Evening star., 1940-04-01

woolly coat, while the photographer
shot her from more angles than an
octagon. A couple of other people,
Bill Pine and Preston Foster (who
Is back, his friends say, on the way
to the top) popped in and that
turned the crowd into an overflow
one. Miss Goddard didn't mind.
She even suggested that the event
might be turned into party to
the extent of raiding the supply of
soft, meaning soft, drinks in the
ice box.
Eventually the last flashlight had
blinded the last onlooker, the pho
tographers left, and Miss Goddard
went back to chatting with a live
hness, grace of mind and vivacity
that make the dues in the Paulette
Goddard fan club far too low.
Whatever they are, they ought to
be sextupled. (Treasurer. make
memo).
One of the things which Miss
Goddard would consider very seri-
ously. and we hope Commissioner Mel
win c. Hazen is listening, is a bid
to the next Presidents Birthday
Ball. The East, which is the place
OF her nativity, is a place she would
like much to revisit.
Biggest disappointment of last
year, indeed, was her inability to
keep a playing date in that famous
summer theater at Dennis, Mass.
Trench Without Tears" was the
play and 1t was complete sellout
before Miss Goddard got on the
plane. She got on the plane very
much excited about that and about
the prospect of playing for the
first time before an audience.
David o. Selznick was even more
excited, however. about the prospect
OF Miss Goddard being away when
he had other plans for her. When
the plane reached Albuquerque, he
had Miss Goddard politely but firm-
ly removed from it and back she
came to Hollywood.
SelZnick or no SelZnick, Miss
Goddard still is keeping an Eastern
play date in the back of her mind.
The summer theater seems quite
safe in counting upon her, and even
safer in the assumption that when it
sees her she will prove to be one of
the most striking of Hollywood's
beauties. (Our favorite of all ac-
tresses, who is highly expert on the
subject of beauty, so judges)
Other Paramount points: The
stuffy assumption of visiting critics
that directors and players do not
remember them. but are tipped of
by studio grapevine on the correct
name, is disproved by Mr.. De Mile
=. With no advice or counsel from
any one, he clicked off the name
just like that . Funniest anecdote
OF the moment from the De Mile set
concerns Gary Cooper Working
at the moment with Madeleine
Carroll, who is practically the most
beautiful blond in 1893 miles, Mr..
Cooper spent all the time between
takes trying to find some one to in
troduce him to striking stranger
Mr.. Cooper never did find anv
one who could make the introduc-
ton, stalk where he would Most
striking structure around the Para
mount lot is the new commissary, a
sedately modernistic structure
Or is such a thing possible
Among the various persons in it
when we were there was Eddie
Bracken, snatched from the New
York cast of TOO Many Girls" to
play principal role in Henry Al
drich," sequel to What a Life" !.
What Mr. Bracken wanted to know
was whether his name is still in
Helen Hamilton's Troika guest book
We assured him that we had lust
seen it and that it still was there
-. The inscription after Bracken's
name is 'The Hamlet of 1e41." !.
He wrote it at the suggestion of a
critic, cerainly not because he has
any particular ambition to be the
Hamlet of 194l :. Bracken, product
OF the George Abbott drama campus.
Will return to the cast of TOO Many
Girls as soon as his picture chore
Is completed :. He'll be back. how
ever. because Paramount fancies his
talents =. Bracken. in turn, fancies
picture making s.. Reading between
bites at an adjoining table was
Gloria Dickson, who used to be In
pictures, then was not in pictures
and now is in pictures again :.
Makes handsome addition, If any
one has come this far on the Para
mount tour.