Evening star., 1938-05-23

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composites of all the Miss Americas
continued to say no when we pointed
out how lovely she would look against
such a setting as the Federal triangle.
She almost weakened when she re-
membered what novelty there would
be in walking down F street without a
chaperone (she couldn't during school
days.. She almost surrendered, too,
when she was promised picture every
spring looking out from spray of
Japanese cherry blossoms. However,
Warmers, contracts, the law and Miss
Lindsay's public finally won. She is
not coming to Washington as a present
to any one.
OUTSIDE the sound stage where
Miss Lindsay was working and
yawning walked the lonely figure of
Warmers worst bad man. the studios
public enemies l, 2 and 8. That, ma
turally, would be Humphrey Bogart.
In private life, Mr.. Bogart goes along
with the script writer's who have made
him such tough citizen only to the
extent of being realist.
His realism is revealed in his answer
to the question whether he would like
to go back to the legitimate stage.
NO" says Mr.. Bogart firmly. mo
I have to make living. You can't
make living rehearsing 10 weeks in
three plays which have an aggregate
run of six weeks. Besides, like it
out here. It's all right with me If, as
so many of the boys and girls say,
there is no culture in this town. The
weather's good and so are the golf
courses.
And, speaking of culture, knew a
lot of these people who talk about 1t
when they were back in the culture
belt. If I remember, and do. none
of them ever cornered me at bar and
told me about how they had been
overcome with the beauty of the Ma
tional Museums collection. AS mat
ter of fact, I don't think they even
went to the Aquarium"
Mr.. Bogart, who is looking around
for some one who will play golf (and
having no luck finding any one), is
completely satisfied to go on being
Warmers most successful gangster.
He has only one regret, namely that
his parts are so written that when he
is killed, he's dead and has no chance
to make those hammy speeches" of
I, 1ol IL hi y11r IyY,o -
G. Robinson gets much better breaks
in that respect, although he refuses
to be downcast about it.
Once" says Mr.. Bogart with a
wicked CLEAN in his otherwise mild
eyes, Il shot Eddie IL times more
than the script called for. hoping to
finish him before he had chance to
make that deathbed speech. He made
it anyhow"
Like every one else who knows the
New York stage. however, Mr.. Bogart
wants to talk about it. About which
play was the best of the season. How
he liked so and SOS performance in
such and such. Whether the theater
had a good season in Washington.
His interest in it has not died. But
neither had his interest in finding
golf partner, so he got up from the
running board of the car on which we
sat and walked forlornly away through
the soft gray murk which ought to
be sunshine.
OTHER things at Warmers: The
trip to the Burbank studio is
longer this year than last 1t is
one of the results of the flood The
old bridges still are down, so there
is nothing to do but detour :. And
detour Which is not as bad as
most detours, because there still is a
lot of interesting debris lying around
on the bottom of the new dried-up
river il. The set of SISTER Act" in
which the three Lane sisters are work.
ing, is full of excited people, staring
at each other One group Of starers
is composed of a party of Texas Off
cials, including Gov Alfred The
other Of the crew and players of ISIS
ter Act" 1t Is hard to tell which
is more curious We are introduced
to the Governor and his party :. And
pose with him for a picture, just as if
he were Shirley Temple Or we
were Shirley Temple -. We talk about
politics during the session About
Maury Maverick and Tom Connally
-. Since we only know what we read
in the papers, they have no occasion
to worry about what we told on them
. Everything in Texas is coming
along nicely, the Governor said -. We
said the same thing about Washing
ton -. Speaking Of politicians, which
we were not sent out here to do,
every one seems to want to know how
George Allen is doing these days .
We just say fine -. Our guide through
this maze Of miscellaneous adventure
is Carlisle Jones, one of the best
writer's in Warmers much-admired
publicity department :. Next to Miss
Lindsay, even If she won't break her
contract and come to Washington, the
best thing Mr.. Jones managed for us
was an introduction to Priscilla Lane
Miss Lane was swinging on
gate She invited us to swing with
her :. We didn't-remembering the
size of Wayne Morris Our grand
children probably lost a good story
for some winter evening, the one about
the time "Vf1en wo sw,Inc IN cato