Evening star., 1934-07-24

With Miss Oliver out Of retirement.
things should be going we'll for Cop
perfieid. One OF these days the long.
long search for the right David" viii
probably come 10 an end.
CPEAKING OF "Copperfleld" reminds
~ us that little, or nothing. has been
said about the man they want for
Uriah Heep. This Is no other than
James Whale the man who "discoy-
cred" Journeys End" and who is by
all odds the best director nov at Uni
versal Studies. Mr.. Whale. who last
season directed The Invisible Man"
and who has an immense respect for
English literature, as you may see If
you browse about his collection OF
book I'm his Hollywood home. Is a
young man with grayish white hair
small, wiry frame blue eyes and the
look OF a schoolboy who Is mildly sur
prised at suddenly having had 70 grow
up. He has no business having that
gray hair since his age Is two-score
years less than old age, and his sense
OF humor is even younger than that.
He used to be a good actor. which
few people recall these days.
Louis Mayer and Author Howard
Estabrooke. even Hugh Walpole. think
that Mr.. Whale would be an extremely
capable Mr.. Heep. And Mr.. Whale
would probably like to undertake the
role--if Carl Laemmle. jr.. and Uni
versal will relinquish him temporarily
from his directorial duties.
FURTHER items on David Cop
4 perfield': Lionel Barrymore will
play Dan Peggotty and Jean Cadell,
a British actress, will be seen as Mrs.
Micawber. Lewis Stone will also be
in the cast.
Apart from the casting of this
Dickens classic. the thing that inter-
ests us most is the care MIG M. is
taking with all the details. For In
stance, In his Office. Howard Esta-
brooke, who Is doing the script and
who went ON that now-famous British
jaunt to get authentic color and
backgrounds" for the film, and he
has a series Of handsomely bound
leather books. We picked one up from
the shelf and turning 1t over re-
marked casually that it was a hand
some addition to any ones library.
Its to be part Of David's library"
said Mr.. Estabrooke, turning our at
tention to the rest of three of four
dozen books, IT collected these to
be used by David in the film. Every
book you see here was printed in Eng
JaNd - thn fiy,nn Da,dd ,stae e.,s,y,aoad
to have lived. Every book here Is
referred to by Dickens, and even that
little school book"--and he pointed to
small tome. rather neatly bound in
brown leather--"is the sort of thing
David would have used at school
I'VE don't, you see," he added with
a grin, want David reading Eiinor
Glynn throughout the filmi"
Johnny PAYETTE. chief barker
of the Variety Club, had to duck
under a table yesterday. This was at
the Variety Club luncheon at the Will
lard, when Sam CALAMITY connected"
with that rubber golf ball which Alex
Morrison had set before him on the
floor. Mr.. CALAMITY took one swing
and the ball went bang" just above
Mr.. Payette's left temple. When 9TH
ers too a poke at this golf ball. Mr.
Payette's end Of the dining room
quietly retired under the table. 9th
ers present yesterday: Bob Hope,
who came with the extremely hand
some Dolores Reed. and John Castel-
ton, the worlds oldest clown"-who
Is still one of the youngest.
Best moment: When Johnny War
ner Bros) Payette, was given as a
present giant Fox "camnaigne' book.
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THANKS are due Madge Evans and
Bob Montgomery for two large
autographed photos which arrived to-
day from Hollywood as reminders of
our recent fling yonder. Also to
Jesse Lasky for those two stills" from
Zoo in Budapest" Mr.. Lasky
sends as friendly token of one of
our favorite films.