The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 2, 1930, Page 2

DUNS EXPRESSES BELIEF RECOVERY WAY BE EXPECTED More Cheerful Sentiment Has Encouraged Activity in Many Quarters CONSERVATIVE VIEWS RULE Business Revival Is Expected to Be Slow and Sure Rather ' Than Spectacular \_ Indications that business has. touched the bottom of the current re- cession and that a recovery has com- menced are contained in the weekly business review issued by Dun’s agency, one of the great commercial agencies of the nation. The statement, which might be optimistic, described as cautiously follows: As August closes and with the last holiday of the summer pending, it is possible to discern a better under- tone in business. There is no disposi- tion to magnify the importance of sa change, yet the more cheerful sentimens *> <<22ur and it has the support of incr Avity in certain quarters. Any turn in i> right direction at this time, however slight and although not generally manifest, is considered significant as an indication of further gains to come. If precedent is to be followed, at least some measure of trade ex- pansion is foreshadowed now, and the ‘unusually low. point to which opera- tions already have fallen enhances the likelihood of a more favorable end. Divergence of opinion as to robable degree and scope of the a uplift is natural in the pre- sent cohfused situation, but conserva- tive views predominate and expecta- tions of rapid revival remain the con- spicuous exception. The far-reaching ramifications of the economic transi- tion have been evidenced in various forms, with problems arising out of the extension of old industries and the establishment of new enterprises, methods of production and of dis- tribution changing in many instances, difficulties in agriculture having de- veloped, and other factors combining to lengthen the process of comimer- cial recovery. After months of ad- ments, however, and with num- erous weak spots eliminated, a stronger basis exists, and some re: sponse to the requirements of anot er season is being counted upon as a normal phase. Among the specifical- hy, lasso appeared in rel ue, while just be- low is his famous portrayal of “The Hypnotist.” Upper left he is shown as the clown in “He Who Gets Editor's Nove: _ This is the first of six daily stories on the life of Lon Chaney, the screen's greatest character acior, by Dan Thomas, Hollywood ovrrespondent of Trib- une and NEA Service. In his subsequent tories, Thomas will tell more about this amazing actor and his worl. in the hideous roles that made h’m the movies’ great- est scans dice card for years. * * By DAN THOMAS (NEA Service Writer) (Copyright, 1130, NEA Service, Inc.) Hollywood, Sept. 2—Lon Chaney, dead, is as much a mystery as was Lon y, tive. ly promising portents this week, the additional small gain in steel output tnd the larger transactions in cotton yoods have been stressed, while the ilackening of the decline in whole- sale commodity prices also is.a hope- ful sign. The latter movement is dis- the ‘moderately improved prospects, with the advancing tens in bonds regraded as constructive in its bear- ing on the future. * Steel Business Gains Contributing to the better feeling in general business circles, activity in g The star whom Hollywood never really knew nd the greatest char- acter actor in the history of motion pictures has ¢arried to the grave with him his silent, retiring personality, which was ai baffling as any of the weird roles h- played in the films. For no one .n Hollywood, except for few—und 8 very few—intimate friends, every ' ally knew Lon Chaney. Unlike ma movie idols, Chaney hated the tipseled life that most of them led. He made few public ap- pearances, he attended practically no brilliant “fint nights,” he shunned gay parties, he wore heavy glasses as @ disguise t: protect himself from hero-worship,ers, he refused to dis- For Chane;’ found greater pleasure im donning rough clothes and fishing for trout, with a pipe between his teeth, in the solitude of a mountain stream; in \inkering with an ama- teur’s movie camera and devel his own films just for the fun of it; muscle, or the glassy stare’ xf a blinded eyé and thus portray thes- human defects in some More Textiles Bought markets came in g iy i i it i I | A : E : 2 : | i : 28 iH El f i é é i : | g let H i i at i 5 = Ff il i Be int g j ‘The hideg 1s faces, like some terrible ** & GOOD Gravy! A FELLER DASSENT MAKE EVEN A MOVE AROUND HERE WITHOUT, 1 “say! WHUTRE YOU, uP