Evening star., 1940-02-12

them to Miss Leigh the first time
she is available to receive them.
Such was the shock Of this pleas
ant reversal of the success formula
that it induced a fever of medita-
ton upon Miss Leigh's future. It
has led in most cases to a confused
kind Of pessimism, as II Miss Leigh
in being such a superlative Scarlet
OHara had acted herself right out
of motion pictures. That she has not
done so, of course, is evident in the
fact that the pretty, green-eyed
young lady is busy acting every day
in M-G-M's Waterloo Bridge" on
the set of which she sits knitting
furiously for English soldiers be-
tween takes.
The answer to that, If one wants
to be skeptic, is Eyes. but how will
the public take her in any lesser
proportions than those of the re-
doubtable Scarlett?"
Miss Leigh's attitude should be
consolation to any one driving HIM
self insane with worry over her i'm
mediate future. She is taking 1t
quite calmly, as BELTS an intelligent,
spirited person, even one in a pro-
fession which is not overcrowded
with philosophers.
One advantage which she has over
the worriers for her future is that
she does not regard her performance
as Scarlet as the last word-her
own or any one else's-in acting.
She can see many a way In which
she might have done better. even
If audiences cannot. Consequently,
she has any number of plays and
parts left to live for, and learn from,
and that Is quite enough to satisfy
her or any other competent person
who knocked around in show busi-
ness long enough to take its downs
with its ups.
There is a possibility. don't say
we said probability" that Wash
ington may have glance at Miss
Leigh in the flesh before the Ma
tional closes its season for the sum-
mer. The Romeo and Juliet" which
she is to play with flance Laurence
Olivier is scheduled to open on the
Pacific Coast shortly after water
loo Bridge" is completed. However,
with so many showmen convinced
that the enterprise is destined to
prosper as has no other Shakespeare
revival in human history-and why
not with all that Leigh-Olivier pro-
fessional and personal publicity?-
1t is not expected to tarry long on
the Western scene.
On its way to New York, it might
possibly stop over for a week in
Washington. A fiercely determined
man we know has made that one Of
his more fierce determinations for
spring. Nothing may come of it,
but he is an artful fellow who, for
all his New York address, has a
great respect for Washington as a.
theater town, worthy of all good
things. -...
Just going to show that Eastern
critics don't know a good picture
when they see one, the National
Screen Council has selected "The
Great Victor Herbert" as the out
standing picture released during
January Her latest picture, HE
Married His Wife," gives young
Nancy Kelly chance to show still
another facet of her talent, that for
comedy Submarine PATROL"
Jesse James" and Stanley and
Livingstone" all made a dramatic
actress, and a good one, out of Mr..
zanuck's piquantly pretty little re-
'cruit from Broadway At the
Earle. starting Friday, she will be
sophisticated comedienne, the sort
of thing Carole Lombard used to do
before she insisted upon being Sc
rious for while Speaking of
brittle people, Fred MacMurray and
Madeleine Carroll, who were so good
at it in Honeymoon in Ball." have
been teamed again for There's AL
ways Juliet" of the same genre . .
Paramount will sign the checks for
the picture :. And collect the
profits The neighborhood houses
also get some good vaudeville names.
There's the movies Edmund
Lowe, for example, currently at the
Atlas And Alexandrians are
having the music of AL Donahue
of the radio, Rainbow Room, etc.,
this week at the Reed Another
thing for which to admire Director
w. S. Van Dyke II is that he fin
ished II Take This Woman" with
Hedy Lamar and Spencer Tracy,
when every one else gave up It