The Washington times., 1938-04-23
Fay Banter Has
A Thrill She'll
Never Forget
By ED SULLIVAN
HOLLYWOOD, April %.
THE PASSING SCENE


THE PASSING SCENE
@ ONE TIME Hollywood will make Navy film about
~ Annapolis officer wildly in love with actress that
he takes his destroyer into the lanes of the Oceangong
liners hats Cunard ship takes his girl from the Cunarder
to the destroyer and then seams back to New York Audi
will this the screen, and they will shake their
heads and critics will point out that such thing could not
happen in real life
FAY BANTER who scored solidy in "Jezebel" and will
score again in White Banners the in the
in real life Her husband Comdr Reginald Venabe United
States Navy retired the young Annapolis grad who
stopped the Berengaria think and took Miss BANTER
off the big liner Had this gallant episode Of the occurred
when knights in armor for their lady fair rode white
chargers and tilted windmls young Venabe would have
been hailed for his Beau Gese of the deep blue Stodgy
and crusy lords of the admiralty have for
the high They spoke severely to him in the official
reports and if my memory correct they took his
mand from him, at least temporarily But he married
the girl.
NEXT TIME you girls see Miss Banter the you
envy her the sort Of thrill that to girl
in lifetime I'll guarantee that that day. when Venabe
stopped the Cunarder and took her off, she got greater
kick than any of her Broadway openings her That
lot of territory starting with east Is West
long time ago, and ranging up to "Dodsworth in 1884
"What would tell youngster who wanted to he
actor?" Edward G. Robinson pondered the question We
I'd tell him first that size and appearance have little to
do with the stage AS Exhibit A. to buttress that
advice offer myself They told that too short to
succeed on the stage and that was too unusual looking
main thing about acting is that must be serious ambition
your part If kid wants to become actor just to get
fame money, discourage him Hes not on the level"
ID OBINSON chewed cigar: Contrary most advces
~ the subject don't think it matters what kind of
voice you have Most people speak we'll enough for the
pose of acting After all you put into it, it
reflects how much you have lived of humor Radio
have magnificent voices haven't they? That
doesn't make them So I'd that the matter of the
voice unmportant Stage training is of huge Importance
You've got to learn how do it. Once learn that the in
dvidua application of the rules accounts for the rest
Something which never knew before was at very
Robinson became the sensation of the country in
ttle Caesar he bitterly discouraged than at
other moment Of his The play which he ap
pearng Broadway "r Samuels" had fopped after two
weeks T had turned down movie offers of ongterm
tracts to make the play he recalled IT felt that actors
owed it to the stage place that above anything ee and
naive enough believe that stage audiences just
loyal in their reactions When Mr. samues Topped
plays Broadway and figured that people who had
those other plays would least this
They stayed away. The show folded"
DICKINSON smiled. "It silly of me, of course feel
~ the way felt about the lack of support Nevertheless
crushed For this I'd turned down longterm movie
contracts insisting that I'd only make picture at time
without options One of the pictures I'd made Little
Caesar and at that very moment opened at the Strand
The heater manager called up and asked excedy if
I'd down and the opening told him No., that
didn't feel like seeing people for while. Just down
for few minutes he urged the picture sensation Cops
holding the people in line The actor in couldn't
sst that down went They had to sneak in through
side 1t experience for me- because I'd
never believed that motion pictures meant that much people
1t taught me a lesson. signed with pictures"
Robnsons greatest pleasure offscreen in his collection
you what they shot at golf Robinson becomes
cited over his imagine that quite large portion
of his salary has gone for them.
The other day, however his paintings took second
place. His aged mother is about to pay the family visit
Since she too old to climb stairs upstairs bedroom
of the question So Robinson took his youngsters play
house. in the yard and had built into charming little cot
tage with green blinds and boxes of flowers In front of the
playhouse, they installing little round table and
awning. "Little Caesar" is consderate