Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-21

THE color Of it. The variation Of it.
1t was 10000 charming"
After Ireland was disposed Of. it
developed that Annabella is happier
in her current picture. She Is the
perfect canine. "Suez" gives her a
chance to be canine again. She
Is written into the picture in a sort
Of superspecial recognition of the
fact that she wears boys clothing
very well. If it means taking liberty
with history, where has there been
developed better technique for taking
liberty with history than on the hal
lowed ground that is Hollywood? She
is the daughter of sergeant who
lives on the banks of the Suez Canal,
which the studio thinks every one
will like even if it actually has moth
ing to do with De Lesseps.
Annabella is quite satisfied with
any violation of history which gives
her such part and while she IS
telling one about her happiness, in
English as unbroken as your own.
the still photographer has arranged
the lights for another picture. Miss
Annabella has to go back to her
cameras.
60 WE go over to see Amanda Duff
Miss Duff is 20, blond, clever,
and reported to be the brightest po-
tential star on the huge lot of Twen-
tieth Century-Fox. She makes it very
easy for one to believe, every word
of it.
You can get an idea Of what Miss
Duff is made Of from her reaction
to the suggestion that Amanda Duff
is not good picture name. Miss
Duff's reaction is the simple one that
it was good enough for her ancestors
who fought in the Revolution so it
must be good enough for her.
She is proud. She also is petite.
Her family is the kind of family that
could keep the wolf from the door
perhaps forever 1t did not want
Amanda to go on the stage-or the
screen. Amanda wanted to do SO.
however. She was very firm about it.
So firm that the family finally re-
Tented, offered her a chance to go to
New York for year. feeling certain
that she would be turned down so
many times that she would come home
and settle down for the rest of her
life.
Gilbert Miller is the producer who
proved Amanda knew what she was
about; and proved correlatively that
the family's idea was wrong. He gave
her the part of Helene Dupont in
"Tovarich" Miss Duff played it all
through the New York run and on
the road SO long as the original COM
pany stayed on the road. That was
more than a year. Much more.
At the end of the run of ''Tovarich."
some one called Daryl Zanuck and
told him that he might have the find
of the year for pictures.
Mr.. Zanuck was impressed. He likes
new talent. He hired Miss Duff. She
is now playing the leading feminine
part (adult, we mean in Shirley
Temples newest picture, tentatively
titled Lucky Penny"
Miss Duff has only one weakness.
AS one sits there with her. on a
pile of lumber. trying to find out
what she thinks of life. art and
subordinate things, she constantly in
terrupts trying to talk of Washing
ton. She remembers it as the finest
city the "Tovarich" company visited.
She remembers particularly the party
at the Italian Embassy for Marta
Abba after the opening nights per-
Torrance at the National She re-
members also the Shoreham, where
she went for dinner one night be-
fore her performance.
The only thing she does not re-
member, apparently, is that the SUBJ
ject Of the conversation should be
Amanda Duff
That is unusual. So is Miss Duff.