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Evening star., 1941-04-13
Hollywood Called, but She Just Waited
Teresa Wright Wins Role in The Little Foxes After
Refusing Less Alurns Cinema Offers
By Gladi0in Hill,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

NEW YORK.
Teresa Wright is only %, about
as big as a minute and so demure
she wouldn't say boo" to boogie
man, but she has just beaten the
movie moguls at their own game.
She refused to be a sweater girl"
For a year and half Teresa has
been getting an enthusiastic hand
as the principal romantic interest
in the Broadway hit play Life With
Father" the dramatization of Clar-
ence Days "reminiscences OF his boy
hood family life.
Her First Part.
It's her first Broadway part and
she landed it, almost Immediately
after getting out of high school
in East Orange, N. j., on the
strength of summer theater work.
The Hollywood scouts, always on
the alert for presentable girl
who can speak English, walk across
the room without knocking over
tables, and photograph well doing
so, spotted Teresa early in the game
and bombarded her with the coveted
Hollywood contracts" These sound
impressive, but frequently amount
to just a job for a year at $50 a
week, posing for alluring photo
graphs and not getting much nearer
the movies than Tillie Anguish back
in West Milkshake.
Shed Rather Act.
Now Teresa, who has nice hazel
eyes, a cute turn-up nose and heavy
dark brown hair, is plenty sweater
genie, but she has yen to act on the
screen rather than on the gravure
pages of fan magazines. So, de-
murely but determinedly, she turned
down the contracts and held out
for a Mccoy acting opportunity.
The months went by, but Teresa
stuck to her anti-sweater guns, and
now. after year, she has just been
signed by Sam Goldwyn for a
definite part-alongside OF Bette
Davis. no less-in Lillian Hellman's s
stage hit THE Little Foxes"
The contract also tentatively books
Teresa's services-in pictures, not
sweaters-for the next five years,
which is quite a bit of going for .
girl of 70. It just shows you what
You can do without q sweateA
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Broadway's
LOthariOs
Spend More
Hollywood Brand
Just Has Charm,
Betty Says
BY The Associated Press.

ny lUb hsSOblbJcu fItnSs
HOLLYWOOD.
The New York stage-door johnny
is superior to the Hollywood variety,
says Betty Cradle; he's more Sin
cere," especially about spending
money.
The California Lothario, Betty ad-
mitS, has plenty of charm, but Is a
bit conservative. financially, and is
unlikely to go overheard on date
b.. but In New York 80.
Flowers and Jewels.
That's where the showgirls get
the real rush." says La Cradle, who
was a Broadway hit a short while
back. before the movies lured her
home.
Its nothing for some one in the
audience to become interested in
girl and send flowers and expensive
jewels and try every way he can to
get an introduction. And when he
does get it, the rush really begins!"
She Loves Cheesecake.
Betty, incidentally, is getting to
be something of a butterball, the
result, she sighs, of inability TO
resist the cheesecake on the studio
menu each Tuesday and Friday.
The white evening gown she was
wearing on the occasion of this
chat fit her so snugly she was afraid
to sit down.
Evening star., 1941-04-13
HOLLYWOOD.

In that Bagdad of Ballyhoo, COM
monty referred to as Hollywood,
the general conception of a screen
writer is an adult imp, as imprac-
tical as a poet in a garret, who
lolls in his Office debating with
flendish glee scenes which will make
directors curse, prop men cultivate
additional gray hairs and camera
men suddenly start cutting out
paper dolls.
A few writers have bobbed up to
shake the belief of FINLAND that
scenarists are dreamerS who cam
not possibly keep their check
books straight. Former screen writ
ers such as Mervyn LIE Roy, Tay
Garnett and John Ford have be-
come directors. Ben Hecht and
Charles Macarthur formed a writ
ing directing producing team to
turn out pictures at Paramount's
Long Island studios a few years
back. Gene Towne and Graham
Baker recently leaped from writ
ing ranks to producing their own
pictures.
Then there is Preston Sturges.
who today is the only writer who
directs his own scripts. Since he
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Writers Are INDICATED by This One
Preston Sturges Proves Scribe Can Be Practical
By Writing and Directing Three Films in Year