TH? T was net FOLOIN’ UP A BuNcH 4 OF NEWSPAPERS AN! RiGAT Away T GIT A SARCASTICUL SOME OF LON’S FAMOUS ROLES In the center is Lon Chaney as he & se epparition straight out of a horrible | nightmare, that made millions of | movie-goers shudder were the results of a lifetime of hard work in the twin ; arts of makeup and mimicry. And | their price was the self-imposed tor- | ture of cruel, but deftly hidden, face | clamps that warped the features; of chemicals used to simulate hideous scars; of a milky glass eye, worn under the lid, to feign the empty stare of @ blind man; or a tightly-laced strait- jacket that bound his legs or his arms behind him and made him look like an armless or legless circus freak. For Chaney suffered for his art— literally. In “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” he wore a 60-pound me- tallic jacket to twist his body into a horrible shape; his face was so dis- torted with clamps, false teeth, putty, wax and whatnot that he had to take his lunch through a straw. * eK Chaney's artistry of make-up was acquired, but mimicry he came by naturally. The story goes back to a boy in Colorado. Springs, Col., whose parents were deaf mutes and whose mother was an invalid. Being compelled to use the sign language, he learned the riences at school, etc—that would began to tell her stories, not by read- . | ing to her but by acting what he had books and read in magazines. Tt was during this period he learned the first elements in make-up. eee were never really in poverty, but-it was necessary for them to quit school at an early age and go to work. Lon, always a lover of the Spt utdoor, got his first job as a tour- ist guide at Pike's Peak. and he watched them closely, spend- ing a8 much time in their dressing rooms as they would permit. | Abodt this time Richard Mansfield, * | OUT OUR WAY ~~ By Williams | WELL, 1 NEVER SAW Nou To se Tioy. ave ME THAT! } WOULD SERVE HER RIGHT FoR LOUNGING AROUND IN SUCH A .PosiTION. E x THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1980 ‘Trade Review Takes Optimistic Tone AS Autum Season Slapped,” while at the lower left he is “Professor Echo,” in his first talkie, “The Unholy Three.” At the right he is stiown in one of his first sfar- ring pictures, “The Trap,” and as “Dr. Wu,” @ Chinese character: Screenland’s Greatest Character. Actor Started Career As ‘Prop’ Boy the famous character actor of a gen- eration ago, stopped off at Colorado Springs. On successive nights Mans- field played “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “Ivan, the Terrible’—and the boy, watching with bated breath from the wings, there pictured his own future, He would be a character actor like Mansfield—a great actor, # man who could take on dozens of faces and grip the interest of his audience like @ steel vise. ek * By this time his elder brother, John, had got a job in the theater and his father, thinking one actor in the fam- ily was enough, shipped’ Lon off to Denver to learn a trade as a paper hanger. One day the young paper hanger received a telegram from his brother, asking him to return to Colorado Springs at once and play a small role organized. And so Lon Chaney became an actor. But it was not’ the kind of acting—the portrayal of powerful character roles—that he had set his dreams upon. Instead, he became a pink-tinted chorus man, caperin around in comic operas and, in mn, attending to the company’s transportation: prob- lems and properties. They barn- stormed for a while—and then went meke his sick mother laugh. Then he | broke. Lon heard @ musical .comedy in Chicago was looking for a dancer and ® second comedian. He got the job, but that company soon went broke on the road and Chaney borrowed $10 from a colored stage hand to get back The four children in the Chaney | to Chicago. loping | family—all of whom were normal— Jobs were scarce, but Chaney hung filled in as.an' actor when- Stage hands’ * ek Oe Lon finally drifted west with a vaudeville troupe. In San Francisco he worked with the Ferris Hartman Opera company and then joined the ;famous comedians, Kolb and Dill, as | stage director and second comedian. | On the same bill with Kolb and FOLOINGr ANYTHING BuT 17 aw rn LR gi ye Tew iwemg li) reelers of that bygone day he hero and villain—but mouzy: the with @ comic opera company he had “ Ww gift of doubtful repus i eG wind An “| and Kenneth Thomson. fa asan In the old blood-and-thunder two- A an, t “Aybody's. 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