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can imagine, no bit part ever received more care and attention than that part of a few minutes.”
Pawley wandered through Chinatown, observing and listening to the various dialects until he could imitate the rhythm perfectly. He got the part, took the next train to Norfolk, and' was on his way to becoming a working actor.
Pawley’s approach to his new career was marked by hard work and study. “I’d take a subway out to the Palisades,” he said. “I’d have two peaches that I’d bought for one cent. I’d eat the peaches—that would be my lunch—and then I’d put the pits under by tongue and talk around them to improve my elocution.”
Pawley’s next performance was in The Bat—one of the most successful mystery plays of the day. In 1923 he won a part that gave him his start as a villain—one of many that the steely-eyed, dark actor would play in his day. He was the sinister seducer in The Shame Woman.
Pawley also tried his hand at radio performing, a medium still in its infancy in the 1920s. He was
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