New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-20
Jack Holt
Comes Out
OF the w est
hut Steals Away Again
Before Amy One Realizes
That He Ems Been Here
BY Harrieste lJndcrhiIl

30 many pheasant Things nave nap
pened this week that we really
haven't had time TO consider whether
10 was the heat or only the humidity.
Tn the arst place, certain party
wrote and told us from somewhere up
in Canada that she never wrote let
ters TO strange people, but that she
ceuid not refrain when she found
some one who evidvntIy knew BY Bit
ssr experience that horses are "con-s
genital idiots" Cur review Of AJust
Tony she said, had convinced her
that she was not the only person who
knew the pesky. critters "from the
ground up It is splendid to BIO I'M
derstood and backed up Ike that, ss-
pecially when one is Yefuting such a
popular fallacy that the horse Is faith
fpl, Intelligent and loving.
Then, right on top Of that, Dorothy
writes that when she first began to
read what we wrote about the terrible
ness of movie titles she thought we
were merely being disagreeable, ard
now she can spot one as far as she
can see 1t or as far as we can see It.
She adds, "Whas with Merton of the
Movies and you, nothing seems the
ssme any more, and it is so interest
ing to be bored" But that is not all.
After many years we have met Jack
Holt Not only is he exactly ns we
knew he would be, but he talked to us
for two hours, thereby throwing the
schedule of his P. A all out Of gear.
Fire minutes after he appeared on the
horizon We were telling each other
orr favorite stories. On most Of them
We are pledged TO secrecy, but here is
ons of them, A certain director,
whose name Mr.. Holt withheld, de-
cIared virtuously that he knew what
thc public wanted and that he WAS GO
ing to give 1t to them if he could.
''The people, Mr.. Holt says the direc-
tor said, "want good, clean, licentious
pictures"
Probably he thought licentious
meant pictures with a license num-
bsr.
sAnd NOW listen to this one. A man
who makes movies called as up last
week and disagreed with rs ever our
review Of "Blocd and Sand" "Why,"
he said Indignantly. ibid yon ever
read Eye-ban-czzes's nove1?s
s"Isn't 1t fine, the success that valcn-
tino Is having7 Every one Is delight
Cd, because he Is such splendid fell
low and 80 popular. IL any one ever
deserved 1t he does.S
That's the way we like 10 hear one
male screen beauty talk about an
other one and 1t isn't as common as
it's supposed to be--like common sense.
In our years of talking to people we
have learned that God has not given
all the jealousy to women nor all the
nobility to tbs men.
Jack Holt is one Of the best-looking
men we have seen SO far. His father
was a preacher and wanted him to be
one, too, but he didn't care about
being preached to, SO he thought he
would practice instead. He did. He
practiscd throwing the rope out in
Altoona, or one of those states west Of
Chicago.
is'sor over four years. he said, 'sI
was cowboy" So here at last was q
cowboy who looked as q cowboy looks
in the pictures--a cowboy who was not
only handsome but one who never
would confuse "shall" and "willr or
uss a whom" after any form of the
verb to be. So the next time you see
Jack being nimble and quick in Wild
West picture you may be certain that
he is not employing double. As q
\ matter Of fact he got in pictures him
self by doubling for some one else In
70 particularly hair-raising stunt where
the director didn't want the leading
man to get killed until after the pic
ture was finished.
i was in Alaska at the time, and
after ! made my first picture lost
al interest In what had been doing
before
What were you doing before a~ we
asked and then promptly forgot
whether he said building railroad or
hunting gold. 1t must have been one
or the other. Long association with
pictures has taught us that men never
go to Alaska for any other reason.
Women go for a variety OF reasons.
This Is the second time rye been
In New York in seventeen years and
now can stay only week--iust long
enough to make few scenes for sThe
Making Of Man,
But all work ard no play has not
made Jack a dull boy. When he APP
peared here in when Satan Sleeps
few weeks ago we heard young
woman say that he was the tbee's
knees" Now that we have met him, he
Isl That is, If "bes's knees" means
what we think 1t means.
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