Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-08

LIE more IMAM a year ago
Ethel Barrymore, then a
l. cocoa-colored lady of the
South, flaming through that
uncouth dramatic saga, Scarlet
Sister Mary" at the Belasco,
raised her hand before the hand
some contours of her profile and
brought said hand down with a.
thump on her dressing room
table. MY daughter" she said in
a voice that was filled with the
accumulated fires of many an
ceStral BarrymoreS-" daugh-
ter has had more than nine movie
contracts and have torn them
up, one by one"
She then relaxed and, talking
with that sweeping sorority which
is one of the most vibrant of her
virtues, she explained that while
she, personally, had nothing
against the screen she did not
wish to see her young daughter
begin her career in such doubt
full medium. Thereupon, daughter
Ethel ran around the corner and
forthwith appeared in George
Whites Scandals" and now hangs
the Barrymore escutcheon on her
dressing room door within elbow
distance &C Rudy Vallee.
Although this action of the
young, ambitious, perhaps tenn
peStuouS, daughter must have
left the mother somewhat breath
less miss OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
is now appearing in a revival of
"The School for ScandalS'), the
news which comes out of the Gin
ema lighthouses within the past
few days must have done even
more. The word is that son Sam
uel Barrymore Colt, brother of
Ethel "Scandals') Colt and
nephew of John C'Mad Genius")
Barrymore and Lionel ("Yellow
T1cket"C Barrymore, has been
signed by the Paramount organi-
zation and will be launched on
full-blast screen career in some
thing to be called Working
Girls"
This title should make, one
might imagine, the Barrymore
tribe Squirm with an uncomfort-
able Squirm. For although Mr..
Colt is not to be starred in Work
ing Girls" it is vet a more un-
righteous sounding title than
most things of that nature which
have launched this family in any
branch of histrionicS. Although
the length and breadth of his
role has not been divulged, the
press sheet which announces such
things says that Sam Colt" Gas
he will be called in the cinema
bywavs) will be seen in "the part
of faSt-living New Yorker" And
further information from the
same source states that Mr.. Colt
was selected by Dorothy Arzner,
only woman film director, for this
part. and that he will support
Paul LukaS, Buddy" Rogers, Dor
othy Hall and Stuart Hall-all of
whom, it is supposed, will not be
working girls.
The announcement further
states that "Colt is a Barrymore
in appearance, well built and
slender, with classic features and
the upmistakable family profile"
Thus it would seem that the
junior Barrymores, in spite of the
senior Miss Barrymore's dictum,
will probably make their first
great name land one hopes it will
be great on the unknown wide
spaces of the screen. Young Mr..
Colt, who has received his college
parchment from an Eastern uni
verSity and has taken to acting
only since he has become of age,
is stepping forth and behaving in
much the same manner as did
young Douglas Fairbanks, jr.,
when he found that he had the
world before him and a name be-
hind him. And since this young
man has done nothing but carry
on the tradition of his family with
considerable eclat. it might hap
pen-and probably will-that
young Colt will do the same.
Now that the younger genera
ton" first turns to the films in
stead Of the stage (although