Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-05-13

Perhaps Stella did really know. Anyway,
she was always asking prodding little
questions that stimulated Naomi into
thinking about something besides herself.
Well, in the motion picture business
1T Is the word for q mysterious some
thing that a performer has to have to be
q big success. just knowing how to act
isn't enough. You've got to have this
something else in order to break into
the big money. Now, I've got 1t myself"
she illustrated modestly, although I
can't tell you what it is. I've heard
people call it personality. and others say
it's sex appeal. Some way. i don't think
it's exactly either. Valentino and zasu
Pitts have 1T in about an equal degree
and they are the two most unlike per-
sonalities on the screen-unlike except
for the possession Of that curiou quail
ity we're talking about.
Whatever else may have been in Naomi
acute understanding OF her business.
When she got to talking shop she was
fascinating, even to one Of her own sex.
Stella hung on her words.
But this woman who is playing leads
with him." continued Naomi, She's an
error in Judgment on somebody's part.
He shouldn't have a vamp like that work.
ing opposite him. What he needs is a
woman who can look at him as If her
heart were in her throat for fear he'd
melt or something, not a bathing beauty
constantly conscious that she would be
all undressed If one button came off,
Later in the evening when Herman
came into the sick room for orders she
spoke Of him again.
DO you suppose you could get Ernest
Hamilton to play the lead in nv next
picture?" she asked.
Herman was in the habit Of being ex-
pected to do ~unordinary things. He or
II VA - ~ ~
made him laugh. Listen, dear, don't you
know that Ernie is a comedian? You
don't want people laughing at you"
They wouldn't laugh" his wife OPP
posed coldly; moi unless we wanted them
to. That boy can play any kind of a part
that anybody can
We'll, he LIS out Of the question, my
way. dear. He has just organized his own
company and you couldn't hire him to
play leads for anybody else. Now, If you
want to work with him you might get a
job in his company and"
Don't be absurd"
But Naomi did not entirely give up
thinking OF h proposition. She thought
how much good 1t would do young Err
nest to be associated with an artist like
herself for a while. At least she thought
she thought that. At any rate, her mind
kept recurring to the memory of his in
gratiating smile.
Il WISH" she said in dismissing her
husband, a regal non performed
every evening after they had meticulous-
~ gone over all the subjects In which
they had a common interest, which took
about twenty minutes, Il wish that you
would have your secretary call up Ernest
Hamilton tomorrow and ask him to come
and see me-"
"All right, I'll do that little thing"
Herman was relieved that she a not
told him to summon John d. Rockefeller.
Ernest Hamilton would probably come
II he invited him, at hat. Almost any
body in the motion picture world was
glad to do a favor for a man Of Herman
CLICKS displacement. He controlled too
many printed pages, too many million
feet Of film, and too many first run
theaters to be ignored by anybody in the
industry. So Ernest Hamilton came the
next afternoon to the great half tim
bered Beverly Hills home Of the Clicks.
Shakespeare might have lived there, or
Mr.. Johnson, or Dickens. or Fielding, or
all OF them, 1t was large enough, but in
stead it housed the most popular woman
star In the world (see Siiversheet for
May, 1924, who had never read any of
the works OF the above mentioned gen.
tlemen.
Ernest was slightly puzzled and en-
queen OF the p~rincipality In which he
regarded himself as simply an industri-
Gus worker.
He sat ~uneasily at the bedside Of the
famous actress. If he had not left his
hat downstairs he would lave twisted it
In his hands.
Naomi laughed at him srSly. why, you
are not an actor at all. Ali you do In
your pictures is to be natural"
Ernest grinned. Gee, don't let any
body else know that will your II my
manager should get wise to. the fact that
anybody could do my stuff. where would
1 be7"
Naomi wasn't sure whether or not he
was teasing her. Huch colossal lack of