Evening star., 1937-08-14

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Ia Fitte will make great movie.
One does not talk to March for
more than ~ $40 seconds without
getting the feeling that he is one OF
Hollywood's most friendly citizens in
the higher l. c. brackets. He talks
intelliaently on all subjects from the
probable fate Of democracy to what
svell gent is Washington's Ernie Pyle.
As you talk to him, sitting there on
lean Ia Fitte's front porch looking
through Jeans living room full of
sone $4,000 of silver chests, urns,
thinking how much more romantic
were the pirates Of yesterday than
those Of today.
March no sooner hears you are
from Washington than he comes right
mt with the story that it is one place
he never will forget. When he was
there, living in a ca bin up the Po-
tomac in the Glen Echo Cabin John
neighborhood, he saw man electro
suited by a dangling power wire. IL
left On impression on March as well
as the man. He thinks 1t always Will.
After that. March did not think the
summer place of his Washington
friends was such a pleasant spot IN
which to rest between New York the
strical engagements.
From accidental electrocutions. the
eonversat tion veers around TO Gone
no All lions
out here seem TO go that way, but in
the case of March it is because
great many persons believe he would
he a perfect Rnett Butler. March dis
agrees Clark Gable is his candidate
for the part From the beginning, he
could see no one else.
He would not want to play Rhett
and thinks the actor who does is
going 10 have his mail full Of dis
satisfled customers.
Another reason why March would
not want to play the part is that ne
never liked Scarlet When ne talks
about il. he gives you the. impression
that If he did take the role he might
forget the actress opposite him was
hist a make believe Scarlett and choke
her to death. He feels quite bitterly
about her treatment Of Ashley wilkes.
and every onn else with whom she
ca me in contact. You gather that he
does not like females who are dumb
and mercenarv.
At this point, Francesko Gall comes
over to say in her comparatively &C
centless English that she loved doing
that last scene with March. Miss Gall
who is beautiful miniature OF a
blond may not mean much TO you
now. but she Will. If the prophets out
here, March among them, are right,
her ma me is one you will be using with
She ees divine" long after you have
foreouen now to spell Garbo.
De Mile, who brought her over from
Vienna the could have carried her in
the hip pocket of those riding breecbes
and saved the boat fare), is another
who virtually SWoons when he talks
ot Miss Calls art. She is PLAYING big
part in this picture because the rem
pspt of her Austrian accent is just
TlRUb Iol H. "lOi tllet ''
dissolved. and Miss Gall is working
very hard and enthusia sticsllv on II,
she will play big parts in other pictures
INCIDENTALLY the ease with which
YOU can divert De Mile from the
direction Of 'Buccsnneer' thst spell
ing looks wrong. too, but we're trying
gives the impression that publicity
men out here direct the directors.
Rufus Blair our host and guide. Just
says the press is there, and De Mile
comes right over. On the wav he
pauses just long enough 10 Instruct
the stage crew TO knock down wall
behind which Akin Tamiroh has
just thrown Miss Gail.
The man who thinks OF pictures in
terms as big IS The Ten Command
ments" and The CrusaoeS' fairly ex-
,ndes atfa oility. You are his guest when
m his set. and he makes you feel
completely ut home.
He knows the answers TO ail oues-
irons. sometime. before you finish
them
About stage PLAYERS coming 70 Hol-
lvvood he Saws they are distinct
asset 70 the movies if they do not
come with their Tongues in their
cheeks" II they do that. they SIM
DIV lose their tongues he saws
At IS Ihe inst had birthdavI
o. Miles chief concern is keeping
tn. De Mile viewpoint somewhere
nalt in the future. His most brilliant
SIDE line Of the moment is the radio
theater. and. he is watching television
ike n hawk. Not Just plain hawk.
As he speaks Of his interest you feel
pretty sure that De Mile will be the
maj who does The Ten Command
r-ents' on the radio some day. Along
, with The Outline OF History the
Encyclopedia Brittanics" and other
items in the colossal category. What's
more, YOU feel that he will make
them dramatic enough TO keep you
home listening TO the radio that night.
De Mile is q Snowman who does not
move along with his own times so
much as those which H. G. Wells
sometimes writes about
He is pleasant person TO chat
with, but eventually stage hands get
walls Knocked down and De Mile
goes back 10 work. to the present and
10 the major concerns of Paramount.
But, there's Akin Tamirotf left.
Tsmiroff is uncomfortable 1t is not
so much the nose, which is putty and
looks 50 much like that of W. c.
Fields that his friends cell him w.
c. Tamiroff. but the costume. The
.nsn who learned acting in the hardest
school In the world, the Moscow Art
Thester. feels himself perspiring away
Under the make-believe paunch be Is
wearing
You look fierce" you say TO the
villainous looking aide to La Fitte.
But I have q heart OF gold" he
replies in one of the gentlest voices
1ou ever heard
In the picture, or out?" you ask.
Both" says Tamirof1