The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-02
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actors soon VIII DC WuuSulk home from the country playhouses, ready for whatever theatricals may come their way.
 But the literary folk who write the Rialto's shows apparently prefer the high hedgeyows and fresh-mown lawns until they can get their plays done. Maxwell Anderson does his best wrok in Q tumble-down shack far back of the house In the country. Rachel Brothers works amidst . pastoral Connecticut setting where she makes her home. Sinclair Lewis retired to Q recluses's hideout tn the Berkshires while he wrote Q new play which 6 reported to be anti-communistic.
 Most stage scriveners, In fact, choose hill and dale. Excursion ists to Bucks County. Pa., say that there are more playwrights, per sore. in that part of tho farm country, than in any other eastern pasturage. Among the farm own- CTS thereabouts arc George s. Kauf- man, Moss Hart, Sam and Bella spewack (they wrote Boy Meets Girl" and "Vogues of i9SS"), Edwin Justus Mayer, Pearl Buck, Dorothy Parker and her husband, Alan Campbell, Bayard Veiller's son, An. thony, Q well-known Hollywood scenaF!st, LilNan Hellman and Ed- no Ferber. Do they attend to tho crops, too2 They do, and besides writing shows, they also raise chickens and goats.
 { Few countrysides within distance of New York bemoan the absence of . dramatist. Sidney Kingsley ("Dead End") tells friends that he will hibernate at his country farm until his next show is fiia- ished. Phil Dunning and George Abbott like the woodlands while Ideas germinate in their heads. IT, win Shaw, the brilliant young author of Bury the Dead" bought a country place with the first pro- ceeds of his Hollywood toll.
 Paternity @
 Disziest of the weeks yarns is that of the playwright who had one of his dramas made into . movie. He saw . preview of 1t the other day and, afterward, congratu' lated the producer.
 "It's c great movie" he exclaimed, "but where did you get the storyp"
 Don't you recognize it?" quer- jed the film nlogul. Its from your play. ~ H
 T think it's a terrific idea," coun- tered the writer, do you mind if use 1t for a new play?"
 Its 0. k. with me on one con- dition," replied the magnate, you've got to let me have the screen rights" :si4, ~.
 Daily Dozen Dancer
 Now being groomed as a Prince Charming and polished Lover ct the Cinema is George Murphy, who danced his way through several New York shows before the film scouts picked him up. If his eE1l. ployers look into 1t, by the way, they will find that George Murphy's father was the famous "Old Mike, 1" the first professional trainer of col- lege athletics and coach of at least five Olympic teams.
 It was "Old Mike" who inad- yertently made q dancer of his boy. For he had a theory that dancing was swell to harden up the muscles and compelled his beef-brigade to do a graceful gavotte throughout the entire training period. He made his son, George, do the same while he Iaajored in football, baseball track, crew and ballroom dancing, Since "Old Mike" could make no practical suggestions after his son'i graduation, Georges dancing legi grayitated in the natural direction of the show business. He'll soon turn up in "BEoadway Melodies oi &433