Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Times
Thursday, March 9, 1961, page 74 (of 84)
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I Ask Myself Continued
With Gertrude Berg in the hit, "A Majority of One," now on tour. I Ask Myself Continued Your eeriest experience? It happened in Boston, where I was directing Gertrude Lawrence in "Pygmalion" in a theater that stood next door to a movie house. One night, I opened the wrong stage door by mistake and stood petrified listening to myself deliver a long lecture—as Arnold of Rugby in the R.K.O. version of "Tom Brown's Schooldays." What was the greatest shock you ever endured? Seeing myself for the first time in the movies. How many movies have you made? Too many. What about Hollywood? I believe that God felt sorry for actors so He created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent. Has the theater as much scope as the movies? No multimillion-dollar production can show you more than Shakespeare. Are you bored by a long run? When I started, there was no other way of earning a living in the theater. An amateur acts for his own enjoyment, a professional for the enjoyment of his audience. What is the theater's greatest contemporary rival? The drugstore, where you may get any mood or emotion in a pill. What makes a good actor? The ability to tell the audience more about the part he plays than another actor can. Similarly, if six artists paint a horse, the best of them is not the one who most realistically portrays the animal, but the man who on his canvas tells you something about horses that no other artist has told you. Do you get the characters you play from life? No; from imagination. A performance should be a portrait painting in depth rather than a photograph. How do you choose a part? I read the contract first. How many plays have you appeared in? Too few. Have you enjoyed writing your memoirs? Shaw must have the last word, since it provides the best answer. He liked to tell about a man whose ability to utter streams of curses used to hold all listeners spell-bound. The day came when this monumental blasphemer was compelled to move from his house. On the steep hill outside his former home, the tailgate of the moving van gave way, and everything he owned in the world went crashing down the street in rack and ruin. The neighbors gathered in tense expectation of what would be a star performance. But our hero only shook his head. "I cannot do justice to this occasion," he sighed forlornly. Suburbia Today, March 1961