He took advantage of a biplane flight to make friends with the aeronaut, and by the time the picture was done, he was as good a driver as the expert.
No matter where he is, or what the job, he finds something of interest because he goes upon the theory that every minute is meant to be lived.
Maroon him at a cross-roads, with five hours until train time, and he'd have the operator's first name in ten minutes and be learning the Morse alphabet, after which he would rush up to his new friend's house to see the babies or to pass judgment on a Holstein calf or a Black Minorca brood.
It is the tremendously human quality, more than anything else, that gets him across.

People like him because he likes them.

He attracts interest because he takes interest.

Talk with any of the big men in the motion-picture industry, that is, those with brains and education, and they will tell you that personality counts more in pictures than it does on the stage.
H.B.Aitken, president of the Triangle Film Corporation, said to me: "The screen is intimate.

The camera brings the actor right into your lap.