Evening star., 1938-06-30

complete life stories of the stars, Miss
Weaver's crash card Tor whatever they
call it, is practically the most colossal
thing in the file.
OF automobile accidents, which are
the terrible fear and seemingly the
habit of SO many film players, Miss
Weaver's record shows IL. 1t is the
equivalent. in the awed estimation of
studio statisticians, of Johnny Wander
Meer's two consecutive ne-hit games.
And. remembering how young and
hardy Miss Weaver is. there is no tell
ing where her record will go if the
automobile really is here to stay.
Automobiles are not the only instru-
ments of transportation with which
Miss Weaver is embroiled. AS Ken
tuckian, Miss Weaver is a girl to 60
for horses. Horses however, do not
always 60 for her. Her favorite mount
one day did not 60 over a jump at
any rate. But Miss Weaver did. She
came out of that with two broken
arms and, for a while at least, with
a love for horses that was merely
reminiscent.
Before that Miss Weaver toppled
down the cellar stairs and broke both
ankles, followed that up by having a
facial paralysis for eight days, and
once studied so hard at the University
of Indiana that she had a nervous
breakdown. But in spite of it all she's
as sound as a dollar today. A 1929
dollar, tool
THE legend that they don't come
back" which persists in a world
full OF citizens who have come back
(Which makes legends about as hardy
as Miss Weaver), is on its way to
apparently further disproof. Charles
Bickford, the actor with that flaming
red hair and disposition to match. is
destined to be the hero of it unless our
informants in Hollywood are spoofing.
The ups and downs of Mr. Bick-
ford's career in motion pictures, if re-
duced to visual education exhibit,
would look like topographic map of
Colorado. In a town teeming with
yes men," Mr.. Bickford's loud and
continuous NOS" to the studio high
er-ups virtually struck balance be-
tween the meek alternatives and wild
negatives. 1t was just about the
greatest single-handed accomplish
ment in the history of the movies, but
the odds were too great for even the
tempestuous Bickford. In the end, lit
orally, they got him. They rode Mr.
Bickford out of town on rail, Sante
Fe, we think. From Hollywoods most
prominent character performer, he be-
came Casey Jones in a play Of the
same name, which died before they
could get steam up in the locomotive.
We ran into Mr.. Bickford shortly
after the play closed. found him in a
mood that boded no immediate happi-
ness for critics who thought the play
slow in closing, and gathered the
impression that he would end UP in
Hollywood again. He has done Just
that and because he is good actor,
he has turned in an impressive per-
formance for Warner Bros. which
promises for him q future as bright
as his hair if he only can learn to
keep still at the right time.
Hollywood needs not only actors but
citizens like Mr.. Bickford He does
things for the cultural level of any
community he happens to be in at a
given moment
X X
ZONES now the time Tor Washing
ton to say goodbye to the Charles
Kurtzmans. Next week they leave for
Pittsburgh, where Mr.. Kurtzman will
take over the job of managing director
OF the Loew's Theater after 10 months
mere as manager of the Capitol. Mr..
Kurtzman will be succeeded in the
local post by Howard Burkhardt, an
old Baltimore boy by nativity, but
who, in the past three years, has been
speaking with a Maryland accent in