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ST. LOUIS STAR-TIMES THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, FIFTEEN ST.LOUIS STAR-TIMES 0t9PWlgi9P 'ttSJt UJU nim mmwmmwmmmwmwmmmmMwmmmmmmim Jimmle Fidlerfs Picture Gossip Hollywood News by Sutherland ir New Films Lombard Now fJazimova Fascinating in Opposes Leg pi 0C i at St. Louis Houses Display. St. ouis Beauty, a Failure at First, Making Good in Hollywood Chance Dinner Meeting With Cecil De Mille Gave Bobbie Stoffregen Try-Out 'Hedda Gabler HOLLYWOOD.

Jan. C8 CC. i They win beauty cente-sts because i rlete FTr.r:hr mith other tnem- BY KIFD IIYNPS. they lees, they get a break the movies beca-i rf them, but -vra Nazimovm had concluded oi CAt hl Soaun- hen the with the W.v ur- at-s the r'-y. ne er eerns to ba reach the top thev be- i top -Hedda at the American i These are amor.r the rea.ns hy ome rr.ocest.

Blor.d. statueseue Caro'e Theater last r.iht. in her bard, whose calves broucht her dressir.z room and considered trie fame nine years aro as a Mack Sen- problem of youthful dilettantes mho bar.i.'h Ibsen as "dated" i.rti Deauiy. ir.t latest i to foreco leg art. Mitchell Leen.

is accounted the morld's greatest interpreter of Ibsen. Her acting technique was attuned in the Moscow Art Theater rr.e ears c. Thete he studied act-ine under Nerr.lrtnitx-h-IVr.cherko, and te direct uidn Ftmf-lavskv. Oiw.inc Her IntrtK tr. ussms this, she said the considered Nerr.irovrtch-Dencher.ko the director of via seem -catea f-nr i.iirc.

Called Baclc After Intensive Dramatic Course, She Succeeded as Jayne Regan Rushed on Campus by Boys, but Shunned by Coeds, St. Louis Girl Had it; Low." learned that hpn rm "Was there cd-fa-'hioned The week's pictures, showing here fnr the first time tomorrow, will cover a lot of cinematic territory. Shakespeare's "As You Like It." with Elisabeth Bcrgner, will be coupled with prim American "Winter-set" at the Missouri. British history in the days of Nelson will be at the Fox in "Lloyds of London." With it will be George Arliss in "Man of Affairs." Music and romance in Vienna, with a Manhattan twist, will be in "Champagne Waltz" at the Ambassador, with Gladys Swarthout and Fred MacMurray. Joseph Calleia has gone heroic with Florence Rice in "Man of the People," coming to Loew's with a companion story, "A Dangerous Number." Stout and funny Johnny Perkins moves up to the St.

Louis to be master of ceremonies for himself and others. (whoe backless cotjs reveal the abo-t lt? l-e Pr! the low vertebrae refuvd to ra her laT one that ha. itirersal s- r.oor-ler.cth kirt. i r.ificar.re? Aren't there people like -T rc. a Georpe Tcsman and Judie Brack all Miss Lombard in'orrcd hirr -I mlv-itu irreaier wr io.

th ink scenically I can jret bv rTJ; CI though he as. naa per- out them from r.ow cn I kjiiuij, ixie cik.i ana -rr ii Carole is follwias in the font- r-ertrrmance continence. r.vr.ll Umous." aramma re- steos. SO to Cf G-et Garlv 4 v--- is a genius. Phvllis Haver.

Gloria Sansoa. j. ter.se that marked ner still mearing the somewhat rk- Bebe Darnels, Jean Harlow. Marlene revnal of Ibx-n's "Ghosts." The ivh red of her role and the movement cf the play may be sluggish, by contemporary standards. The psychological motivation may seem xacue.

rather than explicit. black princess gomn that gives her height on the stage. Naramov a a easer and amrr.ared mt she discussed the theater. Tlje intensity and BY PAZ VAN MATRE. HOLLYWOOD, Jan.

29. WHEN she went to Washington University she was just Bobbie Stof-frejron, daughter of II. P. Stof-frejren, awl a local beauty. She had titian hair wound around But.

mith Narimoa in the title role fleeting expressiveness of her large and director as mclL the play holds jray eyes made one wonder if they lis audience fascinated. Dietrich and others mho. after marching to fame on their frown on too liberal display of them now. Garbo. formerly one of Holly- wood's clonfied fashion models and who also posed in track outfits and bathing suits, hasn't exhibited a in years.

