Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1936 — Page 15
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| test. then took up the baton and| CAMERAMAN TURNS ACTOR lin which 30 odd old-time stars sup- | COUSIN OF HUMORIST went to work on my numbers. I
Hyman Fink, Hollywood's ubi- | port John Halliday, Robert Cum-| Byrgess Meredith, star of “Wine finished the first one. The extras quitous cameraman, plays a role in | mings, C. Henry Gordon and Freida terset” is a cousin of the famous “Hollywood Boulevard,” | Inescort. { humorist, Gellett Burgess,
THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1936
Sad Face
1 thought they meant it]
Is an Asset, Actor Says
Arthur Treacher on Way to Stardom by Butler Roles.
By United Press i HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 17.—| Arthur Tleacher, sad-faced | actor, was too tall to take the| part of a gentleman on the screen 80 he hecame a “gentleman’s gentleman.” At least that is the explana- | tion the comedian, who is six! feet, four and a half inches! tall, gave for his entrance into | films. : |
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Things look a little dark here for the romance that’s supposed to blossom between Joan Bennett and Joel McCrea, but things will come out all right. The scene is from “Two in a Crowd,” which opens at the Lyric tomorrow, along with a vaudeville bill headed by Johnny Perkins,
maintained he is to via butler he declared he
Treacher the only Hollywood played #, : pid; approach stardom roles. Furthermore perfectly willing to “buttle” for quite some time vet as he has no ambitions to scale the cinematic social lacde: jritish by Birth Born in Brighton, BSusseX, Eng.
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A pollo “STAGE STRUCK"”—Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Warren William, Frank McHugh, Jeanne Madden, Carol Hughes, Spring Byington, the Yacht Club Boys. Directed by Busby Berkeley. Story—Boy director is fired because he refuses to use rich, notorious lady in show. Gets another job, finds same lady is backing the production. Goes through with direction, takes place of leading
ONE OF THOSE DARK MOMENTS | Dick Powell
Tells of His Film Chance
Wins Picture Role Despite Poor Showing in Screen Test.
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| motion picture test for a role in “The Crooner.” 4 JLLYAN TASHMAN was ‘making a personal appearance in | the theater at the time: | “Why Dick! Splendid—that means | the screen for you.” “Me? Bcreen?—but I'm not &n actor.” : “The reason you will probably ge over big—you only need to be good looking.” “But I'm not good looking. That's just the point. I've got a funny face.” “Well then, you can sing.” | “They want a crooner. I'm not a | crooner.” { *“Do.you mean to tell me, Dick, | that you wouldn't croon: for $500 { a week? That's what they offer.’; I went to New York. 1 was overae to make good. Max Arno | met- me and told me what to do | I stood before a camera and sang. A few days later word came to me | in Pittsburgh that the crooner part
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Slapped. Iso took a couple of bows. 5 raed afterwards that they were | only playing the scene. I started | the second number, but the director | stopped me. | “Powell, the camera is over hére.” Everybody laughed. Well, we worked for two days and I enjoyed it. Nothing hard about { it. ~Just my routine of years in the theaters. A good band, songs I liked, audience and a mike. Nothing to it. Two days after there was whispering and buzzing at the Warner Studio. ‘Powell 2” lucky dog—hear the test #vas N. G. too—could it be , , , *
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of ror BACON said that the shots were good. DelRuth’ said that the crazy crooner part written after they had seen my New York test had been changed back to a straight patt as it was: originally. I was all:at sea and asked to see the New York test. In the dark projection room I blushed. A cold | shiver ran dowh my spine. A home-| ly, popeyed, musclé-bound creature looked down from that screen. He stood in front of a microphone and never moved an inch, He looked like a mechanical clown. He sang of love and showed nothing. He sang of the moon and dumbly looked into space. The room was suffocating. I dashed out. Were they kidding me: about the shots, just taken, beinz good? Was Hollywood a city of ribbers? Let me out—give me Pittsburgh. The California sun was laughing at me —give me the smoky city where the | children called me Dick.
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{had been cast but that I should il | proceed to California to play a part ‘SMALL_TogN GIRL" in “Blessed Event.” | I came to Hollywood, where only | the sun welcomed me and people ve 7a , | passed me by ... unhhoticed. I tried | to find out something about the lo = a gC story of “Blessed Event.” But everylone was busy at the studio—too R 3 vi p : busy. Roy DelRuth broke the news EAL 1 IEE iy } [to me—kindly. “The story now calls for a band i leader who looks a bit screwy, Pow=ell. After looking over your New | York test, you showed up so funny | —in othér words you were so rotten | that we've changed the character. {| All you have to do is to be yourself {in the scenes—nothing to worry {about.”
(To Be Continued) “ANNIE 0! OAKLEY"
Treacher was educated properly as the descendant. of a: long line of barristers and brewers However, | periodically away from his desk to join roving theatrical companies and following the war, began in earnest to associate himself with the theater. He came to Hollywood three years ago and appeared in a dozen plays before studio casting directors began using him in “bit” parts. “Btrangely enough,” he related “I was play ing a gentleman in my first real part. I escorted a lady down some steps in full evening re-
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