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Evening star., 1941-06-22

control so she can phrase properly.
She must never overlook an op-
portunity to meet the right people. !"
A rumba with a director or game
of gin rummie with a producer
makes it harder for them to brush
her off.
A Nebulous Quality.
Social wileS, a lissome figure and
impeccable diction often help in at
tanning movie success. But the de-
Gliding factor (trite but true) is un-
doubtedly personality.
What is screen personality?
Director Frank Borzage says it's
quality as nebulous as gossamer,
defying definition. but that actors
who don't possess it join the w. P. A.
Actors radiate personality on the
screen" says Director Marvin Leroy,
"as the sun radiates sunlight. An
observer is conscious of this quality
and feels better when it is turned
on"
George Cukor, another director,
says that screen personality origi-
mates in the actors mind and reveals
itself in his surface manner. 1T
isn't an acquired quality" said
Cukor. You're born with it-or
you're out of luck"
All actors are positive they're
born with it.
If they weren't, they wouldn't be
actors.
Evening star., 1941-06-22
There Aren't Any Rules
For Success in Movies
Some Stars Arrive the Hard Way,
While Others Get There With
Little or No Effort
BY tbs Associated Press.

By HOLLYWOOD
wonderland she looked
looked for the rules
don't any,"
believe him.
his best to explain but tumble
kidding
Evening star., 1941-06-22
Margo Discovers She Has Talent for Being Often discovered

Angeles, where the movie stars di-
vert themselves amidst the tourists.
That" she says, SIS tops in Cali
fornis. After dancing there you may
go out and commit suicide. because
there is nothing more to achieve"
However, Margo dug up two or
three aforementioned worlds to con-
quer.
What Can She Do?
She loved most being in THE
World We Make" on Broadway last
year, in which she played the movie
role of a girl who escaped from an
asylum to make her way back to
sanity.
In this" says Margo, "all the
New York critics were for the first
time unanimous in the opinion that
I had handled my part expertly.
Even one VINO has always seemed to
resent that use only one name"
That brings us to Margo's solo
name.
People think I am a show-off,
using only one like queen, but what
can do at this point?" she inquiries,
elevating shoulder.
my real name is Marguerite Te-
resa Gaudelupe Castillo Bolado"
Evening star., 1941-06-22
DisneyDares
Tradition
Once More
Latest Product
Also Variant
In Theme
BY the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD.
Walt DiSney's latest experiment in
entertainment answers question
many have asked: How do they
make cartoons? The Reluctant
Dragon" is a tour through the Dis
ney plant, with typical Disney car
toons interspersed through it to pro-
vide more conventional entertain
ment.
A foreword declares that any re-
semblance between this and any
other motion picture is purely COIN
cidental. And a very unorthodox
motion picture it is, obeying scare
ly any precedents. Because of that,
none of those in Hollywood, knowing
only movies which follow a pattern,
can tell whether this will entertain
or disillusion. Even Disney isn't Ger
tain his public will like it. He can
only hope he invested the million
wisely.
A Great Departure.
His reason for choosing a studio
as background was that no one
ever had done 1t before. It is as
great departure as having animals
talk from the screen. There have
been movies laid against studio
ho rk ororIn6c but tIov ,,e,olI, l,o,A
been satires, which never told any,
body seriously just how movies are
made.
Disney diScloses all the mechani-
cal secrets. With Robert Benchley
as sort of master of ceremonies, or
straight man asking questions, he
shows how cartoon sound effects and
voices are made and recorded. how
stories are plotted and planned and
photographed.
Neither Benchley nor Disney nor
the swishy dragon nor the multi
plane camera nor all the color is the
star of this picture Baby Weems is.
This is another of the pictures with
in picture, yet it is not an ami
mated cartoon. AS part of the story,
Walt shows how one of his pictures
begins, with live models and the
master drawings. And so the key
sketches of each scene, supposedly
for a forthcoming short, are photo
graphed. Oddly enough, one gets
from it the illusion of animation.
The Baby Weems sequence is de-
lightful satire, lampooning preco-
cious children, quiz kids, quints, the
radio. newspapers, ballyhoo and even
public opinion.
Evening star., 1941-06-22

