Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-06
THE MAN YOU'LL LOVE TO HATE
Tells HOI0 1t Feels to Be Hated
BY ERICH Won sTRoHEIAI.
Star of Foolish Wives"

l am The BeaSt!'
Sometimes l wonder whether to laugh
or cry.
The more people hate me, the more
money / make-but l often question
whether the moneys worth It. l think
I earn my money harder than any other
man; capitalize public adherence.
That's what I'm getting paid for.
They call me 1.-THE man youu love to
hate"
I'm Just a simple, tnofrensiv fellow
who tries to conscientiously to DO his
best In acting unpleasant parts. Per
hars It's because I try to do It with
gubtlety. and don't DO Il in an artificial
manner. that they confuse the part play
with the man / am. However that may
be- they do II. I don't mind being hated
on the screen, but It's mighty tough to
be hated or 1t; after hours, when one
longs for human companionship and
gets instead unadultered, Simon pure
hate from practically all with whom one
comes In contact.
EXAMPLE OF WHAT
HE SUPPLIES DAILY.
Here are a few incidents-a few out Of
so many ] can't recommend them. but
only feel the sting Of their accumulated
venom.
One night during trip to New York
I dined at the "L'Aiglon," a popular
French restaurant, with my wife and
several friends. At the next table sat
two couples and presently one OF the
girls recognized me. They whispered
together for a minute. then one OF them
demanded loudly enough for my party
to hear. DO we have TO dine at the
next table to that beast?" They paid
their bills adm left their unfinished meal
OF course we were terribly embarrassed.
One day I was riding In a street car,
when n woman and small girl boarded 1t
and sat opposite me-. The lttel girl
looked at me for a moment. Look.
mamma" she observed There's that
bad man that threw the baby out OF the
Window" And love children too?
A friend Of mine was discussing me
with a woman friend once. and remarked,
that | went to her church. He goes
there" she answered, but he doesn't
belong therew
They won't even let me go to their
churches. and II didn't go TO church,
they'd lay that up against me, too.
HE CANT SHAKE
OFF THE SHOP.
can't take of the uniform. cap sword
monocle. perfume behind he-ears and
other accoutrements Of warfare, and be
human after the days work is over. I'm
still the beast--not 1T to mingle with
people or 60 to their churches; not At for
tho compsnionship of women or little
children-the loneliest man in the world
why?
Other villains OF the screen don't get
the same treatment When my friend
Lon Clancy, enters a public place, the
people look at him with respect. There's
Lon Clancy" they say. Hes a great
actor and wonderful villain. Remember
him in "The Penalty or "The Miracle
Mani" But when I come in they say
Here comes Won Stroheim-that beast !"
People see the man differently from the
actor in other cases-why not in mine
I am just n quiet inoffensi7e chap who
tries to do his best by his family and
do his best by his employer. I play the
part Of a villain-some one has to, but
when | end the days work on the picture
lot the character of the play dies with
the whistle that blows quitting time
People here didn't hate me in the old days
in San Francisco and Oakland, or when
was a guide on Tamalpaid, when they
saw only Won Stroheim, and not the
parts he has since played. l was mar
ried here and lived among the people
just as any one else. l am no different
now from then.
Still-now they hate me.
Men hate me more than women-per-