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Evening star., 1941-08-10
Portrait of Sam Goldwyn as Seen by an Actress

arrival, she was flanked by two
men from her agents Office and
this scared her more than ever
She is from New York and the
cops never travel in pairs here ex-
cept in Chinatown when there's a
tong war on.
"Just Speak Frankly"
1.-The office was suitable to Mr.
Goldwyn's position out here, but
not at all startling. And Mr.. Gold
wyn was so sweet, really sweet. He
told me had an important part and
how sure he was that I'd be good
in it, things like that, to give me
confidence. I have a habit when
I'm nervous-I mean. I kept
twisting my fingers like this. witt
ness indicates finger twisting with
utmost charm)
pretty soon,' Mr.. Goldwyn told
me, you will be big success and
then you will stop twisting your
fingers He pointed his finger at
my fingers and he said it so sweetly,
really sweet. He told me If I ever
had anything to complain about, he
wanted to hear about it and wanted
me to talk frankly
A confidential memorandum from
a reliable source intimates that Mr.
! Goldwyn's exact words were: Il
want you to talk to me Like you
CONTINUED On Page 81
Evening star., 1941-08-10
Smith Is Good Enough Name for Her, Alexis Says
BY tie Associated Pres
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Blond, tall and befreckled Alexis
Smith is about to descend upon the
public a la Ann Sheridan.
The Warner studio, which spent
a lot of money to make Annie the
oomph girl, has decided to give the
2O-year-old Alexis a similar buildup.
Her First Lead.
A native of Penticton, British CO.
lumbia, secuted for the films while
in a play at Los Angeles City Col
lege. Alexis has been under contract
since last october, playing bit parts.
Recently she played her first lead,
opposite Enrol Flynn and Fred Mac
Murray. The studio said the COM
ments on Alexis were encouraging
enough for big-time campaign.
But No New Name.
Now all it needs is slogan.
mo name-change," says Alexis,
I'm named for my daddy. Alexan-
der. AS for Smith, it's good enough
for me, even if it wasn't for Mary
Pickford
Evening star., 1941-08-10
By Jay Carmody.
PAWLING. N. Y.

This really is wonderful country.
That does not mean merely the plot
geographically defined as Pawling.
N. Y. although it is rather wonder
full too. 1t is rich and rolling and
obviously worth fighting for both
from the utilitarian and esthetlc
viewpoints The wonder which gets
us is that it is part of whole coun-
try which can whimsically contrive
to make a stage here IN a meadow
on which Anna Sten brings the
drama to the farmers. the vacation
lists and the self-conSciouss sub-
urbanites.
You must remember Miss Stem.
In your moments of brooding upon
the opulent eccentricities Of the
movies. you might even at some
time have asked: Whatever hap
pened to Anna Stem? fyou haven {,
the million dollars Samuel Goldwyn
is calculated to have invested IN
making her the greatest Of movie
glamour girls is even more OF a loss
than it seemed. That simply could
not be. She never evolved into the
Carlo raised to the second power
which Mr.. Goldwyn had in mind
but his publicity department dinned
her name ineradicablv into the con-
sciousness Of America. That is
something, not what Miss Sten anc
Mr.. Goldwvn dreamed. but the thing
that explains Miss Stems presence
at the Starlight Theater away ou'
here IN the country near Pawllng
population 1904, 1t is quite dra'
matte. 1t is lot more dramatic
indeed, than "Nancys Private AT
Evening star., 1941-08-10
BY Ira " Wolterf.
NEW YORK

