Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1924, Page 14

Behind the Screen Intimate, Personal Pictures of BY SAMUEL Copyright, 192 Jaekie Coo; HE few superfluities which ap- 3 : Chaplin must fon of ro- E 2 e, he fond of mangoe: that a certain Los Angel ¥ the n Chaplin’s house. W sits down in front of a g fruit he is posit vely musty odor!™ Charlie of this not fit into my haracter. He is too pressed b Domesticity d of his individuai, 100 1uoh s o routi ' subutb. yidmg con- as. name i poet; with is no hefore tigure with | flopping 1 :d humor of the example. for you the real tripped of his speeches, of the t “Shoulder Here Chaplin be evervman at war pombast and_fine « front which I we. the soldier It : that of the comed and threw neck. There : in the hi brown eves whi have never for- gotten, After the enth tniz had ebbed duced the pai has in his an, T i mood of affe | If vou ask U e ts his D prompt: * ] S Bqually loyal is Dprofe ting elves to his friend. hody «sked h livine wercd with critical mind any personal somewhat ness of this { ve told you the twc What does it about Iven in that first casual grecting with this gifted boy 1 was struck by the per iess which sets Jackie apart from the ordinary stage child. He didn't seem to realize in the le famous personag. it has been Tept from him the enormi Tars, Cer just a k Erown-up with him than any other have done. Inden - always been told in I who knew the well, is first of all a real boy ssing perhaps even more than rage boy's affinity with dirt. wh much orbedly Not loug ago friend of mine dropped in to see the small tar. It ! him before games the Stars of the Silver Sheet GOLDWYN. . by George . Doran Company. w his ‘s _hands into his going over father, he caught the oth and looked” up appealingly ce. oh. dadd, | metting an I T go out; “I'm not Mayn't he pleaded, kick out of this, ission was granted led himself of an oppor- assemble his favorite playthings. These consist of a ham- mer, some old nails and a plot of ground outside the studio. Here ror half an hour the juvenile actor, who might recruit the most costly elec- » have been show- people all over the the ground ai | tunity was thus occupied the ve mentioned happened to to the gold chain she was w »king like a royal decora- he Order of the Golden " she added laughingly to the group of older people watching with her over Jackie's recreation. | He stopped his hammering for an and _quickly, with a look of r intelligence, he lifted his all led after. show the information ommand of this as- All I have heard from and from others convinces t, that his histrionic abllity nird by one of those chil work in all dire | tions, tively have to be held back arning too much. One incident in connection with the i he Kid" throws into i for s directing th ecting seene w ned to Juckie's father. an’t stand ft!"” id, turning away quick tears, even though I had Leen too much for high-strung, emotional Chaplin. devotion to Jackie Coogan is explicable to me after one glimpse of the child. So, too, are the words of a certain woman I know. “There something about t boy,” says the latte hat alw; mikes me feel like crying. I don't know why, for he seems o gay and happy.” 1 mysclf caught in an instant that | same touching, even solemn, quality. What is it? Perhaps because in those wide childish e dom brought from some other world and not yet dimmed Ly that of thi 1 feel that I cannot bring my re about that. IUs more deeply s £ nature than ¥ own preview of pictyre, attended ¥ his conflict with Mil- dred , he was in an aby: te said he one day. You have nothing else me over to my studio and e. I'd like to get advice, tou, if you “I'm aw- he s ments from on s he ody can convince t the production has one glim- mering ray of merit. Consequently I attached no importance to th his. Putting down his words to the divine discontent of genius, I went over that very da with Gouverneur Morris to see Kid. pare me for this supreme manifesta- PHILLIPS was during the production of “Oli¢er A carbon copyis never quite as good as the original letter itself. It can’t be. copy. That’s one reason that most people like Oh Henry! It's the ORIGINAL itself! _That's why tion of his artistry. Just as the world was afterward to do, Morris and 1, laughed and cried and gasped as the ! wonderfful story unrolled befors us. As for Charlie, he looked at us un- believingly. He simply could not make himself understand that we were not feigning thisiappreciation. “Charlie,” I sald after it was all, over, “if you never had done or never | should do another picture -your name | would go down into history as the creator of ‘The Kid.' With that pecullarly eager, expression of his he looked “You really think it's good, he asked. " “You're not just saying this to make me feel encouraged?” “If you don’t belleve me,” I an- wistful help convince you. I tell you T added, “let me do something. won't you? Le me give a dinner over at my studio and then we'll show them “The PRig ! Very reluctantly he agreed. I there- { ubon ‘sent out invitations, and 1 don't suppose there was ever a more bril- liant constellation of names repr sented at any Holly: than that aiforded by this preview of he Kid” at the Amoéng authors we had Sir Parker, Somerset Maugham, I3 ¥n, Edward Knoblach, Mrs. trude Atherton, Rupert Hughes, Re Beach and Ritd Weiman. Among the many famous personalities of ~the screen were Elsie Ferguson and Pau- line Frederick. As this group began to concentrate upon the picture, Charlie, who had been intensely ner ous throughout the course of the din- ed stricken with terror. e attended many previews in my life, but never have I seen any- thing like the enthusiasm with which “The Kid" was greeted by these dis- i tingulshed people of pen and screen and stage. Tears streamed down the faces of many of the womsn and some of the men. Shouts of laughter were Inte spersed with cries of ap- plause. Yet still little Chaplin sit- ting there beside me, could not be- lieve in the miracle of success. “Do you really think they like {t— are you sure It's going over?" he would whisper to me from time to time. I doubt if he was convinced even |after the performance when many of i the women went up and threw thei arms about him, and when even the men forgot Anglo- their congratulations. One amusing glint T ing is struck by w word of Glyn’s. During the course dinner she happened to tell us all that she had never in her life seen | more than one picture. But when at the end of the evening a newspaper man present asked Mrs. Glyn how she “The she answered with prompt soulfulness, “The finest pic- ture I ever saw in my life. I have no doubt that by this time . persuaded herself of broad cilities "of comparison. swered, “I'll call in a_few others to ' Hixon, twenty-eighi vears old, of Amaranth, Pa. a few miles north of Piney Grove, this county, who was almost cut in half by a re- volving saw at a mill at Northeraft, Pa., is showing improvement at West- ern Maryland Hospital. The saw caught him oh the right Stops Colds in 24 Hours Hill's Cascara Bromide Quinine gives quicker relief than any other cold or la grippe remedy. Tablets disintegrate in | 10 seconds. Effectiveness proved in { millions of cases. Demand red box bear- | ing Mr. Hill’s portrait. 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