Evening star., 1932-06-26
New Picture to Feature
West, Guinan and Morgan
Three Broadway Celebrities to Appear in Para
mount Film-This Will Be Mae Vests
First Talking Picture.
By E. de S. Melcher.

~ NE of the cinema's best
services is being able to
~ drag celebrities out of
their corners and hold
them up to the light for the edi-
f1cation Of talking picture patrons.
Kings and princes have been so
elevated. More recently the spot
light has come to fall on such
popular luminaries as Mr.. SWIM
ming Champ WeisSmuller, on the
animal ariStorcracy that Mr.. Buck
filmed in Malay Land in his splen-
did picture Bring En- Back
Alive" and on such valued public
missionaries as crooners, band
leaders and Broadway columntsts.
The newest celebrity to be
dubbed by the Hollywood wand
is Mae West. Miss West, whose
speedy entrance and exit into
and from Washington this sea-
son caused more than casual in
terest, is one of the flowers of the
theater whose fame has come, as
1t were, all in punches. Although
an hour or two beyond the in
genue age, she was not known to
Broadway as one of its climact1c
heroines until a few seasons back.
Now. when a Mae West play is
announced the world, in general,
rushes to it-hoping to get there
before the police.
Miss West is a stern believer IN
that ancient and honorable code
which says that nothing is bad
unless you think it is. In The
Constant Sinner" for instance
(Which was whistled from the Be-
lasco boards in Midwinter), she
contended that since virtue was
triumphant in the end, 1T didn't
matter what went on so long as
YOU finally got there. Those who
saw the play will probably recall
that much went on before the
ROSY finale and that virtue in its
ultimate appearance was not
quite what had been anticipated.
Nevertheless, Miss Vests cur
rent PHILOSOPHERS, her delvlng into
'literature," her braSh methods OF
acting, and her crisp and some
what harsh phraslng. OF WORDS,
place her well in the front ranks
of personages Of the day. known
to the theater by some as an &C
tress of great ability, and by others
as quite the reverse, she has at
tracted great attention to her
self, so that one wonders why
Hollywood has passed her by up
until new.
At the moment Miss West is
tanning herself in the cool cur
rents of Hollywood breezes. Ar
rived in the cinema citadel, she
is about to start on her first mo-
tion picture. This is to be known
as might After Night" The
niece has been written by Louis
Rromfeld. David Burton will di-
rect it and it will include the serv-
ices of two other ladies whose
names have not appeared TO any
great extent in Hollywood annals.
These two are Texas Gulnan
and Helen Morgan. And their IN
clusion in the cast, and the fact
that Wynne Gibson is trying to
get out of the part allotted her
bv Paramount in the same pro-
dlction. makes speculation on this
fiInl-as has been Said-"rlte:
THE team of West-Gulnan-Mor-
gan should be strong one. Those
who have not tired Of Miss Nor
gan,s piano, or the wistful gesture
She makes with the little f1nger OF
her left hand, or the droop OF her
eyelashes, which are usually at a
landslide angle, should md her a
welcome third of this interesting
nucleus. Then again, Miss Gul-
mans unusual humor, her meth
DDS of entertaining patrons, should
be welcome in the cinema-slnce,
at long distance, she will not be
able TO frisk ties from embarrassed
males, make them play leap
frog" with her sister entertainers,
or cause them to blush scarlet by
subtle, but not too subtle, in
nuendos.
These three almost lengendary
sisters of what might be called
1.-The subway circuit" should prob
ably find their talents well placed
before the screen. Miss Morgan
in might After Night" will per-
haps NOPE and moan and bemoan