Evening star., 1938-11-18

HOLLYWOOD, SIuQlO EXECUTIVES AcdlN
it. And thus Miliza Korjus, (this is
where Hemingway steps out for
a momenO continental beauty and
sensational opera star was brought
to the Metro Goldwyn- Mayer studio
to make her debut in The Great
Waltz"
The announcement brings back
memories. memories of day in
Hollywood last spring when this de-
partment was sitting in Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer screening room list
ening to a sound track. The voice
on the sound track was that Of Miss
Korjus. The recordings were from
The Great Waltz" the most impos-
ing one of them lyrical composition
bringing Tales of the Vienna
Woods" into vocal groove that sud-
denly made movie music seem more
important than ever before. More
over. it made it very easy to under
stand why phonograph record
made in Europe should have been so
tremendously impressive that a
group of Hollywood executives
should have hired Miss Korjus sight
unseen. (She had to take off 20
pounds as a result of their brash-
ness, but it still is understandable
why they wanted her for the screen'.
1t was a blank screen in a dark
room filled merely with the voice OF
the European singing star. But with
M-G-Ms money, it would have been
silly not to hire voice like that
even if the singer were someone who
looked like Louis B. Mayer himself.
incidentally. of Miss Korjus the
studio is saying. with true studio
cunning. that she was born in War
saw, Poland. August II" The year is
not mentioned, as so frequently the
year is not mentioned
As someone employed on the basis
of a phonograph record, Miss korjus
is counted upon to have voice
enough to make year and birth in
significant. And she probably will!
LAS bland as movie press agent
is simile that comes to mind every
few minutes in reading the facile
art of the better members OF the
group. Immediately provocative of
the notion that the Slmlle is sound
is the following bit concerning
Paulette Goddard, which reads
The whole world may regard
raulette GODDARD as HollyWood's S
mystery woman, but Miss GODDARD
insists there is no mystery about her
at all. The rumor has grown
chiefly because of her aversion to
interviews and her absence from the
usual haunts where motion picture
personalities are so often seen"
tAnd all the time few people
thought it was due to whether or
not Miss Goddard was the wife of
Charley Chaplin
incidentally, Miss Goddard turns
up in the same story as youngster
suddenly and seriously interested in
knitting. Of her feeling for the
pastime, she says: You see, want
to be prepared for the time when I
reach the age of complete maturity
when life will not be so carefree as
the years of youth, and I am pre-
pairing for it. I want to be as well
equipped as my mother now is
X x X X
There Goes My Heart" the Capt.
tolls next attraction. is a picture
~tll 4 chance to show that they do
come bac!: in spite cf the legend that
t-~v don't. Two of the players in it
arc Harry Langdon. the old baby
f., and Nancy Carroll. who last
appeared together four years ago
when 10th were much better known
Today's statistic: When Anita
--ou.se recently W voted by Finnish
movie fans as the most beautiful
blond in pictures it was the 44th
line she had been awarded most
heautiful' honors j.. Finnish taste
in beautiful blonds can be checked
this week at the Earle, where Miss
Louise is appearing in The Sisters
circumstance that may have in
spired the statistical note from
Warner Bros.
Any one who ever has wondered
ahout the private lives and personal
affairs of lovelorn writer's will find