Evening star., 1941-09-03

TACT, MI. ana MIS-. HOluell, UOIll lcC
from appendectomieS performed
within a few hours of each other,
are principals in the most frustrated
romance Hollywood has ever known.
Following the ceremony, theirs
has been one long series of upSets-
and separations. After the Il dos"
Brenda and Bill walked more than
three miles over sand dunes and
sage brush patches when their
plane missed the airport in the dark.
That was just the beginning.
They spent the first few weeks OF
their honeymoon separated by a
continent and 5000 miles. This hap
pened when Warner Brothers as
signed Brenda to the heroine role in
Captains of the Clouds" and sent
her off on the longest location trip
of the Season-to North Bay, On
tario. Three weeks later Brenda re-
turned. Holden met her at the sta
ton at Pasadena at $50 on Friday
afternoon. The train was late. That
night at $50, Holden left for Carson
City to work in Paramount's The
Remarkable Andrew"
The studio-crossed lovers were to
have been reunited when Bill re-
turned, week later. But he be-
came i'll on the train and, arriving
at the station, got news that his
bride had been taken from studio
to home in an ambulance. She was
suffering from severely-infected
throat and bad case of nerves.
Physicians visited them en- masse.
After the dual checkup, they re-
ceived orders to prepare for an ap-
pendix removal apiece.
Thinks like this can't go on for
ever, so the next item about the
Holden Marshall honeymoon is more
cheerful. Doctors say they're get
ting along nicely and their respec-
tive studios wax fatherly by declar-
ing they can have exactly four weeks
to recuperate and try out married
life before facing the cameras again.
Robert Benchley grumbles that
script writers have libeled him to
such an extent he now fees when
passing a mirror
In you'll Never Get Rich" +"
Benchley explains, the man who
wrote the screen play describes him
as "a man who carries his so years
lightly. The sap of spring flows
through his veins"
In his next film, Bedtime Story"
the character Benchley interprets
Is written off as IAN engaging mugg
| OF So" In other scripts, the come
| dian remembers he has been vari-
ously described as "a drunken, disso-
lutte reporter, with slept-in clothes" I"
"a man with pudgy face and
tWinkling eyes" "the opposite of the
/ popular conception of Beau Brum-
mel and "a man who would be at
home in any company. if it were
bad enough"
Next writer I see," snarIed
Benchley, will receipt for a punch
right in the eye!"
Orson Welles has given Peter Lind
Hayes new sketch for his show at
the Grace Hayes Lodge, a real-life
tale which the mimicking Peter re-
peats to the, customers of this pop
ular night haunt of the movie
crowds.
Peter explains that Orson was
invited to a small town to speak
on Aesthetics" On arrival he dis
/ covered the crowd small and no one
was there to introduce him So. after
waiting an appropriate amount of
time, the three-ring genius was
forced to bow himself in.
Ladies and gentlemen" he said
"since no one is here to give you
the high lights of my life, will tell
you about myself. I am writer of
plays, am producer Of plays, I
am an actor on the legitimate stage.
7 am a writer of motion pictures,
I am a producer Of motion pictures,
7 am a motion picture actor. I am
a magician. I also sketch and paint.
I am a puppeteer and book pub
Usher. I am a violinist and a
pianist"
Here Orson lin the person of
Peter pauses dramatically and says:
isn't it a shame there are so few
of you and so many Of me?"