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4 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1936 Scene in a 'liroaducay Sho-Window9 Two of the displays Mark Plant and Armida and the impresario himself, Gus Edwards, in his new "revusical at the Broadway Theater. lichen Banker Becomes Bishop: News! Hiller was put in a bank when he wouldn't? this production proved so expensive on New York Bertha Kalisch in "Magda," with Helen Hayes in "Coquette" and with Blanche Bates in "Mrs. Partridge Presents He played the tyrannic father with Miss Cornell in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," Brutus in "Lucrece," Professor Skeats in "Alien Corn," Friar Laurence in "Romeo and Juliet" and the clergyman in "Flowers of the Forest." He was Metternich with Ethel Barry-more and Eva Le Gallienne in "L'Aiglon" and recently he acted the Judge in Maxwell Anderson's interact." Mr. Waldron has two hobbies, boats and cameras. and the backers grew so restless that Mr.

Tyler had to deny the young actor the leading part in favor of a more established star. Waiting for this, the player lostlhe advantage of his success in The Fourth Estate" as well as many months' salary. In his career, Mr. Waldron has acted over 400 roles. He appeared in the title role of "Daddy Long Legs" with Ruth Chatterton.

He was with Katharine Cornell in her first Broadway success, "A Bin of with Nance O'Neill in "The Passion Flower," with CHARLES WALDRON, who plays the Archbishop of Rheims with Katharine Cornell in Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" in the Martin Beck Theater, was destined for a career of finance. With this in view he was a clerk in a Philadelphia bank when David Higgins of "His Last Dollar" fame offered him the Juvenile role in "Kidnapped." This was the fourth or fifth year of the play and Mr. Higgins was looking for a young man who would consider $20 a week when he got it more than an adequate salary. Mr. Waldron's father and mother, Mr.

and Mrs. George B. Waldron, were well-known players of their remain in school. George Waldron trusted that commerce would win, but it hadn't a chance, according to the son. This is amusingly in contrast to Arthur Byron, who plays the Inquisitor in "Saint Joan." His father and mother, Kate and Oliver Doud Byron, also were noted players of their day.

They wanted him to be an actor and he was opposed to the idea. To return to Charles Waldron: When Mr. Higgins offered him the part in "Kidnapped," money was the last thing that he thought of, though it was ths salary more than the lad that interested Mr. Higgins. Sometimes the young actor saw the $20; more often he didn't.

He had his tribulations learning his art. For nine years he acted in stock, unable to get an opportunity on Broadway. For three years he was with the old MOTION PICTURES rmsmmriiMismsMwmsme- i NOW PLAYING 1 day. George Waldron starred in the West with the famous old California Murray Hill company, but that was Stock Company in San Francisco; and a Man of Destiny She Says She Likes Our Little Town SHOULD you drop by the Long-ncre Theater one of these balmy Spring nights after theater time and see a cluster of well-meaning persons of every age and description waiting at the stage door for some one to come out, be assured it's a close-up of Wendy Hiller, star of "Love on the Dole," they're after. "I can truthfully say," the young English star said, "that the most exciting time of my brief stage career not quite four years has been right here in America.

Prom the moment the Berengaria on which I arrived steered up the harbor and the camera men came into my cabin room, I sensed that I was in another land. 'Now Miss Hiller won't you sit down?" they asked. Won't you smile? "Won't you cross your "Won't you It was unbelievable the things they demanded. One chap stood on the wash basin so that he could photograph me from a position near the ceiling. I have yet to see the picture anywhere." Miss Hiller laughed heartily.

"But it was great fun, an initia- MOTION PICTURES 5 OWE GTS WM as near as he came to the glittering street which makes the fame and fortune of players. He went to Australia to star in "The Squaw Man" and "The Virginian." While he was there David Belasco GdGj) LED" cabled him, offering him the juve with a company in Portland, where David Belasco was an actor, and with the noted Salt Lake Theater organization which the Mormon Church established in that city. Annie Kiscadden, mother of Maude Adams, played her first part on the stage under George Waldron's direction, For all this, Charles was not to become an actor. His father was positive about it, and, though the boy could think of nothing else, he EDWARD ARNOLD nile role with Charlotte Walker and Frank Keenan in "The Warrens of tINNI IARNES LEE TRACT Virginia," and after' his New York a. -afw debut in this George Tyler gave him the part of Wheeler Brand in the 8 1 IRVIN S.

COBB sw first successful newspaper play, Joseph Medill Patterson's "The Fourth Estate." His success was such that Mr. Tyler signed him on a long con- tract and had "The Garden of Allah" dramatized for his use. But tion, I'd call it, and a greater relief to the monotonous and stormy trip I had." with ROCHELLE HUDSON NOIIHAN FOSTEt WARREN HTMEt MOTION PICTURES I PICTURES! 4th Big Week and Still N. Ys Greatest Hit! tlloriffinfi the American Screen NUGENT Joan Marsh flip (ffffi flBgfiff This) rklw JWy sftsft tmWsttst ws f4sjuf WfA 'COLDWYN'S FILM ALONE CAN CLAIM DISTINCTION! A second visit recently to the Rivoli confirmed anew the first impression at the time of the premiere. here is a' genuinely distinguished photoplay, one that is a vast credit to everyone concerned with its production.

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