Evening star., 1938-03-18

motion pictures in row (Which is
more than most corporations can do).
put much Of the town behind her in
an intensive four-hour tour yesterday
afternoon. The area covered included
the White House. where no Roosevelts
we're at the moment; to the Capitol,
where a terribly impressed Congress
was; thence to the Library of Congress
and back to the Mayf1ower by way of
the Folger Library. After all that Miss
Durbn presided with becoming dig
nifty at dinner in her honor given
Jointly by Hardie Meakin of r. K. o.
Keiths and Eddie Heiber local repre-
sentative of Universal Pictures. Uni
versal Pictures. of course, is the cor
poration to which Miss Durbin has
been an economic Snow White who
did not need the help of seven dwarfs.
1t was a press dinner. very press. one
might say. but because Miss Durbin
was its guest Of honor it attracted an
overflow from the Ancient Order Of
Hlbernians in the we'll known forms
OF Col. Marvin Mcintyre and Commits
sloner George Allen. The A. o. o. H.
was dining next door. just down the
corridor at the Mayflower
Miss Durbin. who already has an
swered enough questions on her vaca-
ton trip to satisfy the guy who drew
up the income tax blank for 1887. did
not mind answering as many more as
her guests could think Of That turned
out to be enough questions to keep the
dinner going from until $50. Tact
fully, in answering at least a few Of
them, she refused to pick the most in
teresting thing she had seen in Wash
ngton. She enjoyed it all. found it
informative, and thinks it was an ex-
cellent idea of her teacher Miss Kello-
phene absolutely Morrissey, to bring
her here for bit of education. Miss
Morrissey. who never had been to
Washington before either, thought it
was. too. So. by way of making it
unanimous, did Mrs. Ada Durbin.
Deannas mother, but movie mother
who does not hover fretfully over her
child while the questions are popping
through the air.
**
INCIDENTALLY, Miss Durbin OBJ
viously Is regarded and rightly. as
an intelligent person by members Of
the Durbin encourage She was left to
the press and herself entirely by 9TH
ers in her party, a pretty fine tribute
that a lot of actresses are not paid by
theN press and other representative
One of the questions which proved
how little Miss Durbin needs to be
watched by her elders was rather
point-blank: Which of your three
leading men is your favorite?
All of them" said Miss Durbin
with enough poise to I'll the White
House east room They all are Diff
ferent, but all very nice" She was
elated to have worked with Leopold
Stokowski in 100 Men and a Girl"
and she also was elated to have worked
with Herbert Marshall in her last
picture, Mad About Music .(Her
trip really has nothing to do with the
picture, which will come to Keith's
in three weeks: but Hardie Meakin
probably will forgive us for mention
ing it here.)
AT $50, her usual bedtime, though il
has been badly upset during the vaoa-
ton, Miss Durbin went up to her suite
where eight hours of sleeping had to
be accomplished before she could
start today's sightseeing round.
This afternoon she will return to
New York, where she will take in sew
eral more plays before going back to
Hollywood at the end of the month
to start work on her next picture. Miss
Ourbin's schedule hereafter will call |
for three pictures year. She does
not think that is too many. And |
speaking of pictures, she does not have
anything to do with the selection Of |
her stories. She thinks Universal |
would listen to her If she objected
very much to particular point, but
She is quite sure the point never will
come up for objection.
She is very happy with the way
things have gone for her in Holly-
wood. So, indeed, is Universal And
50, just to get every one in on it, is the
public.
X
WAITS and strays: In New York.
among others, one meets Barrett
klesllng, M-G-M press representative
from Hollywood, who talks interest
lngly about many things, Among them
about Hollywood writing and writer's
and how things go for the latter
In Washington. when one returns. one
discovers that Frank Gagen, Carlton
ADJUSTMENTS.