does both duties on a picture. some
might claim he is a director who
writes. Such is not the case. The
writing came first with him. Nat
urally, it still comes first in the
making Of a picture. And it is of
primary importance to him pro-
fessionally, since his credit on the
main titles always is, at his own
insiStence, written and directed by
Preston Sturges"
Some Switch Successfully.
Despite the fact that there are
a few triple-threat men in the
industry, Sturges double duty po-
sition in pictures differs from that
of these three-fold workers because
he has not deviated from his COM
bination and does not intend to
do so-and because he was orig
nally one of those Impractical"
writer's. Charles Chaplin, who
stars, writes and directs his films.
and Orson Welles, who soon will
have his first three time picture
out, were originally, and are pri-
marily, actors. So is Gregory Ra-
toff, who frequently does any one
or a combination of these duties,
but adheres strictly to no one COM
bine.
Hollywood is accustomed to see
Evening star., 1941-04-13

ing personalities switch from one
field to another with success.
Former actors like Douglas Mclean
and Wallace Macdonald have be-
come producers. Actors such as
John Cromwell, Eddie Buzzell and
Jack Conway have gone in perma-
nently for directing. But they have
not chung to their former profess
sionS as well. Directors often write
to direct: William Wellman did so
on "A Star Is Born" However, these
are infrequent, rather than regular,
occasions.
For actors and directors to show
versatility creates no Hollywood
amazement. Writers who display
enough business sense to run things
are treated as freaks. Usually for
gotten is the fact that producers
such as William LIE Baron and
Arthur Hornblow, jr., or directors of
the standing of Edward H. Grif-
nth and Mark Sandrich once were
writers. Few also know that
academy winner Actor Thomas
Mitchell was a Hollywood scenarist
not so long ago.
Both Were Hits.
Sturges spent eight years as a
writer, turning out successful scripts
at nearly every studio in Holly
wood. AS 1910 came into being. so
did Sturges the director. He sold
The Great McGinty" to Paramount
for $40 with the understanding that
he direct 1t. Paramount gambled on
one of those impractical writer's.
The first day of work. Sturges was
far behind schedule and Hollywood
smiled with amusement behind
polite hands. Writers were such
visionaries; watch Sturges' cost
mount. He laughed last, bringing in
the picture days ahead of schedule
and thousands below budget.
Thereupon, he turned to writing
christmas in July" and then
whipped it through efficiently. Not
only did practicalness become ap-
parent with Sturges: both pictures
were box office hits and the delights
of critics. Came then The Lady
Eve" with Barbara Stanwyck and
Henry Fonda. The studio went the
limit on expensive clothes, sets and
supporting cast. SturgeS wasted nc
time or dollars.
No man can be called a dillv-
dallying dreamer who can turn out
three scripts and direct them all
within a single year. There is much
of the practical man there.
Has Other Interests.
In yet another way has Sturges
vindicated the writer. All three of
his pictures to date have been
stories which he wrote some time
ago and were never inspiring"
enough for a studio to produce. He
wrote The Great McGinty' in 1888,
never could sell it. Christmas in
July" was turned out for Universal
IN 1881, never made until Sturges
did it himself. The Lady Eve"
was a 1888 effort which he pulled
out of story files, revamped and set
before the cameras.
With one fell swoop, he proved
that writer can have dependable
idea of what will make a good pic
ture.
Meanwhile, he goes merrily along
bearing down on his practical side
by some outside enterprises. One
OF these is the Players Cafe in
Hollywood, an eatery which is max
ing money. The other is the Sturges
Engineering Co. in Wilmington,
where Diesel engines are made.
So today, Sturges the writer sits
In a studio Office drumming out his
next story which he will direct
keeping his fingers on the editing
and musical scoring of "The Lady
Eve" and conducting the business
OF feeding people and putting
engines into boats and airplanes.
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Coming Attractions

Stage.
NATIONAITheater" dramazed of Somerset MaughamS
the weeks tomorrow
Cornea Otis Skinner plays the leading role in
Margeson, Margaret Bannerman
Reginald Mason.
PALACE-The Lady Eve" the Sturges comedy
which undertakes that a of
time starts Thursday Barbara SanWyck Henry
Fonda and Charles Coburn principally involved
Serenade Cheavens
between the reporter the girl
married opens Friday Cary
Star of the show accompanying the film will be
the welcome Joe Cook
CAPITO-"Cheers Bishop" appearing
a of middle Western feminine Mr. Chips Thurs
day. Gargan Edmund Gwenn Dorothy Peterson
the supporting cast Stage show headlner will be
named George Church
METROPOLITAN-"The Wolf" G. a
pirate cheftan shanghais among people
Lupino John Garfield opens Friday
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Graham
Continued From First Page }