Dietrich sa.vs "no" to r.es photoerarhers. Claudette Colbert wont shv much more than her ankles hieh i are said to be sufficient. hi Eleanor Whitney ants to hide her dancing lep; under dramatic role costumes. Joan Crawford, the girl 1 with the "Charleston lees," is uell JlPFPn A iK LLaL. JiuM h-ML, mere not among her most valuable, dramatic assets.

"I told prop I mas thinking of another revival, that it mas to he either Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard' or 'Hedda Ghbler. she said, and they picked It ma a chove, the road hcw Ktandjioint, for it requires only 02 set and a cast of seven. Hedda. Nanmova admitted, is "a composite character too complex to be readily understood." Hedda is rot unlovely, the actress fsid. when it mas s-irceed that the character did not appeal to most actresses.

TerH Sorry for Chararter. "I am so sorry for Hedda." Naa-mova said. To me she is the sym "I.Joy ds of London." Pre-views, at the S'renco screening studio, of "Lloyds of London," disclose that publicity experts have not exaggerated the interest of this stirring piece of history to be seen at the Fox tomorrow. Included are Lord Kelson, Een Franklin, Dr. Johnson, a Prince of Wales and other celebrities.

The story be-gons in 1770. Pirates are abroad. Lloyds is formed to offer help in insurance. Tyrone Power is the hero and Madeleine Carroll one of the loveliest things the screen has shown in this day of pictured beauty. Added Is "Man of Affairs," with George Arliss in an amazing dual role, showing what camera science can do in a field that was once trying for actors.

bol of all the people in the mot Id Nazimova ma tired -cause of mho haven't the rourace 10 assert 1 the floctd. not because of the road her head in braids. Across her forehead and alon? her cheeks were those once -popular little spit-curls that have since vanished. has jrreen eyes and a soft, petulant, blurred sort of mouth. People used to speculate about her because she seemed to have everything in the world but frirl friends.

"Isn't there SOMETHING we've jrot that she hasn't got?" wept the wall-flowers as they Matched her dance by in the arms of all the best men on the campus. clothed these days, and Betty Compson. whose lees were her fortune in earlier days. Is coming back as a long-skirtAd character actress. Carole, by the way.

is studying tap dancing. It mas r.cws to Hollywood as well as picture fans. The blond, blue-eyed star has been taking lessons for weeks but has kept it a secret. She recently ment through a rehearsal of her tap themselves. She cares for besuir and pervmality.

but iee'is herself to be entirely insisnifieant. She Is the antithesis of thoe mho can say. "I this, and I'm going to get If This understanding of th role Js obvious as Nanmova plays it. Hedda. in this portrait, is not a young mife mho'e meddlesomeness leads to a tragic situation so much a she is a pathetic figure desperately trying to escape boredom.

She has nothing in herself to her life and attempts an escape through others. Nazimova mastery of every nuance of the role makes it so ital and absorbing that one doesn't no- The obvious answer was al for I always enjoy road tours." It as neretry Jor her and the others in the cast to take a crowded bus froen Cincinnati to Indianapolia. An engagement in Louisville mi canceled, as mell as a number of bookings in the fouth. Jiazimov amw-d in St. Louis late yesterday afu-moon.

Svmpathy fr Vi-tim. "My own discomfort is nothing she soiid. "I mi a Jem' men and women from Cincinnati arrive la Indianapolis. They did not know mhat to do mith themselves. Everything mas gone, I mill never arret that." Nazi mm a made the tragedy real, as she did Hedda' on the stage of the American.

Her production of "GhoMs." Men here last year, will be presented at matinee and evening performanfTes Saturday. ways, "Yes, girl friends." Writer of Hit Tunes Still in 'Teens Hut Bobbie, who has since become Jayne Began, contract player for Twentieth Century Although still in her teenr Ann Ronnell. top-notch American feminine song m-riter. mas given the im Fox. had a girl friend.

tice that practically nothing is hap- It was something J. never portant assignment of m-rhing "The i penii.g. Although no longer young. Merry-Go-Round an impor- her speech, movements and manner tant number danced by Veloz and never betray her as the youthful. Yolanda "Champagne Waltz." co- alluring Hrc'da.

