The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-28

pictures. The cameras really do
not do her justice. She did an act
with George Brent and acted as
though she were really stuck on
him at the time. Brent impressed
me as a real Irishman until later
I read in the fan magazine stories
about he and Ruth Chatterton
and Ruth's ex-husband, Ralph
Forbes, all dining together so
often and being supremely happy.
Such taffy. can't understand
such glorious understanding. 1t
Just didn't jibe with Georges in
vitation to split a barrel Of beer
with him some time.
Jean Speaks Up
I would like to meet Jean Har-
low again. That sounds like the
title of o song but I mean it. The
platinum blonde is very regular
and speaks out. Her personal ap-
pearancc at Loew's Palace still
sticks with me as a pip. Bert
Frohman walked out and gave
Jean the grandest kind Of a build
UP. "She really wasn't a hard
boiled girl. No indeed, that was
all screen stuff. Instead she was
one of the incest little ladies in
the world. The toughneSs was as
sumed for the camera, etc." Then
out walked Jean in a raviShing
white gown. In another minute
she went into one of the red hot
black-out SkitS that Earl Carroll
likes. Was grandma surprised?
Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon. A
Hollywood couple who I think are
really on the level about being
ideally mated.
George Burns and Oracle Allen.
Another married couple whom I
watched climb from a standard
$6O0-a-week vaudeville act into
very big money. They're still the
same. Nice people.
Stone Is Gentleman
Lewis Stone. A gentleman, sub,
of the Chesterfield school. I only
saw him in one picture where he
looked self-conscious and hammy.
It was a mystery picture where he
acted with flock of crocodiles.
Said Mr.. Stone : II didn't know
until went on the set just what
lines I was to speak in that pic
ture. We made up the dialogue
as we went along" Easy to talk
to and he looks younger off the
screen than on it since his face
has very few lines.
Joan Blondell and George Barnes.
I take 'em together because they
were together all the time when
they played the Earle. I played
straight for Joan in a radio inter
view and she's a fast worker at
the mike. On the @. T., I made
up my mind that if Joan and
George ever had a quarrel after
the honeymoon was over it would
probably be about the kitten she
was ga-ga about. Now they have
a baby so the cat has its place in
the back yard.
Walter Huston. George M. Co.
han calls Walter the greatest liv-
ing actor and he says the same
thing about George M. Hard to
be referee in this debate. Mr..
Huston handed me the biggest
surprise of my interviewing life
when he told me that he had
never read Sinclair Lewis book,
Ann Vickers." although he acted
the lead male role opposite Irene
Dunno. I have been interviewing
him since he was a vaudeville
hoofer and he has never changed.
A gentleman and a scholar.
Favorites Repeat
Barbara Stanwyck, Edmund
Lowe. Victor MacLaglen, Charlie
Farrell, Lupe Velez, AL Jolson,
Dick Powell, Hugh Herbert, Polly
Moran, Irene Dunno, Eddie Can
tor, Fred Astaire, Will Rogers, Ed
die Robinson, Henry Armetta and
Mae West. Each has a vivid page
in my memory archives jotted
down after personal contact.
If any of 'em wear a high hat
they put it away when they
played Washington. Some gained
little by their personal appear
ances. Others lost. You can be
sure Of this. Those names that
the managers would like to put
up again on the marques are
those that the Washington public
liked.
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