LIFE BEGINS AT FORTY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1939, Page 4

LIFE BEGINS AT FORTY

WITH MANY HOLLYWOOD STARS. This is a story for those of you who have reached forty without making any great success of your lives and who are almost ready to give up the | struggle. Life didn’t really begin until forty or more for many of Hollywood's most famous personalities, so don’t give up hope. If you’re under forty you still have a lifetime ahead of you, and ii you're over forty there’s still time for you to carve a successful career. Just look at these famous names and take heart. All their owners are forty and over, and they are just enjoying their greatest successes. Life and a career are still with them and ahead of them —Wallace Beery, Beulah Bondi. Warner Baxter, Fay Bainter, Alice Brady, W. C. Fields, Charles Chaplin, Adolphe Menjou, Frank Lloyd. Cecil B. De Mille, Lionel and John Barrymore, William Powell, Paul Muni, Billie Burke. Edward Ellis. Henry Davenport, Frank Morgan. Edward Arnold and dozens of others, among them the biggest names and stars in the motion picture industry. Hollywood is not exclusively for youth, in spite.of all the youth propaganda that emanates from studio publicity departments—and the motion picture success race is not always to the swift. One of the best examples of this is Charles Chaplin, who. at 49, is about to make his first talking picture—and the whole world is anxiously waiting to see and hear him. Actually, Charlie is starting a new career when most, others would think of retiring to the armchair, and many keen critics think that he is about to reach his greatest triumphs because the world today is in sore need of laughs. Charlie, by the way, intends to lampoon both. Hitler and Mussolini in his first talkie, “The Dictators.” Just look at tough old Wallace Beery, who now is riding high on the wave ol Hollywood success. At fifty he is ; bigger star than ever before, and this year will be his thirty-fifth in show business! Three times Beery has been finished in pictures, according to critics, but each time he has come back to confound • And lovaole Lewis Stone! At sixty he is giving us the full benefit of his vast stage and screen experience in delightful down-to-earth portrayals as Judge Hardy in the Hardy Family series. Lewis was on his way out when this Hardy chance came. Age didn’t stop him from grabbing the opportunity with both fists.