She plavs'ln com- starring Gladys Swarthout. which begins tomorrow at the Ambassador Theater. To the quaint, catchy strains of Miss Ronnell's latent work. Amer- BOBBIE STOFFREGEN In St. Louis JAYNE REGAN In Hollywood Studio Ids ui ew youngsters always benefit by these before I went ahead.

That was In things. ITH courage and determina -T Cut girl I fell otr a horse and split my ira's premier ballroom dancing front tooth and have morn a cap twin executes the motions of a over it since. So. as there was noth- merry-go-round in one of the most ine more important to say about me fascinating and charming dances that than, they said it. Only it mas arranged for the screen.

Music enlarged into such a mad storv that authorities believe that "Die Merry-people have asked me if I have o-Round Waltz" mill oe one r.f false teeth which I haven't, of America's hit tunes before many course" i "eks are out. tion Jane ment to dramatic school for two years and Stages Its T. New IMayrrs at Younger players will contribute drama and gayety in Loew's double bill, beginning tomorrow, with "Man of the People" and "A Dangerous Number." The first is a study of civic corruption and the battle of an under-privileged youth to make hlo way. He not only climbs in education, but he receives the recognition of the governor in an effort to stamp out crookedness in high places. The young leader is Joseph Calleia, with pretty Florence Rice as his inspiration.

Three popular performers, Ann Sothern, Robert Young and Reginald Owen, are the stars in "A Dangerous Number," a comedy of errors in a contemporary setting, with amusing quarrels galore and a pleasant conclusion. Missouri's Double Bill. Two new productions, the famous drama of "Wintcrset," and the romantic Shakespearean story cf Rosalind and Orlando, in "As You Like It," will be the surprise bill at the Missouri tomorrow. Maxwell Anderson's stace success will feature Burge.ss Meredith, Margo, and Eduarrio Ciannelli, 01 the original play's cast and will even elaborate, by screen devices, the tenseness of the theater version, a story of slums, in which the plot combines venzeance and love. Meredith's mission, from boyhood, is to clear the name of his father, sent to death by injustice.

The genius of Elisabeth Bergner is used to make a new Rosaiind, with the Forest of Arden filled with clever men and women in the imperishable parts created by the bard. Student admission cards will make a special rate for students. In addition to the double feature will be sparkling shorts and the February issue of "The March of Time." The Saturday special program, for children, beginning at 10 o'clock, will show Bob Livingston in "Roaring Lead." axes wnicn be nothing new for "When we moved away from the south side to 625 Skinker. I went to Mary Institute and organized the Play Workers, a dramatic club. We gave plays and I spent weeks and months before each one planning the details." She laughed and asked, suddenly: "Are you sure anyone back in St.

Louis cares? I feel so ridiculous sitting here telling you these things." I assured her lots of people would be interested, so she went on: "Nothing much happened in my career until I went to Washington She is still in that delightful stage the young tiuan-liaired of her career when she wi.l answer f.m numh song mif.er. 1 .1 0 BY JIMMIE FID LEE. and decided something drastic must during that time took a few parts as leading lady in some western pictures made by Reliable. She decided she didn't want any more roles in western films and made up her mind not to do anything until she got a legitimate part in a good picture. Six months ago Twentieth Century-asked her to call and talk business.

The following day she was signed to a seven-year contract starting at $75 a week and going up to $750 at the end of seven years. Birthday Party." mas an ins tar. be done. They agreed that repaint talked about," she said when Ave lunched together, "because to other people it would have seemed silly and sort of theatrical, but when I was a child wc lived in South St. Louis and right next door lived Patricia Jennings.

"Wc were the best of friends. Every night she either spent the night with me or I spent the night with her. We told each other secrets and read eacli other's diaries. When she was thirteen, her mother died and on her death bed told Patty's father she was coining hack for her little girl. "Patty told me about it the next day and seemed scared.

