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PAGE Section THE SUN, BALTIMORE, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 1942 1 ft il X'" ji ii mi urn hi in ri' V-' yjM'VFftvm, 4Sv 7 i Sz 1 4 "ask i i it i tin nw'-''- rtir nlsA VI Ml i A Barrymore Greets Daughter Diana In Hollywood By JOHN TRUESDELL 1 OUBTFUL Diana, the latest of the nose- rubbing, snorting, scenery-chewing Barry-more band, has descended on the graceful little city of Hollywood with all the quiet charm of a blazing two-ton meteorite. Following the old adage of "Where there's smoke, there's always a Barrymore" your re-vorter trekked out to the "Eagle Squadron" et at the studio to witness this strange new creature who's cavorting through a bit of film foolishness for Mr. Joan Bennett (better known as Producer Walter Wanger). If It isn't too bold an observation to make that- all the Barrymores are hams (and, brother, it isn't) this newest version, Diana, Is svrely a tenderized ham. Daughter of Jivin' Jack Barrymore, niece of Lionel and Ethel and daughter of Blanch Oelrichs, Doubtful Diana (doubtful only because the hasn't as yet proved herself in the cinema) has had the tenderized blessings of a socially prominent mother who is well known as a poet under the nom de plume Michael Strange.

Met By Surprised Dad To say that Jawn Barrymore was surprised to greet his full-blown daughter should be filed away in the department of under-understatement. John met Diana at the station when she arrived on the Union Pacific and marched through its beautiful patio of waving palms and press agents. "Let me see," said John, waving every digit on both paws, "you are my little girl three wives ago are you not?" "Daddy:" cried Diana, and while there were no tears shed during this demonstration, many plates were exposed by the flash-bulb cameramen. For all the foolishness, John Barrymore is a great artist; and, being one, he is happiest teaching others what a lifetime of success on the stage and screen has taught him. Diana is going to school at her fathers garish manse on Tower road, in Hollywood, where John fought many a Dunkirk battle with the ex-last Mrs.

Barrymore, Elaine. Family Trademark When we met Diana, she proved to have the same snappy tongue movement that has kept the rest of the Barrymores on Page One ever since the first of the clan entertained the realm of public buffoonery shortly after the last ice age. Miss Barrymore, in fact, was fearing what is known in boxing circles as a "mouse." "Where." we asked, "did you get the black eye?" "My father," said Diana, with charming simplicity, "struck me." Another thing, Diana shares the family's talent for spending money. Her first maneuver into the Hollywoods was a business venture in which she rented at a "great bargain" a small apartment for $250 per month. Her costar in "Eagle Squadron," Bob Stack, overhearing this, allowed with disgust: "Mine's nicer and I only pay $100 per month." Reason For Going West Miss Barrymore further claims that she Just loves.

Loves. LOVES Hollywood, and besides the Broadway show in which she had a featured role folded, and besides Joan Bennett's husband told her to come to Hollywood and he'd pay $1,000 a week. 'To me," said this candid Barrymore, "that seemed -like a good reason to come to Hollywood." After a crack like that, who can say that the lass has emptiness in her noggin? Young John Declines The impression that all the Barrymores Lke to act is all wrong. A movie producer, who had a role for a 10-year-old youngster and believing the Barrymore name would be a fine asset, asked Dolores Costello Barrymore Vrumink to bring young John in for a test. John Barrymore 's third wife, now happily married to the physician who delivered her babies, replied that she believed young John would not be interested; at least, she wasn't The movie man suggested she ought to let young John make his own decision.

"But his name isn't Barrymore, if that's what you're interested in," Delores said. The movie man brushed that aside; he knew he could publicize young John Blyth. Barrymores true mme, as a Barrymore. Everything but Mories So young John was presented to the producer. The latter asked John if he liked horses, and John said they were swelL And cf course, John liked cowboys and guns and things like that, too.

And so on, building up the climax. "And you like the movies, too?" asked the producer, hopefully. "I think they stink." said John Blyth, with true Barrymorian candor. "But you'd like to work in the movies, Ike your father and your mother, and make a lot of money, wouldn't you?" persisted the producer. "Naw." said John.

"I think they stink." John Blyth will not become a movie actor until he changes his opinion of the art. Glues His Brush HOLLYWOOQ Ronald Colman has discovered finally what the neighborhood kids could have told him all along. That glue will hold false whiskers in place. Colman is allergic to spirit gum, the stuff they used in the movies to stick on beards. It makes him brrak out in a rash.

