Evening star., 1935-08-03
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.

HOLLYWOOD, August 3.-Paul
Cavanaugh, who, I hear, will do a
play on the New York stage this
Winter, Is one Hollywood actor about
whose private life little is known.
Cavanaugh, who was a figure Of
importance on the English stage be-
fore coming to Hollywood, won high
mathematical honors in his univer-
sity life, He is, in addition, thor
oughly musical person, having rare
comprehension and appreciation of
all forms of music and playing the
piano exceedingly well,
When he is weary, instead of turn
ing to Sc detective story. which is
the traditional recourse of the tired
business man, Cavanaugh attacks a
problem in higher mathematics and
emerges from the struggle thoroughly
refreshed and with all his business
cobwebs blown away.
Nelson Eddy is quite q practical
joker. He has a crisp personality. a
| degree of humor and a unquenchable
small boys spirit of fun.
When he came to this coast, one
| Of the firms for which he had made
records presented him with a COM
| plete recording outfit. Nelson Eddy
always goes over his numbers in this
fashion, listening carefully to get the
finest effects in reproduction.
But he has lot of fun with his
machine out of working hours. He
gets together his friends of the
broad-a persuasion and starts a lively
argument. Just when the fury is at
it's height Nelson Eddy gives his serv-
ant a signal and the recording be-
gins. Then, when the smoke has
blown away, it gives this mischief
lover great delight to run the record
for his guests, showing them how
"hawf" becomes half" under stress
and strain and how many a good
"awfter" goes right into good old
Americanese "after" when they are
trying to put a point over. 1t is
to the credit of most professionals
that they take such jokes on them
selves with very good grace indeed
They might as well >. there's very
little else to do.
Nothing will change so much as
the Western picture in its current
revival. The cenSorS have prepared
a few new laws which will amaze
and amuse. First, the old plot, where
the sheriff was in league with the
/ outlaws, and the hero crept out into
the moonlight one inspirational night
just in time to find Noah Beery (the
| favorite heavy sheriff of those days.
rustling the cattle into his own cor
raj, must go. No more bad-man sher-
ifs. When the arm of the law comes
into the picture, it must be straight
Then, the shooting of the sheriff S
/ gun-or the hero'S gun-cannot take
place in the same frame with the
drop of the villain. That is, you
must see the gunshot first. Then
there may be a cut to the victim
writhing on the ground in pain. 1t
seems this makes quite a difference
in the moral.
They can say in dialogue, well,
we branded that steer with the ABB
brand" or whatever it may be. but
they cannot show the soaring Of the
flesh because of action by the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to AMI
mails.
Another ruling says that you may
not show an outlaw hanging from a
tree Now, the famous finale of all
old-time Westerns was the picture
Of the outlaw dangling from a giant
oak while the cowboys, taut rope
wound around saddle pommel, rode
away in business-like hangman fash
ion. I suppose the society for the
prevention of cruelty to actors is TAX
ing care of this one :. at any rate
it's verboten.
So our Westerns will take on an
other color and flavor. If they allow
the broad, open stretches of the coun-