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Evening star., 1940-07-14

realizing this learning was the wise
way to progress. We made many
tests, but about real roles I was
told: I'VE must wait for the right
part"
Thought She Was Lost.
Then, one day, I was told I was
to be loaned to Walter Wanger to
play Gaby in "Algiers." It was the
right part" Not a big one, but
every one said 1t would present me
correctlys to the American public
under my new name of Hedy La
MARI.
Yes, it was the fright part" Per-
haps it was too perfect, because be-
fore I had time to analyze myself I
was being talked about as a new
discovery. It is not good to be an
overnight star" unless you have
years Of experience behind you. If
people say you are good, others will
expect you to be that much better.
and even those who say so first will
become overly critical. You do not
have time for that necessary prog
ress. You must be good right now.
For time I thought I was lost.
But other stars went out of their
way to help and advise me. My
only fear then was in living up to
the hopes of those who had made
me star-the public.
From that time on I have never
ceased to work. I have never been
satisfied with myself and hope I
never shall be- Mine was big
responsibility. Next I was with
Robert Taylor in Lady of the
Tropics; then with Spencer Tracy
in II Take This Woman" Fast
company for a newcomer. Taylor
has been in pictures six years: Tracy
twice has won an Academy award.
The public has been kind. So
have the critics. They have written
about how easy it is to look at me.
I thank them. but hope some day
they will think I am a real actress.
To speed that day I asked for the
part of a siren in Boom Town."
with Clark Gable. Spencer Tracy
and Claudette Colbert. I am not
the heroine, but bad girl who tries
to steal another woman's husband.
It is character role and I like it.
If the public likes it I will be happy,
because have been told, "You must
be good to play a bad character so
that people will like you"
Only recently I have learned that
the studio is planning to have me
play my first real typically Ameri-
can role In 'The Ziegfeld Girl" and
am looking forward to it with
keenest anticipation.
Evening star., 1940-07-14
Another PRODIGY

Adding another youthful prodigy
to the five already in Paramount's
There's Magic in Music" Producer
Director Andrew Stone has signed
Mary Ruth Kizziar, 7, of Dallas, Tex,
a pianist, for a featured musical role
in the production.
The little lady plays popular and
classic melodies on specially built
piano, necessary because she Is un-
able to reach the foot pedals on a
regulation height piano.
Evening star., 1940-07-14

to lunatic communications, while
their elders stand and throw their
bones around. They jitterbug and
skitterbug, and babel is boss.
Overture Il or Now.
Do you think it means we are all
a little crazy? A friendly psychia-
trist has pointed out that we are.
He says that mass hysteria has swept
the earth before, or at least large
parts of it.
In the year 1873 at AK la Chapelle
after a long, tragic, helter-skelter
overture, a dancing mania started
and went on for years. It was
whirling dance. and thousands
whirled out of their homes and out
of their villages and across the coun-
try, communicating their fever as
they went until the landscape of
Europe seemed to whirl. Deaths
were numerous, exactly how numer-
Gus no one knows. But thousands
wore their bodies out and died and
thousands more died simply of star
vation. They could not stop dancing
to eat.
If we ever are going to get that
way, a part of the overture has al
ready been played for us during the
last 20 years. War, famine, plague,
lunatic prosperity and lunatic de-
preston; and now again, with no
rest, war, famine, plague.
pn1ifiCo1 vaolnnee Io- o1...J
Europe, but not yet this country.
In this country we have had mara.
thon dancing and marathon talk
ing and marathon swimming, rocker
less rocking chair champions, men
who have made their living by sit
ting on f1agpoles, by fasting, by eat
ing prodigiously ana by claiming
themselves to the steering wheels of
automobiles and driving around and
around. When marathon dances be-
came monotonous. q refinement"
was introduced. The sleeping girls
being hauled around on swollen feet
were allowed, when awakened, to
scratch the faces of their male part
ners to keep them awake. This was
called "the squirrel dance"
The poignant thing is that these
attractions" were all patronized by
audiences and now audiences are
paying to see jitterbugs and drum
mer boys and, even worse, jittering
themselves.
(Released BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1940-07-14
Coming Attractions