So he began scratching almost as soon as he learned he's tr wear whiskers in "Three's A Crowd." Then he got to experimenting in the makeup department and discovered a vegetable xaocilage does the trick. Sixteen-Star Picture Stirs Amateur Pens Hollywood. novelty of a movie with sixteen stars and as many more featured players, none of whom appears throughout the picture, has inspired the nation's amateur writers. Boris Morros and S. P.

Eagle (nee Speagle), who made "Tales of Manhattan." the unusual episodic story, have been flooded with suggestions for equally novel sequels since word got around. Among them: A story with but one character, one with only women in the cast (how dull!) another with a cast made up entirely of animals, one entirely about children (with Shirley Temple playing the lone adult), and one with all the action taking place in a rowboat, with all the characters dying of thirst There are dozens of others, equally screwy. No Nazis for Him Paul Henried, an Austrian who plays the French flyer in "Joan of Paris." has in his contract a provision that he never will obliged to portray a German. His now slight accent is deceiving; he might be either French, or Austrian, or German. He feel strongly about representing, even in make-believe, the aggressors of his country.

Now comes along the fine, sympathetic part of Kurt Muller, the sensitive anti-Xaz? German of "The Wttch on the Rhine." Th studio wondered whether Henried would play it. He said he would be delighted to make an exception In this case. When he insisted on the "no German" clause he meant only heavies. His Tears for Taxes Leo Carrillo was supposed to cry. He couldn't evoke a tear.

Leo is always very happy. The director of the movie which had to have this lachrymose scene was stumped. So was Leo. Finally the director told him to concentrate on something sad. Leo, the happy hombre.

started to cry. The scene went oft well. How did he do it? "I Just thought of my income tax," walled Leo, still crying. A big studio attempted to sell a bigger star on the merits of contributing all of her $125,000 salary to certain charities. She enthusiastically accepted the idea, provided: The studio would agree to contribute its profits from the picture to the same charities.

The studio was horrified. Amcche Left in Cold Don Ameche usually gets the girl, as well as the patent on something. But in "The Magnificent Jerk" he'll do neither. Nor is he playing the title role. Handsome Hank Fonda, who causes hearts on all sides of the tracks to flutter, will win Lynn Bari.

But the point of this is: Poor M. J. Fonda doesn't even have a chance to tell her he loves her, but in the end he is the successful suitor. Let that be a lesson to you kissers. P.

S. Speaking of kissing, Joan Crawford will be bussed by every male in the cast of "He Kissed the Bride." There'll be a total of seventy-eight osculatory sequences. The studio will supply the lipstick. Carpenter Shop Making Tires By TED GILL 1 Hollywood. necessity is the mother of invention, one movie studio here has Just become a papa! Quick on the heels of Government reductions In new and recapped automobile tires sales this studio came up with a bright Idea that may prevent this volatile land of make-believe from being converted Into a horse and buggy village by doing what? By making ersatz tires.

What's that? In Hollywood English, that means good-looking, serviceable tires made of wood. Turned out by cabinet experts in an hour and a half, these tires are built in four sections of hard, laminated wood. They can be fitted readily around a wheel with the simple twist of a wrist on four wooden screws. Never A Blowout The new wooden tires white side-walls, too, by golly cost a mere W.25 each, F. O.

B. Hollywood with a guar-antee thrown in that they won't blow out. In fact, an ordinary claw hammer will readily serve to fix any nail puncture, by the simple expedient of Just yanking out the nail. Studio executives figure these new tires will save valuable rubber ones that ordinarily would be used on cars needed in pictures. The first were installed on a car used by Betty Grable and John Payne for a love scene in "Strictly Dynamite." The effect turned out to be strictly dynamite, too, because the cautious young screen lovers decided to do their kissing with the car standing still.

Fearing a bump on solid wood wheels might cause a miss. "Frozen? By Cellophane Short Snort Whenever you see humani or other animate objects in the -movies that appear to be frozen on ice, don't start any needless crying. The effect Is accomplished by simply placing them in a transparent cellophane box and photographing the whole scene through a pane of glass. Silly Sallies Dust seen on old furniture and other movie trappings usually is fuller's earth, applied with an insect spray. Many insects used in films are only miniature imitations.