She has appeared in five other
stage plays. The Masque of Kings"
Faust" Seventh Heaven" The
World We Make" and lanyard
Street." and a number of movies, in
Guiding the screen version of Win
terset" and Lost Horizon"
Forces Her Luck.
Once she was George Rats dane
ing partner for an engagement in a
Manhattan movie palace and last
summer she was prima ballerina
with the National Symphony in
Mexico City.
Margo admits forcing her luck at
times.
"Once as a youngster," she says,
"I wanted to make enough money
to visit Mexico and learn some In
dian and Mexican dances. I wrote
letters to several night clubs, telling
what sensation was one Margo.
1 had, I said, danced at the Kit Kat
in London and the Casino Marianao
in Cuba"
The Mark Hopkins Hotel in San
Francisco went for it.
This led to an engagement there
and at the Cocoanut Grove in Los
Evening star., 1941-06-22

vealed the mixed influences Of her
past even before she herself moved
into it in a trailing red hostess
and charming as all get out.
For example, there was a sleepy
Pekingese which kept tumbling with
sigh onto soft cushions; Harlem
maid, New York girl secretary,
Spanish aunt, Mexican oil paintings,
white furniture moderne, a lovely
old desk of inlaid woods. and an
American phonograph with COL
lection of Latin music stacked
around it,
Lunch featured Southern chicken,
a Mexican dish, a green salad shin
ing with olive oil and a Yankee
layer cake with plenty of frosting.
Also Intelligent.
Margo, who has brown-gold hair,
lustrous with vitality and topaz
eyes, looks nordic as anything, but,
in spite of her perfect English, her
blondness, and one Irish grand
mother, she manages to be Latin.
On one finger she wears a gold
ring of clasped hands which opens
up into three circlets, revealing that
the hands cover a golden heart
Besides being gracious hostess,
Margo is highly intelligent woman
with the soul of an artist.
She talked of pictures . cinema
and oil l. of music, of the COM
raderie of the theater, of a residence
she ran across and loved on Long
Island, converted from an old wind
mill, of her collection of toy stuffed
animals, of the strong sense of the
past she finds in New England but
not so much in Hollywood
Il first became an American" she
said, when read Little Women"
Star in First Play.
Margo believes that her dancing
is responsible for most of her good
fortune in the legitimate theater
and thinks that every child should
take lessons-especialy girls-for the
Evening star., 1941-06-22
He Said No,
Actress Still
Got Role
Radio Voice Won
Part in Play for
Joan Tompkins
NEW YORK.


