The Heart Of Hollywood
Really Touched At Last
Unaffected Grief and Anxiety Slim Movieland W lien New a
of Critical llli.. - of (irand Old Man of Mov
ie* Keaclies Film Outer
ISy KOKHKST WlilTK
( Copyrifht, l$J4. By fhi Advance)
Los Angeles, Feb. 2D. ? A bold real estate subdivider recent
ly advertised the discovery of the heart of Hollywood. Fortu
nately for him his claim w.u, physical and geographical.
The tlollywood of tb.L' movies
the shaiowland of make-believe,
the p!a:e of quick changes and
u'wd <.?! >ii i j a>ls. lias lin.il its
orful life oil the surface. Of its
men a. id women who have ha J
their adventures, their loves
and t.ieir tragedies, they were
as at coi-s playing their parts.
The} held the stage for a white,
and then they passed, and their
finai fade-out was simply the
end of the play. Lights, and
th< y were forgotten.
Vh ere Is one actor ? the only on**
of them all ? whos?- fait* has stirred
Hcllywood below the surface ? -who
ha * found the heart of Hollywood.1
He is Theodore Roberts, reported as[
wmlim a probably losing fight with
death In Pittsburgh, where lie was
stricken on a tour undertaken to
prove his faith, his loyalty and hhrj
usefulness to the world of the mov- j
let.
It Is but the triteness of truth to'
cull Theodore Roberts the "grand
old man of the movies." He played ,
the part, to the life. It is doubtful
If then* ever was en actor of the si-1
lei.t drama so well loved on and off
the screcn. He worked his way pa
tiently and even doggedly to a high
plt.ee as an actor for the movies, ami
as a screen figure he is probably bet- |
tei h iown and loved than any actor i
wl o ever posed before a Krlndini;'
caauru. And for all that, he was!
never a star.
If Theodore Roberta passes, .there 1
will be real grief In Hollywood, The
motion picture colony will be stirred
to new depths, fts Jieart will really
lu.ve been touched. For lie is more
than a mere fluure in shadowlani.
H * has been a real friend, kind and
tlMe, to all who have had contact
with him In his full year's in motion
picture production, and lie is the one I
flg iro who can be said to have been I
absolutely free of the Jealousy an 1 i
fahe pride so characteristic of the |
pro Tesslon.
Theodore Roberts was an actor? ? j
a trouper ? long before he came Into
the movies, and that means much in |
movie land. The troupers, who have
battl 'd their way up through advers- 1
lty aid hard knocks common to the
lot of actors who devote their lives
to the profession in a spirit hard to
understand, have not only made the
greatest success in the new art. but
are uniformly distinguished from
their fallows by their friendly spirit
of aid, their tolerance and their
charity.
Win n Theodore RobortH came to i? '
the? movies. his sphere of usefulness [?
seemed sadly limited. Old men ng
parts, at the time, were scarcely
more than "bits," and to feature an IM
actor in such parts wan beyond the ^
wildest thought of any producer or J=
director. He was a utility man in IS
the studio and nothing more. Pro Jg
duct ion In those days was more of a. p
haphazard affair than it 1h tod?y, j IS
and actors In make-up were e'.tt-n [?
held Idle on the "lota" for days r=
while waiting a call. 1 1!
Roberta, witty, good natr.ed and j Qj
always Interested, made a peculiar t
place for himself at the studio. Ho I!
was the official referee of checker j [1
games. He was the thl* d man at t he | r=
table where the mo.it Interesting .
game was in progress and the incas- Q
ure of his Interest vas the unllght r
ed and vigorously rnewd cigar stub js
he held In his nu uth. I [J
One day, so tl f story goes, Rob- r
erts suddenly culed from his chair J;
at a checker g*<ne to his part on th" fl
set, forgot to discard the cigar stub T
in his mouth, and In thought of the =
game he hf d left, rolled It In his (j
mouth whPr* taking part In a scene. [
Discovering his oversight, he tossed ?
the offending stub away with true I
vigor In tne course of action before '
the campi a, with visions of a repri
mand ano a re-take of the scene on
the following day, but the director,
viewing t le "rushes," found that his
"old nan" had registered In a now
way, !? rid thereafter Theodore Rob
erts did riost of hi* acting before
the screen with a cigar In action.
Roberts ^as a friend, and a gool
foil for Wallace Reld. and hfid Reld .
heeded his advteo, kindly and unof
fenslve. the pair would have gone on
to greater success on the screen, for
they were cast together In most of
Reld'n pictures.
All told. Roberts has probably
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appeared in more feature screen
plays than any actor who ever faced
.the camera, and really mud*- a part
!?>r lums? It. In the las! h w i n ? tl II -
Hons lie has been a featured actor,
and it was in the cards that h??
should be a star, particularly after
his wonderful characterization of
"Moses" in the production of a Bib
lical prologue to a play.
