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IS VIS' YW i 1 nJl pJ i 1 I -J HI Jh 3 3 IS 8 4T iaiw in 1 am. A 1 i-l' i nsi i ii rn nil rh zoo rvs Ilf lj vzy vjj v4j vo in emembenng Blue Ribbon d1 Months Old, Janet Shaw Won erse Learne Walter Winchell I 1 as Finest Youngster in Her State; Now, at 19, As Little Child She Has Developed Into Important Film Player- It Comes Back to Writer on OBSERVATIONS: Tbe Broadway place that displays frankfurters (almost a foot long) with especially baked rolls, and exploits them "Halloweenies." The sign, "No Sparking," on the upper Riverside Drive lovers lane. Study In contrasts: The lovelies re From Home Town of Harold Lloyd and Robert Taylor. Autumn Visit to Mountain Cabin. By Elsie Robinson sponding to a showgirl call in the Majestic EACH year, before the snow falls, we come back to the mountain ranch to put things in order.

ic By H. H. Niemeyer A Staff Correspondent of tho Post-Dispatch HOLLYWOOD, Oct 29. A MODEST, demure little girl with honey-colored hair and brown eyes sits quietly by on a movie set and on her slim shoulders rests the heavy responsibility of carrying on the cinema traditions of that more or less thriving metropolis of Beatrice, Neb. It's quite a job, for, in case you Theater alley, and the dozens of worn-looking women answering a call for char-women at the Lincoln Hotel next door.

The hilarious men at the bar In 247 Park avenue, so gay and boisterous the management asked them to pipe down. They were morticians in convention. The store at 5p Chambers street with the letters "Social Club" on its windows which display nothing but a large shell and bomb. The American Airlines window on West Forty-ninth street which features a sign reading: "What's your hurry?" The happiest woman in the Versailles every night. She We work hard pruning, digging, burning brush.

Once again we un- roll the old red rug that Is faded and ragged but still warm. I air the thick wool blankets patch tha torn places. Get out woolen socks. The men stack piles of fuel be WALTER WINCHELL. side the cabin door oak logs, pin splinters, knobbed with gum, gnarled knots of tough, red manzan-pia root, baskets of pine cones.

We gather the pumpkins big, golden fellows and the green bronze Hub bard squash. It Is a good time. Yet all the while something seems wrong. Something seems missing. We catch, ourselves waiting watching feel-t ling some strange lack.

It is so quiet. The quietness la more than a mere lack of sound There is a deeper stilling in it as though something far down In the very heart of the earth were slowing some secret, central pulse from which all living comes. All sua- mer, unconsciously, one felt that steady throb beneath the shining swish and sway. Now It grows fainter slackens almost seems ttt stop. vf rf- h-j IM don't know it, Beatrice's previous gifts to the fans have been Harold Lloyd and Spangler Arlington Brugh a young man known, in some quarters pretty well, we are informed, as Robert Taylor.

o-o A PALE LIGHT settles over ev erything a silvery light that somehow seems a part of tbe wide silence. It spreads like a wet web, across the dark and resting earth-across the great rocks with their pelts of moss. It clings and glimmers on the massed dark trees. The poplars burn like candles in that pale, still light. The birds drift through it on soft, noiseless wings.

A leaf breaks loose floats slowly to So, standing up for dear old Be JANET SHAW TURNS A SMILING FACE TO THE yCL i WORLD. atrice is something of a task for the newcomer, Janet Shaw, who, back in Beatrice, was none other than Ellen Clancy. So Ellen and the ground. As quietly, we humans move about our work good work yet what is missing? Why do we feel so lonely, almost Spangler Arlington both started the same way they changed their names when they hit Hollywood. Harold Lloyd was always Harold Lloyd.

Just to keep the record straight, Lloyd came to the films from the nearby town of Burchard, but he worked, as a popcorn boy, in Beatrice, which seems to satisfy the latter town. Anyway, Beatrice claims him. terrified? Why are these days so different from all other days? Like days lived in some lost, forgotten world? "TORCHY BLANE yr CHINATOWN." yK' Gradually we know. We are miss Right at the moment the respon won $2187 in the sweeps. She's the attendant in the powder room there.