As those who know their wav
around the Broadway theater will
attest. the most hectic weeks in the
life of a producer occur during the
period of casting a play. Veritably
untold hundreds of actors and ac-
tresses trudge to his private sane
tum in the hope a suitable role is
available for their particular type
OF histrionic3.
1t was during an unusually exclt-
ing day. therefore, that Max Cor
don. about TO launch MY Sister
Eileen" the comedy by Joseph Fields
and Jerome Chodorov. now at the
Biltmore Theater in New York. idly
turned to his Office radio for enter
tainment. A voice in an ether
sketch, Against the Storm" brought
a note of jubilation to his voice.
That's the girl" he calculated TO
a surprised secretary. That's pre-
cisely the quality l want for the
role of Helen Wade. Call the studio
and get her name for me"
He Looked Again.
The secretary returned in few
minutes. You're going to laugh
when I tell you who she is" she
said. Its Joan Tompkins. She
was in yesterday and you turned
her down for the part"
Can you beat that?" came from
Gordon, shaking his head. Tell her
to see me anyhow"
Miss Tompkin accordingly,
walked into the Gordon Office later
that afternoon. He took good look
at her this time.
Weren't you in one of my shovs?"
asked the producer.
Yes" replied the actress. Il
worked for you in Pride and Preju-
dice"
20. K. you're hired" said the
abashed Gordon. Report to George
Kaufman at rehearsal tomorrow"
Mistaken for Star.
And so it is that Joan Tompkins
has one Of the leading roles in MY
Sister Eileen"
Peculiarly enough, this marks the
second time odd circumstances
landed a Broadway job for Miss
Tompkins Turned down for a role
in Jane Eyre the assistant stage
manager mistook her for Katharine
Hepburn, star of that particular
piece, and to whom she bears a
remarkable resemblance. The pro-
/ ducer pricked up his ears at this
error when he heard her addressed
as Miss Hepburn, asked to see her,
and forthwith signed her TO be the
understudy
Miss Tompkins is graduate OF
stock companies in Mount Kisco and
White Plains. She scored her first
Broadway success in Fly AWAY
/. Home" Most of her acting time
lately, however, has been devoted tn
such radio skits as Just Plain Bill"
Stella Dallas" Girl Inferno" and
Against the Storm" the latter Of
which led to her current appear
ance in MY Sister Eileen"
Evening star., 1941-06-22
GoingGet
Harder for
Bob Hope
Comedian Suffers
More and More
In Each Film
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
Because they think the public likes
to see Bob Hope suffer, script writer's
are launching an "all-out" campaign
to make the popular comedian
squirm harder and harder in each
succeeding picture.
Just where the limit will be.
don't know-but I sure would like
TO-" pleads Hope. But so long as
they keep laughing, it's okay with
me. They'd better make the most of
me, however, while I'm still in one
piece
I'm counting on the actors relief
fund having that home for broken
down comedians completed by the
time I'm through with my present
series of pictures. That probably will
be all 1 can take"
Writers Go to Town.
To hear script writer's tell it. 1t
took them little time to discover
the comic potentialities of Hope in
distress. But once they caught on.
they really went to town.
In Hopes first picture, he and w.
c. Fields were blown up in radio
controlled boat. In others he
splashed over muddy roads. Alan
Hale slapped his face, pushed it into
bowl of muSh, poured ketchup and
scrambled eggs in his hair. He has
been in fights, showed down stairs.
conked on the head and nearly
strangled to death.
The more pictures he made. the
more agony he had to endure. He
was shot out of a cannon. electro
cuted. frozen in a slab of ice. turned
into human bat. mauled bv a
gorilla and dropped from an air.
plane minus a parachute.
In the Bait Box.
In his current picture, Nothing
But the Truth" Hope is knocked
cold by Left Erickson, his love. rival.
When they take away his clothes on
a houseboat, Hope grabs a maribou-
trimmed dressing gown from
womans stateroom and hides in a
bait box
While the comedian is still inside
the box, sailors dunk it overheard
and fill 1t with $500 live anchovies
for bait for the next days fishing.
Hope emerges with fish wriggline
from his hair, ears, mouth and shirt
front, and with a crab on his head
and another biting his leg.
Don't let any one tell you that
being a movie comedian is snap"
quips Hope. They mean SAP"
Evening star., 1941-06-22
BY Vesfa Keeling.
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

NEW YORK.
Margos Spanish momma wanted
her to live in Mexico City and be a
lady only.
Her equally Spanish grandmother
insisted that she be permitted to
become ballerina besides.
Both of them won ;. except that
Margo has spent all but the first
few of her "a years in Hollywood
and on Broadway, rather than in
Mexico, and has become not only
dancer but a star of the stage and
screen as well.
The other day, while waited to
lunch with Margo, the living room
of her Manhattan apartment re-
Evening star., 1941-06-22
Curmody
Continued From First Page)

more that it has found popular type picture. Why
il apparently has asked itself, should the English
studios have a corner the enormously successful
action melodrama? Why should they make the
fortunes that derive from Night Train" Missing
10 Days" "Blackout' and several of the same type?
Certainly type of picture has proved more
endurngly popular since Alfred Hitchcock bowled
over American audiences with The Lady
Vanishes,' thriller having to do with the Wild
mysterious scurryngs of people within the chaotic
pattern of life created by Herr Hitler. Its ability
to pull moviegoers out of themselves out of their
Evening star., 1941-06-22

