Evening star., 1935-03-05

Color. his age is any Ola age.
Since he came to town he has had
exactly four minutes to himself. Yes
terday he was the guest of Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrant during morning
session of the Supreme Court Lunched
out. Met reporters at 3. Still more
at 4. Went to a cocktail party at Mr..
Stones house at 6. Went to cock
tail party somewhere else at 8. Dined
at the Shoreham "a dinner given in
his honor by Mrs. Willebrant and
attended by large group of N. r.
A. 'ers). Went to bed.
In the middle of all that kilograms
poured into his room. He said: Jean
Harlow and Bill Powell are crazy
about each other" He said: The six
days I spent directing Garbo were
swell" He called Hollywood on the
phone, talked to producers, writers.
script girls and Able Technician Doug"
Shearer (Normas brother). He said:
MY vacation will be over Friday
Then he said: But Christmas! could
have gotten more rest if had stayed
in the studio"
Walking nervously about his room,
he talked hurriedly of his past: i was
born in a trunk" he said, you know
theatrical trunk My father died the
week before I was born. My mother
brought me up all by herself. Sure,
I was a trouper. You didn't know
that? Well. I was. And not such
very good one. But got breaks. Lots
of them. A break got me job as one
of a million in one of D. w. Grifhths
films. A break got me job as as
sistant to Director z. A break got me
another break-and finally I got
where I am, which is a commercial
director.
That's what I want to be-a darn
good commercial director. I don't
know beans about art I want to be
in demand, that's all, so that the old
check comes rolling home each week"
(And the old check rolls home very
comfortably to the tune of $4,000 a
week for So weeks out of the year,
with an eight weeks vacation thrown
In for good measure)
Sure" he said, swapping back his
head with that energy which has made
him one of Hollywood's most COM
manding and popular figures (any star
will tell you that it's almost a vacation
in itself to work with Woody sure
I like pictures. But I don't worry
about them. No, sir. When I 60
home at 6-and nobody's going to
make me work later than that
forget pictures till the next morning
I'm not one of these guys that goes
around dreaming about his film. No,
sir. They give me a script and 1 work
hard-very hard during that eight
hours. Then I'm through. No man
should work more than eight hours.
But you got to go like blazes during
that time. No monkey business for
memo, sir"
And here's a funny thing" he
said. between jumping up to open
telegram which bellboy had brought
and attending to the comforts of his
District of Columbia guide, Norman
Pyle, who sat quietly on corner of
the sofa lingering a glass of ice and
water, 'I've never run into what you
people call Hollywood temperament
no, wait a minute did once
nine years ago-with some old star
I've forgotten her name. Anyway, she
Kept coming onto the set at $50 in
stead of 9. So one morning when
she had a scene with minor char
acter. maid. think-I spent that
first half hour giving that maid the
break of her fe-photographed her
all over the place. And when Sis
ter 2 (the starr came in. she was
hardly in the scene at all How
about it, she said. aren't 1 the star
of this picture?' You We're said I,
until o'clock this morning. But
from to $50 you weren't even fea-
tured' That fixed her"
mo" continued the director of 1.-THE
Thin Man." "Forsaking All Others"
ETC., they're a swell lot out there.
All Of them. Powell's prince. Har-
lows a nice kid, too. The boys bet
me that I'd walk off the 'Forsaking All
Others set after three days on ac-
count of Crawford. I never had more
fun with anybody. All she wants is
q square deal and a little kidding.
"Garbo? A nice kid" he said again.
"Shy as a bird. But-when you say
all right. Miss Garbo,' she comes
running out of her dressing room like