Evening star., 1932-03-20

For nearly 40 years Miss Dress
Ter whose real name is Leila Koerber, chased
hither and yon over this earth playing on the
legitimate stage, doing everything from one
night stands to long-run hits. Then she went
to Hollywood. liked it, decided to stay-and.
before she knew it, acquired great fame as
film star
1t was during the latter part of her stage
career that Marie chrstened herself the ugly
duckling" in her autobiography. And, as you
might guess Marie is just regular guy"
There isn't any other way of describing this
popular actress.
She has only kindly feeling for every one
even her enemies, if she has any. And she
can make any situation appear humorous.
Ordinarily it doesn't seem right to call a
6O-year-old lady by her first name Any of
Marie's friends will tell you that they couldn't
address her in any other way Conventionali-
ties don't interest her, and she feels that her
friends will be closer to her If they use her first
name freely.
"REs1DEs that" declares the actress, It al
ways have believed that a person was
only as old as she felt And it makes me feel
younger to have my young friends treat me
just like of themselves"
When Marie decided to spend the remainder
of her life in Hollywood she started looking
around for a home Now the majority of
houses in Hollywood are of Spanish architec-
ture and are constructed of stucco. They
didn't appeal to the actress. She wanted some
thing more substantial
Being somewhat OF substantial woman her
self-at least, she scarcely could be termed
featherweight-she likes solid surroundings So
she built her own home-an attractive yet
solid-looking red brick house.
That's the kind of a house like When l
walk across the floor, I know it is going to sup
port me-" Miss Dressler declares.
One Of these days Marie may write a sequel
to her first autobiography telling of her life in
motion pictures. However, she may not get
around to that for several years, so this can
be a substitute.
IiIT'S a funny thing" she declares, but
there just doesn't seem to be the humor
in picture life that I found the stage OF
course, that means that there isn't as much
tragedy either, since the two go hand in hand
most of the time
About nine-tenths of the funny things one
sees really are tragic for somebody For in
stance it's funny to man slip a banana
peel and fall. But it isn't funny to him. Or
an embarrassed person often is very funny
but he generally is suffering inside.
Many of the experiences I had during
my early days of trouping really were hard
ships. There wasn't anything funny about
them at the time. But I can look back now
and get a lot of good laughs out Of them.
Inc biggest laugh have had since coming
into pictures came from reading stories in a
Coburg, Canada, paper. There have been
several stories since have become pretty well
known as a screen actress, telling about how I
was raised in Coburg
They even have gone so far as to print
statements from various persons who
member how they used to see me playing in
the street and occasionally would have to box
my ears to discipline me- Believe me, it takes
a courageous person to admit that he
members when I was little girl.
What's funny about that? Well you see
i moved away from Coburg when 1 was 6
weeks old. OF course have been back
have passed through there at night on the train
several times"
A MOTHER instance Marie cites as being
funny was the making of beer sequence
In "Callahans and the Murphys," even though
she has been troubled with indigestion ever
since.
1T beer garden scene in which was
supposed to get drunk on beer" she remarks
Naturally, had to do a lot of drinking and
we had to remake the scene "a times before the
director satisfied
''The funny part to me is that every who
saw the picture probably thought was drink