Evening star., 1939-05-01

probably already has been over
worked in the world, is lost.
At any rate, the Hollywood direc-
tor whose name inspires the most
awe among his own people, is COM
ing to Washington next week. With
him will be an imposing array Of
artistes, participants with Mr.. De
Mile in the gigantic project of max
ing Union Pacific" The group will
include Akin Tamiroff, Sheila
Darcy, Julia Faye, Judith Allen,
Evelyn Luckey and Lynn Overman.
Much will be made Of them all. and
rightly, by the staff OF Warmers
Earle, the theater which will show
Union Pacific" starting May IL.
The troupe, If you can call any
thing headed by Mr.. De Mile a
troupe, is travelling not as you and I.
Heading the train upon which it
will enter Union Station is 'Old So"
a wood burning locomotive which
played a large part in the Union
Pacific's conquest of the West.
Right behind "Old 58," and pushing
it you can bet, will be a new steam
electric locomotive, a monster weigh
ing 265 tons and having 5000 horse
power.
The trip, in spite of the impor-
tance of those making it, is one of
the slowest made around the country
since the horse-and-buggy days. A
maximum speed of IS miles an hour
is maintained. The old equipment,
which includes a pioneer passenger
coach, baggage car, box car and
blacksmith car, can stand no faster
travel. Paramount, which owns
most of the existing ancient railroad
equipment. therefore, set the low
speed limit, one which would bring
a blush to the cheek of the engineer
of a modern local freight.
De Miles party and the props of
his 65th picture will arrive in Wash
ington May 9 at l pm. They will
remain here for eight hours, during
which the public will have chance
to scrutinize the first word in rail
equipment and the last one in
cinema loveliness - the latter re-
ferring to the feminine group headed
by Miss Darcy.
In Miss Darcy, Washington will
have opportunity to see rising star
at first hand. In its more honest
moments, this department admits to
itself that it cannot claim even the
smallest part in the discovery" of
Miss Darcy. It did, however, dis
cover her one day in the Paramount
commissary, asked enthusiastically
who she was, was introduced at once,
and learned that she was one of
the incest personalities within 50
miles of Hollywood and Vine. Well,
make it $40 miles.
Miss Darcy's life story-regardless
Of what happens to it now that she
is on her way to stardom and the
publicity department has taken
over its telling-was one of the most
interesting we heard. It's interest
lay in the fact that it was so much
like any one else's life story. Its
only high light, which she did not
think was high light when she told
it to us, was her venture into the
burro business. That happened
when she was little girl She and
her brother did a lot of wandering
in the hills around their California
home In those days. They noticed
the hills were the home of lot of
undernourished burros, animals that
obviously had been thrown away as
junk by their former owners.
The Darcys, which is not the fam
lily name-and we never did discover
what it was-decided it would be a
good idea to take the burros home,
fatten them up and sell them. It
looked like a nice way to supplement
the spending money they made by
selling magazines. It merely looked
that way, however. for the Darcy
burro stables eventually discovered
that people who discarded the ami
mails as junk were not disposed to
buy them back for money. The
time, energy and earnings which
they spent making the animals sleek
turned out to be wasted.
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Miss Darcy's face, which Is q
strikingly beautiful one, will impress
the public as new when it sees her
in Union Pacific" but 1t is not. It
has been seen In great many pic
lures. Her roles were just too small
to get high enough up in the cast
credits to be worth reading until
Mr.. De Mile discovered her (prob-
ably also in the commissary). It
will be different from now on.
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Citizens who left vacant those few
seats at the National Saturday
afternoon and night can count
themselves faithless to one of the
most delightful Shakespearian per-