Evening star., 1936-05-31

parade.
MISS HEPBURN deserves credit
for her ability to stick. Lesser
personalities would long since have
called it day and plunged themselves
Into limitless gloom after the slaps of
fortune they had received.
There is nothing so cruel as being
laughed at in the theater. Miss Hep
burn has heard the thin echo of
voiced unkindness-seenh hands cupped
together in derision-watched dis
pleased patrons walk out under her
very nose.
And yet, strangely enough, for all
the woe caused by her Broadway per-
formance in The Lake" there is
scarcely a soul here who saw her on
the opening night of this play at the
National that hasn't a good word to
say for her.
On that night, and apparently on
that night alone, she rose to the
occasion with a superb show of cour-
age which she was never able to cap
ture again. She was Scared-but her
acting temperament outWitted her
fears-and she spoke her words against
q cast that was hostile this because
old timers saw no reason for all the
shouting and resented being stuck in
the shade) and carried herself with
dignity and restraint up to the bitter
end.
N7ARNER BROS. have announced
Nv that the services of Robert
Montgomery have been secured to
appear opposite Olivia de Havilland
in 1.-The Marriage Clause" from a
story by Rupert Hughes. The pic
ture will go into production about
the middle of July. The original
title of Mr.. Hughes story was Sec
ton 213," as it is based on the Fed
eral regulation prohibiting the en-
ployment of both husband and wife
by the Federal Government 1t is
expected that Mr.. Montgomery and
Miss de Havilland will be one of the
strongest romantic co-starring teams
that the screen has known.
"A WIRE from the Warner Bros.
studios in California says that
Enrol Flynn, Bette Davis and Ian
Hunter will head the cast of a pic
ture entitled Another Dawn" soon
to go into production. Laird Doyle has
written the story on which the film
will be based. Enrol Flynn is now at
work in the starring role of THE
Charge of the Light Brigade" op-
posite Olivia de Havilland. The date
when production of Another Dawn"
is to begin will be determined very
shortly.
THE maiden voyage of the Queen
- Mary will play an important role
In Samuel Goldwyn's forthcoming
production of the Sinclair Lewis
Sidney Howard Work, "Dodsworth."
Arrangements have been completed
with the British government and the
Cunard- White Star Line to utilize the
arrival and docking of the giant liner
for the picture in which Walter Hus-
ton ana Ruth Chatterton will be
starred.
The two stars, accompanied by Di-
rector William Wyler, will fly from
Hollywood to New York in Miss Chat
terton's plane. board the Queen Mary
at Quarantine, film their scenes and
fly back to the film capital.
Permission is now being sought by
Mr.. Goldwyn to engage Capt. Sir Ed
gar Britten, commodore of the Queen
Mary, for an appearance in the film,
speaking the lines of dialogue at
tributed to the captain in the script.
JAMES STEWARDS tap dancing
lessons haven't been in vain, for
the actor has been cast in the leading
male role in Eleanor Powell's musical,
Easy to Love-" Stewart took tap
dancing to build up his weight and
thus received one of the choice roles |
of the season as the sailor who be-
comes involved in too many romances |
His selection not only forms a new
romantic screen team, but also a new
comedy trio, that of Stewart, Buddy |
Ebsen and Sid Silvers. Frank Morgan |
and Una Merkel have also been cast |
In the musical, for which Cole Porter |
wrote the music and which Roy Del |
Ruth is to direct.