Evening star., 1932-04-10

last year at her debut into this
world-the daughter of Charles
Macarthur (who did the script for
Madeline Claudet") and Mrs.
Macarthur, who, in her native
climeS, and other climes, is re-
ferred to as Helen Hayes. Miss
Macarthur is at the moment wait
ing for her mother in New York.
She plans to go West shortly for
Summer of pictures" with her
family.
And now what? What next
as far as pictures are concerned?"
"a picture for Paramount
either an adaptation of 'Hatter's
Castle which Zoe Atkins is work
ing on at present, or 'GallowS
Orchard or Song of Songs 1t
hasn't been definitely decided
yet. Probably, though, Hatter's
THAT means being downtrodden
again, doesn't it?"
IT imagine So"
What about your M-G-M film?"
Nothing definite, either-except
oh, yes" and Miss Hayes sat up
suddenly and seemed even more
buoyant than ever, CLARK Gable!"
"You and Clark Gable?"
eyes, I'm the lateSt-all of us
ladies have to have our Gable, you
know"
do you know him?"
very slightly. But they say
to to work r with. Glad lad fI1 have a hHs-
band and a family"
Miss Hayes laughed again and
eyed a large photo of her husband
as though to make sure that he
was there with her. Mr.. Thai
berg called me up Saturday night
from the Coast-said he was going
to make me act, and act and act,
probably in a magazine story
called Greek VS.. Greek"
Does that mean you will be
Greek?"
Il guess so. I haven't seen the
story yet. But I know it's to be
quite different from my past har-
rowingS."
How did you happen to do a
film like Madeline Claudet'?"
Il just stumbled on it. Or,
rather, it stumbled on me. My
entrance into pictures, you know,
was quite 'coo-coo.' Nobody want
ed me. I had a test first at one
studio and then another-and no
excitement anywhere. Then 1
heard that they had a story
called-you know-and that they
had tested Joan Crawford for it,
and half a dozen others, and no
one liked it particularly or wanted
to do it particularly. Why not
try that Hayes girl?' some one
Said-So in a kind of despair they
got me fixed up, tested me again,
and the film was started. 1t
wasn't all roses, either, I can tell
you that. I had my troubles-a
thousand troubles. But every one
was terribly nice to me and finally,
after struggling and struggling for
months and months, we got the
thing done-and then when it
came out people seemed to like
me. Life'S funny that way, isn't
it?"
From then on things began to
happen, automatically, for Miss
Hayes. She has been flooded with
offers from the stage as we'll as
the screen ever since. Her en-
trance into fllmdom is as exciting
as was that of her best friend,
Ruth Chatterton.
You know" she said, Ruth
and I have been best friends ever
since, years ago, we played to-
gether down here with the old Co
lumbia Players. We often talk
about those days. 1t isn't easy to
forget Washington, you know"
And it isn't easy for Washing
ton to forget Helen Hayes. They
say back in-well, way back-She
was the most perfect Little Lord
this city has ever seen.
She could play the role now if she
wanted to. She could play almost
any role. She still can be Seven
teen" and she can be the oldest
old woman in the world, as every
one knows who has seen her be-
fore the camera. She's a rare
combination of youth and wit and
and a certain wistfulneSS,
which those who saw her as
'Coquette" will certainly never
forget.