Evening star., 1938-06-04

IN growing up IL one may assume IaC
nAnity's attitude Is perceptible to the ,
isFmore sober, its old hauteur dropped
away in the face of long and
continuous clamor for better pic
tltres. The cost of picture making is
higher and the industry needs new
Customers. Its potential new Gus
toners will come from group that
iss more discriminating in its taste.
That means something for the higher
UPS to think about other than where
to- go for the next overrich meal
Brows as bland as those of Luini
madonna at one time are knit today
with puzzled wrinkles. The wrinkles
do not necessarily promise that the
average Of entertainment shipped out
Of this blistered community will be
higher. But the attitude behind them
encourages hope. -----.----...
There are a great many other
less somber impressions than Holly
woods headache to carry away.
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ONE of them has to do with a
II recalcitrant eyelash which Sonia
Henie was having disciplined by q
makeup man while every one else
around the place was agonizing
through the impression that the
eyelash was not so important. Miss
Henie remained unperturbed during
an the shouting, making no move
toward the camera until the lash
was curled to precisely the right
angle, in balance with all the others
...,. Another memory to carry away is
a1pleasant meeting with Don Ameche,
who was recalling his effort to get
a law degree at Georgetown University
asfew years ago, very futile effort
The recollection took place over a
veal outlet, very nice, served at the
Assistance League Cafe, a Junior
League enterprise that Is one of
the most amazing things we ever
saw. Mr.. Ameche, who already had
finished his veal outlet, remembered
aSnumber of other things and people,
one of the latter being his brother,
Burt, who is student at Catholic
University right now.
IAmong the last memories to be car
r4ed away is a visual one of Miliza
Korjus dancing on the largest set we
ever have seen, dancing with the
largest ballet M-G-M ever thought up,
which is quitee o. ballet as you shall
see when The Great Waltz" comes
to Washington. Sitting in a pulpit-like
affair was Nine. Albertina Rasch her
self, madame whose tongue was
barbed and wit was very good during
the ceremonial. They never will make
us believe that the Imperial Theater
IN Vienna ever housed such a fab
alously large production in the days
Of Strauss. But we don't have to be-
Neve 1t to be tremendously impressed
by anything so colossal. Maybe not
believing it is even more fun.
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HIGH among the utilities of the
journey was an effort to sit down
with Gene Towne, Hollywood's high
est-paid writer, and person of such
extreme personality that talking with
him is like living through tornado.
Mr.. Towne was always caught just in
passing. Each time a definite date
for a meeting was set. But something
always happened.
Excellent substitute for the inter-
view, however, was provided by fate
In the form Of Mrs. Towne. Dinner
there was always good even though
MIR. Towne never managed to get away
from work in time to eat with his
guests.
SO was the theater party which Mrs.
Towne gave for every one at Santa
Barbara. Alan Dinehart and Regis
Toomey were opening a new play,
-Thanks for My Wife," at the Lobero
Theater.
- Mrs. Towne was "Follies" girl in
the heyday of the "Follies." She is
now one of the most active persons in
the Assistance League, credited by
many with being the executive genius
behind the profits which are made
yearly by the enterprise. The profits,
incidentally, are of kind that many
o studio would be proud to point out
to stockholders.
rp' ~ n II
"A MOTHER futility was the effort to
find time to prove to Charles Far
ren that critic can play tennis on
the same court with an actor. Or
maybe prove the reverse. The hours of
actors and reporters, it seemed, never
scoincided.
Mr.. Farrell, Of Seventh Heaven"
and other forms of fame, is back at
work after years absence on the lot
OF Twentieth Century-Fox He is more
pleased than Punch about it. Lucky