One of the smallest ever used was a spider only three-eighths of an inch in length, made of cloth and needle points, with fine springs used for its legs. A 4 -y. Brough. She suggested that Robert Taylor sounded much better. The name stuck.

Playmates of Lester Hope used to call him "Hope-les," so he changed it to Bob. And Harry Lillis Crosby has always been known as Bing because, while playing Indian and cowboy with neighborhood boys, he liked to pull a toy pistol and shout "Bing! Bing!" Claudette Chauchoin's playmates used call her "Shoeshine," so she adopted old family name of Colbert, Sad To Starlet "They go much better with swing music than the wedding march." Janet knows about swing music, too! Before becoming a starlet she was vocalist with the late Hal Kemp's band. "I could change my mind," she suggests, leaving herself an out, "but I wouldn't marry anyone who cares about nothing except how good he was in his last picture. "The boys I've seen are terrific only In night clubs. And who wants to set up housekeeping in a night club?" I to the W.VM.

Last Barrymore to land In Hollywood is Diana, the young lady who is pictured in the bathing suit and again with her father, John the Great, as she stepped off the train. Her mother is the socially prominent Blanch Oelrichs, who writes poetry and plays under the pen name of Michael Strange (small photograph at the bottom). Diana's also the niece of the talented Lionel, shown with Brother John during a radio broadcast. The new Barrymore is an uncertain quantity, with whom one of the studios is gambling. She's been given a part in "Eagle Squadron," with which Producer Walter Wanger is wrestling.

He's the man who lured Diana to Hollywood. She's had little or no stage experience but Dad is now teaching her some of his many tricks efA -t They Change HOLLYWOOD. Hollywood ORS and actresses their names for the strangest reasons. Some do it to make them more euphonious; others because they don't look good on a theater marquee, while others are altered because of some whimsical or sentimental reason. When Jean Wood and Joel McCrea were students together at Pomona College, she appeared opposite him In her first school play.

Later she made her debut the Pasadena Playhouse, where she used the stage name of Katherine Stevens before she married and retired. Twelve years later her younger sister, Gloria Wood, took the stage name of Katherine Stevens and, in her first picture, appeared opposite McCrea. Then she learned that Katherine Stevens is the real name Barbara Stanwyck, who appears in the same picture. Miss Stanwyck took the Barbara from Barbara Fritchie and the Stanwyck from another old-time actress, Jant I i i 7 ft I -c. v.

4- SS on "Penny" when she changed her name from Dorothy McNulty. Simone Roussel wanted a typically American name when she came to this country from her native France, so she decided on Mike Morgan. Later the Mike was changed to Michele. Joan Brodel decided that monniker was too similar to Joan Blondell, so she became Joan Leslie, while a movie executive's secretary didn't like the name S. Arlington as --V -5 Names As Often As They Do Their Costumes Ria Novella.

Wh(l was hnrn MlYlln madA tnn'l crnnrl.lilnlr Tiara cn eha Anr.iAnA Ria Novella, who was born in Mexico, made ton's good-luck pieces, so she decided her theatrical debut as Una Villon. When she organized a girls' band, she took the name of Rita Rio, but entered pictures as Rita Shaw. Her studio didn't like that, so now she's known as Dona Drake. Margaret Hayes' real name is Fleurette Ottenheim. She and her whole family changed it to Ott.

Then she decided to become known as Dana Ott and later as Dana Dale. Her studio, which already had a Virginia Dale, changed It to Dana Edwards. She didn't like the Edwards and her studio didn't like the Dana, so they changed it to Margaret Hayes. She got the Margaret from one of her early screen characters and the Hayes was for the actress Helen Hayes. Families Follow Suit When Gloria Weiman changed her name to Gloria Warren, her whole family also went to court and had their name changed to Warren.

The same thing happened when the Millican sisters became better known as Priscilla, Lola and Rosemary Lane. Pennies have always been Penny Single Stag Line Seems Hollywood. You can expect Janet Blair to be as popular with Hollywood men as a broken leg at option time. For Janet, to put it briefly, thinks the stage line. "Well," she says, "you can have 'em." The pretty blond actress-singer, who grew up as Martha LafTerty in Altoona, has spent a busy eight months in Hollywood.

But it hasn't been all work. She's taken time to look over the social prospects and decide: ft.