Evening star., 1938-05-30


goons for technicolor pictures, I can
tell you. They have men, three OF
them, wading around the lagoon with
things that look like fire extinguishers
in their hands, spraying the water with
just plain bluing-the kind you use
in your washtubs. I hope that does
not epoil your illusions"
1t did not, and even If it had, the
raw material of a new set walked IN
just then in the form Of Lola Lane
Lola's the oldest Lane, which does
not make her old. And she Is not
the prettiest, which does not make
her ugly.
How about that one?" we ask Mr.
Jones, pointing furtively to Lola.
Mr.. Jones said sure and in just a
minute, sure enough, we were deep In
conversation with Miss Lane. She
also wanted to know about Washing
ton but you get too stubborn to pay
any attention except to note that
Miss Lane remembers the National
Theater and the Earle instead Of Polls
Miss Lanes slacks are white, she
being neither coed nor a girl work
ing in technicolor picture. Her coat
is white, too. She is true Lane in that
her most enthusiastic topic of conver-
sation is the other Lanes.
Once she hears you have already
met Priscilla, the baby of the tribe,
that becomes her cue to tell you about
Priscilla, who unless there's a mind
changed some day will be Mrs. Wayne
Morris.
Isn't she marvelous?" Lola insists
upon knowing. she is natural She
is the one who will go places in this
business. And isn't she pretty"
When you get a chance to do more
than nod a head afflrmatively. you
comment on Priscillas fine sense of
comedy. and how pretty she is with
glycerine tears tsquirted in her eyes
by Director Michael Curtiz) running
down her face.
That starts Lola on another Sc
quence Of enthusiasm over Priscilla,
sequence that ends with her having
to 60 without your ever having learned
thing about Lola Lane except that
she is full of admiration for her kid
sister.
IN SPITE of the excellence of the
food. you cannot stay in the War
ner commissary all day, especially
with the sun shining so Whitley out
side. First stop beyond the commits
sary is the sound stage where they
are making Girls on Probation, "
which, even if it sounds like something
you've heard before, has Jane Bryan
in 1t.
Jane Bryan. who is very young, is
one Of the reasons why you feel warm
hearted when you think Of Warner
Bros. 1t is because they hired her as
young actress in spite of the fact
that she is no raving beauty. Pretty,
you understand, but no prettier than
the girl in the seat in front of you on
the Glen Echo roller coaster last night.
Miss Bryan is nice little girl who
wants you to call her Jane Another
thing she wants is to see the world
She was born right here in Hollywood.
And, in spite of the efforts of the
Chamber of Commerce to suppress
knowledge Of that fact, she has heard
there are other places in this country.
She insists upon seeing them, insists
with such vehemence that you want
to go right over to the Administration
Building and tell Jack Warner:
you let that little girl travel"
YOU'D probably do it. too, if just
at the moment a kind destiny did
not offer chance to see Warmers
famous "blow-up' reel. That is the
one which has been made up of shots
Of famous players when they have
gone up in their lines
You never saw such an all-star cast,
nor film so Illuminating as to what
actors and actresses can think I'D to
say when they have muffed a scene.
They are very colorful persons at
times like that, but that Is as far
40 VIC SdA SO Ill lUulS LIlS
because 1t is extremely private prop
erty.
Players in it include Paul NUM-,
Bette Davis, Kay Francis, Humphrey
Bogart, Basil Rathbone, Eugene Pau
letter. Dick Foran, Paul Kelley and
score Of others.
There are several shots of each
which, for some reason or other, are
a lot funnier than those which were
good enough for the various pictures
which are pretty easy to recognize as
the sources Of the blow-ups. You
might ask us about them some time
but. of course, we might not answer.
Miss Davis and Miss Francis very
seldom vary their reaction to a sit
uation OF the kind which makes up
the fllm. Mr.. Bogart is the most
original of the group. He ad lihs ha,t