The Washington times., 1937-12-04
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By ED SULLIVAN
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 4.


Francis, cured up a couch of the Donald Ogden
Stewards library My dad and mother gone there
probably the most unusual of business deals Dad always
the of the magnificent gesture had heard could
buy the Sioux Indian ponies thousands Of en- for polo
He had planned to nicely just how many ponies he'd keep
for his string and how many he'd and how much
money he'd make. He got out there his dollar and
learned that the Government controlled the whole shebang
So while he and mother wondering do Okla
homa City, when you're broke born In the meantime
he became the manager Of local hotel that solved
immediate problem of and board
SGNIOTHNG feazed mother the darling She'd been an ac-
AN tress with the first DAILY Company She came from
Chicago father from little outside Detroit
They were married New York the Little Church Around
the Corner 1t because of her stories of the that
wanted to get in it. became actress as result
of divorce and finances Margaret and myself were
turning from Europe the old Lapand the closer
got the Statue of Liberty the certain became
that needed job. had lot of clothes (T bought
the places that copied the famous modstes
Margaret and figured out that the only place to
clothes and the ability to them the theater"
TJER first stage jobf "Al Woods, when we met said:
IL Sweetheart you're just the type for Poppy Shanghai
Gesture I'd told him, meanwhile, lying furously that
had played stock City in amateur Shake
spearean companies He asked read the part and
was very Dao sweetheart, Sald home and get
the out of your voice. The day knew the jig
up demanded that he get Mrs Leslie Carter poor
DEAR to read her part with I'll call your bluff he said
amused at my nerve and o'clock that afternoon
her apartment You're too TALL three inches tall
told me- In the last act when kill you would look rdicu
lous for little to attempt -a canary chasing
thecat idea happy that didn't have to read the
part her and John Cotton that delighted at the bad
news"
TToWD she get into pictures' "t while was play
IA ing in ELMER the Great with Walter Houston on
Broadway He had signed with Paramount and he asked
to come and take tes silent The studio and
Walter raved it, but when myself on the screen
thought looked horrible and 10 days. hid on Long
Island Finally mother got the phone and said:
Kay, Paramount is offering you for $500 week
with fveweek guarantee And rushed back to town
for $780, would have jumped off the Woolworth Build
ing Then caught cold and could hardly talk. Millard
Webb all for throwing of the cast chroprac-
tor got me shape by cracking neck but my voice
deep that sounded like Ethel Barrymore They liked it so
much that they wanted me to keep my cold foolng
AS he often reported the former social secretary
w to Mrs. Dwight Morrow9 NO. was secretary to the
two elderly ladies who handled tax for Mrs Morrow
Mrs Vanderbilt Mrs Pratt and lot of other wealthy
That during the sxmonh period was getting my
first divorce and needed job"
JER most amusing recolections: playing the heavy
IL with the Marx Brothers in the film version of Cocoa
nuts Chico pulled lingerie out of hat Harpo me
all the SCREEN Groucho wresed with me- When they
talk of dgnifed Kay Francis think back pratt
falls that with the Marx Brothers, and have NICE
quiet gggle" Her first Broadway stage play: "Hamlet
in dress It didn't last long, Her favore pictures
II think One-Way Passage" Had any person contributed
to her than any ese Ye she said IT think
ID On-
confidence than anybody ee They the only who
always believed capable of playing leads Ny first
in Street of Chance and in it for the first me my
hair long up to then, I'd worn it short"
NY regrets eyes, I'm sorry that haven't the amazing
"A had when about 49, that first trip to AL
Woods office Ed if had that much gall now Hollywood
wouldn't pay any attention to arbo I'd make her look like
bushng violet I'd just sweep through this town. people
would be overpowered by sheer that they'd
bow and saaam to in the streets"