w 1oININ.
No doubt this belongs over t'other
side in our movie department, but,
my goodness. she's one of our girls,
isn't she? Teresa Wright, just re-
Gently a moment or two OF Life
With Father" is meant.
Now Teresa seems to have made
good in Hollywood-at least that's
the advance tip. She herself says, i
don't know yet, just hoping ng-and
she's putting up at Frank Cases
hostelry, among her memories the
full details on what kind of boss
Samuel Goldwyn is.
That's important. Pretty nearly
the whole world knows what kind of
a talker Mr.. Goldwyn is (he's the
one who said. Include me out")
and knows what kind of a picture
maker he is Ia short synopsis of what
the critics say: Genius, but the
only people who have told what kind
of boss he is are those he's fired.
Here's a girl he seems to be trying
to steer to the top and who's ready
to describe the magic.
No Wolves.
Miss Wright was picked out of her
part in Life With Father" by Sam
Goldvyn himself to do a part in
"The Little Foxes" On the stage,
it was a small part, but when Mr..
Evening star., 1941-08-10
By Harold Hefernan.
HOLLYWOOD.


No one in Hollywood tunless it's
q mother or a husbandl gets to
know the mental and physical lido
svncraCies Of a movie actress quite
50 we'll as the studio makeup man
or the costume designer.
An actress may fool her public,
her boss in the front Office or even
her director-but never can she
dare hope to slip anything over
on the patient gentlemen who daily
toll to make her sometimes unpho-
togenic features and sometimes
unphotogenic figure presentable
enough to hoodwink the penetrating
eye of the camera.
We made conversation last week
with one of the most important
of these lin the know" fellows, a
blond, blue-eyed young man named
Milo Anderson, who for the past
five years has been designing and
fitting every imaginable type OF
earment-fashiona and other
wise-to the bodies of such big
time favorites as Bette Davis, Oliv-
ia De Havilland, Priscilla Lane,
Ann Sheridan. Martha Scott. Jane
Wyman-and Marlene Dietrich.
Has Clothes Sense"
Although it's weeks now since he
finished the job, it was of Marlene
Dietrich and her slightly devastat-
ing wardrobe requirements for the
movie "Manpower" that Mr.. An
derson wanted to speak, to the ex-
clusion of all else.
To Mr.. Anderson's notion-ano
perhaps he should know-Dietrich
has more clothes sense" than any
other actress he has ever worked
with.
But that doesn't mean she is easy
to please or simple to work with ol
for" Anderson hastily added "She
Evening star., 1941-08-10

is one of the most determined Tom-
en- I ever met, She never gives up.
She will stand for hours. almost for
days, to fit dress and then recall
that she said she didn't care for it
in the first place and hasn't changed
her mind.
: She is great student of clothes,
of costume and, more particularly,
of Dietrich. She sits or stands be-
fore that full-length mirror on the
set for many hours-just studying
herself. She knows the faults and
weaknesses of her own figure and
features, and she has learned what
to do about them. 1t is useless to
try to change her mind"
Dietrich approved of his prelim-
mary sketches for 'ManpoWer"
without much change, Anderson re-
calls, but she did say she couldn't
tell about most of the clothes until
she saw them on herself. 1t was
only after the clothes were finished
that she began to make changes and
suggestions, and that proved an ex-
pensive item.
Just because she is playing a
woman who has little money to
spend on her clothes is no sign she
will wear cheap garments. Ander-
son says. Even though they are
made to appear cheap and f1ashy
the cheapness and the flash are
handmade. She wears what ap-
pears to be an inexpensive dress
but she wears it over one of her
$3.50 Irene-made slips and French
seams ION the bias which help
make it fit like a glove over her
figure, cost as much in the ward
robe as so such dresses would cost
at a month-end sale.
Go home early tonight" Ander-
son recalls Dietrich urging him one
afternoon. you've been working
too hard. Don't let any one dis
! turh VOu"
Evening star., 1941-08-10

