Evening star., 1933-01-23

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"Oh where?"
where? Well if you'll excuse me-
Mr.. Franklin rolled the cuff OF
his trousers up gently just above
the top of his sock-"I'n show you
where-and how"
AS he explained, the drama ladies
became more and more excited. So
did Mr.. Franklin. He bounced
around the room in the professional
manner of bullfighter, waving the
handkerchief here and waving it
there, and suggesting by a nod of
the head and such like that the bull
was after him.
Actually, a bun had been there
before. A special bull probably
registered and pedigreed the way
they are in Spain-you know your
bull as much as you do your mata-
dor over there) had stood at atten-
ton with him and been photo
graphed zealously.
Mr.. Franklin gets 5000 a day for
being MI. Franklin. He will get
more than that when he enters
vaudeville. But without his cua-
drilla, picadors and banderilleroS,
and without his bull. he gets 5000
just for being himself-and for be-
ing one of the best bullfighters Gas
Mr.. Hemingway tells you in Death
in the Afternoon") in the world.
But why, people ask, Mr.. Franklin
h theatrical light?
The answer IS that Mr.. Franklin
stayed in Hollywood this Fall in
stead Of going to Barcelona to do his
little bull act. The boy from Brook
1yn heard the call of another Brooklyn
boy eddie Cantor) and preferred to
wave his cloak and his sword in
Hollywood to the beat of clicking
cameras than do the same before
roaring Spanish senoritas.
When you see Mr.. Cantor's "The
Kid from Spain," you will also see
Mr.. Bullfghting Franklin. 1t is said
that when he heard that THE Kid
from Spain" was about to be filmed
he became alarmed. He had heard
that this cinema saga would be q
slight dig at his own career. Rumor
had it that he was going to be made
fun of. So, to stave off some of the
kidding (Which would amount only
to Cantorian kidding), he stepped
of in Hollywood and helped them
with arena props and suchlike and
made himself invaluable. Then it
became apparent that the film would
be doubly important if it could have
the personal services of Mr. Franklin.
Mr.. Franklin is pleasant, honest
young man, who will. tell YOU with
wide, truthful eyes, II do this better
than any one in the world" BY
this he means his cape work-for
which, rather than for the sword
he IS widely and justly famous
Before his small, but eager WASH
polite, graceful and brimful of bull
lighting. He was delighted at being
able to whisk out his handkerchief
and to use it as a cape. He said he
was delighted, too, at being. a movie
actor. He was once just an earnest
Columbia University student who
thought he would be a poster artist.
Like John Barrymore and Gary
Cooper and some of the other matt
nee boys, however, his art dropped
from him after awhile, and bull
fighting and the movies got him.
He looks little like Joseph Shild-
kraut. I'm planning to come to
the opening of The Kid From Spain
here Friday" he said, as he was
leaving. He will twirl his handker-
chief for other cities in the mean
time.
"Daring Daughters"
Presented at tho Rialt0.
IF you like the title of Daring
L Daughters" now being exhibited
at the Rialto, you will probably also
like the film. And then again you
Nyi1l vNNO6otH1vy 1iEn tho
Marsh, two very blonde blondes, who
without exaggeration may be said to
be the worst actresses in Hollywood.
You have only to watch the elder
(Marian), once a quiet Trilby, per-
form in this sad little tale of mod
ern life" to appreciate the fact that
there are still few handsome young
things on the coast who are pretty
but who are vastly in need of at
tending school of dramatic what
nots.
As a matter of fact, this film was
going along in the manner expected
of it (and its title) and was doing
its harmless little tricks quite harm
lessly-with Marian saying caustic
things about men" every minute or
50. and Joan (sister) moping be-
cause she couldn't marry a child Of
21-when along came the hero.
And the hero was doing all right
until suddenly the heroine called
him Edgar
1t has been long time since any
one has had the courage to call a
hero Edgar" If his name was that
on the program the players usually
referred to him as the almost as bad
Eddie" or mumbled a thing-em-a-
bob under their breaths, which could
be construed any old way. Miss
Marsh, however, as she twines her
slender young arms around the
hero's neck, comes out with a def
mite loud Edgar" And at that the
film takes sudden nose dive.
There should be a law passed
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