Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-21

was seated because she was so tranq,
who could be tranquil If she were
standing.
you want to meet Miss Young"
said Gordon Gordon, who was show
ing us the miracles. the feminine
ones. at Twentieth Century-Fox.
who Wouldn't" we quipped
So over we traipSed to meet Miss
Young. Acting on bunch of reports
one reads in the papers, one tries
on an occasion like that to look like
Tyrone Power. Unless one happens
to be Tyrone Power, however, that
is practically impossible, so one gives
1t up very quickly. One does it with
out regret, too. for Miss Young is
the kind of person who makes one
forget what one looks like faster than
any one else we've met in Hollywood,
including Shirley Temple.
How we ever got around to it is
another one of those blanks that
Miss Young has induced into the
world. but we eventually were talk
ing about actors, actresses and act
ing.
On her last trip East she had
seen THE Star Wagon" which Wash
ington just saw at the National I'M
less it was trying to cheat itself. She
thought, in stride with US, that
Burgess Meredith's performance was
marvellous.
AS to acting in pictures. we also
fhnnnhf o1iLo of hofnrn
Of men came over to take the stool
out from under Miss Young ian in
delicate process albeit an amusing
one), the leading lady of "Suez." and
your correspondent had made the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences virtually an unnecessary or
ganiZation. The two of us voted
just to give the prize every year from
now until eternity to Spencer Tracy.
Regardless of what he plays" we
suggested.
Even if he does not play anything.
Just because he is Spencer" Miss
Young raised us.
1t was just then We were discover
ing this magnificently mutual taste in
performances that they decided it was
time to 60 ahead again with the pic
ture. Enough men to make a good
sized c. C. c. camp came over to get
Miss Young off the stool How they
accomplished it would not read well
In a family newspaper. but the pub
licity department certainly missed a
good action shot in not being there
with its cameras. Ut was the kind of
picture of which Earl Heap, as pic
ture editor, probably dreams.)
X
WITH Miss Young back working,
dancing a Straussy waltz with
Napoleon III. a waltz that looked as
II it might go on forever before it was
precisely right for the director, there
was nothing left to do but go over
and meet Annabella. Annabella prob
ably is treated unjustly in the con-
struction of that sentence, but what
can one do? She is the young French
actress who made such hit in wings
Of the Morning" which played the
Earle many months ago. She also is
make such a hit in THE Baroness and
the Butler" her first American pic
ture.
One Of the nice things about meet
ing Annabella is that it settles once
and for all how one is introduced to
. young actress who has no last name
(although it really is Ann Carpentier)
because it seems professionally better
for her not to have last name
Miss Annabella, may present Mr..
Blank?" says Mr.. Gordon.
That seems to be all right with Miss
Annabella. who has just been posing
for group Of still photographs. Tact
fully in talking to Miss Annabella, one
sticks entirely to the subject of Wings
Of the Morning."
did you like the background" she
wants to know.
ut was Ireland" we counter
"Ah, loved 1t, too," says Annabella.