The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-05-08
VARIETY SPICE
OF ACTOR LIFE
lot Of Movie Star Is Well
Sprinkled With
Spice
FORGETS OWN SELF
Moore and Leading Lady
Stage One Acat That Was
Not in Scenario
py EDWIN JUsTUs MAYER.

4 mp Fimr as the poet SAYS Dut ie"
~ p'ay az many parts az movie
a,,or or as diverse roles. Toni
Moore. picking a few Of his char
,c,ers a. random, can boast that he
has been A dovr-and- an Eng
Y,h nobIoman. burglar, a police
man small-town politician, and
., picture soon to be released.
fireman.
WiH Rogers in the year that he
has bcen working in pictures and
during which he has become one OF
me mos. popular male stars OF the
.,roor. ha. boen n cowboy. a south
rn losfert they loaf better than the
northern ones.) a mountaineer, a
tramp. and IN his latest photoplay, a
i Scandinavian sailor.
Life out here at the Goldwyn
u ,+idios has an infinite variety that
mo cannot wither nor custom
stale" says Tom Moore. You can
see from the list OF my pictures dur
ng the past year that life is any
hing but monotonous thing in the
movies. Variety is the spice of life,
and here We find the spice Of va
1ety.
Prepared For Changes.
n zone day one thing and one day
another and always deep down our
I',,ycs. That's the pleasure and fate
~ the actor He never quite escapes
himself no matter how much he
puts himself into tho characters OF
others. Yet il is amazing how much
one can submerge oneself in the
role OF the hour--butN that is true
10 lifo as well as in pictures. II
I'm swell In a picture, why It
seems 20 be that | cant be happy
unless I'm wearing evening clothes
after o'clock and having a valet
70 start my tub and lay out my togs
But then, In my next picture ] may
be q drunken bum and then II
Gems To me as II anything except
an unshaven chin ond shifty bleary
sycs are all out of the scheme OF
thnGs
There are lot OF young mon
and young women who have an idea
hat acting before the movh,g-cam-
-fa is a sort of continual lark. Well
III not be denying that there's fun
In the game, but don't let them
'hink that there's all there is to II.
There's work in adjusting yourself
20 all the different parts you play
and there's work in each OF the
parts. Doctor lawyer, Indian chief,
rich man, poor man. beggarman,
'hief That's reversed, think, but
j q doesn't matter. The main thing is
What movie actor Is each OF those
4 and all OF those. That's VIII movie
acting is so hard-and so various
and sp.ced."
One Real Dcnoumcnf,
Mr.. Moore did not mention what
Nas been his happiest role during
me year-bridegroom. There was
genuine happy ending to Made
In Heaven" The star met Rene
Adoree In that picture and before
hey were through both were con-
,nced that marriage was made in
heaven And so when the produc-
on was finished they tied the
hymeneal knot and went to Honolulu
TOY their honeymoon. Now they are
pack in the studios and Mr.. Moore
beck a work again.
And on the stage next to that on
whlch Mr., Moore Is engaged is WIN
1.gers In new role for him---that
y Romeo. The picture is to be
AAed Doubling for Romeo" and
no accredited authors are William
shakespeare and Elmer Rice. Mr..
Shakespeare was "A prominent Eng
.sh Playwright who died some years
ago after contributing various note
worthy tragedies and comedies to
me stage. He did not write for the
movies, dye to the fact; perhaps,
.ndt Inc movies were not invented
When he lived
Romeo. In Wild West.
AT hIce has taken well-known
uoractcr from one OF Mr.. Shakes
PedIes lesser works-he has taken
t,'p,neo' the hero, and placed him in
%una' one OF the rougher states
Ue American commonwealth. as
S, Ruggles Of Red Gap might say.
W., rogers IS not much of a hit as
over, II would seem, until he reads
noneo and Juliet" after his girl
"as declared that she would never,
,rlet w marry anybody but a Romeo,
nv cowboy has a dream. after read
a sne oook, in which he sees him
az AZ as the great Italian lover,
Used IN tho costume of that elder
see' out with a few modern colts in
s,o peit for protection. The results
rhgaglng and dramatic.
Moore and Mr.. Rogers have,
,a. ,ior,' added two new charac
n, 10 the already mutiform design
,ueir past What the future will
wouas Iorth time alone can tell. Mr..
moo, ana Mr.. Rogers are in n
'ou' no doubt, to expect anything,
y, '"L as roles are concerned, in the
W. o' hrwness. But as Tom says,
sSia. N Is the spice OF life. and the
nsr,5 s,SV OF variety Is good seasoning.
a' ,r''CIulItar'y. beneath the continual
M p'Hc'd california sunshine. II
in i's' DC a real relief to be engaged
re- murder or fire or rodco to
~ az up the monotonous serenity
we climate. But this story will
,s, set into a California newspa-