The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-10
Paul Harrison in hollywood
England Sends 'Chahming' Isabel Jeans,
 Who May Stick Around Hollywood Awhile
She'll Do the Fluttering
 in the Movie Version <
 of 'TOvariCh' :.
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service stan Correspond

l INGA SCIVACO 0s~M Ft tOUNkGDRVAhSACuS
 Hollywood. You know what Eng lishmen often will say when you've introduced" "Chahmed, I'm surel"
 Well, that's what Isabel Jeans said to Hollywood, and Hollywood is replying in kind The screen col- ony really is charmed by Miss Jeans because she is such an eminently distinguished actress and such a regular person. So frank. Quitel
 When she came here to hutter in Warner Brothers "Tonight's Our Night" the film version of "Tov- arich," Miss Jeans answered many questions with complete candor, and voluntarily revealed that she is charter nnember-THE charter charter member, really-of the Claude Rains matrimonial guild.
 She was the first of MT. Rains
 five wives. They were divorced
 in 1918, and for 17 years she has
 been the wife of Gilbert Edward
 Wakefield, the noted Gin England)
 barrister.
 Attractive, Poppy
 As I said, Miss Jeans is here to do a job of huttering, somewhat in the Spring Byington or Alice Brady manner. But on the stage in England she didn't play many silly, giggling roles. She played every thing. Indeed, her record of play and screen credits occupies more than page in "Who's Who in the Theater."
 She seems much too attractive
 and poppy to have rolled up such list of accomplishments over so many telltale years. She is fairly
 tall and weighs "a bit over eight stone" (l24 pounds, actually, and wears her hair something like Louise Rainer's.
 The actress was born in Lon-
 don, daughter of an art critic, and , planned to become singer. But ? Sir Herbert Tree changed her mind 7 by giving her an acting job at 15. 7 Since then she has appeared g with almost everybody count , ing Noel Coward, Ivor Novello and Englands latest gift to the Shakespearean dray.ma, John
 Gielgud. Once she was directed by Bernard Shaw.
 . This "Tovarich" thing marks hei American movie debut, but she play ed in about 10 English films.
 Anton Litvak, the director
 brought her from London for the current picture, and now she's here she thinks she may stick around awhile.
 Miss Jeans likes the cinema very
 much. Oh, defnitelyl She likes Gary Cooper and Greta Garbo and Miss
 Rainer and Charles Boyer and Les
 lie Howard.
 l She also likes bacon and eggs, horse racing and poker. Plays 8 l fine game of poker. Not once in her life has she tried to fill an in- side straight, or has she ever drawn two cards to flush except
 when she was bluffing. t She has a big, expensive cal v which she drives fast. Also two pet. . "a cat named Wendy that likes tt } go swimming in the bathtub, and ( parrot named Jacques that speak! 2 only French.
 Funereal Interlude
 The movie colony is snickering al
 a story which, true or not, is tole
 about Fay Garnett: The director
 attended the funeral of a Holly. , wood acquaintance who in life hac j, very few pals and who certainly wa, |. no better than he should be. But the kindly minister deliver
 ed glowing eulogy, extolling i. virtues which nobody ever had ;, thought of attributing to the de-
 ceased. After half an hour of this Gar , nett got up, walked to the casket , and peered into it. The startled
 minister paused, and Garnett ex. plained.
 He said, Pardon me - just , wanted to be sure I had come te
 the right funeral"