Evening star., 1940-03-04

free to accomplish something that
had been an old and burning dream.
In England" Paul explains, you
don't have to worry as you do here,
whether hotel will accept your dog
as readily as 1t will you. England is
very civilized about dogs. The single
exception turned out to be the hotel
where we were staying"
BY way of proving 1t, the hotel
would accept the Airedale for not love
or money or the sake of the Hart
mans trip to Holland. Spirited peo-
pie and no end faithful to their dogs,
the Hartmans spent the entire day
they should have been in the tulip
gardens of Holland looking for q
more understanding and otherwise
suitable home for themselves and
that IS pounds of Airedale to which
they are so attached.
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When the talk turns to dancing,
the thing the Hartmans are most
pleased about is the way their favor
ite satire has appealed to the public.
That is the one in which they bur-
lesque the Arthur Murray method,
an agreeable burlesque that should
please the Arthur Murray method
lists as much as any one. A stam-
pede of merriment in New York,
Washington and other centers OF
sophistication and leopard skin d.
vans, the number was one about
which the Hartmans were dubious
when they took 1t of the Murray
beaten path.
1t has gone just as enthusiastically
elsewhere. just as 1t Is going this
week at the Earle.
The Hartmans are happy about
that. In fact, they are such con-
genitally happy persons that they
can contemplate Los Angeles with
equanimity in spite of the fact they
both were born in San Francisco
That is quite a feat for a pair of
San Franciscans, as every one should
know.
A former newspaperman who
shared an academy award for writ
ing the best motion picture of its
year might be expected to find that
sort of insulation against q yearn-
ing to 60 back to being a newspaper
man. Not Geza Herdcek. Mr..
Herdcek, of Budapest, New York and
Hollywood, co-winner of the prize
for the script of THE Life of Emile
Zola," aired his loneliness at a din
ner given in his honor by Carter
Barron on the occasion of a trip
here for some research at the Ii
brary Of Congress.
The world stage is Offering too
much competition for today's dram
atist, theater or screen, says MI.
Herdcek. CAS- journalist, a man
can be an active participant in that
drama; something he cannot do, sit
ting on the sidelines, creating his
own make believe"
No run-of then journalist was
Herdcek in his days OF journalism.
Owner of a couple of papers in Hun
gary, he wrote himself out of that
Job when some of his incidental lit
erature attracted the attention
and, frankly, the money-of Holly
wood.
His last job for Hollywood was ore
that held peculiar fascination for
him and one which he hopes will be
shared by every one. That was writ
ing the script of "Florian," drama
tization of the famous white horses
of Vienna. Metro -Goldwyn- Mayer
will be sending it along one of these
days soon.
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Vienna itself could not have pro-
vided Luise Rainer with more Vien-
nese music than she heard the other
day at luncheon at the Raleigh
Bert Bernaths Band played a steady
serenade to Miss Rainer through
out her luncheon period A note
from Theron Bamberger says that
out of the writing Sinclair Lewis is
doing now In Hollywood will come
a new Broadway play next fall :.
About what, Mr.. Bamberger does
not say . Nor does he say any,
thing about an end to that famous
I ou,{c ambition fn ia A. on{e~