vocal chords for song she will sing
in Paramount's Lady in the Dark.
Little Carolyn Lee does her
share of singing m Birth of the
Blues" with Bing Crosby and Mary
Martin doing most of it. June
Preisser sings as we'll as dances in
Henry for President Veronica
Lake, who sang for the first time
on the screen in ct Wanted Wings, -
does an encore in her next-"China
Pass" Paulette Goddard gives
out again with a low G in Hold
Back the Dawn" in which she gets
away with a Latin-American ditty.
Paramount on Parade" has
every one on the lot with a voice
and notwithstanding some sort of
number. And there is singing
in Kiss the Boys Goodbye"-Mary
Martin, Don Ameche. Rochester,
Connie Boswell. And in Caught in
the Draft"-Dorothy Lamour and
Bob Hope. ID. And in Louisiana
Purchase"
Columbia has seven musicals on
its schedule-the two most tmpor-
tant being Pal Joey" and Hes My
Uncle" with Fred Astaire and Rita
Hayworth. 8. R-K-O has five COM
ing up, including Sunny" with
Anna Neagle and John Carroll and
''They Met in Argentina" There is
also some singing in Citizen Kane"
No, not OrSon; he merely pro-
notes it.
Jimmy Reverts to Type.
There are four musicals and one
straight song at Universal, the latter
via Marlene Dietrich in Flame of
New Orleans" It's called Sweet Is
the Blush of May" Marlene also
has two songs in Warmers Man
power"
James Cagney sings and dances as
George M. Conan in Yankee Doodle
Dandy" the musical based on Co.
hans life. Jimmy started, acting life
in the chorus, so this should be easy
for him . Dennis Morgan, who has
a beautiful voice. exercises it in Bad
Men of Missouri" and if and when
Warmers get to the remake of the
Desert Song" Dennis will have the
lead. In Navy Blues" Ann
Sheridan gives out with a here
comes-the-Navy sort of song. Martha
Raye sings in this one, so does Jack
Haley. And so on and on.
A word of warning to producers
with the music bug. Film audi
ences can have too much of one
diet, particularly dance
diet. So don't overdo it, boys.
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Evening star., 1941-04-13

Is such a genius of an editor and
earns enough money so that she can
afford to have complexes that can
be the luxuries of only those people
who earn enough dividends so that
they have to be worried by who is
wearing this years ermines or this
years husband.
When Liza was a little girl she
had to retire in the shadow Of her
mother, who was a noted beauty;
for Liza was the plain type of girl
who fitted perfectly into a gingham
dress. She couldn't be the princess
in her school play, and she was
chosen as the most studiouS rather
than the most beautiful in her class.
So Liza, despite her affiuent sue
cess as a magazine editor who die
tates what women shall do to make
themselves beautiful, has to go to a
Evening star., 1941-04-13
To Film Comedy

The screen rights to "Out OF the
Frying Pan" the current Broadway
success by Francis Swami, have
been purchased by Paramount. The
play deals with three aspiring young
actors and six would-be actresses
who share a Manhattan apartment,
and their efforts to impress we'll
known producer living on the floor
below. Swami got his inspiration
from magazine layout showing his
own sister and some of her friends
in comparable setup.
Buddy G. De Sylvia, Paramount
production chief, plans to round up
a group of Hollywood's best known
younger players to assume the top
roles.
Evening star., 1941-04-13


The Carey longtime mark eclipses
the.1 all. So far as is known, no
SStor now active in Hollywood can
boast of a film debut which ante
dates June 13, 1908. It was on that
date that Carey reported to the
National Film Distributing Co. at
South Beach, Staten Island, to star
In a Western titled Bill Sharkey's
Last Game"
Some time this year, Carey, now
SO, plans to get busy on his auto
biography. He has threatened to do
so several times, but never quite got
around to 1t before. Too busy, with
his film roles and his Newhall
ranch. But this time he means it.
Let's get Carey to give us a preview
OF the forthcoming tome.
The real meat of the story will
begin on that day in 1908 when I
signed to make four Westerns for
National Film at $85 a week" said
the actor. Il had to do my own
stunts, including driving a stage
coach, doing barroom brawls and
VI I'm ollOOO4liS' non dIl dSIO1 lOOdy
to do any of those things!
Started an Epic.
"I got paid for three of those
films. but the check bounced on the
fourth, so I was looking for another
job. The company director, o. A. c..
Lund, and went up to my old home
at Carey's Point, City Island, and
began making movies on the share
cropper' basis.
"We got our negative on credit
from the distributing company and
the price of it was deducted on our
royalties, providing the film made
a profit. More often than not, we
didn't know whether we'd get the
price of the raw stock back"
Long Island froze over that year,
Carey recalls, and he and Lund
got the idea of making some North
west Mounted Police stories. Con-
slant reading of the James Oliver
Curwood stories gave birth to that
idea.
I'VE bought a dozen dogs and
after lot of trouble trained them
to draw a sled" Carey went on.
Then we started work on an epic
called The Greater Love- Before
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Margaret SULLIVAN
To PLAY Reporter

