Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-08
MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE
By MoLLIE MERRICK.

old for the part you are after.
That's your producer. Turn the pro-
file and let the light strike along it,;
look pensive and sweet. His pet aver
sion is the worldly and sophisticated
woman. Option time is coming any
moment now.
One suspicious glance may save you
the blue pencil. The kings of yesterday
are borrowing bits here and there to-
day. The crowned heads of today may
be doing likewise next week. Don a
Paris frock, ask four men to luncheon.
and pray that the avid gossips will
peddle the story with as much energy
as they would something you would
like to keep hidden.
It's Hollywood!
Ina Claire in a Chanel frock that
is the fulf1llment of a dreSSmakers
dream at luncheon. her golden hair
showing in two tiny wings beneath a
mustard-colored felt hat, the mustard
color caught again in the wool jersey
of the gown, but wool jersey with a
difference.
Inc Claire, who gets 100000 a pic
| ture, whoshas made one picture which
has not pleased the gentlemen of the
village who hired her. These gentle
men gave her sophisticated comedy for
audiences they had not trained to re-
ceive sophisticated comedy. They should
have given her the same type stories
they have given Gloria Swanson.
And Corinne Grifith. The same emo
| tionally stressed tales, pulSating with
sex. They should have hung gowns on
her that were designed in Hollywood
! but they made her wear a Partisan
wardrobe They didn't show the pic
ture on Broadway, where she is &C
claimed one of the foremost actresses
of the land.
And they have not found a second
vehicle for Ina Claire as yet. RumorS
fly. She is to play in picture with
Ann Harding and Constance Bennett
One of trio of lovely ladies, Ina Claire
tells me she is not to play in any sucf
thing, and believe her. Why shoulo
she?
She is quite willing to be EARNED out
to another company. A f1rfn that car
produce releases in the cities is calcu
lated to like an Ina Claire. She hal
no objection to appearing in a picture
with an established star. She woulC
consider it fun to play with Chevalier.
But she doesn't want any NOR
tongue-in-che roles, which are II
talkies unsympathetic in the fnal an
alysis. There is a serves-her-right re
action to movie-trained audiences, Wit
like their good little girls good ant
their bad little girls horrid. They don
accept woman in love who yet laugh
and pretends she takes her emotion
lightly, because in her own wise wa.
she knows 1t Is the only way to hold tn
cratic and wandering genties she ha
chosen to lure into the matrimonial
harness.
Ina Claire-born Fagan--isn't allow
ing the moguls Of movieland to breal
her spirit, not much. She's laughin
gaily the while. Let them find thei
own way out OF the difficulty. Mean
while there's 100000 in the balance
It's neat balance, you'll have to admit
Shes to find play for herself--a pla.
, to give In Los Angeles, for the fun Q
the thing. Some day she'll 60 back Z
the stage, to the grease paint and tn
footlights. But FIRST she'll make a goo
, motion picture 10 show them she cal
. do 1t.
She once played vaudeville. Blue
shirted men in the audience. An
neither subtlet!es nor sophisticatio
counted there. She's played all typ
: things. from the Quaker girl TO the gold
!. She's none Of these-she's herself, vita
lovely. eager and intelligent.
She isn't crushed by q supervisor
: trown. She doesn't turn her profile Il
the producer to admire She stands O
! her own record in the theater. She
calm in the knowledge that she's on
! OF the best actresses ON the stage u
! day, and She smiles In the teeth Of Oh
Hollywood producers prsdicAHen
There's an easy way out II he VIII tak
5 it--a story that win fave the right ~
e peal for movie audiences.
2 The lady / have beep Hriting abot
h Is Mrs. Jack Gilbert, IA esse any one
SO behind the times as not TO kno
: that. Gold eyes, f1ecked with greer
i blond hair, born Fakan, ana as VIII
q as q Spring morning.
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