I said people who were dying always said things like that And then, three days later, Patty was killed in an automobile accident." SHE looked at me out of green eyes and smiled a little wavering smile out of her brand new mouth designed by the makeup department to go with her new hair, new voice and new manner. She explained about the mouth. "You see. when you are put under contract the makeup department takes you and decides what is wrong and what is right about your face and oroceeds to fix it up. My mouth i.i ii uiwm-i.

ws i. taneous hit. as was "Willow Weep I wu. jan. is an angel, but after all.

jut a for ard -of nurfr -n rj FETTIX" Around tVamers: brother mho teases her about her was -'world-wide s'-udio going colos.yl in large This fash- work; that her father lias become nf n. With riies of surplus ca sh on hand, the company is building new reconciled to her career though he bv any rf ing cine car mould lve the problem, and that brought tip the question of mhich owner should repaint. It mas settled by Fonda sending his machine to the paint shop, berauwo eirigmally both ears m-ere green, and Pat. heme Irish, mas entitled to keep that color. ne in iiuii txm.

A nf Radehff College. University. In high school I had had only three dates with boys. I stages, rather than pay out excess taxes. One nc stage is the largest in Hollywood, ar.d now RKO milj have to build another to regain the honor.

So anxious mere company officials to uc it like a kid mith a didn't seem to care about it. I was never boy crazy. And girls were always hard for me to get along with She will tell you that she has sent where she mas engage jn many flowers which she has received since scholastic activities and edited the Patty Jennings death to her gTave. college paper. Miss Ronr.ell i now and that on March 17 each year, teaching musi at the University which is Patty's birthday, she sends of Southern California, the young-flowers and a letter to her home: est member cf the schools facultv.

because they seemed to resent me. new top t. that a replica of West "When I went to the university. not a single sorority bid me. I saw that she has a bad temper and a She got her start through George minster Abbey mas raised on the soft heart and that she likes to eat Gershwin, whom she interviewed foundation, ar.d the stage malls and "I'm simply thrilled," she said.

"Maybe when you're 23 years old you get more thrilled than you ought to but I'm terribly enthused. And do you know, I think I've learned so much about Hollywood that I believe I've lived through the crazy stage and can settle down to a career. "For instance, I've gotten over wearing false eyelashes on the street and talking "pictures" in a large way wherever I go. I now realize there are people in Hollywood who girls being rushed and pledged and you can imagine how I felt. At first peanuts in the middle of the night for her school paper.

She brought rooz bui.t around trie set. I was blue and cried about it and Alan Moirbrcy, doing some plain end fancy comedy sfvtf or "Marry the Girl." ctmfidrd t'tday that he thorovghly dis-hkes himself on the screen. I cluayt look like a between a tick harraevda end a toothless lion," he groaned. sympathize riilh him. While I hate never teen an ill barracuda, I see toothless lions vorking in jungle pictures then I decided to make every organization it ordinarily took sorority pull to make! and that the biggest thrill of her him "Baby's Birthday Party" and life was mhen she saw her name on he telephoned Vine Youmans that I the 1W of characters of "Banjo on there mas a r.ew ar.d sterling tal-My Knee." even though it was la.t pr.t in town whom he mould do on the list, and that she pays to sign up at cr.ee.

Youmans for her shoes and cleans her teeth did and never regretted it. And I did. I made Student Life and Dirge and Thyrsus and was three times a day. 1 But she mill not tell you what her rn PrrttoTirTT elected engineers' queen. The next year I was pledged Phi Mu." are not in the industry, mho don't know anything about it and don't care about it.

So when I am with them I talk about the things they are interested in." She insists she is not in love. One of the biggest kicks I have had in some time came during a iiit to "The Prince and the Pauper" set. Billy and Bobby Mar ch, tuin brothers, are plcyina the title roles, end they are truly peas from the same jxd. They look so much in feet, thct they often interchange. If Bobby happens to be ueartng princely robes and the script tolls for BiUy to he royally garbed.

Bobby nimply iteps in and pJcj Billys pert end uho I constantly, and they look prrt-j ty bad. Moubray has seen i himtelf in only one cumplete wnc tnn sin a 11 for my lone face so name was before she was nicknamed "Bobbie." Symphony Soloist Now Srt-Vp at St. Louis. thry broaconed it as much a.s pos-Johrmy Perkins, who renewed his i iVO- wHet tv pvm were LTUOL'GH she omitted saying so, hsoDDie atoiiregen was iar and away the most popular girl acquaintance with St. Louis at the aU rint but mv evebrows were too Ambassador last week, will take up arrhod Xncv drew those out longer the baton toriav at the St.

