Evening star., 1933-08-20

1t doesn't take long to get Into the
thick of things. We are at the Warner
Brothers studios by IL. Excitement
there as Elliot Roosevelt is meant to
be arriving-in quest of screen career.
Right away We run into Dick ("F'orty-
Second Street) Powell. Says he: How
is Maxine Doyle?" and at once We feel
at home.
In another minute our guide and
welcomer (Robert Hussey) has landed
us on the Ruth Chatterton Female"
set. 1t is as vast as the waiting room
of Washington's Union Station. In the
center is a pool filled with blue water.
Around the pool are terraces, and on the
terraces sit SO or so extras IN evening
dresses and bathing suits zone of those
party scenes in which you can be cor
rect" in either. Miss Chatterton sits
quietly on the sidelines talking to her
manager while her "stand-in" cher
double) poses before the camera.
Item: George Arliss calls his stand
in" his "step-in.")
There is buzz, hum, a kind OF
studio roar as preparations are made
for the next scene. Then the director
cries "Quiet!" the assistant director
cries Quiet. please!" the assistant
assistant director cries a few more
"quiets"-Miss Chatterton rises-drapes
herself neatly over dancing partner,
waits with an expressionless expression
for the final word. and the. as the
director cries Camera" suddenly
blooms into life, dances three steps to
the right, two steps to the left. leaves
her partner-rlIns down the terrace
and-"Cut!" cries the director and the
take" is over.
The scene has taken about IS Sec
onds. That Is the average length Of
any scene.
Miss Chatterton looks well in make
up. Very much herself Handsome,
except for her little snub nose which
throws her profile out of kilter. A
little aloof She doesn't talk to any
one on the set unless she has to. Peo-
pie seem rather afraid of her.
els C"House on 56th Street, set. The
interiors are very fine. New York
transplanted cold" to Hollywood Miss
Francis Is working on a short, hospital
bedside scene with John Halliday. She
has trouble because her tall. plumed
1905 hat sits all over her nose. The
director can take only corner of her
face. But when she looks up into the
lights and the nose is completely &C
counted for. we see her as we have seen
her a hundred times on the screen
handSOme-mOre than that-really Sne
is one of the not by any means rare
Hollywood beauties.
Reluctantly we go to lunch.
There, however, We are regaled by
sight of and word with the Cagney
brothers and the McHugh brothers
(there are three McHughs). We say to
Jimmie: Haven't seen you since you
did your little in person hoofing act
at the Earle" He almost throws a
plate at us-in nice way. He is wait
ing to receive some visiting geologists
from Washington, D. C.. Funny thing
says Publicity Maestro George Thomas.
"all scientists want to meet Cagney."
Richard Barthelmess drifts in-small
rather round -shouldered, sort of dried
up looking. He is having story trouble
so he doesn't look very happy. He
doesn't look very happy anyway.
Tour after lunch: Visit the Paul MUM
("The World Changes'O set. Very COM
DETERMINATIONS details. Watch DON
aid Cook, Margaret Lindsay Patricia
Ellis and Theodore Newton go through
their PAGES Visit the enormous store
rooms, where yoL can see any piece OF
furniture of any period and design in
the world-also silver, busts, draperies,
pictures. china, glassware, armor, duck
squashes, etc Run into slimly-clad
ladies running around the studio