The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-08
By FRANCHOT TONE Special to the Democrat

Universal City, Cal1f., Aug. 8.-1tS been my experience that practically everyone believes movie people live in 8 topsy-turvy world-and we do. The oppositeness extend even to the seasons, and in summer when most folks are vacationing, the film folks are doing their hardest work.
 There are many reasons for this, but the main one is psychological. Tn the cid winter months, audiences like to see movies with 8 lot of bright summery sunlight and back grounds in them. And the only time to make such pictures is in sum- mef.
 Likewise, summer is the only sea. son-even in California,-when movie companies can be sure of con- tinued good weather for making out door pictures Since there are a lot of these, it all results in the cinema people working night and day in summer and grabbing 8 va cation when they can in the fall or winter.
 Making outdoor pictures such as the one I'm doing now is like being in the navy. You see the world from 8 uuarterdeck. The picture is Frank Lloyds newest at Universal, This Woman Is Mine," and is based on the Gilbert Gabriel novel, T, James Lewis" I'm the James Lewis in 1t but they've changed my name to Robert Stevens, which is one of the inscrutable things that havpen in Hollywood.
 A lot of the action takes place on the full-rigged schooner Metha Nelson, which has been renamed the Tonquin after the ship that John Jacob Astor sent around the Horn in 18lO to establish the fur trade in the Pacific northwest = the story told int he picture. Well, we've spent two weeks at sea of Catalina Island and another fortnight at Lake Tahoe, which is some 500 miles away from Catalina, and the end is not yet.
 I like this role I'm doing. It is a lot different from the other pictures I've had recently, and l think 1t IS important for an actor to appear in constantly changing variety of .characterizationS. Walter Brennan has an, even more striking change of pace. In contrast to the quaint and benign characters he has been doing, Walter appears as the cold cruel captain who rules the Tonquin with an iron hand and Q whip. Wal ter says he is frightened himself by the captain, and it's fun to see him break into a comedy toe dance after a rough, tough scene as II he were reassuring himself that the captain was make-believe.
 Carol Bruce, the brunette lass from ''Iouisiana Purchase" is mak- ing her movie debut in This Wo- man Is Mine" and we are all watch ing her closely. She has an extreme " dificult role but 1t seems to me from looking att he daily "ruSheS" that Frank Floyd made wise choice in her.
 have been talking about the pie tsre because I feel that actors as group are often too prone to talk about themselves. It is easy to fall into this habit. When being inter- viewed, of course. an actor Is: ex- pected to discuss himself. But I mo- tice also that when actors are to- gether they generally talk about themselves, or relate stories that concern hem. I don't suppose there is really anything wrong with this it can, in fact, be very amusing but you can't use the personal pro- noun and be modest at the same time.
 All of which is a preamble tetbss- ing modeGty overheard and dealing with 8 subject that has been very close to me for the last two or three years. When left Hollywood al couple of seasons back, went to New York simply because thought | that working In play or two would ' be good for me. But it was widely and Incorrectly n0ised around that