compress into a catalog the charm of his face. There is a charm there—even beauty. In this connection, indeed, I remem ber Chaplin’s telling me laughingly that his mother once protested indig nantly at his makeup. “Why do you want to make your self look hideous." said she, "you who are so beautiful?” But although his contours hre sat isfactory and his eyes exceedingly handsome, the real interest of Chap lin's face lies in its perpetual and sensitive absorptions. He seems al ways listening. Even when he is talking most animatedly ho Is watch ing you, wondering about you, quite evidently trying to fit you and your words into some pattern. When you yourself are talking, you get the full force of this vivid listening. Mack Sennett has often spoken about this characteristic message of his face as it was revealed to him during Chaplin’s first studio days. "He'd sit there for hours.” records Mack, "just staring at people. I couldn't make out what he was think inp about.’* Since tnat nisi meeini* m uum ac quaintance has developed into a friendship which 1 certainly count one of the privileges of my life. From that friendship It is hard to detach myself for an objective survey of the gifted pantomimist. Even had I not been so close to him I should find formidable the task of analysis. 1*or Chaplin is a maze of contradictions, and no sooner have you affixed to him any one attribute than lo. the next moment has swept it away! Chaplin loves power—as no one else whom I have ever met he loves it. Money contributes to this sense. Therefore he sticks out for his large contract and therefore he saves a great deal of his earnings. But it accords him Just as much conscious ness of power to think that he, Chap lin, can afford to walk away from those assembled actors and stage hands. Ergo, ho does that. I have often been asked If Chap lin as amusing when away from the screen. He is—thoroughly so. liis mimicry is delightful. His dancing is perhaps even more so. To see Chaplin Improvising a Condon street scene with William de Mille; to hear him deliver the speech of a Jewish manufacturer at a banquet where he has been presented with a loving cup; to watch his Imitations of some fash ionable rhythmic duncer—at one of these last iierfonnances he carried a cuspidor as a Greek vase and con cluded by deftly catching It in the crook, of his knee—such are the mem ories of Charlie treasured by those who know him. I always like to think of the duy when lie got back froi® Europe. He came straightway to nty office to see me. ami I never heard anything so Infectious as those descriptions of his triumphal tour. When he CHmu to ithe story of his decoration with the l.egion of Honor he reached a high peak In that imitative narrative of which he Is such a perfect master. Yet here again you are faced hy an other of those contrasts which be wilder the biographer. There are cer tain days when, instead of drollery and pungent narrative, he presents a well of unfathomable silence. On such days he runs away from his studio and from everyliody. For hours he will sit motionless In Ids loom. Or perhaps, starting off alone, he will wander into an orange grove or tramp through the hills around Hollywood. lie suffer* at such times—undoubt edly. But make no mistake. The blackness of the universe, the tortur ing puzzle of existence, which Homo times engulf eo many of us, are never repudiated by Chaplin. He does not desire madly to lose himself In some body or something apart from Ids own life. Ho would not In his most tortured moment shift places with the merriest. No, for the blackness *" his blackness. And what lie wants Is experience, no matter whether that he happiness or pain. Tills hunger for a high measure of sensation Is found in hie horror of old *ge. With i kind of fierce rebellion he looks nto a neighboring glass at the streaks of gray in his hair. "Ugh!” ■'* will shiver. "To think the time s coming when I shan't be young inv more!” , (Continued in The Morning Bee.) ^Burgess BedtimeT l Stories J By THORNTON W. BURGESS. Mischief is * point of view; What Is to me Is not to you —Farmer Brown's Boy. Peter Rabbit Is Driven to Mischief. Peter Rabbit was finding this win ter quite as hard as any of his neigh bors. He was living almost wholly on hark, llow he did long for some thing else. * "I’ll grow into a tree,” grumbled Peter, "yes, sir. I’ll grow Into a tree or a bush if I don't get a change of food pretty soon.” "Stop your grumbling, Peter, ’ commanded little Mrs. Peter. "Shame on you! You ought to be thankful that you can get good bark. You don't have to starve, anyway. You are bet ter off than some of our neighbors." But Peter continued to grumble, There was very little variety In the bark to be found In the dear Old Briar Patch. He felt that if he couldn’t get anything hut bark he would at least like a change In that. So Peter, in spite of all that Mr. H.C«* He gnawed that hark just aa high aa ho could roach all the way around that tree. Peter could say, spent mugh of his time away from the dear Old Briar Patch. Ho knew that he was taking greater chances than when there was no snow, because against the pure white background his gray-brown coat could be seen a long distance. But, like most of the other little peo ple, Peter was willing to take chancea for the sake of his stomach. One night he remembered some thing he hadn't thought of for a long time. It was Farmer Brown's young orchard. It was a long, long time since Peter had been up in that or chard. This was because the last time he had visited It he had found each young tree protected by wire net ting. He had visited every tree and hadn't been able to get so much aa a taste of the bark. 