Anderson said he did Just that.
And half an. hour after he reached
his home the telephone rang. 1t was
Dietrich, wondering if he could come
over to her bungalow on the grounds
of the Beverly Hills Hotel for just
a minute" She wanted to talk over
some of her cheap clothes to be
worn in the picture.
But That Was Paris.
They talked long time, Ander-
son said, and eventually they got
around to hats, particularly to
berets which the actress would wear
in one scene. Marlene has whole
basement floor full of clothes. the
designer says. beautiful clothes,
beautifully kept. The maid was sent
down to bring up the beretS. She
brought up dozen or more, but
the one Dietrich remembered and
wanted was missing.
Don't you remember" asked the
maid, we left that one in the hotel
in Paris and never got it back"
That set Dietrich off on the SUBJ
ject of Paris and the particularly
fetching beret that she had acci-
dentally left there.
She has almost every dress she
ever has worn in Hollywood An
derson explained further. And it's
hard to tell that they have beer
worn even when she has finished a
picture. I wish some of Hollywood s
young actresses would take lesson
from her"
The upshot of Anderson's long
evening visit with the lady was that
she was reminded of Paris and q
certain beret which he must try tc
copy for single scene in the film
But Dietrich. it seems, isn't nearly
so easy on stockings. Anderson say;
she wears through several pairs Of
hose each day on the set. Her toe
/ x.a;1. VA LoY,t 1opo opd r,Irvod opf
Evening star., 1941-08-10
Todoy's Film
Schedule

CAPITOL-"Whistling in the
Dark" in which Red SHELTON
emerges a, full-feged star: 2,
Abs, 7:30 and l0:l5. Stage
shows: 3::20, $40 and 9:O5 pm.
COLUMBIA -" They Met in
Bombay" Rosalind Russell
and Clark Gable in a rollicking
adventure yarn; 2, 3:45, 5:45,
7:45 and GAS pm.
EARLE-"Sergeant York" in
spring biography of a heroic
soldier: 1880, 4:05, 6:45 and
9:25. Stage shows: 3:45, $40
and 9 pm.
KEITH'S -" Tom, Dick and
Harry" Ginger Rogers in a
bright romantic comedy: 2,
$50, 5:45. TAO and 9:35 pm.
LITTLE-"Goodby Mr.. Chips
and it is, with this farewell
showing: 2:25, 4:50, ITO and
9:35 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"The Bride
Came c. o. D." Bette Davis
turns to slapstick: 2, 1855,
$50, 7.45 and 9:40 pm.
PALACE -" "Charley's Aunt"
with Jack Benny in the we'll
known impersonation: 8, Sis,
7:30 and 9:40 pm.
TRANS-L LUZ x News and
shorts; continuous from 2
o'clock.
Evening star., 1941-08-10
But the Star Can Never Fool Her Dress Designer
Knows More About Marlene Drchs
Iikesan Dislkes Than Even Her Boss Knows

they punish the silk mesh cruelty,
particularly because she insists on
all chiffon" stockings with no re-
enforcement IN toes and heels.
The stockings cost Cthe studio)
s225 pair, but the first cost is by no
means the last. They must be re-
dyed a certain unobtainable shade
and then they must be stretched to
extra length 1t doesn't impress
Marlene that extra-long French
hose can no longer be bought in
this country-or anywhere else. She
has to have them. Every one knows
how important her legs are TO her
pictures-and to Dietrich.
So the stockings are stretched
when dyed and a large proportion
of them are ruined by the stretching
1t is a part of the inevitable expense
of dressing a glamorous star for
pictures.
The beady ornaments on some of
! her too-showy gowns were moved up
and down an inch at time-several
misunderstanding new lace and
new ornaments and much new sew
ing for each change Shoes are all
handmade and cost the studio a
pretty price for each pair.
Anderson freely admits the job of
dressing Marlene Dietrich in Sill .0OO
worth of toggery to portray line
mans wife was the toughest. most
nerve-racking assignment he's ever
| undertaken.
1T wasn't that I didn't enjoy it. .
added the designer, but l was all
the time afraid would have to
go to the hospital. She certainly
would make no wife for a hard
working lineman. When an actress
can't manage to look cheap or
flashy for less than $1,000 an out
fit. she'd better stick to her acting
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Evening star., 1941-08-10

