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MUNI
stage play. "The Story of Louis the
theater,
honky - tonking
Pasteur" is his favorite picture around. I didn't mind then—I
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and in the midst of talking about was young, energetic, and
I
his "bests" he said that "Seven didn't know the difference. But
cans" brought him his first recog- Faces" is about his worst pie- too often it was a feverish and
nition in the New York Theater, ture and he doesn't mean maybe. unhappy existence, and now . .
although he had played for sev- For his role on the moving pie- when I should be full of fight,
eral seasons with the Theater ture "Louis Pasteur" he was I'm pretty well ready to retire.
Guild and other art theaters.
given the Academy Award for I'm not threatening the world,
f
in the mind you, because I know darned
His present ambition is to be the fines t performance
allowed to continue his career year 1936.
well the world can get along
along the lines he has laid out
Besides his primary interest in without me. But my wife and I
for himself. "I don't want to give the theater, music is his great-, have given each other our word
the impression," says Mr. Muni, est interest. , Ile has studied it that we're just going to live for
"that I regard acting as some- since he was four years old and a while—idle, travel, read a
thing which is so sacred that he just loves it. He is an ex- book occasionally, be at peace.
you have to put it on a kind of ceedingly fine violinist and could I want to sit back in an old rock-
pinnacle. • That kind of talk undoubtedly make a success on ing chair on a boat, observe and
makes me squirm. Acting is a the concert stage should he ever not be observed, wake up in the
job like any other. But you give up acting—which he em- morning with a blissful grin at
can't analyze it too much., The phatically will not . . . even the thought that there aren't
last thing I want to think about though he just recently had quite any manuscripts to read, any
is how I, achieve an effect." a disagreement with Warner business to negotiate, any hag-
Brothers and resigned from their gling around to do. I want to go
"You
know how to roller staff.
He favors particularly and go till I'm tired of going.
skate, don't you? Mr. Muni the music of Beethoven and Bach. Then? Well—then if some role
"Well if someone asks For light modern music he ap-
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you how you do it, what is your proves of the music of Jerome
answer . . . you don't know. Kern and Irving Berlin. He loves
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You just do it. You've learned music. He would like to manage
how. You can become more prize fights.
adept through practice. But if
Paul's motion pictures keep
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you try to think what you are
doing while you are actually him in Hollywood most of the
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rolling along in the park, if you time and he has to live there,
look down at the wheels and at- but he prefers to live in New
York. He has been in Holly-
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tempt to puzzle out what's
go- wood so long that he says he is
ing on, you fall down.
Well "getting used to Hollywood" and
that s a little how I feel. I'll buys his clothes in New York,
try to answer any questions if
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I can, but I won't guarantee saying that his tailor knows ex-
that I won't fall down, or change actly what he wants. Dresses in
my opinions later. There's no good taste but wears slacks and
last word, you know, about this old clothes around his farm out-
business. So shoot away and side of Hollywood.
Mr. Muni is one actor who
get your information for your
states openly that he dislikes ap-
interview."
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Paul Muni's characterizations plause, "because no actor should
invariably
give the impression come out of his role to take
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of thoughtfulness and they are bows." He doesn't like inter-
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so securely based on training ruptions during the making of a
and long experience that the picture or the rehearsal of a
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technique is virtually taken for play. As a make-up artist there
is none better, as no doubt you
granted.
can tell in his pictures. When
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Even though Paul was a great given a role he will spend sev-
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success in his recent appearance eral weeks before a mirror with
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in "Key Largo," on Broadway his grease paint and crepe hair
a short time ago, he regards until he "looks" the role. Once
"Counsellor at Lam' , " his facorite he shaved off some of his hair
so a wig would fit and waited
no end for it to grow back
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again. His beard was real for
his role in "Louis Pasteur" and
also for his characterization of
Emile Zola.
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Paul has no pet extravagances
worth mentioning. He drives a
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modest car and lives simply. He
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declares that he wants to live
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well—very well, indeed — but
that he does not need to be
rich in order to do so. To keep
fit he takes long walks and in-
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dulges in general exercises. As
he told us before, he is inter-
ested in prize fights and likes
to box whenever he can. Rides
horseback in the hills and quiet
places and enjoys baseball games,
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soccor and football, but fights
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seem of greater interest. Pa -ul
seldom goes to parties, prefer-
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ring to gather with a small
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group of intimate friends.
Talking about the picture
"Louis Pasteur" Paul admits that
really was a picture. He needed
no urging to make it. He had,
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in fact, to do some considerable
urging, himself, to have it made.
"It's not box office," he and
others advocates were told. Even
when it had been made and
shown to them in all its glory,
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salesmen grumbled: "No sex—
no romance — no gangsters:.
How're we going to sell it?"
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"Don't sell it," counselled one,
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alone—it'll sell itself—" a proph-
ecy magnificently fulfilled as no
doubt you all know. It moved
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peope as no other picture has
moved them — brought letters
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from a public new to the art of
fan-letter writing—from medical
students—fired to a new, ideal-
istic ardor for their work . . .
and it was Paul Muni whose
accomplishment this was.
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"I took my kid to your pic-
ture last night, Mr. Muni," an
electrician told him. "When it
was over she sat there, her eyes
shining, then she put her hand
on my arm and begged: "Daddy,
will you buy me a microscope?"
"That kind of thing makes
you really happy," said Paul.
One thing he told us whicb
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dismayed us very much and
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which we found hard to recon-
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the very near future I'm going
to quit. I spent the better part
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should be' kind enough to drop
into my lap, and I could see it
would make me sick not to do
it, I'd do it. Otherwise—noth-
ing."
No one is indispensable. It is
a commonly used and readily ac-
cepted statement. We have ac-
cepted and parroted that too
many times. But somehow we
can not help wishing he'll go on
with the great work which has
served to inspire and spread so
much happiness.
We are bound not only to use
worthily our great inheritance,
but to preserve and, if possible,
augment it; and then transmit
it to coming generations. The
fruit of three thousand years of
civilization and a hundred gen-
erations of suffering may not
be sacrificed by us. It will be -
sacrificed if dissipated.—Justice
Louis D. Brandeis.
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