Evening star., 1939-10-20

lHVOlVeQ, DuJ RelClnR out OF Holly
wood and face to face with her fans
makes 1t very much worth while.
Ann says so and in the process of
saying 1t turns out to be one of the
most articulate movie stars YOU
ever talked to, irrespective of age.
A zesttul person, Miss Rutherford.
who begins a week today as the
Capltols stage headliner, is sorry
for only one thing; she has no par
tlcular speciality which fits into a
vaudeville act, She plays the drums,
put Tor her own amusement and the
amazement of her family. So she
will not play the drums, on the
assumption that her performance
would be 'corny,' her own word
for it. Next to acting, the thing
she prefers is modelling in clay. but
even good sculpture like bad drum
playing. hardly lends itself to the
vaudeville stage. Accordingly, Miss
Rutherford will just be herself, a
very attractive self which, for all
Its youth. has had a virtually vast
training in stage, radio and picture
work
Best of Miss Rutherford's stories
Is the one of breaking into the
MOVIES. 1t was the aftermath of a
day in school when her teacher
apprehended her in the crime of
writing poetry, very bad poetry"
she says, when some boring subject
was the order Of the day.
The scoldlng she gave me was
TOO much,' says Ann Il decided
then and there that school was not
Tor me. So, on the way home, 1
stopped at one of our smaller radio
stations in Los Angeles. told them l
was a great actress and applied for
a job. They took my name, but
nothing happened for several weeks.
l had almost become reconciled to
school again when I received a call
from the station. Out of it came a
36-week job of playing virtually
everything in the way of feminine
parts, little girls, old ladies, or what
have you. There I was, one of
those actresses who was through at
10. making comeback at IA.
Some one suggested a film test.
some one always suggests film test
IN Hollywood. SO I took it."
And that is how Ann Rutherford
got into the movies, even though
she does not recommend writing
poetry in school as a sound approach
to a screen career for other little
girls who might be ambitious in
that direction.
incidentally, the school which
made her so angry she went into
the movies did not represent the end
OF AIMS schooling. She still goes,
but her picture work keeps her from
making the sweep of education that
she would like. Art, her favorite
subject. is something for which she
cannot find the time. but she intends
to do so. Poetry is just something
In her dim, distant past.
In addition to making good on
her current personal appearance
project. Miss Rutherfords immedi-
ate ambition is to visit New York.
1t has seen her, but she has not seen
It. and it seems the most important
thing in the world at the moment
She will see it, too, if her last Judge
Hardy picture, just completed, does
not require retakes within the next
fortnight. She is hoping, very hard,
that it will not.
And, now, from Harry Macarthur.
who covered the Dick Powell sector
OF the celebrity front:
Dear Mr.. C.-Anent Mr.. Dick
Powell, refugee from Hollywood
script departments: He stopped off
here yesterday, being an old Little
Rock boy who made good in the big
city, to say hello to Senator Hattie
CaraWay, who protects Arkansans
here in the home of the Great White
Father. He goes on to New York
this morning to see the fair, then
to open a two-week personal ap-
pearance engagement at the Para
mount Theater next Wednesday.
His act, he is afraid, will open with
healthy blowing of the nose and
Immediately close with a demon
stration of the Powell gargle. The
Powell gargle. which he practiced
just before leaving to have lunch