KE1TS-Prvate Affairs comedy starring Nancy
Kelly and Robert Cummings opens tomorrow Hugh Herbert
and Roland Young prominent in the cast.
EARLE-My Love Came Back" frothy romantic
assorted hght-hearted amours, Olivia Haviand
Charles Wnninger Eddie Albert Spring Byngton
important things to do with it. There will new variety
revue on the stage, too.
CAPITOL"OW Town." version of play
with Frank Craven in his original opens Friday
Scott and William Holden provide romance Mitchell
Fay Banter Beuah Bondi about Jackie
line the stage show
PAACEaryland Daryl Zanucks tribute country
above Baltimore follows ANDY Hardy Meets Debutante"
TROPOLITAN-Bl Divorcement" the
play and hlm with Maueen leading role opens
Friday Herbert Marshall Adophe Fay
others important to the proceedings
COLUBIA-New Moon" with Nelson
Eddy. starts another week Friday
Evening star., 1940-07-14
She Always Wanted to Act and She Had Ambition
edy Lamar Tells the Story Her Life, Childish
In Vienna to Grownup Make Believe in Hollywood

Nicolette, whom I called "Nixy."
She knew languages and taught me
to love the study of all European
languages. 1 am thankful for that;
it helped me learn English in a short
time when I escaped to Hollywood.
When I went to public school was
not good student, although I did
not funk" in anything.
AS I grew older, had to select
trade or profession. Acting was
what I wanted but l did not dare
choose it. So, I took up designing
to occupy my waiting time" before
acting. Even today I like to design
clothes.
Next to our schoo: there was a
boys school, but I was not much
interested in them Acting was more
important than romance. Fortu-
nately, my next-door playmate,
Hancy Weller, thought the same.
So we ignored the boys and went
around pretending We were great
actresses.
We must have been poor pretend
ers because no one ever discovered
me. So, at Is, I decided I would
not wait to be found as a star.
would 60 out and make break for
myself, even if it required playing
hockey" from school and Cheat
ing" on both my mother and my
teachers to get there.
So She Cheated"
I wanted to be ar actress and
thought if I could get inside studio
the chance might come. But knew
my parents would never agree to my
trying and the teachers would not
let me off for what seemed to them
silly, childish dream.
So, cheated" because I wanted
that chance so badly I asked my
mother to fill out an absence card
for one hour away from school so ]
could do an errand. She did and
put an "0' after the Il" and gave il
to my teacher.
This is for 10 hours-two full
days." she said.
EYES," I said. II know" That
was no lie. I did know
So, that afternoon after school
went to the Sascha Studios in Vienns
and told the employment manager
that I wanted job as a script clerk
That is sort of secretarial job, yor
know, the script clerk making note!
as to what is said and done in every
scene and what the players wear.
The man asked, "Have you hae
any experienced"
I put on proud act "Yes"-I re.
pned-with confidence. II have otter
watched script clerks at work"
That surprised him and h.
laughed. "You know" he said, "l
think you will do I will give you 9
try. Be here tomorrow morning."
Opportunity Knocks.
The second day of my script work
on the picture I overheard the
assistant director say he would have
to interview some actress to select
one to play secretary the follow
ing day.
Here was opportunity. All it took
was nerve, and young girls have
plenty of that. Between scenes ]
went to the makeup table Of one
of the actresses and put on lip
stick, eyebrow pencil and powder
I combed out my hair, which ]
always have liked to wear long and
free. and went back onto the set.
| Going up to the assistant director
Evening star., 1940-07-14
By Hedy Lamar.
HOLLYWOOD.


People who see the sign Hedge
row Farm" on the stone gate of the
little ranch where I live in Cold
water Canyon smile and ask: What
is this? Are you trying to be a
glamour farmerette?" 1t is simpler
to answer, perhaps" than to try to
explain my full reasons for that
'farm."
How can I explain that gathering
the dozen or SO eggs daily and
stamping each one with a rubber
stamp which reads "Hedgerow
Farm" gives me what you Ameri-
cans call "big KICK" because
am showing to myself that here is
a life which I have helped make
possible?
"Hedy of Hedgerow" is woman
who possesses something concrete in
her share of that farm. She can
look forward to doing something by
her own efforts and decisions.
1t is one thing to have jewels and
furs and riches shoWered upon me
as I have had, and it is another to
be able to pay with my own money,
earned myself, for little new auto
mobile which I must drive myself.
I prefer the latter, and as Hedy
Lamar, the girl in movies-not "the
glamour girl" please, because I do
not like that-that is possible.
Studied Languages.
Always I wanted to be an
"actress" I wanted that when I was
q little girl in Vienna, going to pic
ture shows and reading movie
magazines and pretending 1 was like
my favoriteS, Norma Talmadge, Glo-
ria Swanson and Alice White.
My name was Hedwig Eve Maria
Kiesler, but could not pronounce
"Hedwig," so they nick-named me
Hedy. My father, Emil Kiesler, was
director of the Bank of Vienna. He
liked to play make-believe with me
telling me bedtime stories every
night to see my eyes grow wide with
imagination. He is dead now. My
mother was not so imaginative, but
she did not mind that I tore up the
library to act out "Hansel and
Gretel." My mother is still alive.
My first teacher was my nurse
Evening star., 1940-07-14

