The Washington times., 1937-01-06
June TRAVIS Nice, Natural
Girl, ModestAbo Clothes
"Aunt Dolly" Helps
Lydia Calvert in
Interview
BY LYDIA CALVERT

Special to the Washington Times
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Jan. 6.
went to see June Travis but it's
Aunt Dolly that interviewed.
Better than seeing stars is the
look-in that you get on their pri-
vate lives when you go to their
homes. On the set they are movie
people. At home they are just
people.
There's something about the
hang of the curtains and the
choice Of lamps in a movie stars
home that gives them away as
nothing else will.
It was Aunt Dolly sand the hang
Of the curtains that gave me the
clue to June Travis character, for
June herself doesn't talk much.
But she's the most natural person
I met and one Of the incest. Shes
a girl you'd want to have lunch
with or play a few sets Of tennis
with on Saturday afternoon.
Good Taste
They live in a small, attractive
apartment furnished with normal
good taste. They put on abso-
lutely no dog. Aunt Dolly, blond,
bespectacled and forty-iSh, fits
around like a bird. and does her
best to make the interview a 100
per cent success.
Bless her. Everyone who knows
her even slightly calls her Aunt
Dolly" and so did I before left.
June hadn't gotten up.
"She sleeps like a log and
never turns over" says Aunt
Dolly. II have her clothes out
for you though"
Sure enough there are the
clothes all hung up on the por-
there rod just waiting for my visit.
There is a stir in the other room
and soon June appears.
No Makeup
Her thick curly hair is brushed
in a. big mop away from her face.
She wears no makeup. Her dress
is a grey velveteen and on her feet
are mules-that don't match. She
says:
II don't know why you want
to see my clothes. haven't any
thing worth seeing"
ooh, June" says Aunt Dolly,
you have lovely things. How
about this leopard cape" (She
shows it, "and this white satin
house coat and this green wooden
dress and this black evening
cape and"
She goes on and on showing the
clothes which are really very
lovely. especially the Snow-white
satin house coat that buttons from
neck to hem and has a flared skirt.
THAT OLD THING!"
"June," says Aunt Dolly,
bouncing back into the room,
"Where is that green chiffon
dreSS?"
"Oh, that old thing. gave
1t to the mOthS-the moths have
to have something to eat"
You didn't Oh, I'm going to
show 1t to her and how about
that red dresS?"
"Aunt Dolly, please! Those old
things are discarded long ago.
"DOn't show her those"
Here they are" says Aunt
Dolly, who has dug them out in
the meantime, paying no atteM-
tiOn to June's disapprOval.
"Now isn't this lovely? And
this?"
RIGHT PRETTY
This is a right pretty DRESS"
says June showing me a perfectly
plain grey moss crepe. "It doesn't
look like anything off-but it's
swell on"
do you want to see the hat
she wears with it?" says Aunt
Dolly, and bOunceS out without
waiting for an answer to return
with a pale green antelope
trimmed SmartIy with matching
COG feathers.
II have a perfectly plain lit
Tie Dlack crepe LnaC i love-
June Starts-Aunt Dolly pops
back in. "Well, that's it," says
June taking the dress from Aunt
Dolly and holding it up to her
self.
I asked June if she had ever
made a flagrant mistake in her
shopping-if she had ever bought
anything ana then decided she
hated it.
I'll Tell Her"
"I'll tell her." said Aunt Dolly.
'That checked coat" She gets the
coat which June claims she could
have run up" better than the
tailor. For a tailored coat it is
really far from expert.
The talk, shifts from clothes to
generalitieS. Aunt Dolly says she
doesn't mind people chewing gum
but "June plays tune" June who
looks dark and Spanish, claims
that her only claim to it is that
she was raised on Spanish onions.
She loves athletics, admits to hav-
ing once been guard on a basket
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