Louis, pictvre. and then Jor the darndff-t reason. "I did a movie trick in if." he told me. "end had to tee the picture to be ccmnnced that I hed done it." The rest thev do with lights and Buddy Rogers, who still will be a boy when old and gray, tells about his romance with Mary Pickford in tomorrow's article on this page. AS SOON' as you are under contract, she said, "the publicity department starts thinking up stuff to tell the public about you.

Well. I had a toothache. And it so happens that when I was a little Scrre Prr-kofi'ff. and conductor, will rxrh play and conduct his c--r. i works as guest art it w.th the Sr.

Louis Symphony Orrhf-stra at certs at the Municipal Auditorium. i tomorrow gftfmwi ar.d Saturday right. The program will be under knous the difference 1 ON" THE SAME wt, Hugh Herbert THE CAST and duller, ty may arguing mith a dirertor hn Terk will also have a new bard-master in the well-known Joe Winters, a St. Louis maestro, and a squad of specialists, including Frankie Cor.villc and company, Red Donahue and Wilkie and Ray. The screen addition is "Rainbow shadows for the screen, but of course that wouldn't do any good in public.

My hair, for instance, is lighted up a lot on the screen and they changed the way I wore it and taueht me a lot of things about what or civemon. nave inverts a new "-u the of Vladimir Gilh- on the campus for the four years she attended university. She had more fraternity pins and rings and more dates lined up for the indefinite future than any other co-ed coming or going. Saturday nights you could see her on the Chase roof or the Statler roof or at the Coron do, her red-gold hair and her absurd little spit-curls against a dozen different men's black dinner coaw as she danced by. In the afternoons she was at football games, at Garavelli's having luncheon, at the Sigma Chi or the Beta or the K.

A. or the S. A. E. arr.e t-srt arour.a tne twins.

w'-u uv wjbw on the nier." a charming southern to do with it, all depending on the Gloria Stuart PI uart civil war storv with a Manhattan nans Jx.vs stand s. bv side, and everr- "'f yours." "be But bodr plavins the game ma gen mhich eonsTit. and rm is which. A-hen all hive born explained mhv. One day.

thr made. Billy and Bbov idT.ufy V' co. he did m-ar makeup. Hm and be nr. W'cfcefJ verv lat that night, and role I am playing." She was wearing a black velvet tunic trimmed in Persian lamb and a little black velvet hat with a rhinestone clip.

"Then, of course, one's diction has to ar.t. Erf-! FlvT.n tried to get 'mart, ar.d to cr.e t.f "i twins: mar.n. I Tie mVm cr.rr:r''T. mho will be mftk.r.g hi- F. Lou: cVhut.

in 5 f' r.r N' 3 piano ar.d mhfh has never fr. played J-'re off' re. and hi TTa. "The If.r Tht" Ors! 1 rt'errn 5rt-' dud two wtics which are b'irg their 1'-al j-rmier'. i by Philtpp Or-; man mith ar-, ewspaper uy to be corrected." she continued, i house, surrounded by the best blood BY HENRY SUTHERLAND.

Sheckman. 20th CctvrV-Fcz HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 2H screen rucr, says ir.c nci. paper trill be Gloria's problem, Gloria Stuart, fragile film blond.

'When rsrr.e tit'r, Billy wir.it so IT! know t.im But Billy and koth inked, and Errl mat f' he hardly mcn a bet thereafter. Pal P.rieti and Henry fn4a. at mark in "Slim." t'Jd me abnmt their car Ueable. IVnth the iimr make amtomoNle. nl until the ther day.

both ran VI' V- -r. St. "Mine was dreadfully middle-west and that simply will not do for the stace or screen. Rs are hard and coarse when picked up by the sound track and have to be softened or cropped entirely. I drop mine because after two years of practice I've learned to talk this way naturally and it would be impossible ar.d affected for me to try to speak in the wav I did in St.

Louis." child, end that he uon kibitz. NIMBLE IRFD ASTAIRE mill play "Vernon Castle" in a film bi rargerrer.t ty L'u: rr.ul'ian. at We 'ley LA Vie lev on the campus. She was always Jaughir.e and she was always escorted and she was always in love. After she graduated she went abroad and on her way back to St.

Louis stopped in Washington. D. to visit J. F. C.