udhcIS yesterday Oh The SET OF 1Qe
Howards of Virginia" Mr.. Lloyd not
only thinks something should be
done about it-he is doing some
thing, and right now.
In this patriotic romance, to
which he is now applying the final
licks, Lloyd is correcting the mac
curacies of his predecessors in every
way possible. George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson. Patrick Henry
and other famous figures of the time
are to appear as he-men. not as
over-dressed, sissiied dandies.
Before starting this picture" !"
continued Lloyd, Il spent three eye
blurring weeks looking at every
piece Of film made in the last IS
years dealing with the American
Colonies. I cannot say was graft
fed by what I saw.
Stripped of Their Lace.
"The trouble with former pictures
dealing with Colonial times is that
the characters of Washington, JET
ferson and other early greats were
drawn from picture-book illustra-
tions and paintings.
"No allowance was made for the
fact that when these men were
painted they appeared in the best
Of their finery, with silks. satins,
laces and brocades that correspond
to our evening dress of today.
"They were all vigorous, two-fisted
men land the laces they we're obliged
to wear on special occasion because
Of the styles of the period were a
libel on their masculinity.
Such attire robbed their charac-
ters Of force. It is high time they
were stripped to their everyday
working clothes. In my picture,
Wa shington. Jefferson, Patrick
Henry and their comrades will be
down-to-earth fellows. No lace, no
silks, no satins for them.
I'VE have used the severest lines
In keeping with the mode of the
times In making their clothes. We've
even put lead in the bottoms of
their coats to get a masculine swag-
ger when they walk"
Wigs Are Out, Too.
But, what about those nifty white
wigs?
They're out. too, along with the
rest OF the fancy trappings," LLOYD
replied. Those white WIGS with
which these great figures have been
Evening star., 1940-07-14

even offered the lead in the picture,
THE Trunks Of Mr.. o. F." All this
while I was still only Is. Oh, every
thing was fine for Hedy Kiesler. She
hadn't yet failed or known the cruel
side of fate. But that was not long
in coming.
Tied by q Contract.
One day a friend brought a pro-
ducer to see me. The producer
wanted an actress to play the lead
in his picture, sympathy of Love, I"
to be made in Prague, Czecho-Slo-
vakia. He showed me the synopsis
and it was beautiful love story. We
signed a contract on Friday the
18th. That picture, renamed, was
Ecstasy"
So we started the picture and
everything moved well until we went
on location by river. Now, was
told, we had come to the nude
scenes. I protested bitterly and was
told they would be long shots; but,
even as long shots, they were vital
to the story. When I asked what
would happen If I refused, was told
that, according to my contract, I
had to do everything that was re-
quired Should I fail to do so, the
picture would be ruined and the pro-
ducer could collect from me his en-
tire losses. So here was a 16-year-
old girl seeing vision of creditors de-
scending upon her respected father
in a bank with Legal right to collect
a great sum. OF course, made the
scenes.
Is 1t any wonder that I would
flee back to the stage from pic
lures? I returned to Vienna and
found a beautiful play, "Cissy" Gn
Austrian this is short for Elizabeth)
In which I was soon starring.
Ecstasy" came out and created q
mild sensation, but it soon began
to be forgotten. I felt relieved
After all, it was only a small picture
by a small company in small
Czecho-Slovakia. How could it pos
sibly reach world markets?
But I was mistaken. It did not
die. 1t was submitted at the Italian
Cinematic Exposition and won the
grand prize. That made the world
curious. What sort of a picture was
this to win above all others as an
artistic triumph? Within q short
time the picture was world famous
and I was no longer just a little
unknown Viennese girl. I was the
girl who bathed nude for a picture
It was horrible and my heart was
broken.
Flight to London.
When the furor about Ecstasy
descended upon me I was starring
on the stage in Vienna in ELIZA
beth Of Austria" Those were happy
times for Hedy Kiesler because she
was acting-the one thing she loved
to do.
One evening during the run of
the play beautiful flowers came to
my dressing room. They were from
Fritz Mandl, the immensely wealthy
manufacturer.
| AACA OIIC hAtcIIAUOIl 1lc CdAlcO OH
my mother saying he wanted to
meet me. It was arranged. He was
charming and soon we were very
much in love. He offered me an
escape from what my young acting
folly had brought me and We were
married. We went to live on his
estate. It was splendid. I had II
dogs. We served dinners On gold
Evening star., 1940-07-14

