Evening star., 1938-05-18

night club column material. Tough,
rather in the way of healthy gent
who has discovered the outdoors and
fresh air have their merits, too.
Come on out and do some road
work with me one of these days." Bob
suggests.
1t is vicious thought, probably
induced by association with Lionel
Stander, who is working in the same
picture. Mr.. Stander, the man with
the bull-fiddle vocal chords, Is one
of Hollywoods most complete mas
tiers of malice. What brings him up
now is that spying on the interview,
he had to ask question. The ques-
ton concerns an evening not so long
ago in New York in which Mr.. Stander
was lecturing brilliantly on current
political and social problems. Mr..
Stander wants to know. with an evil
menacing look in his eye, If he was
convincing.
He is told that he was not.
And you are a critic" says Mr..
Stander shaking his head sadly.
Bob wants to hear more about the
evening and Stander's lecture, out
We figured Star readers would rather
hear more about Bob Taylor. so we
went back to the original subject.
The young man, whose vocabulary
really is credit to the English depart
ment of Pomona College and whose
voice reflects favorably upon the
drama school at M-G-M. is extremely
pleased with the parts he is getting.
Such is his pleasure in them. truth to
| tell. that you sense he is the most
enthusiastic person in the world about
the plan to make Robert Taylor into
something more than a matinee idol.
Patiently he wants to act, which is
something earlier use of his talents
concealed very effectively.
He knows good acting. That is evi-
dent in his enthusiasm for Spencer
Tracy, with whom he is going to work
in his next picture. Northwest Pass
age He is going to wear old clothes
in that one. And he is going to let
his beard grow. And he is not going
| to look like a perfect magnet for
gushy fan mail.
After Northwest Passage" which is
to be done in technicolor in spite Of
the economy wave that is hitting Hol-
| lywood. he hopes to get part in an
other prize fight picture.
He definitely yearns never again to
be hothouse flower. That seems to
be entirely to his credit. Maybe we
shall take him up on that invitation
to join him in his morning road work
and let him pay us off for some of the
thingsHwe have said about him. Pay
him off even to the point of letting
him write the subsequent obituary OF
a newspaperman loyal to his task to
such an extent that he undertook road
work.
T Asst time time we saw Miss O'Sul-
- livan, which we remembered and
she merely pretended to remember, she
was on her way to England to make
"Yank at Oxford" She was looking
forward perhaps less to making the
picture than to the fact that it would
give her an opportunity to visit her
| home in Ireland.
This time she was looking back on
it ALL She had only q week in Ireland.
Just long enough to remind her. she
says wistfully. of how fine it is to live
in Ireland Not that it is not fine in
this country, too; but you know how
the Irish are.
One of the striking things about
Miss O'Sullivan. who gives the word
petite its most emphatic meaning,
is that she never seems to grow day
older.
How do you manage it?" one wants
to know in the interest of discovering
something that may be useful to other
women-one of those gallant services
that journalism always provides for
its followers.
Il don't" says Miss O'Sulivan. Il
don't manage it. I do grow older
and look it."
But we tried to find out.
1LONu W1lClC VIC Oul l4lS Wiz
making of one shot of "Give and
Take" we were sure We were about
to perform useful service for Hudson
Grunewald. We were hearing the
voice of Una Merkel. to whom we
carry Mr.. Grunewald'S warmest re-
CARDS. And here was an opportunity
to deliver them. At any rate that
is what we thought When the cam
era ceased grinding We rushed over
to deliver the Grunewald tidings. But
it was not Miss Merkel, at all. Just
another girl from Kentucky. Pretty,
but not Una.
FRANCIS J. POWERS, Consolidated
Press and Star sports columnist,
is one of the many interesting per-
sons one meets in Hollywood. After
reporting to him on the health of
Denman Thompson, John B. Keller.
Francis Stan and other members of
The Star sports department, Mr..
Powers thinks it would be fine if
we went out with him to Lakeside
Club and played some golf with ptn-
pie like George Brent, Frank MOI gan.
Humphrey Bogart, etc. Well, maybe!
It might be interesting to fi.,d out
what they would do to a motion pic
ture scribe on golf course.
X X
WASHINGTONIANS to whom Bob
w Taylor sends special greetings are
Carter Barron. Ray Bell and Irene
Weber Remembers the Presidents
birthday ball of two years ago as
the busiest day of his life He
remembers, too, how they helped him
to get through it alive Note to
Steve Cochran: Tried to see Eddie
Arnold for reminiscence purposes.
Failed because he is working on two
pictures and happened to be on the
other one at the time Sorry.