The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-04
- M Hollywood.
BY PAUL HARRISON

O4 GAOA G1hnA0Vly
 NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 Hollywood.-An around the lot: fllmland's domestic help problem IS becoming complicated.
 Arthur Preacher, Eric Blore. Ernest Cossart, Herbert Mundin, Charles Butterworth and Wyndham Standing must have thought them selves pretty secure in the buttling business until My Man Godfrey" came alopg, with William Powell conducting a conquest for his em- ployer'S daughter.
 And now look what has hap pened to the buttling and servant problem. Romantic idols are try ing ot monopolize 1t. Charles Boyer, for instance, is a wairter in History Is Made at Night" Rob- ert Taylor maSqueradeS as a but Ter ill Personal Property" Adolphe Menjou is headwaiter in Cafe Metropole," as is Allan Mowbray in
 The King and the Chorus Girl"
 Before that, Bing Crosby was a ships steward in Anything Goes" and Basil Rathbone buttled, though villainously, in Private Number" Loretta Young was servant in that one, too. And mo- body can forget Charles Laugh tons "Ruggles of Red Gap"
 Lady stars don't like roles of that sort, although Janet Gaynor was happy in her part in "Serv- ants Entrance" Marlene Dietrich and Margaret Sullavan were to have been servants in Hotel Inn perial." But Miss Dietrich walked out on the assignment, and Miss Sullavan met with an accident. Youngest Young
 No single generation of a family has done so we'll on the screen as the Youngs. Polly Ann was prom inent when she retired at the time of her marriage to Carter Her. mann.
 Then came Sally Blanc (Betty Jane Young) and Loretta, both of whom now are under contract at Fox. It has been decided now that a fourth sister, Georgiana, who's 12, will be trained for pie lures.
 Tub of the Year
 Mitchell Leisen, the man really responsible for those bathtub scenes in the old De Mile pictures, will have the tub-of- the-year in the pie ture he's directing, Easy Living"
 It measures 15 by 5 feet. Has an upnderslung shower that sprays water upward from the rim. Bather-in-chief: Jean Arthur. Keep Cool!
 Unless they know what it's all about, visitors on film sets here are apt to be mortified by blood curd- ling commands from the head elec- trijian. They may, for instance, herr such macaber yells as:
 '"Take that bulls eye and hit the whole group with it.! Better put barn door on it. No, give me meat ax instead! Kill that junior over in the corner-drop a line boys, we're going to hang bahy!"
 For the benefit of the uninitiat- ed, it's all very innocent-just electricians lingo. A "barn door" is @ light deflector. A meat ax" blocks off a part of the rays from the lamp. Juniors" are small lamps which carry only about 2000-watt bulbs, and baby" means !" small spotlight.
 Slight Mistake
 To show you what can happen to an actor who has been typed too loI.g, here is a true story about a once-d distinguished player whose name won't mention.
 He had fallen, and fallen far, from his prominence of about 10 years ago. Indeed, he was lined up with lot of minor people at a casting office window when Di- rector Charles RieSner glimpsed him and suspected he was just the man for a certain role.
 Riesner took the fellow into his office, talked with him, confirmed his hope, and asked his salary, "Seven-fifty," said the actor.
 Riesner had to battle with few executives to win the assign ment for his man, but he did win it. The former flicker favorite worked nearly a month at $750 a week, then came to the director with tears in his eyes and con- fessed there had been slight mis- take. So lost in Encouragement had he been that when he said Seven -fifty," he meant $7.50 a day-an extras wage.
 By that time, though, he was in a fair way of stealing the pie ture, so they kept him on at the original figure. Today, in his new type role, he gets even more than