Evening star., 1933-05-30

ments. It's a very human and under
standable spot in life.
One of the most interesting art col
lections in this country Is being started
in a novel fashion. Every time Lionel
Atwill makes a picture he buys a
picture. Established in Hollywood as
the king of horror films-although
he has played numerous other roles
he has infringed on that ground for
some time held sacred to Boris Karloff
It has been vastly different field of
endeavor from anything he had done
in his brilliant career in the theater,
but whenever his friends have men,
toned that fact he has smiled mysteri-
ously and said, "Oh, I'm delighted to
make pictures in the interest of art.
Now the secret is out. Every time
Atwill makes movie he buys a rare
canvas. When he made Doctor X"
it was Raeburn's Lady With Shawl"
WAX Museum" brought an exquisite
Lawrence canvas, Portrait of Miss
Barring" In the same way the YAM
pire Bat" was concluded and an ex-
quisite seventeenth century portrait
from the John Mitchell collection ap-
peared on the staircase of the Atwill
house in Hollywood.
I don't think you'd get Lionel At
will to talk very much about his part
in "The Secret of Nine. Blanche" but
he'll discuss the merits of George
Morelands Boy With a Flute" which
followed it, plenty. And that deep
the Zoo" brought onto his drawing
room walls the exquisite beauty and
dignity of Gilbert Stuarts Portrait
of a Man" In the same way a
Sir Peter Lely Court Beauty" fol-
lowed the making of the Sphinx"
Then Atwill played the role of the
Uncle in Marlene Dietrich's latest and,
as yet unreleased. picture, Song of
Songs And the Atwills were in close
conference with Frank Ainslie of the
Famous Galleries. I found it was
about Sir Joshua Reynolds Girl With
a Bird" and, sure enough, the rare
Reynolds canvas found an honor place
in the steadily mounting collection Of
the man who makes pictures for the
sake of art
The AtWills are considering Gains
borough at the present time and, as
I write, the news leaks out that the
! actor has been signed for 'The Mystery
of the Blue Room" which Laemmle is
producing shortly. II love my art ~
says Atwill, and it means something
more than the same statement made
continuously by Hollywood actors.
| Ray Henderson, representing Kath-
arine Cornell, wires me: Cornell won't
make talking picture Never has had
! talking picture test solely due her pref
erence for speaking stage. AS she has
great admiration for many film players
productions, will you please correct your
report"
Glad to. and thank Heaven one of
the guild is impewious to the some
what superior sums the gelatin mag
mates offer for an appearance on the
silver screen. Miss Cornell is planning
/ Shakespeare when her season with
Alien Corn" is over, and that, too
indicates a comforting confidence In
the desire of the American public to
see something worth while.
The loWly metronome which made
my childhood thing of horror when ]
had to practice endless scales on the
piano to its inexorable tick, the while
! the mistress of music walked up and
down the hallway outside the glass
cubicles of the practice rooms of ouI
convent, has found its way into pic
! lures.
| One Of the most recently-made mu-
! sical productions as Radio is metro
nomed tc fine finish. Even the play
ers entered to the rhythm of its steady
| tick. And fine tempo was insured by
making all the players metronome-
conscious from the start.
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