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Gland Patient Wins Race With awe ami to their amazement onlookers saw a 73yenr-old runner dash across the line winner of a 60 yard running race In the sensational time of 8 seconds, just 4-5 of a second short of the world's record. This al most unbelievable Incident occurred at the annual field meet held at one of California's State Institutions. It was unother victory for Science, proving again that youthful vigor, stamina, ambition ami power nmy tie restored by reviving the vital glands of the body, for the winner of the race was a gland patient. Many leading citizens are now hoi>e fully looking to a rejuvenation of heaith and strength through the nour ishment of vital glands In accordance with well known scientific principles. Dr. Arnold l.orand says in his hook, "Old Age Deferred," in speaking of tlie glands; "We must Insist upon the reinforcement of their functions, If chnnged by ago or disease, by means of extrnct* obtained from the similar organs of healthy young animals." Science has now prepared such a treatment In convenient, compact tab let form—(llamlogcn which combines the healthy glands of young animals with other efficacious Ingredients. Hundreds of keen eyed, vigorous men and women Hre today taking fllnnd oge n. Ulandogsn ls< obtainable at Sher man A McConnell Drug Co,, 16th ami Dodge. !6!h and llarmy, Iflth nnd Dunum and 34th and Kuril a in. hadn't been back for more than a year. j* “I believe I'll run over there." said he. “Yes, sir, I believe I'll run over there. Perhaps that wire has been taken off of those trees. Perhaps there are some new trees without any wire around them. Anyway. It won't cost me anything but a little trouble to have a look." So peter went. Xo sooner did he reach the first, tree than he made a great discovery. The snow was so deep that it came almost to the top of the wire that protected the trunk of that tree. By sitting up he could reach the.- bark above the top of the wire. He sampled it. It was good. He gnawed that bark just as high as he could reach all the way around that tree. He even stood up on his hind feet to reach as high as he could, lie didn't know that he was killing that tree, but that is just what he was di ing. When he had eaten all the bark he could reach on that tree he hurried over to another. Peter was in mischief. Y'es, sir, Peter Rab bit was in mischief. But he didn't know it. (Copyright. 1924 ) The next story: “Peter'* Mischief Is Discovered.’’ ' Lover Is in i Poor Health • Dear Martha Allen: 1 am 18 and have been going about with a boy of 20 for about 6 months. I was with him oply three times before we were en gaged. I found out later that he was in bad health and there is doubt whether his health will ever be any better. I love him dearly and would hate very much to have to give him up, but I want to do what is best for both of ii* Can you give me some advice ns to what to do? rNDECIDKD. You are both young enough to wait for year*. Mope and happiness may do much to cute your sweetheart. Don't doubt that his health is going to im prove Have confidence that be is bound to be better, and get him to have faith in his powers of recovery. In a year or two things may have changed so much for the better that your loyally will have its full re ward. Letter for "Just Desperate." Dear Stranger: We take The Oma ha Bee and I saw where you wrote that you would like to work out in Columbus. 1 am a girl about like yourself. I live on a farm and help with the work. I was 17 the first part of this month and I feel as if 1. want to get out and make my own way. Wo live four and one-half miles north of Kxeter. Columbus is around 6U miles from here. 1 only wish jou and I could become friends and go to Columbus and work. Have you writ ten to the places Miss Allen told you to? If you have and get to Columbus and find a vacant job, write and tell mo about It. I will sure come up there. I suppose you want to know who 1 am. Well, my name is Anna Due and I am a common girl. I am a Dane. I have seven brothers and one sixtei. My three brothers and slater are married. Well. 1 don't know If you will ever get this letter, but I hope so. If you do please write and let's get acquainted With good luck to you, 1 remain. ANNA DUE. n. F. I). No. 3, Exeter, Neb. I,. B.: 1 feel sure you refer to the well known novena of St. Anne, which is held annually in the middle part of the summer, the nine days p «| lug her feast day. A novella means a nine-day prayer. This noveria is held at the church of St Anne at Twenty fourth street and Poppleton avenue. Woman to Speak at Bible School Mm* K B. Young. Wayne. Neb., mother of Kd lie Young, pianist for Gypey Smith, will give an address at the Omaha Bible institute Wednes day morning at 10:30. Mrs. Young's subject will be Prayer." While in the city. Mrs. Young will attend the meeting of the institute board of <l| rectors. She has several missionar*™ at work in the foreign fi' Id, silp ported by money received In answer to prayer. Henry Hansen of Oakland. Cal., whl* arrive next week to be the guest ot* Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Dinning. Mr. Hansen is returning to his homo after having spent the past year in Toronto. Canada. When You Rent T ypewriters be sure that you rent machines that will do goo'd work. Our stock of rental machines is kept in good running condition, so that if you need any extra typewriters for rush work you can depend upon them. For rates and other information, write or call. Special Rental Rates to Students Typewriter* Rented—Rebuilt Typewriter* L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co. 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