sake of their health, posture and
poise.
"A dancer must be an actress"
she explains, and when the dancer
is first faced with straight acting
she skips all the early difficulties
the novice encounters, learning how
to move on a stage, to enter and
to exit.
The dancer already knows how
to command her body
In her very first Broadway play,
'Winterset," Margo was starred
with Burgess Meredith.
Born in Mexico City of Spanish
born parents, Margo made her first
professional appearance there as
dancer at the age of 6.
While performing at the Hill
Street Mexican Theater in Los
Angeles she was seen by Ramon Ma
varro and engaged for the chorus
of the motion picture, Under a
Texas Moon" Scarcely more than
child at the time, she fibbed about
her age and was chlorine in three
musical pictures.
Often Discovered.
Margo expresses wide-eyed wonder
over her talent for getting discovered
West and East Coasts seem to
alternate on it.
When she was dancing at Aqua
Caliente, once a border resort, she
noticed an unknown man looking on
at one of her rehearsalS.
He came up to her afterward and
said Il am Renee Black of the
Waldorf Astoria. Would you like to
dance in New York;"
There, in 1894, she was "discov-
cred" by Writers Ben Hecht and
Charles Macarthur and signed for
one of their first movies made at
Astoria, Long Island, Crime With
out Passion"
When she was working in Holly
wood in 1885 she was discovered"
by Producer Guthrie McClintic and
Playwright Maxwell Anderson for
"Winterset."
Evening star., 1941-06-22
Outdoor Amusements

WILSON LINE-There is dane
ing nightly on the moonlight
cruise" down the Potomac, to
music by Davey MacWilliams'
Orchestra. The S. S. Mount
Vernon sails at $3.50 O'Clock, in
addition to making two daily
trips to Mount Vernon at
10 am. and 2 pm.
POTOMAC PIVER LINE-The
S. 6. Potomac sails nightly
at S:45 O'Clock for moonlight
dancing on the river. Ralph
Hawkins Orchestra provides
music on the boat.
GLEN ECHO PARK - The
Capitals popular free-admis-
sion amusement resort boasts
more than so attractions
among its midway diversions
&nd resort devices. There is
dancing nightly. except SUM-
days, in the Spanish Garden
Ballroom, with music by Paul
Kain's Orchestra. There also
is swimming daily in the
Crystal Pool.
Evening star., 1941-06-22
WoIfert
Continued From First Page)


wright said. because what else is
there in the world for a man with
sensibilities to think about but the
war?
Anti-war or pro-war, it's all the
same marked lousy, the producer
maintained. He mentioned half a
dozen scripts about the r. A. F.,
the Battle of France and the Battle
of Britain that were knocking
around with no one willing to take
a chance on them. People just
don't want to know from nothing
ABOUT the war, he declared. They
get enough of it in the papers and
on the radio and they want some
thing besides that from the theater.
But There May Be Hope.
The argument after that was
brisk and not at all one-sided.
Ticket buyers who go to the theater
to relax instead of getting keyed
and toned up came in for drub-
bling. But somebody said something
more startling and more heartening.
He said that war plays succeeded
during the last war and fail during
the present one because the atti-
tude toward war has changed.
Everybody in the world tNazis
being excepted since they are riding
and no doubt will drown in wave
of the past) nowadays goes to war
unwillingly, with no more flags to
them than to hog killers. There is
nothing to excite or arouse their
minds in going to war Instead
war is recognized for what it is-a
mental depressant. a mind -throttler,
smotherer of the spirit. a dirty
job that may need doing, but
doesn't deserve cheering.
That. it was maintained, shows
progress and is the hope of the
future of the world.
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1941-06-22
Cominq Attractions

Store starring the
Brothers, repeatedly their together opens
will a variety bill
Washington comedy drama life
the Capitol dome featuring Virginia Herbert
Friday. Dick Stables Orchestra with
Barrie singing, will headline the stage show.
METROPOLITAN-"Time Rhythm" musical with
Rosemary Lane Ann Miller and Rudy Valee starts Friday.
the Navy latest adventure of Abbott and Costello
follows the current Anna Neagle film, Sunny"
TEThe Charlie Chaplin festival featuring group his best
comedies Wednesday
PALACECaught in the Draft" the Bob Hope comedy
which that what he gets caught scheduled to follow
Love Crazy"
Evening star., 1941-06-22

