Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-01-08
Who Will Take Marlene's
Place in Cinema Colony?
With Both Carlo and Dietrich Threatening to Quit
Hollywood Forever. the Producers Are
Employing Other Foreign Stars.
By Mollie Merrick.

r OLLYWOOD, Calf, January z.
If the Marlene Dietrich
Josef Won Sternberg schism be-
L comes a permanent thing, with
the star returning to her own
country and the German-made prod
uct, there will be left prominent niche
in the star gallery.
Who W.. occupy the place vacated
IN Hollywood should Marlene Dietrich
really leave this country and this in
dustry in California?
The beautiful actress and her studio
are telling their respective stories to
a Judge, having failed to arbltrate their
troubles through the Academy OF MO
ton Picture Arts and Sciences. Aside
from a judgment and the winning OF
nearly SOC, 600 damages, which might
happen for Paramount, the most inter-
esting question is this: How firmly
entrenched in the American heart is
Marlene Dietrich and will the film fans
OF this country be satisfied to allow her
a return to the German-made pictures,
Of which Blue Angel was their one
glimpse?
Another interesting angle of this stu
alton is the fact that Marlene Dietrich
was not Josef Won Sternberg'S first
choice for Blue Angel" He had
cabled Hollywood for two other players,
and neither of them could come due
to contract arrangements here. Then,
depressed and desperate to find a type
suitable for the girl in the strange
story, he dropped into German the
ater one night to look at an actor who
had been recommended to him Tor
character role. He found instead Mar
lene Dietrich, practically unknown
hnr tho lpo6-
ing role in the Emil Jannings film.
The first the Paramount Film Corpo-
ration heard of Dietrich was when Won
Sternberg cabled them he had new
find and would like to bring her to
America to make pictures on their lot.
A great press party was given to in
troduce the latest beauty find. Bland
and blonde and beautiful she stood in
a ring of press agents and greeted the
guests with her slow monosyllabic ut
teranceS, which have come to be SO
familiar to the pictures going public.
She wore a 1arkspur blue chiffon gown
which trailed the floor and a large hat
of fiesh-coIored horsehair which gave
her face the symmetrical purity of a
Incrning-glory blossom. But the press
verdict cruelty expressed, was: Those
German hips-they'n never, never do.
Ana tIlaJ G6IiIdH grin! oO La O4Ct-
rich was reduced down to camera size,
which, as every one knowns, is about
10 to Is pounds below normal light
weight according to the build Of the
person.
From her first American-made pic
cure she was a sensation. Had it not
been for the presence of Carlo in Hol-
5ywood she would have been the most
dramatic sensation of picture history.
AS it was, she gave the Garboites some
doubtful moments and gave the rival
producers many headache because of
her mounting popularity. She is con-
sidered one of the most difficult actresses
in Hollywood to interview; she has been
known to lapse into silences so pro-
found that Peter the Hermit himself
would be embarrassed.
But this has taken place only when
the interviewer has poached on what
she considered forbidden ground-the