The "modest" billing for Yehudi Menuhin on the Carnegie Hall posters: "Prodigy of Yesterday Genius of Today." SA1XIES IN OUR ALLEY: A couple of youthful lawyers were telling Felix Frankfurter, the President's friend, of LaGuardia's brilliant wit. They quoted some of it. "He must be a wonderful man," observed Felix, "his friends create the most Interesting fables about him." At Club 18, the other night, Groucho Marx and Ben Bernie were the targets for Jack White and his clowns. Groucho was persuaded to get up and be comical, but his quips didn't land. Ths poor Marx Brothers," heckled Pat Harrington, "over in Italy they can't laugh at them and over here they won't!" MIDTOWN VIGNETTE: His name is Malcolm McLaughlin, a cashier In the Stork Club kitchen.

The owner of the place has repeatedly offered to elevate him to cashier at the bar upstairs, where his salary would be bigger, and where he could see the dandies and their ladies he's read so much about. But the chap has spurned the offers because he is studying the Stanislavsky system of acting and hopes one day to become an actor. He doesn't want people to remember his cafe job when he becomes a star. 0 'SOUNDS IN THE NIGHT: In the Stork: "I've never liked you since the night I saw you with him, and I've never liked him since the night I saw him with you." In the Int'l Casino: "Your eyes are very attractive do they take much time?" At the Midnight Sun: "He's as sincere as a cigarette girl's smile." At the Swing Club: "Boy, can she drink! She gets higher than a check at El Morocco." In Leon and Eddie's: "Oh, of course, I love you but I gotta get some sleep!" In the Havana-Madrid: "The closest she ever came to being a newspaper woman was wearing a tweed skirt." In the Glass Hat: "Is she going with anyone?" "Yeah, anyone!" At the Casa Ma nana: "If his mind gets any narrower he'll be able to shave with it." At La Gonga: "He's so phoney they're putting his picture cn counterfeit money." At the Astor Bar: "That couldn't be his wife. He hasn't missed a dance with her." NEW YORCHIDS: Mildred Bailey's version of "In My Reverie." The forthcoming film, "The Citadel." Mark Warnow's swing-lingers at the Paramount.

"Dark Rapture" at the Globe. The Washington songstress, Virginia Boyd, who debuts with the Dick Kuhn crew at the Astor tonight. Jimmy Lunceford's rhythms at the Kit-Kat. Gloria Day's enchantresslng at the Paradise, the best of the soft-shoeing In town. N.

B. thrilling Navy day blU via "Magic Key" last Sunday most exciting two-way transmission yet. 9) NEW YORK NOVELETTE: Names would be embarrassing, and so this is a tale of a Him and a Her. He's a dramatic critic and his opinions have stopped more plays than the Yankees' infield. He had only just met her, but he was completely and painfully smitten.

He hadn't the time to find out much about her except that she was lovely and apparently well-off, and he was content to have her dine with him once or twice a week. The affair was progressing beautifully until the other day. She has suddenly refused to answer his phone calls or see him no explanation whatever. He can't understand it, but he certainly will when he sees this here. He panned a recent new play so hard, it probably will close this week or next.

But so did the others, only his review said "it made no sense." That was like calling her a sap, because her faith in it is unbounded, which is why she backed it for a goodly amount. He had no idea, of course, that she was connected with it or even in the show backing business. And so his roast was just the same as giving himself a bad notice. FACES ABOUT TOWN: Rubinoff, back from too long a stay in the Midwest hospitals, looking as fit as his fiddle. Banker Baruch buvins- 2nn tiir.

"Tiaiwaninnin" fnr Nov. 11. Kit Carlisle, the ing the city. We are missing the cities closeness and confusion. We do not like the city.

We say that we are glad to be away from it and we mean it. Yet we miss sibility of being the first daughter of Beatrice to win fame on the screens seems to be an easy burden for Janet. She is more concerned over whether she and Jack Lucas are successfully concealing o-o WE MISS IT because it gave us opened In New York or anywhere else. The test was a success and the same casting director who had told her to lose 14 pounds before she could arouse interest as screen material, enthusiastically signed her to what is laughingly known as a long-term contract. That was little more than a year ago and since then, starting with "It's Love I'm After," she has made more than a dozen pictures.

Outstanding among them are "Alcatraz Island," "Jezebel," "Going Places," "Gold Diggers in Paris," and the recently completed "The Sisters." How did she leave the 14 pounds behind? "I never diet," Janet explains, "but I do make reason govern my eating. That and plenty of horseback riding, badminton and dancing did the trick." Now she can sit down to her favorite meal of rare steak, spinach, spoon bread and strawberry shortcake with nary a worry about the consequences. the fact that they are holding a false sense of power and purpose. We did not have to be individuals hands as they sit side by side in the set chairs. in the city.

