Evening star., 1932-09-27

find himself famous. A 6-foot-l
giant, tipping the scales at some
thing over II stone, Mr.. Grant is
black haired, Gable-ish individual
with a manner approximating the
rugged pleaSantness Of George (Mr.
Ruth Chattertonl Brent.
That he is to play the we'll mean
ing, but vacillating, Pinkerton in the
Sylvia Sidney Paramount version of
the Farrar furor. Madame Butter
fly" is an omen that augurs well for
his future. Seen only minutely in
such films as ''Merrily We Go to
He'll" and Devil and the Deep this
transplanted Englishman-Who is,
however. completely Americanized-
has not been heretofore ballyhooed
to the skies. Paramount, however.
has had its eye on him. And ever
since Sam KatZ mentioned his name
in the same breath with half dozen
more important screen idols his
star has been rising high and wide.
Speculation, which ran somewhat
rife in these columns few days ago,
as to who would get this healthy
role IS now at an end And Mr..
Grant. who last season was to be
seen on Broadway in play called
''Nikki" (playing the same role that
Richard Barthelmess played in its
screen version, The Last Flight") is
assured long and possibly lustrous
career From now on he will be
classed among the first of the Para
mount brethren. and when Claudette
Colbert. or Miriam Hopkins, or jean
ette Macdonald must have them
selves a cinema man, young Cary
probably will be asked to answer the
call.
Mr. Grant comes to the screen via
the Atlantic Ocean (he was born in
England. via musical comedy, light
opera (the St. Louis Repertory Com
pany) and the Legitimate. known
in Polly" Boom Boom" and Street
Singer" he nevertheless has not
been asked to give much of sing
ing account of himself before the
camera SO far.
That he is one of the up and
coming young men of the future
there is no question. If he makes
little Sylvia Sidney cry good and
hard IN Butterfly" if he makes the
ladies sit up. and doesn't bother the
gentlemen he is all set for bigger and
better things. The fact that he sang
in something called Boom Boom"
shouldn't discourage you at all.
E. de S. MELCHER.
Stars Seen Here Recently
Begin Pictures in Hollywood.
RETTE DAVIS and Loretta Young,
two young. handsome and hard
working screen stars, whose appear
ances during the Summer at the
Earle did much toward lessening the
woes caused by the heat, have start
ed in again at the old racket" in
Hollywood. Word from Miss Davis
indicates that she is closeted in Sing
Sing cher picture with Arthur Byron
and Spencer Tracy, 10000 Years in
Sing Sing" having begun and Miss
Young last week put on the grease
paint for Employees Entrance" her
newest "celluloid.
Edmund Lowe and his wife Lii
yam Tashman are on their way to
the coast and Warren William is
busy there already with The Match
King"
Una Merkel dashes off a note to
say that she has done one picture
SulCe Sic lelt washing IOIl-dQO TO
please be remembered to those good
looking Barron and Gilmore families
who were so good to me in Wash
ington."
incidentally, Donald Henderson
Clarke, who, Improperly speaking,
knows his onions" on the Metro
lot. says that Lionel Barrymore's
nickname is Mike; that Clark
Gable is commonly known as
Dutch; that Wallace Beery an
swers to the name Jumbo; that
Ramon Novarro's nickname is
Pete" and that Joan Crawford is
often called Billie"
Items nearer the home lot in
clude the eagerly awaited appearance
tomorrow at Keiths of Katharine
warriors Husband) Hepburn in
Bill of Divorcement" Mary Astor
as George Arliss' leading lady in "A
Successful Calamity" att the Metro
politan Friday, and Laurel and