O'Connor, comptroller of the currency. It was the most eventful moment of her life though she didn't know it." "He gave a dinner party for Cecil B. DeMille." she said, "and after- ty cm- ography of the man mho made ball- as tired hen he got ttome that te fell ir.to bee without lining t.ia fa Next oiorrjiiC. eaily Jt'T a tud: call, he atumbled Into 1J-e balhr'rjrn. flill half W-p.

e-f-k at Jmse-li in the trarrrir. makeup up 1T.V9 a vrsfur tii red. h.i and blark. t-ared Hugh Mllr. and re "rje-i-er again." ha tVJtl with his revlve.

mhi'h 1 more than I ran mt for otTe of my Nw Year's revluuon made only f-vjr meets epo. In lunthroom during WKm hour. Pat OUnen and ISargarrt Lir.day fe to an-cejry. Pat's is pretty obvious, an! ilraret rtarted to explain rer freb ars. '3 ta talf Iruh." the began.

and half a minute." me pried Pat. "Ttre wver mas an Iruhman mh aa half aryihlng." is shopping for a weekly newspaper as a safe investment. In a town where buslr.ess-minded picture girls usually sink cinema surpluses in fancy dress shops, hrse ranches dude ranches, plain ranches, cafes and that sort of thing, it's a fairly new idea. Miss Stuart is hunting a going sheet, far enough from Los Angeles to avoid competition with metro Here on Tour or.e'c. It stars the wonderful boy aoprano.

Bobby Breen, in many ballads, with May Robson in a rich part; Charles Butterworth and Alan Mowbray. M.ij. Bowes' Girls on Stage. Tomorrow's bill at the Ambassador will be distinguished by a group of Maj. Bowes' young ladies, thirty in number, in a personal appearance, and the first screen showing of the newly iclased "Champagne Walt." with Gladys Swarthout, Missouri born soprano, and Fred MacMurray.

It is said th3t the spectacular ar.d comedy phases of the new picture rival the beauty cf its music Miss Swarthout will sing new sor.js. ar.d there will be gayety by Herman Benny Baker ar.d Jack Oakie. The story finds Buzzy MacMurray Bellow leading a jazz band in Vienna, to the undoing of its rival, a waltz palace next door. Miss Swarthout, daughter of a traditional Strauss, is the victim of this misfortune, out of which comes a meeting between MacMurray and Gladys and an ultimate reconciliation. Elaine Dowling and the only feminine swing band extant will be on the stace with the Ail-Girl Bowes Revue.

rorn dancing mhat it 1 today, announces S. J. Briskin. P.KO-Radio mogul. Radio has purchased rights frcrn Mrs.

Irene Castle McLaughlin, farmer m-ife and partner cf the dancing mar aviator, and she mill also collaborate on story jerve as technical adviser. THE chance that has come over 1 wards Mr. DeMille ar.d I were talk-Bobbie Stoffrecen since she ir.g about motion pictures. I didn't ere the same rofor. One mrn- ins Tat arrived tate for merk and leaped from hi ear vitboot kwk- ins it.

Henry, rmshins keep an I appointment. lrref from the umr vet l.at afternoon. boppei in! mhat be heUrted a ht rar, and drove aay. When Pat a 4 read to ee. be foand a ear, bet roald n-t anlork it.

became Jayne Regan is for the know a earn thine about them butj politan dailies, and plans to invest SoO.000 or $50,000 mhen she finds! mhat she wants. 1 beft. She has acquired new sophis- he seemed to think I was fairly in-tication that has none of the grand telhger.t and spent a lot cf time manner ar.d yet is self-assured and with me. Before he left he said he confident. had a small part in Cleopatra and if "Of course, I'm acting all the II would go to New York and have a "I've had it in mind for a long While no feminine lead ha ben time." she explained, "long before I selected it is thought improbable SO THE TWO artcri gr together started in pictures.

You see. I used Ginger Rogers m4 do tne part, ar.c time." she laughed, "because I can't I test made, he would wire me if I Radio may again attempt to lure to be a newspaper woman mvself." jAdele Astaire "Lady Caver.di.-h) Hol'vwood. help it. If I'm not working in a could have the part. picture, I'm taking dramatic lessons "Of course I went.