Margaret Sullivan will be starred
by Universal in a special Joe Paster-
max production. The Man Who
Lived Alone" The story, an original
by Sonya Jevien, was especially
written for Miss Sullivan and a
male co-star to be chosen later. In
the new film. the actress will por-
tray the role of a metropolitan news
paper reporter.
Evening star., 1941-04-13

GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF A TALENT-Charles Coburn,
Uho into his cinemacalIy "The
JONES' at Keh celebrates the 50h anniversary of
theatrical this month at the old Savannah
Theater founded 1918 in Savannah that the
Charles Coburn upper right got his first job program
boy in 1891 The eater upper CENTER still in
house. After almost 10 the
got Cobun too he making his debut the Doctor
Shinge upper lett "Ot Human Hearts" in 1887
three high lights of the Coburn stage The ripoarn
of the title role of Frehwaer Jack in 1906 the
Bill OF BarnStaherS popular maritime pay The
Better OLE the Macbeth he played than 300 times
throughout 24year period NTH Ms Cobn Lady Macbeth
Evening star., 1941-04-13

4cW 1IlONlCS IllSllG SOlllllldIlu,
Having Wonderful Time'D and you
will be seeing him in Lady Be
Good" the new musical. But you
haven't really seen him until you've
seen one of his stage routines-say
the one about the television an
nouncer plugging "Guzzler's Gin"
That's the sort of thing that keeps
Hollywood busy looking for the right
spot for him.
Here's Reds story, told with ges-
lures of the big cigar he always car
ries but never lights, told with grins
end wrinkles and the proper degree
OF cockinessG
She Changed His Mind.
T was 10 when I left Vincennes
and Joined UP with a medicine show
at Lawrenceville, Ill. I've done all
kinds of shows except carnivals-I
mean all kinds. Lot of fun, but
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Army Flyer Starts
A Picture Career

The true-to-life bit part played
by Richard Webb, former United
States Army aviator in Il Wanted
Wings" Paramounts new epic of
the Air Corps, has won the young
man permanent motion picture
career.
Webb was signed to a long-term
contract on the basis of his per-
formance as a Randolph Field up
perclassman in Il Wanted Wings, -
and a special screen test viewed by
Buddy De Sylvia. Paramount pro-
duction chief, and other studio Of
ficials.
Evening star., 1941-04-13

psychoanalysist and reveal her SUBJ
conscious.
She pays him high fee. but she
discovers in the end that it is love
good and lusty, that cures all.
With Kurt Wells music and Ira
Gershwins lyrics and such good
songs as The Saga of Jenny" this
Lady in the Dark" is a musical OF
both intelligence and entertain
ment and probably will be winning
more laurels as long as Miss Law
renee is willing.
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Barron
Continued From First Page.)

tertainment. Her manuscript has
the added advantage of that for
which every playwright prays-a
talented and understanding disrec-
tor in Herman Shumlin and a per-
feet cast headed by Lukas and Miss
Watson.
The top musical show of the year
is easily Lady in the Dark" Moss
Hart's tuneful picture of a fetching
and talented girl who didn't quite
know what wrong with her mind
other than it was one that enabled
her to earn something like $4,000
a year as editor of a fashionable
woman's magazine.
But this Liza Elliott, as delight
fully played by Gertrude Lawrence,
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Scarcely a Dull Moment
BY Robin COOnS,
Associated Press Star Writer.

$50 the redheaded kid from married
licensed embamer at
time 16 they
Make
You've Red the chpper gnnng repressibe Skeon
Evening star., 1941-04-13
He Leads All the Rest
Harry Carey, Veteran of Veterans,
Soon Marks an Anniversary
HOLLYWOOD.


of
hence Harry will celebrate his
celuloids that record.
Mention Lionel Barrymore William Donald and
Evening star., 1941-04-13
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Evening star., 1941-04-13

DANCING.
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