u uCh 1dll1llS uOW1l 1lll1. CU 1lC IL
boss now and people pay attention
to his solGs
When Gene Krupa, who is sup
posed to be the best of the drummers
and whose drumming has made
Michael Todd's Dancing Campus
at the New York Worlds Fair q
profitable institution, plays a solo
his hair falls over his eyes and his
eyes glitter and his mouth hangs
open. He raps the skin and the skin
grunts and the audience sits and
stares. The audiences eyes glitter
and their mouths hang open. Only
signing comes from the audiences
mouths, but Mr.. Krupa talks to
them. He talks to them and to his
grunting skins and says: Pork
chops and some cold potatoes, pork
chops and some cold potatoes. u
This is communication of a lunatic
order.
Miss Baker is of a different order
but still something of the same.
She, like the drummer, speaks the
unspoken word and speaks it in
coherently yet plainly. AS you no
doubt know, Miss Baker is a tiny
girl with the. face of an 18-year-old
and the body of a 12-year old, and
the voice and manner and shy en-
thusiasm of 6-year-old. She
shippers as she sings and her voice
Is bodiless, or, at any rate, frail-
bodied like a child.
Not So Childlike.
However, when she wraps her voice
around song the effect is not of
child arms around a father. The
effect is hot. She breathes over her
words and licks even the silences
between them and curls the silences
into shapes. When I saw and heard
her for the first time this week, the
effect was grotesque. Her cozy man
ner got her past the footlights-
this matter of projection is the first
essential in a stage career-and sat
her right on the audiences lap
She dandled there and cuddled there
and cooed and snuggled like a fond
child and the net effect was not
childlike at ALL but hot. 1t was as
If she was reminding us that even
love is a four-letter word.
The audience loves her. All audi
ences love her. The audience that
sat around me looked like a cross
cut of the Nation-the middle-class
portion of it, substantial people with
natural and warm affection for
children and with spontaneous
kindness toward their talents. But
such talent! It was incredible
to hear the burghers gurgle as the
frail, girl-child voice poked deep
down into them and stirred them
The little boxes that sit in road
side stands and respond to a nickel
with melody are incoherent, too, and
unmistakable only in their sug-
gestiveness. And in the town, no
doubt in all the towns, the young
people sit in callars with mouths
open and eyes fastened on empti-
ness, listening raptly to incoherence,
Evening star., 1940-07-14
Hellinger Signs

Mark Hellinger, associate producer
on "Torrid Zone" and Brother
Orchid" has had his Warner Bros.
contract renewed as a result of the
success of those two pictures. Hell
fingers next assignment will be
High Sierra" based on the w. r.
Burnett best seller. The noted
columnist will continue his syndi-
cate writings in addition to his film
work.
Evening star., 1940-07-14

PORTRAIT OF AMBITIONThe lite and times of Hedy Laarr
ABOUT tohtch she IS telling this too,oed
ptctord from 1S months to glamour Though she
to De glamour grJ Nert to the
the Hedy OF seuen then at is
her first film role She started let her hair lett
on Salzburg Dacaon uhen she 21 finally
different sort OF Hollywood film star by gay leaping fences
her HedgeroW Farm.
Evening star., 1940-07-14
National Heroes to Be Men
In Frank Lloyd's Picture
HOLLYWOOD.


