The Public - Miscellaneous

excerpt from "All Is Told to 300 by Leslie Howard" regarding autograph hunters:

"They belong to the movies, and the typical movie fan is a sort of freak. Autograph hunting is bad manners, apart from everything else." from The New York Times, 6 April 1935

excerpt from "Leslie Howard Gives Views on Actors and Other Things:"

"He [the actor] should be able to wear such a complete make-up on the stage that he will never be recognized off it...Actors ought not to be human beings; they should be part of the roles they play, and the audience should not be aware of them as personalities apart from those roles. It destroys that important element in the theater—illusion...Actors are human beings but their audiences should not be permitted to know it." from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 5 June 1932

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