Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-17

Or perhaps, dlbeI all, III WIS lile
when the camera is not grinding as
when it is going full blast. The
truth is that there are so many high
lights of first visit to the Santa
Monica film shop that no intelligent
writer would have started story
that way. (After two paragraphs,
though, you've got to keep going,
foul or no foul)
Maybe it was us, which we have
every reason to doubt, but the whole
place struck this spectator as having
the mood of Ritz brothers picture.
The other people around the place, it
teens with people, don't look like the
Ritz brothers. They look like Marjorie
Weaver, who has an uncle in Congress,
even if we didn't have pencil to write
down his name. Or like Tyrone Power.
Or like bunch of chorus girls who
we're stuplfyingly lovely. But they
all act like the Ritz brothers. Even
mechanical horse off in corner of
sound stage 8 had mad, piXilated
look in its glass eyes.
But to get back to Jane, who will
be followed in turn by Tyrone Power,
the Ritz brothers, etc, except Sonia
Henie who is in Norway She was
working in picture called Forty
five Fathers" being made in studio
presided over by what must be the
original Roosevelt policeman. when
Ne heard We were from Washing ton,
he wouldn't let us into the studio
until he told us how much he admired
the President. The speech, evidently
prepared, reaches its climax with the
strong implicit ton that he and his
nine Irish children really elected Mr..
Roosevelt
There, we've lost Jane again. but
that's what day at Fox does for you
At any rate, after Jane got through
With the chimp she brought her
plump ll-year-old self over to prove
that she is a smart and well-polsed
gifl. Without looking the least bit
tactful about it she admitted she liked
critics, that every role she ever has
played is her favorite and that the
only problem she had at the moment
was chimp who was trying to act
like . great star by being tempera-
mental
You can't tell whether he is going
TO play With you or bite YOU" she
said.
That ought to make it thrilling" it
Was suggested.
1t does, sorta, until he scratches"
said Jane. Then 1t Just hurts"
TAKING leaf from the poicemans
book, Jane then launched into
moving recital of how she had wanted
to come to Washington. She did it of
her own volition, too Said she had
heard 1t was most beautiful city,
that a man on the train told her, and
that shes give my life" to visit the
White House
Jane and the Is fathers. together
With the chimp, had to go back to
work at that point, with Jane hoping
to gosh that the chimp would get the
idea OF the sequence this time.
Power, refusing to be temperamental
about those underdone eggs because
he Was too hungry. proved to be an
extremely affable young man. Given
4 chance to be misquoted on any
subject he preferred, he said thanks.
no. that he was not in the mood for
Il today but would We come back to-
morrow and he would have the SUBJ
Jet selected. He regarded the oppor-
sun1ty, he said, as too golden to be
entered into lightly.
1t seems only fair at this point to
reveal the secret that Power is a strik-
tngly handsome young man in
masculine mould. Technicolor, which
u coming 80 fast out here you'd think
they would be throwing up dikes, is
destined to disclose him as a chap with
black hair. blue eyes, and teeth whittier
than . picket fence in MARYLAND.
They are whittier, indeed, than the
teeth in the dreams Of a dentifrice
manufacturer.
Somewhere directly above and
slightly to the rear OF the teeth.
Power has a bright and agile mind
IN which he put the promise of
memory to call us the next night they
are shooting In Old Chicago" That
Is his current film 1t is all about the
Chicago fire and Power thinks it is a
pretty hot spectacle which no visiting
critic should miss
On the way to the Ritz brothers we
stopped off at some of the already
burned district. That around the
shores of Lake Michigan" which is
feet deep and as wide as the old
swimming hole, looks as if it might
Be one of the finer Hollywood holo-
causts
There's a lot of Chicago, however,
st1n to burn. And, the way things
are laid out on the lot at the moment.
you can only hope the fire won't
spread to Bagdad. Out here those
two cities are just around the corner
from each other. no matter how