Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-25
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| New York, Nov. 25-She's the 1887
model movie star. Her brakes work
and there's something under the hood
besides empty cylinders.
The prophets say her type will be
| the vogue from now on. They may
be right If the factories can turn
out products like Olivia DeHavilland
| it would be a shame to go back to
} horse-and-buggy days-when it was
! necessary to send boy to the circu-
! lating library on the corner whenever
| a publicity picture showing the star
| among her books she loves so " ell'
! was about to be taken.
Olivia was, and 1 have told you
in a recent column, born in Toxic.
! She came to America at the age Of
one and half. Since then she has
been a resident of the State of Cali
fornia, My recent tea-time visit was
so interesting I thought you would
like to hear more about this extraor-
binary girl.
''New York is a wonderful play
ground" she said. "It is full of play
boys and playgirls and penthouses
and sables and glittering frou-frou.
Hollywood is workingwoman's town.
Staid. Sedate. Hollywood is 9
o'clock town. It's a place where
values remain constant. But New
York;"
! She raised her unplucked eyebrows.
OF course she was kidding, but not
much. She was really reversing the
old decisions about Hollywood, for to
her Hollywood is WOrkingWoman'S
town.
Men?
Men are unnecessary right now
l was never in love in nv life. 7
never met man who seemed to me
worth chucking my career for And
1 would chuck it."
She grinned. Miss DeHavilland
knows how to grin. That, in Holly
wood, is a great asset. For they say
that although you can take a street
gamin and make her into the great
! star with onyx bathtubs and fifty
super-super pictures behind her. you
can always tell where she came from
when she starts to grin. And you
hear the rumble of the elevated
trains and get the echolalias of cold
water flats when she laughs outright.
Olivia, connected with the DELAY
Inland family of English airplane
manufacturers, merchants and pub
llc-school masters, did not have to
employ tutor to show her the trick
With the fork and the peas when she
ascended to glory in Hollywood
She looks little like Janet Gavnor
Off the screen, except that her hair
Is not red, she has no freckles and
she is twenty years old. She thought
she was going to be a school-teacher.
But once out of the ugly duckling
stage it became obvious that she
would never succeed as a schoolmarm
the students wouldn't be able to keen
their minds on their lessons if she
taught any class above the fifth grade
She can read. The press-agent who
towed me into the presence had pre-
sented her with a copy of A. E.
Housaman's poems, which she wanted
at the moment more than anything
else in the world. The press-agent said
this saved the company money, for
a copy of book of poetry costs less
than a case of gin.
We got back to men.
"Ncw take Enrol Flynn" she said.
Mr.. Flynn plays opposite her in "The
Charge of the Light Brigade" and al
so played with her in "Captain
Blood their first big hit "ErroPs
grand. He doesn't care about anything
or anybody. He really doesn't care.
He thinks I despise him but don't
think he's grand 9g
Enrol is the only actor ever
knew who has had a romantic life.
He was down in the South Seas on a.
copra plantation. He didn't see al
white man for months and months on
end. When the natives went haywire
on Saturday night and carved each
other up with Knives Enrol operated
and took off an arm or a leg as the
occasion demanded. There's romance
for YOU.
us Mr.. Flynn your idea of a MANI"
Nov listen," said Miss DeHavil-
land. Don't start that. know what
you're driving at Enrol is married.
(Remember, this was before the
break0 He's very much married to-
Lii Damita. And even if he weren't,
I'd never think of him Economically.
But 1 like him, purely platonically.
He's beautiful and he's beautifully
unprincipled. He does what he wants
to do. Did you read his article in
Cosmopolitan
| allowed that I had
Olivia repeated: "Men are unneces-
saryt to me now. Don't. mention any