Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-16

Out mere nave ratner learned 10 eXpet
every interview.
DO you ever have yen to 60
back East and do a play?" We always
ask.
The answer invariably is one that
would gladden. the hearts of the sour
p,lssed gents who look upon Hollywood
as the headquarters of bunch Of
barbarians intent upon ravaging and
sacking the living theater. They all
say they would like going back very
much, indeed. thank you, but what
ahall they do for plays.
Take, for example, Franchot Tone.
Tone is a much-respected actor in
these parts, and deservedly He was
a respected actor on the stage before
he came. again deservedly. He would
like nothing better than to take a sab
batlcal year away from the make
believe of this for the make believe
OF that. What is more, he has every
intention Of doing it. After another
year, he intends to see what he can do
IN the way of finding a suitable We
hicle in which to ride back before
audiences whose applause you can
hear, instead of having to read it in
the morning mail
When you talk to Tone over at
MG-M, where he is one of the more
serious and studious of the younger
lights on the lot, you do not gather
that his heart is breaking On the
contrary, he is quite happy with what
has been done for him, to him and
with him out here He is no exile
from the homeland. Nothing like it.
But he would like to see footlights
In front Of him again
HEY don't get over the yearning.
Herbert Marshall, over at R-K-O,
who has been out here so long now
that his absence would be as unusual
a. the current weather, registers q
handsome bereavement when the stage
Is mentioned. But he knows all the
obstacles to going back to it; the diff
Guilty OF getting the right part In the
right play, the hard work involved,
the proposition OF pay, and a score Of
other impediments
Similarly we'll informed on the sub
1ect is Josephine Hutchison. Miss
Hutchinson, who jumped all the way
out here to Warmers, thence to
M-G-M, from the old Rams Head
Players in Washington with Broad
way in between, of course), does not
regard her stage career at an end.
Circumstances or lassitude or money
nucky things may get her eventually
out Of the mood, but it has survived
them so far.
George Murphy, who, under the
local alchemy has become dramatic
part player after years of hoofing and
singing in some Of the better stage
musicals, regards his divorce from
the stage as an interlocutory. He
says so in even fewer words with
characteristic Murphy verve and en-
phasis
Frank Thomas, stage veteran who
played Washington SO many times he
feels like a member OF the Board OF
Trade, is pretty fortnight in his es-
innate OF the former stage player
out here
It's IN easy life" he says. you
have to work long hours, sure; but
you get paid we'll for it. You don't
have to work as hard as on the stage
And certainly you don't have to &C
cept as much responsibility. There's
always the director between you and
the unimpressed public. although 4
performer is bound to be caught up
with in time If ne fails to come
through"
Lovely Gladys George, who still re-
members that luncheon given for her
IN Washington last year when val
liant Is the Word for Carrie" came
there, lso thinks OF the stage as 4
mother to whom she could 20 home
should the going get rough. Her hus-
band, Leonard Penn, who is coming
along nicely in pictures as his better
parts Invariably prove, would be on
the same train going to the same
mother
"A KIM TAMIROFT, who handles
Paramounts villainous roles with
classic touch which he learned in
the Moscow Art Theater, is another