Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

A real Southern lady," in the
words of 94-year-old Confederate
soldier, arrived at Washington Air
port this morning
She was Melanie of Gone With
the Wind otherwise Olivia de Havil-
land, and Gen. Julius F.. Howell,
commander of the United Confed-
crate Veterans, bent to kiss her hand
in tribute.
Respondent in his gray uniform,
his sword swinging at his side. the
general clicked his heels CALAMITY
and commented later, "a real South
ern lady"
Miss de Havilland, here for the
Presidents birthday celebration.
made a frost-bitten Reception Com
mittee forget blue noses and cold
feet at the airport. That's the
kind of girl this 23-year-old screen
star is.
Smile Thaws the Spectators.
AS natural as your next-door
neighbor, but twice as beautiful.
"Melanie" let her mink coat hang
open and chatted merrily about
the snoW-so the Reception Com
mittee, led by Commissioner Hazen
just didn't mention frost-bite.
From the moment she landed
until she left a broadcast at Station
WMAL to go to the Capitol fox
lunch with Senator Downey of Cali
tornla, the screen star wore the
kino of smile that would thaw an
Eskimo.
She was even amused at having
walked across the snow rutted field
to the airport in open-toed slippers.
Haven't you galoshes?" some
one asked Nary a galosh,' she
answered cheerfully.
Shed Like to be Juliet"
On the way from the airport to
the studio for the broadcast she
revealed she was born in Toxic;
came to San Francisco when she
was to have her tonsils out, want
ed to be President of the United
States when she was little, and
would give anything to play Juliet"
though it would have to be on
the stage because she thinks Norma
Shearer did a beautiful job as the
Shakespearean heroine in the
movies.
Her first movie role was Hernia
in "A Midsummer Nights Dream"
Hernia was a vixen, she said, quot
ing Shakespeare to prove it, but
since then she's always been the
virtuous. lovely heroine.
Il don't know what's happened
to me" she conf1ded. IT guess I've
reformed"
She revealed that she had a
scholarship to Mills College when
she was 10, but gave it up to play
IN the stage production of the
Dream
In q Golden Setting.
For her first daylight appearance
in Washlngton-she was here once
for an hour at midnight-the screen
heroine wore geld wool dress
clasped with a jeweled belt. Her
earrings were topaz studded with
diamonds in an old gold setting. A
gold chiffon scarf, brown hat with
gold feather and a gold veil she
had to struggle with in the wind
completed her outfit.
Before she had been in Wash
ington five minutes she asked about
a childhood friend, Admiral Fred
erick Horn, who went out to the
Orient with her mother and father
Is years ago.
Before she had been in Washing
ton 10 minutes Commissioner Hazen
had decided not to postpone pre-
senting her the keys to the city
until the reception for all the stars
Tuesday.
That's Miss de Havilland.
Elsa Lancaster to Come.
The youngest celebrity in the dele
cation from the West Coast for the
celebration will be 12-year-old Gloria
Jean, who became a success over
night in 1.-THE Under Pup"
Another last-minute acceptance
for the celebration has come from
Elsa Lancaster, Mrs. Charles Laugh
ton in private life, who was the acid
spinster Of "The Beachcomber.
Others in the growing list of stars
are James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Ed
ward G. Robinson, Dorothy Lamour,
Tyrone Power, Mickey Rooney,
Brenda Joyce, Gene Autry, Walter
OKeefe, Connie Boswell, Red"