Evening star., 1933-10-27

WdIlI WIVlI 6ICdoC PalllV, 1IVI VA
to a simple something in vivid {
you. She talked about the theate
Is almost too cunning to be tru
five minutes from Exit" Cornell's
new play and the fact that the
Il shall go back to Hollywood" she
said, really only because my good
friend Irving Thalberg has bought
What Every Woman Knows for me.
I've always wanted to do this on the
screen. And now shall. Not in Feb
ruary-no-Im supposed to go then.
But l think they will grant me leaway
June. l don't dislike Hollywood. No
not the way some Of the stories say
do 1 like the films. But think it is
and then to maintain kind of balance.
Hollywood makes you little lopSided
The reason l didn't care for it last year
was because 1 was forced into a lot Of
things I didn't want to do-things like
Night Flight and 'Son-Daughter.
When I go out in June, it will be diff
ferent. Mr.. Thalberg is seeing to that.
I shall be terribly happy doing the
Barrie play for pictures"
Miss Hayes seemed extremely happy
even at the thought of playing What
Every Woman Knows" She smiled
that heartening Hayes smile, and even
though she was tired, even though a
friendly group of cousins, managers,
maids and possibly electricians warned
her that her voice needed rest and
quiet she talked quickly and eagerly
and with that tremulouSnesS which she
uses with even more effect when she
wants her audiences to cry.
Only one thing worried her. After
MARY of Scotland" what next?
I admit" she said, that after play
ing in this play, which is the best Of all
good things, the future is frightening.
What more could I possibly ever hope
for?"
She also advised us to read Eric Link
later's book on Mary Stuart. That,
said Miss Hayes, sis the best OF the
books about Mary. It's small, but it's
splendid.'
4 FEW minutes after we had left Miss
"A Hayes last night-a small army
outside still waiting to see her-some
kind of a gong must have rung, and
the town turned Mae West. The streets
were filled with anxious people trying to
get into the Palace, where I'm No
Angel was ringing up its cinema cur
tain, or into the Fox where the left
over throng was taken care of. No such
midnight premiere has ever been seen IN
Washington.
One theater wasn't enough for Mae
she had to have two.
While Miss Vests new film Is too
long it Is still vibrant chronicle Of
Mae West speeches and torch songs,
interspersed with the kind Of theater
that she knows best. AS flaming lady
lion tanner who is unafraid to thrust
her face into the jaws of a lion, she is
what has been called "a tempting dish
and one that gentlemen, particularly,
will not want to stay away from.
Miss West applies her love potions
with even more fury than she did in
"She Done Him Wrong" There IS
scarcely a line which doesn't have two
or three or four or five or six meanings.
Any one you choose to take will leave
YOU satisfied. Although some OF the
frisky words of the songs have been
deleted. what is left are the lady's eyes
and voice. and the roll of her walk, and
the way she can stand at attention and
still make a ditty seem hotter than it Is.
I'm No Angel is the kind OF a pic
ture that fans anticipated AS an up
to-date lion lady who spends, however,
more time with gentleman acquaint-
ances, Miss West is exactly as her public
wants her to be. She is helped again,
too, by that pleasant actor, Cary Grant.
and by cast which seems unafraid OF
its heroine.
The film is for every one-except pos
sibly straight-laced Auntie Min from
Boston's Backbay, who may not know
what it's all about.
x x X
A SERIES of pictures sent from New
n York yesterday BY Charles p
Greneker, the shubert press mogul. in.
dicate that Irene Purcell and conrad
Nagel are coming To the National the
week of November 13 in we Meet
Again. and that the -.Fo1lies" are now
almost a certainty at this same theater.
One of the pictures says: FANNIE
Brice-1iegfeld Follies' s''-which points
to something or other-even without
further printed matter.
X X
THE Foreign Cinema League is thriv-
ing. Word comes this morning
from Robert T. Patterson that 1t Will