Evening star., 1933-10-02

We stammered a vague Eyes" and
then thought and said, no" She hao
seen about IS people that day; she had
talked to them all without whimper
and NV she was going to do her best
| to sa ~ one more interviewer. II
! seeme-. too bad.
Well come back tomorrow" We said
admiring the very natural smile that
Miss Stanwyck wears and thinking that
she is just about the best sport In pic
lures. "And-and-it's too bad that the
first show Friday didn't go-so we'll y
You're sorry! What about me?'
| The good lady laughed and said that
she had been explaining all day to the
press what fiasco it had all been. How
she had waited in Philadelphia until
| the last minute to see husband Frank
Fay. How she had gotten here about
10 minutes before the show. How she
hadn't had time to rehearse. How and
why the curtain (did you see it, al
most caught her in midair at one
minute How badly she felt about the
whole thing
We felt about as big as a minute for
having upraided her publicly for these
doings, and all the while were utterly
delighted with the frank. easy. pleas
antly untheatric way she was going on
explaining her troubles.
Miss Stanwyck. in person, seems like
an eager, attractive and extremely per-
suasive schoolgirl She is honest about
her work and about herself Unlike
certain sister stars. she has no airs
no fancy graces. She will receive you
when she Is scrubbing her cheeks with
cold cream, and she will say good-by
to you when she is scrubbing her cheeks
with towel. She works. acts, talks
| like trouper. She walks from her
hotel to the theater. No car half a
mile long.
Backstage at the Earle she is as
gracious, as natural. as unaffected as the
schoolgirl whom she resembles. She
seldom is out of her dressing room
! Like Miss West, she will tell you (in
different lingo. however, Come and
see me sometime" And she means that
She says she doesn't mind interviews
All she had to say Saturday, however
was that she was sorry about that first
show
We went down afterwards and saw
| the show again. It was much, much
better. We still are not in complete
accord with the material that she
chooses. But she acts smoothly-and
! she is an extremely handsome and
agreeable woman.
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IOTHER events backstage at the
~ Earle:
Stone and Vernon, ex-M,ami Biltmore
dancing sensations. going through their
excellent adagio PAGES, while Oracle
Barrie stands in the wings and has her
dress hoaike6 up the back (The review
of these good psople-and it is good
stage show-Was unfortunately mislaid
Saturday, Johnny Woods, who gets
more of hand than any one this
week, watching the adagioes spin and
toss and hurl themselves about while
| he rehearses his very amusing imita-
tions silently to himself Britt Wood
always popular player here, sitting
quietly in a corner and looking much
sadder than he really is-at Saturdays
| first show the audience wouldn't let him
60. Miss Stanwyck coming down and
seeing that everything is in order SC
that no more minor tragedies will occur
Further sidelights-George Danilo o.
the Stone Vernon outfit, used to he q
| gentleman fighter in France-gave il
up to dance at the Casino de Paris
came over here with the present team
which you saw year ago last July
at the Fox. Tall, dark, handsome, he
is slated for the films. You may SEE
him in his leisure moments reading
Paul Morands New York"
| Oracle Barrie-She has had her con-