Hut the slump came to the movies.,
Roberts was a r?yularly salaried :
man? a high-salaried man. Such ac-'
tors were requested to aid the com-]
pany by utilizing their earning pow- j
er wljerever they could. Roberts did !
not hesitate. He went into vaude
ville and left Hollywood for a tour, j
He has not come hack, and the heart'
of Hollywood Is really reached, and ?
Its hopes are all for the recovery of j
the actor who ha* a million friends'
? and not an enemy.
MKIU 'HANTS HKAIt I 'A I'LL
(Continued From Page One)
thread that runs through all com
merce, that is distribution.
It is doing this from the far end ;
of distribution, at the retail counter:
where we find a finished l>roduct, aj
finished price, and a flushed service,'
the point of contact with the entire j
public with the scheme of commerce,;
and working back, step by step, un
til the manufacturer's process is
reached; then through the process
of conservation back to the original,
raw material, showing each o f the
steps in the movement of present j
day commodities."
Showing the great interest dls-!
piiiyed by the industries in the new
Division the Chief said that the dl-.
vison has brought together retailers,
wholesalers, and manufacturers and
many fundamental principles under
lying the whole pri/cess of distribu
tion have been agreed upon.
"At the present time," Mr. Puull 1
said, "industries representing 37 !
billion dollars worth of products are
accepting and have asked for service
from the Domestic Commerce Divl- .
slon. If the Division is successful
in affording them facilities for in- j
creasing the efficiency of distribution
by only one per cent, the purchasing
power of the people will have, bee'* I
i increased by more than three Kin
dred and seventy million dollp.s an
i nually."
The speaker then trrjed the de
[ velopment of American Industry
| from colonial day?; to the present
time. "In these days the cost of pro
duction was h^li," he said, "but
I there were problems of distribution.
1 As the country developed and was
settled and transportation systems
| began to spread over the continent.
I the manufacturer was compelled to
? turn all his attention to pru-duction.
leaving the problem of distribution
{ in the hands of manufacturer's
representatives., wholesalers and
retailers.
| At mis point the manufacture!
i lost connection with the consuming
' capacity of markets.
"His Job was to produce at the
' lowest possible unit of cost. Pre
sently be came to believe that the
lowest possible unit of cost was in
production. Having lost contact
wiili the consuming market, ho felt
that as long as the wholesaler
, would buy. that long must he buy
? raw materials and the wholesales
, would buy as long as the retailer
' might buy. *
i "Hut presently we as manufac
Wiihr tl) .LlllJ fait that nnr
j salesmen are not taking the nofmal
: volume of 'orders. Then we begin
' to appreciate the fact that we have
! built a dam" across our' channel of
distribution, so that our goods will
| not flow out; and certainly we are
not going to operate long if there
is no place to put our goods. The
'result is- that we lay otf help and
1 close down our plants, we take a
pause until the surplus can be ab
sorbed and that pause is longer than
It would be if we had a better pur
chasing capacity."
"It seems to us that the best ser
vice that we can render to com
merce will br* in assisting to meas
ure the current consuming capacity j
of markets, so that the manufac
turers may be budgeted to maintain!
a steady flow of material through j
the process of manufacture, which
impresses us as being more econom
ical than an interrupted operation ;
on the basis of volume. Our vol-!
ume always will be only as much as'
the market can consume.
"We canncrt budget our produc
tion until wo know more of the cur
rent consuming capacity of markets.
We must approach the proposition
from a different angle than that of
the salesman. A salesman is an
enthusiast, he Is out to sell, he is out
to urge purchases. We must know
something of the fundamentals of
market requirements and of commo
dity requirements. It means the ob
taining of the maximum information
aftout the consuming capacity of our!
own markets, and that In turn rr.~ j
lates to- foreign -markets. Wf can j
not hope to maintain a for^lgu .mar
ket as a dumping gro-^id for sur- 1
^ hen Time Is
I'recious
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plus, and until we can measure
the present consuming capacity off
against the current production we
art* not going to Know what wo have
in surplus with which to maintain
markets established abroad."
The speaker brought out the fact
that more than three-fifths of the
population lives east of the Missippi,
while about three fifth* of our agri
cultural production occurs west of
that river. Knowledge of this fact,
lit? said, could make us realize that
the dollar passed ever the retail'
trmde counter pays not only for the]
commodity itself but for a consld-'
?rable amount of transportation ser-'
vice.
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ELIZABETH CITY
1 am appealing l<> you to help make our town the hex! in Eastern Carolina. The
only ?vav that we ean <l<> this* is hy attracting more enterprises and a larger number of
resident*, hut several things must he done before that can become a reality. Anionic oth
er tilings, we must have more good roads, a ileeper harhor, an extended water front
and the Dismal Swamp Canal opened.
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The only agency of bringing in any industries and saving the ones we now have is
the Chamber of Commerce. If this organization had done nothing else except save to
the city mi enterprise doing a half million dollar business jht year, it would merit the
support of every man in the city. But at the same time it saved $25,000 to the fisher
men who spend this ?25,000 with the wholesale and retail merchants of this town. In
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I am appealing, therefore, to you as citizens of this city to join the Chamber oi
Commerce and help build the "fairer city" in all this land.
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