We did not have to Jack Is script clerk on "Torchy depend on ourselves. We were part of the crowd. We went with and Blane in Chinatown," in which Janet is playing the second romantic lead at the Warner studios. This job Is his first step in learn leaned on the crowd. We shared the crowd's feelings of power and purpose.

Unconsciously, we let the crowd live for us think for us. ing the motion picture business. It also makes it possible for him and Janet to study a few lessons But now, here in this quiet place this immense, simple, honest in love. He is the son of Mrs. Michael Curtiz (Bess Meredith) by her former marriage to Actor Wil place we have to live by ourselves, think for ourselves, be ourselves.

We have to make our own power and purpose and It is too much for us. fred Lucas. We feel shown up, small, weak. ANET would rather talk about her ancestors than unimportant. We wish we could run away.

But we cannot run away. And, presently, somethine else begins to happen. We forget ourselves and our little itchings and rebellions. Presently the noise and the fret and the rest lessness go out of us. Slowly we grow still inside.

Then, slowlv. things come back to us. Thinrs "I merely want to be one of the best actresses in the business," she says, "but they have done big things Heading the list in her opinion, of course, is Aunt Olive, May. Then there is Louisa M. Alcott, who wrote "Little Women," Noah Webster, who also wrote a book and John Aid en, who spoke up for Miles Standish, all prominent on her family tree.

Janet is a member of the Children of the American Revolution and is eligible for membership in the D. A. R. A CLOSE-UP OF MISS SHAW. we had forgotten.

Gentle things- powerful things and beauty. o-o WE STOP hurryine and worrv- ing. We remember how good it is to work together. How good it is to have a warm, red rug and wool Scraggs" In "The Sunbonnet Girls." Favorite of her relatives is her She is proud, too, of her parents en socks and piles of fuel and Aunt Olive May, who was a star at When asked if they are living she heartening, healthy food. We are the age of 18.

She played a com replies, "Yes and together, too, happy and grateful. Her father's people lived in Beatrice for more than 40 years. We sit in the cabin working while the rain thunders outside. fcVF A Janet sketches and paints, writes and is keenly interested in costume thrush, hypnotizing a Forty-ninth street We sit in the quiet room sewing, mending harness, oiling boots while tne children play on the floor and design. A hobby is the making of tiny figures and dressing them, and the collecting of dolls about an we are happy and grateful.

And 1 remember a verse I inch high. Her good luck charm learned long ago, as a little child. is a Chinese God of Love ring. mand performance of "Arizona" for the King of England and was summoned to his box afterward. Olive May, incidentally, was a St.

Louis girl. With Miss May as inspiration, Janet doggedly stuck to her ambition become an actress. She studied dancing for eight years and for additional years she studied the drama with Josephine Dillon, one of Clark Gable's former wives. "It is due greatly to her interest, teaching and encouragement that I was able to carry out my ambitions," Janet says. "My mother, father and grandmother also gave Jack hastily picks up his script and hurries away, and Janet, with a twinkle in her snapping brown eyes, indignantly denies that ro- mance is flaming.

"We are just good friends," she says, "and "And will always be good friends," It was finished for her. "Uh, huh," Janet agreed brightly. She pointed to the set chair. "Sit down and I'll hold your hand just to prove people can hold hands without being in love." "We uh got to keep our mind on our work," we replied reluctantly. She didn't think to suggest that we sit on her right so she could hold our left hand and we could still make notes.

After all, even a. gracious and lovely actress can't be expected to think of everything especially a new actress. IT took a period of three years, 15 visits to the casting director and a reduction of 14 pounds in weight to win a movie contract for Janet. Excluding, of course, the years that elapsed following her decision back in Beatrice to become an actress. Janet was born In Omaha on Jan.

23, 1919. Her father, Philip Windsor Clancy, was with the army in France and did not see her until she was 6 months old. News of her arrival was celebrated in Paris with a bottle of champagne which was delivered with the cablegram by a friend who apparently read it first. The next celebration took place when Janet, at the age of 18 months, won first prize as the finest baby In all Nebraska. She still has and cherishes the blue ribbon given to her then.