Its downright
American historical figures in various
great been rdicued
sandeed in ceuod In almost
obnoxious to the youth
of the Nation"
So spoke Producer Frank Lloyd
Evening star., 1940-07-14
Does Jitterbugging Mean
We're All Going Mad?
Drummer Boys Are in Command
And Some Uncanny Things
Are Happening Today
BY Ira WoIferf.


When get theae the
there something rather happening in the play
Drummer boys a
the Bonnie Baker produce
like Ganto grunng dispan falling tearing
and when he best when he genius summit
Evening star., 1940-04-03
Youth, 70, S|ugged
And Robbed

A 20-year-old youth who lives at
2400 Sixteenth street NV. was
slugged and partly disrobed in
Meridian Park early today by four
thugs who robbed him of ST..
: The victim, Francis Lewis Car
penter, was knocked unconscious
during the attack, which took place
near the Fifteenth arxt Euclid
streets entrance to the park. He
was returning home from banquet.
The youth told police his assail-
ants, four white men, removed his
coat, shoes and socks after knocking
him out. He found the apparel in
a nearby clump of shrubbery when
he regained consciousness. His wal
let, containing 81 and personal cards,
was stolen.
The victim, although bruised on
his head and face, did not require
hospital treatment, police said.
Two other strong-arm robberies
were reported overnight. Ernest
Young, colored, of 40 H street NV,
told police three colored men threw
him to the ground in the 1900 block
of Ninth street NV. and escaped
with -. He was not injured.
A group Of colored men took IS
and q quantity Of ice cream from
Max Ketchum, 20-year-old ice cream
street salesman on O street NV,
between Third and Fourth streets
NV. He lives at 5507 Seventh
street NV.
Evening star., 1940-04-03

gone aboard a houseboat and had
spent some time getting the answers
to the questions.
When the enumerator had COM
pleted her quiz she started to leave
the boat-but found it was being
towed down the river. Finally 1t Vas
tied up, but in different enumera-
ton district.
Tally to Take Two Weeks.
"She called up to find out whether
she should include the family in her
district or leave them for another
enumerator. We told her she could
include the houseboat and then she
had to get back to her own district" !"
The Jail, hospitals and other in
stitutions in the city are included
in the census. The enumerators
have to poke into abandoned homes,
warehouses, old boats and other
places where people might live.
They are paid by the piece-earn-
ing 4 cents for each name they
bring in and similar amounts for
obtaining the dwelling schedule and
other items on their long report
sheets.
It will take at. least two weeks
for the job to be completed here,
Mr.. Brown said. The enumerators
will make night calls at homes
where the residents are absent dur
ing the day. All the answers to
questions, the Census Bureau points
out, are entirely confidential.
Evening star., 1940-04-03
Ten tuberculosis Cases
Found in Hiqh Schools

Ten cases of active tuberculosis
among high school students and one
at a teachers college were discov-
cred through recent X-ray exami-
nations, the District Of Columbia
tuberculosis Association reported
today.
Mrs. Ernest r. Grant, managing
director, declared the number was
greater than In any previous sur
veys. The examinations were made
by the District Health Department.
DR.. A. Barklie Coulter, director %
the Bureau Of tuberculosis Of the
Health Department, who supervised
the x-ray readings, reported three
victims were discovered at the Nc
Kinley Technical High School and
one each at Central and Eastern
from among 1850 white students.
Among 727 Negroes examined
three active cases were found at
Armstrong High School, two at Dun
bar High School and one at Miner
Teachers College.
Evening star., 1940-04-03
| Stop SIouching-
That's the Aim
|Of Posture Week

Better start sitting up straight and
getting rid of that slouch. National
Posture Week Is on its way.
OF course, no ones going to be
tossed into jail for sitting on the
end of his spine during the cele-
bration of posture week, May 6 to
IL. But Health Omcer George C..
Rutland suggests that it's an excel
lent time to check up on your sitting,
standing and walking habits.
A habitual slump, said DR.. Ruh-
land, may cause the heart, stomach
and intestines to, be crowded down.
ward and out of place. resulting in
numerous ills often difficult to dag
nose. The whole bony structure of
the body may be thrown out Of align
ment, interfering with the normal
functioning of vital organs, he said.
As . slogan for posture week, DR..
Ruhland suggested: "stand Up and
Live"