Every girl so that I never think cf doing any-'dreams about something like that. I standing rra is aHom-ed, fandeea filled all availit Hepburn to Hold C' -) a Over in Chicago The fact that the run 4 Eyre" in fie York mtruld if The test turned out all right so I it got the part. CUTTING ROOM SCRAPS: Myrna Loy is nursing her r.ew hu- thing at ail without wor.cerir.g I am doing it in the 'best' way could be done. band. Arthur Homfclow.

laid up mith "Mother was ith me in N'ex York ar.d we didn't say a wcrd about it to "It's silly, but once you start act ing it nermeates evervthinc vou do. daddv until we cot hack to The m.er.t ef -Ts- r-- the K'pbum in tre wk cf Feb- For instance, I would never think We kr.ew he would die If he thought "flu Jeanette MacDonald. resting between picture, to Palm Springs to escape noise when contractors set about building a hou' next door Sidnev Salkcw. 27- for a minute that I was going into of sitting down in an unbeautiful or clumsy position. I've learned to sit so that I will look relaxed and at the same time more or less pleas- ruary I to Ftrjary t.

to the Amri'sn Theater rr.ar.&ge. mer.t. hav iy- r. fcy the ex- 'h lay run in Ch.TLro. The actress once scribbled high school notes for a blcet-tcr in her native Santa Monica, studied journalism at the University of California, end icorked for a time as a reporter in arty Ccrmel, seaside refuge for surrealists and such.

She also sold cn occasional advertisement, enrolled subscribers, a.d ventured into the backshop to tentatively ci linotype machines. troi'f preiend I to manege my paper." she It would be foolish to try that. I tcouldn have time, even if I tcere suTc I have had sufficient czperiencc." "Mister Arthur the movies but when we got back mother broke the news cer.tly ana after much arguing he cave m. He placated himself by deciding I would be a failure anyhow and would be glad to get home. arily be cut thort be' se VL.m i -jf at the P.KO for h-r next f.i'-t -re jn the tii'-i a rrctm tr.at became au'e Ifc'l aeic rjn Ue diste Jor her H'jllymrrd arrival ma et a tt fir-t'mf-eic in April.

To tt. di-T'-f'rjn Theater Guild. mnirJt the plar at wr to Cf.i'aro ar! the result cf i rr.y te ti.t the rr-rt "jur mill cnt.rije until the Jiw 'f Apr.l tfan mve eastward trrm Ft. Louis. fT that m-ould miaa no nre man a run of nx meet ej Breriway.

Mn Hepirum' eomm.t-mer.ta to Ho- riryt beig are! ing to the eye and so there yo-. I remember it ar.d do my best. the ers'e have r.o -how New r.ill at Garrick. Gay burlesque in a changed will be on view at the Garrick tomorrow in "Monte Carlo on all r.ew read show. The iop comedian will be Red Marsr.ali Dolores and Erir.a Doe, sou-bvctte.

will Irnd a larpe feminine contingent. Collette will be the special dancer as an added feature ot this two part program. The rr.iri-r.giht frolic of the week is set for 12 p. m. Saturccay.

t.r tr.e J.aj'.m- "As a matter cr fact he was right. I year-cld youngest director. inii-- hell go to Eluerhag. Mass to writ in stock every surr.rr.r so he wt. lae feel.r.g cf the legitimate 'M: Lull Deite tiltirr.atumed Cc lurr.bia that she me.r.'t bel Jewell may buy a ranch in N-ivada Ann Dvorak spends cur-; rent cold rights er prt cf th.err.) helping smudge crange Jean Chatbum still nurcs an am-' ibition to be a lawyer.

U'NTIL she was 19. Bobbie had no idea of getting into movies. From the time she was 2 19. Bobbie had All except about being glad to get home. I was -awful! Terrific! I cva four-dav "Jane Eyre' had in New Haven ar.d ha been fn only by Bo'en mi'h a 1 rr'ord ef rapa'rty huves at each iperfcrsance; uii'gi Boetcs, mnerej feat-'ed In t-e 'o'e cf Ibien's Htii Gab-'er" re at tee Arr.can Treatcr.

until 15 she took dancing, dramatic didn't know anvthir.g about acting i and singing lessons. and Mr. DeMille. ho is swell as a I "Mother had an idea it would be friend but a fiend as a rvy. said he i good for me," she said, "and I think i thought I'd better get some training 4.

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