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LIONEL BARRYMORg^^
At 26 He Was a Star; At 53 a Has-Been;
At 57 the Greatest Actor in America
I was there that night in 1918
when Lionel Barrymore opened on
Broadway as Milt Shanks in The
Copperhead. It was a brilliant oc
casion, a triumph that made
dramatic history. An excited audi
ence leaped to its feet and cheered
wildly and frantically through fif
teen curtain calls.
Fifteen years later, I had a
long talk with Lionel Barrymore
in the Green Room at Melro
Goldwyn-Mayer's headquarters on
Broadway. When he l^egan talk
ing about his struggles for recog
nition as an actor. I was astonish
ed. "What? You? A Barrymore,
with all the prestige and glamor J
of your family behind you ? sure
ly you never. had to struggle'! " I
demanded.
He looked at me for a moment
and. in his low rumbling voice,
replied: "Why, there ain't no
such animal as you're talking
about. A famous name is often a
handicap."
The Barrymore kids had a !
strange and rather haphazard
childhood. Their father. Maurice
Barrymore, was one of the most
charming and'captivating men
who ever made off-stage history
with his escapades.
He would spend his last nickel
to buy au animal. He used to ship :
bears home ? bears and monkeys
and wild cate and a wide assort
ment of dogs. John and Lionel j
spent one summer in a farm house
"I Was Always Too Darn Busy to
Worry About My Troubles"
on S'lton T !and with no on? for
company :n:' a'i oid nej;ro servant
and 1 y iiv of all shapes,
site". and in- eds. /,
V.'lieh Li<"iel. Jack and Ethel
Barrymore appeared in Rasrutin
and the Empress, Hollywood
proudly announced that this was
t-he first time they had all played
together. But Hollywood was
?wrong. The three Barrymores
made their debut together more
than forty years ago. The theatre
was a dilapidated barn in the rear
,>( an actors' boarding hoiise otij
Statin Island, the audience whs
made up of kids from the neigh
borhood. Admission was "a penny
?<Hid the total box office receipts
*yas thirty-seven cents. They play
?d Cafnille. Ethel was the business
manager and she paid Lionel and
Jack -ten cents each, and to their
intense disgust, pocketett the re
maining seventeen cents.
Neither Lionel nor John aspir
ed to be stage stars. They both
wanted to be artists, and Lionel
studied art in Paris for a time.
I asked him if he was ever
broke and hungry then, and he
said, "Yes. lots of times, because
I couldn't sell my sketches tolthe
magazines. Of course. I couldluil
ways get , money by wiring hoiJyj.
but sometimes I, didn't have ei?N
ough money to send a wire. Jack
and I had a studio down in Green
wich Village. too." he continued,
"but we didn't have any money
10 buy furniture. In fact'. We didn't
even have a bed. So we slept on
the floor; and when it got too
cold, we covered ourselves with
the books. There was another
chap, a writer, living with us $nd
he had a removable gold tooth;
when we were broke, we pawned
his tooth. I remember we tried
every pawnshop on the East side
but we could never raise, more
than seventy cents on it."
At twenty-six. Lionel Barry
more was a star, with his name
flashing in bright lights on Broad
way. But at fifty-three, his fame
was only a memory. While his
handsome brother. John, was one
of the highest-paid stars in the
world, and his sister, Ethel, had
a New York theatre named in her
honor, Lionel was earning a quiet
living out in Hollywood as a direc
tor. ~ * ?
His friends and family were
shocked. They complained bitter
ly that the most talented dramatic
actor in America Was going to
waste. But Lionel didn't complain.
He threw a skill and knowledge
gained from thirty years behind
he footlights, into diluting. pic
ture's. He dreamed. He studied.
He experimented. He was the^if'st
iirector ever to discover that the
??pund camera , could be moved
iround the lot? a discovery that
"volu'ionizetl talkrng pictures. '
rfa dazed the industry with such ,
unforgettable films as Ruth Chat
erton in Madame X. Lawrouce
"ib' ett in The Rogue S_ng and
Barbara Stanwyck in Ten Cents a
Oar.ce. He was fifty-three, and he
icnestlv believed his acting days j
A'ere over.
Just as he had resigned him
self to directing for the r&^t of
his career, he got his chancsl N-r
5
ma Shearer was making A Free
Soul. A great actor' was needed
i'or the part of the father. Lionel
Barrymore stepped in front of the
camera and covered hijnaelf with
glory. He won the medal of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences. And then the very
producers who had formerly re
garded him as a "has-been" fought
for his services. Hit followed hit
? The Yellow Ticket, Mata Hari,
Grand Hotel, Rasputin and the
Empress, Ah Wilderness!
I ask-'d Lionel Barrymore if he
was ever discouraged before he
mads has come-back in Holly
wood. He replied, ">.'o, I'vfe been
up and down all my life. Lots of
people said I was through; buf
I never thought much about it. I
Was always too darn busy to worry
about my troubles."
PEC AX SCAB CAl'SES
HEAVY AXXl'AL LOSS
Hundreds of pecan trees faU_
victim to the farmer"? axe each
yeai^ because of an ut< ..-aductiwe
ootid i: ion caused by a n miber of
diseases.
However, this is unnecessary
since pe' an disease can |>e con
trolled through a :ysi?maUc .-aui
ti.ry and stray rrogram oa sus
ceptible varieties, atcording to
Dr. Luther Shaw, extension plant
pathologist at State College.
There are several dis-ases which
develop on pecan^ in North Caro
lina. but the most prominent one
and the one that' does the most
damage is known as scab. This
disease is distributed throughout
the pecan growing area of the
State.
? Dr. Shaw explained that it is
caused by a fungus organism
*vhich. attacks the leaves. twigs,
and nuts. Symptoms of the disease
are practically the same on all
plant parts. The lesions are usual
ly smalh olive-brown, or gray at
first, and later turn black.
Since the scab spreads rapidly
from old diseased parts to new
growth, it is advisable to destroy
all infected leaves and shucks af
ter they fall to the ground. This
can be accomplished by plowing
them under during the winter or
by raking and burning them.
Spraying with a Bordeaux mix
ture of three pounds of copper
sulphate, four pounds of hydrated
lime, and 50 gallons of water has
proved to be the most satisfactory
spray material for the control of
pecan scrab, -*Dr. - ShaV stated.
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