Evening star., 1935-10-27
Barbara Stanaoyck has shot
ter aVay into nezO role she proceed
her craftsmanship and ouU be the
eAnnie Oakley Of the films.
If nev helping Of fame tor this
orphan girl sOhose charm
took her from home/essuey to
mozve Sta,uom
by JIM FULLY
AmA0r Of "Beggars Of Life" "Shndosos Of Men,"
Amhor Of "Beggars Of LJe," "Shndosos Of Men,"
"Jarnegan," Etc.

picture star of the first magnitude
who ever shot her way to a role in a
0 feature film.
Competing with half dozen famous screen
luminaries for the title role of annie Oakley
in the new R.k.O screen drama, which de-
picts the life of the noted leading woman of
Buffalo Bills Wild West Show, she not only
won the role but the title of Bulls Eye
Barbara
Under the tutelage of Captain A. H. Hardy,
champion trick shot of America, and using
rifle of the 1885 vintage, to conform with the
time element in the film she hit the target
twenty-five out of twenty-five times.
Other elements also entered into her Sc
lection for the coveted role of the most color
full woman of the eighties She-has daring and
charm and the poise which comes from perfect
self-assurance.
The little girl from the slums of Brooklyn
went a far way because her soul had wings.
She is the most genuine girl have ever known.
Her life is an interesting book, any page
of which she can turn with considerable pride.
There is something exalting and thrilling
about the struggle Of this orphan girl
once said to her. a half dozen years ago:
i've never been ashamed of my background
my father was a ditch-digger"
She took my arm. I'm in society then, Jim
mine was bricklayer"
thought for moment of the two laborers
who had been our fathers, and who, inarticu-
late as ghosts. had passed on to two red
headed children the gift Of life and utterance.
Barbaras eyes were wistful Thank God
we're both Irish" she said
In the opinion of Lewis Milestone, the
famous director OF IAN Quiet on the Western
Front Barbara Stanwycks performance in
Villa Gathers "A Lost Lady" is one of the
best of recent years. Adolphe Menjou. an
actor of discrimination with whom she played.
has predicted that if given the proper roles,
the one time waf will emerge as one of the
screens greatest actresses.
1t is my opinion that no actress on the
screen can surpass her if she is given the
breaks" turbulent fire, she would make an
IMMORTAL Tess of the D'Urbervilles or Joan
of Arc, in agony at the stake.
Her real name is Ruby Stevens. She took
the name of Stanwyck from an ancient theater
program. 1t was the name of pompous
English actor, distinguished in his little day.
That it was to be carried to the far places of
he world by little girl who thought it
sounded pretty" is one of the ironical whim-
sizes of life.
While Barbara was little girl her mother
was pushed from moving street car by
drunken stranger. About to bring a fifth child
into the world, she was killed by the fall The
stranger was not found.
Barbara's father tried to keep his children
together. The struggle told upon his nerves.
AT last. in desperation, he went to the Panama
Canal Zone, where he remained six years as
bricklayer
During this time his four children were
scattered in orphanages and the homes of diff
ferent people.
Barbara, the youngest, with finely chiseled