Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-23
Strolls Thru Hollywood


HOLLYWOOD, June %. tUP)-
Story trOuble-something she neV-
er had to worry about in picturcg-
may bog down the stage debut Joan
Crawford has been planning for
months.
Miss Crawford, a topflight screen
star for 10 years, has never played
legitimate drama, but hopes to
have a try at it as soon as her
current Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer con-
tract expires, which will be il
July 1888.
Pedaling slowly from set TO
dressing room on a bicycle, she eX-
planned her story woes over a
shapely shoulder
I've read plays c0nstantly-IVc
read simply hundreds, and l have
yet to find something suitable she
said.
Il laughed year ago when Al
fred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne sale
[ was lucky TO have two years in
which to choose a play. l thought
it would be easy, but how right
they were.
You see, it must be a new play
l don't want to do an old one, for
then I'd have to compete with eV-
eryone who had ever played it be-
fore, and l have handicapS enough
as it is.
What I'm hunting is a serious
drama, but one not too heavy. And
| really don't want a comedy.
Shakespeare? 1t would be yearg
before 1 could muster confidence
enough for that. I don't know
enough.
"If | cannot find a play I may
have to postpone, or perhaps give
up the idea entirely"
Miss Crawford's stage ambitions
do not mean that she'll desert the
screen. Her next picture contract
will probably contain q claus
similar TO that in Robert Mont
gomery's new agreement. which al
lows him two months a year lof
stage work.
The actress said she was already
training, both physically and ply
chologioally" for the ordeal of fac
ing an audience, having taken up
radio work, bicycling and running.
81 run a mile Of the way TO work
every morning, paced by my car,
she said.
Evelyn Daw, 2O-year- old lyric So
prano from GeddeS, S. D.. protect
of Victor SChcrtzinger, who discoV-
cred Grace Moore, has been cast
opposite. James Cagney in Some
thing to Sing About" Grand Ma
tional musical. Lass is auburn-hair-
ed with blue eyes.
Joe e. Browns caVernou5 mouth
was wideued two stitches WortL
when q comedy gag backfired.
Brown was handculfcd between two
'TrenCh" gCndarme5 whose gesticu-
latious carried the comedians dukcs
with them. IN the midst of 1t the
steel cuff hit Brown in the mouth
splitting his upper lip. Brown W2s
sent home and production suspend
cd for the day.
Glenda Farrell, Just returned
from six months in England, Is
having plenty of accent trouble Oh
the Warner lot. Cast as a hard
boiled American girl, Miss Farrell
has spoiled several takes by lapsin@
into the Oxford diction, Whereupon
the troupe has to take a recess to
permit her to let out her as
o.
AKIN Tamiroff, newest horror
man of pictures has been cast as
Dominique You Pirate Jean La
fittes henchman, in Cecil B. De-
Miles "Buccaneer" Fredric March
is to play "Lafitte."
Paul Mantz, technical advisor to
Amelia Earhart, has been official
ly designated movie cloud sur
veyor." Selznick- international need
ed accurate information on west
ern cloud formations, directions OF
travel and speed, for Nothing
Sacred" the F'redric March Carole
Lombard aviation picture and so
Mantz was hired TO fly around for
week or two making map OF
the clouds"