It was not, however, until she was 3 years old that she definitely decided to become a great actress. And her school days seemed filled with omen and portent of the future that was to be hers. She attended grammar schools in Beatrice and Lincoln and then, out here in California, at Santa Monica, and high school in South Pasadena and Beverly Hills, graduating from the latter school. As rewards for various scholastic achievements dui iorgot in tne city noise. Be stiTl and know that I traffic cop with her perfectly straight stocking seams Katharine Hepburn, the attractive icicle, in the Waldorf foyer, chinning with Sam Goldwyn, whose mis-takements are quoted Internationally.

Helen Wills Moody, all smiles, in the dimly-lit La Conga, as her partner breathes heavily on her cheeks. Cary Grant, boarding the S. S. Conte de Savoia but due back in a few weeks to become Garbo's next leading man. Greta, by the way, will be seen am God!" Is this God this srentle.

She hates oatmeal, is extravagant in buying perfume but not in using it goes in for archery, tennis and badminton as her favorite sports. Her only beauty secrets concern the careful removal of all firelit room this friendliness I feel 1 I I i A 1 for those who work with me this soft, still thankfulness that fills my heart? Is this God? Why makeup every night, a conscientious nightly brushing of her hair and I suppose it Is! the use of good cosmetics, as "a man" In it for half the film. She hasn't saved any money, so far, but expects to. And it is ap Quentin Reynolds of Collier's, whose very first instruction to a night club waiter Is: "Remove the rest of these chairs!" It parent that anything she expects to do she does. She is one of the MRS.

MOODY. AS MISS SHAW APPEARED IN THE FILM "JEZEBEL younger players the Warners ex THERE are more copies sold of Emily Post's Etiquttu than all other keeps 'bores from joining the table. And saves money, too, pect to be the stars of tomorrow. Henry Talbot de Vere Clifton and Mrs. Clifton, of England, tenants at standard etiquette books the Plaza.

He Isn't such a sucker for card sharps. He didn't and won't I little Girl" Blouses Pay the 150 Gs he "lost" in Hollywood. me every encouragement and spared nothing to give me a good foundation for a career. You see, I met with no opposition at home." She joined the Pasadena Community Players and also worked with the Beverly Hills Little Theater group. For more than three years she paid periodic visits to casting directors, making a total of 15 calls in all, without a ripple of interest.

Then she appeared in "New York Success" at the Gateway Little Theater and the studios came to her: So did Al Woods, the New York producer, who saw her work and offered her a part in a new Broadway play. Janet rejecte'd this offer In favor of a Warner talent scout, who invited her to the studio for a test. It is just as well that she did, for the play never A "little girl" blouse that has smocking at the high neckline and the wrists is an example of the extreme trend in clothes for the coming season. One of these BROADWAY CONFUCIUS SPEAKS: Fellow who gives good hints should be glad to take. Angel with wings not so hot as angel with arm 8.

AH lovers in triangle seldom on the square. Girl with blouses is made of a very soft cash on many programs given by the students. She also wrote the book, designed the costumes for a play which she directed and acted in for a school assembly. She wrote a skit on Shakespearean women which a USC sorority presented on one of the annual Hi-Jinks, and innumberable stories and poems. One of the poems was sent to Herbert Hoover when he was President and she cherishes his letter of acknowledgement.

In school theatricals she played the part of "Marie" In "Nutcracker Suite" and of "Mrs. during her grade school days, teachers used to send her from room to room telling stories to the other pupils. "But I wasn't a teacher's pet," she says flatly. When she was in the sixth grade of the McKinley' school in Santa Monica she was elected president of the studen'. body.

From the seventh to the ninth grades she was in the opportunity room, a class for children above the average in Lincoln Junior High at Santa Monica. While in this room she danced future should beware of man with past. Two can live as cheap mere wool In a natural beige shade and looks best with a full skirt. on but cannot sit In orchestra. Famous people should it is nice to be famous but nicer to be famous for being nice.

Lots actors think they stop show, when they only stop Beautiful but dumb chorus girl always smarter than wise 77 twgea.uiuitriiea. Cloth 4.oo. teih. 17.50. (By mail, 18f tt) Another that is intended for wear with a town suit is made of white satin.

Jersey, crepe and transparent velvet are other fabrics that FUNK 6 TACNALLS Cfmt i4 erti Arm; Hnr Ytri prove satisfactory for this type of Diouse. WOMEN'S Sunday MAGAZINE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH OCTOBER 30, 1938. page.