Minneapolis.
Alice had what she thought II
takes-beauty, talent, brains, eyes
legs. But on film she just went
nyahi
There aren't any success rules IN
the movies. Some people come up
the hard way, after years of plug
ging. Some get there with little
or no effort on their part.
The ability to act isn't enough
Actors who are stars in the theater
don't always click with the camera
There are some beauties in the extra
ranks, There are some very unat-
tractive persons, according to the
usual standards of beauty and hand
someness, on the top rung.
Publicity Borne.
Pluggers encourage one another oy
pointing out Joan Crawfords sue
cess. won by years of hard work.
II wasn't accident that Joan, the
t7apper who used to win Charleston
contests. became a box office come
ON as a dramatic actress.
But pluggers have been known to
turn purple ind lapse into Arctic
silence when Lana Turner or Stirling
Hayden are mentioned.
A landslide of publicity pushed
Lana far along the road to fame
before she ever studied a script.
When a Boston newspaperman
mailed Haydens picture to talent
scout, Hayden had never tried to
act. Not even in a Sunday school
pageant. He was rushed to Holly
wood and made love to Madeleine
Carroll Tin "Virginia'0 almost before
he had time to catch his breath.
Makeup Wizards Act.
One explanation for Lana and
Hayden is that they are photogenic,
But this rare quality is achieved by
ingenuity, hard work and will power
more often than nature endows 1t.
If the camera shows up an ugly
duckling, wizards in the makeup
department will take steps. A new
set of eyebrows can turn an mgenue
into a siren. A few strokes with
razor around the hair line will
transform a lowbrow to a high
brow.
Friends may not notice teeth that
are slightly crooked. But the camera
will. It's no picnic to have them
Strengthened. Or to have porcelain
caps fitted over them.
REn1r anH dpf1tlSfS
disguise facial idosyncracies, but
figure is determined by diet, exer-
else and will power.
Only the Beginning.
M-G-M sent Ilona Massy to a
sanatorium for three weeks to re-
duce. That was a couple of years
ago. Iona still shudders at the
thought of broiled liver and salad
dressing made of mineral oil.
Carol Bruce, who was cavortlng
In the New York musical, "Loulsl-
ana Purchase" when Universal
interest in her quickened, was afraid
hips might ruin her movie chances.
Under a doctors care she reduced
IL pounds. Today her figure is
streamlined, but she still takes
strenuous calisthenics.
Slimming down a figure is only
the beginning of the grooming. A
girl may be fresh as daisy after
hiking 20 miles, but unless she can
cross a room without appearing
awkward she'll have to learn.
When she reads dialog she'll find
that breathing isn't just matter
of filling her lungs with air. Exer-
cises will help her develop breath
Evening star., 1941-06-22

personal depressions. terrors, and morbdity of
heart is matched by its ability to pull customers to
the box Office
Hollywood is not to be condemned for looking
at it with covetous eyes. 1t is entitled to its faith
that here is theme which seems to have work
ability in period marked by profound apathy
the part of the people.
But just let it try to translate its covetousness
and its faith and it is probably good 10 to l bet
that it will reap the wild wind of wrath that seems
to greet its every effort to do the right thing by the
right idea.
Evening star., 1941-06-22
Rejoins DeMille

Charles Bickford. who was brought
to Hollywood originally by Cecil B.
De Mile decade ago for a role
in Dynamite" has rejoined his for
mer boss to play the mate of an
old-time whaling ship in Reap the
Wild Wind"
Evening star., 1941-06-22
Bosart in Thriller

Humphrey Bogart has been cast
by Warner Bros. in the leading male
role opposite Mary Astor in The
Maltese Falcon" His assignment
to the mystery thriller ends a long
vacation for Bogart, whose last pic
ture was High Sierra"
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