Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-08-21
BY MOLLTE HERRICK.

Special Dispatch to The Ster.
HOLLYWOOD Calf. August 70
CNANAD Hollywood is still burned
up over the problem Of whether or not
film stars should give out interviews.
Everywhere. the problems OF stars at
the mercy of pitiless reporters Is Delne
discussed with II blush to relate all the
svmrathy on the stars side, ana NONE
at all for the reporter)
Local trade magazines have suggested
that all interviews be stopped 1mmeoi-
atelv, until the Hays office takes con-
troll of the situation and protects the
defenseless actor and actress. Oh
course. trade papers possibly nave not
taken into consideration the fact tnat
most stars live on their interviews, De
they good or bad.
Since the subject has created more
dissension than anything happenlns
here for many moons, Some enllgnten-
ment from a purely impartial source
may be interesting.
An interview has two great RESPONSE
bilities: The first to disarm the person
being interviewed so that genuine color
and charm and individuality may come
of the encounter. The second, ana
greater responsibility, is to suppress
from the printed records OF Sucn an
encounter IIlt thai lioi iii'' 49,
taste should warn the interviewer are
perhaps natural in a chat, but dismal
when viewed coldly in print and seen
without the smile. or the infection, or
the shrug which may have accompanied
them.
have interviewed stars whose con-
versation. faithfully reported would
have ended in the most wretched sort
of misunderstanding with a backWasn
of libel for my employers, perhaps, ana
| certainly with very diSparaglng ana
dispiriting effect on star and producer
! But an interviewer who knows the Jop
! always manages to find some material
| that is interesting and absorbing ana
I yet in good taste, to record, forgetting
! the things which cannot tastefully be
put into print.
The motion picture industry has only
| one remedy: A little more ability ana
good taste on the part of the interview
! ers. and a whole lot more caution on the
part of ladies who have capitalized their
| lack of conversational caution and MADE
a fetish of it.
| Vulgarity is always easy: it Is SO
difficult to be an arreSting personality
and yet keep the conversation within
| the bounds of decency and conventional
| good taste. Yet it has been done and
may be done again.
| This business Of stopping all inter-
views comes under the purely four
MARKHAM heading of "horsefeathers.
The new pictures will be interesting
| for their several divergences from
established rules of other years.
| So closely are We running to actually
that Lilyan Tashman's next picture
| style" will not only be a starring We
hicle for the woman with the reputa-
/ ton for supreme chic, but will be cat
| alogue of fashions for six months tC
come for those women who do not get
| to big fashion centers. or who have
not the imagination to judge the effect
of a gown from a casual glance at 9
magazine sketch.
The idea of building a style reel with
story about the Eastman personality
is clever one and the result should be
one grand success.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf. August 2C
| (NANA) Revival of the costume pic.
ture after several years of total neg.
lect may be expected during the com
ing year. and in a large way.
This means major presentations, real
lied after high production costs ant
each studio competing TO win the public
for this particular form of entertain
ment
Banking on the success of "Rasputin'