The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-08

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 They. came back on freight CT, were @ days en route, and got so used to being alone that they decided to desert the screen colony and buy . secluded ranch in the valley to the north.
 Both resumed their film work. Miss Dvorak has just finished her first farce-comedy role, in "She's No Lady" with the ex-fiyer, John Trent. She liked that. She liked 1t so well that she's going to sign Q contract with the producer, B. P. Schulberg. Only five pictures a year, which will give her time for fussing with her petunias and playing her steel guitar.
 The green-eyed actress and her husband bought 17-acre walnut grove and decided to live in the mid. dle of 1t. They had Q refrigerator and bed when they moved into a couple of finished rooms of the house.
 Since then the house has grown enormously and seems to be filled with books, heavy, hand-carved furniture, wrought iron and cocker spaniels. There's 6 big swimming pool outside, and around that . lush tropical garden.
 
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 Besides being green-eyed, Miss Dvorak has what is known as "the green thumhr That's horticultural slang for being successful garden CT with instinctivc understanding of growing things. Miss Dvorak is prouder of "the green thumb" than of anything. and will tell you all about budding trees and rose bush. es. The couple shook 96,000 oil their walnut tree last season.
 The way to strike fire from Miss Dvorak Is to get her to taking about animals. Once she got studio into terrible mess because she hap. pened to be working late at night and strolled onto a sound stage and found some horses being galloped to exhaustion on 6 treadmill. She called the s. P. c. A. and says Q man went to prison as . result of an investigation.
 q don't care how many people get killed in . picture" she gruni- bIed. "They know what they're up against and take the jobs voluntar- fly. Animals don't What right has anyone to injure an animal just for lousy movie?"
 She doesn't take risks herself not since she jumped of Q house. She said: T wouldn't have minded if they'd said at the beginning, No, Ann. we'll be wanting you to jump off this house. I'd have done 1t. l wasn't hurt much. anyway.
 But they said nothing and saved 1t for the last shot in the picture. Then I had to do 1t. It was trick cry, and 1t cured me. Now won't walk down a flight of stairs unless l know they're perfectly safe" Intellectual Interests
 For all that, she's thoroughly sold on movies-as opposed to the stage, anyway. Last autumn she went 10 New York and saw the shows and was disappointed-not in the plays, but in the medium.
 Miss DvOrak finds the nesh- and-blood theater artificial full of old tricks and exaggerated ges- turks. She said, "T couldn't get back to Hollywood quickly enough"
 Her best screen role. she believes, was in "Scarface" with Paul Muni, Another role with him, but a bad picture, was in "Dr. Socrates" She likes and admiYes Muni, but IS amused by him, says he wears him. self out worrying about the per- formances of the entire cast, want ing everyone to be perfect.
 Also, he is funny kind of farm CT. After moving to a neighboring ranch, Muni planted geraniums in all the irrigation outlets-upright cement pipes which faintly resem- ble flower pots. When the water was turned Jn-and to the actors consternation-geraniums exploded in all directions.
 Miss Dvorak and her husband haven't attended a Hollywood party in two years. Their friends are mostly physicians and college pro- fessors.
 She reads a lot about medicine, about archaeological research, cur- rent European affairs, and she wants more than anything else to