fair" one of those f1uff1ly. farclcal
romantic things filled with people
named Nancy and Pamela. etc.
That's what Miss Sten is playing.
She's Nancy.
1t Might Make Play.
Checking over the strange phe-
nomenon Of the summer theater,
YOU wonder how Miss Sten IS taking
the drama of it. You look up PaTl-
ing on the map, hop in the car, get
lost A times III the marvellous. un-
marked maze of WeStchester park
WAYS. finally get Strengthened out
and head for the barn and Miss
Sten. In its little way (Which is
very good way these days the pros
pect of finding a million dollar in
vestment under such conditions IS
something to brood upon. One
might make a play out of it, but a
column is so much less work.
ANY preconceived notion one
might have had Of Miss Stem as a
bitter. waspish. frustrated beauty
! betrayed by fate turns out to be a
silly dramatizat ton. She is nothing
of the kind. She is Just another
actress having a good time on the
barn theater circuit. In the huge,
h-ceilinged living room Of the
manorial old farmhouse now dedl-
Gated to art, she looks as relaxed
serene and carefree as the ingenue
of the permanent stock company
which spends 10, instead of just /
week there. Her clothes are the un-
glamorous blouse and slacks which
every one else wears and which not
even Valentino could design with
distinction. Her makeup is fit
tingly casual. if at all.
The first impression that one gets
Evening star., 1941-08-10

she was warned of this and that
and the other thing about Hollywood
wolves, for instance, he wolves.
It didn't see any," she said. Il was
so tired at night that 1 had trouble
keeping awake until past the steak
at dinner"
When, on Monday morning
early, she made her first visit to
the boss Office to announce her
Evening star., 1941-08-10
Anna Stems Is New Career, Not Just New Phas
Buidup Gdwyn Spent S1OOOOO0
NevE Theater Ideal Starting Place

perhaps the most expensive in the
history of the language
IF you want to act, well you want
to act says Miss Sten. giving the
that acting is the thing.
not necessarily the conditions u1-
der which it is done. The barn
theater seems to be the only place
she can act at the moment. That
is good enough for her right now.
She has dreams and plans.
When she gets through with her
eight weeks in the meadow drama
which have given her her first con-
tact with live audiences since her
days in Europe, she will take the
next step on the comeback trail.
Hollywood Later.
That will be the lead in the road
company of Separate Rooms the
Broadway success which showed
that the critics could be as blis-
tering as they pleased without
driving it to the warehouse Miss
Stem doesn't care a rap for the
plays critical reputation although
she would be the last actress, right
now at any rate. to disparage the
profession of criticism She sees
eve to eve with Lee Shubert on the
point that an audience play (the
kind that SAYS to h with the
critics with a name player in the
principal role will lure large, prof.
liable road audiences. She knows
she is a name player, that thers
is that residue of good left over
from the gay. mad. well-paid days
of the build-up by Goldvyn.
In playing "Nancy's Private Al.
fair" and looking forward TO Sep.
arate Rooms" Miss Sten implies
tSee CARMODY. Page 81
Evening star., 1941-08-10
Cominq Attractions

Hills technicolor motion picture YER
popular Harold Bell Wright story arrives thursday
Carey, Betty Field and John wayne
the lives and loves OF pair OF line
Edward Robinson and George RAFT are the
Dietrich is the major item in their lives
also will be variety bill on the stage
CAPITO-"Wid Calling perturbation OF the beselng
White starts Thursday Joan Bennett
William those principally involved
stage bill will be Ella Logan and Giro Rmacs
METROPOLITAN-Bad Missouri detailing the adventures
outlawry brothers. scheduled to arrive
Friday you will find Arthur Kennedy, Jane Wyman,
Morgan and Wayne Morris
That Ghost Abbott and Costello comedy will
follow the Ginger Rogers hit, Tom Dick and Harry
starring Greer Carson in
Gladney plays another downtown week
starting Thursday.
Evening star., 1941-08-10

Goldwyn saw our Teresa, the part
was fattened up so much that an
extra character was added to help
it walk.
Teresa went out with a one-pic-
ture contract onto which was tagged
an option for q second picture and,
following that, was an option on a
blunt fve-year contract at SWIM
ming pool wages. Before going,
Evening star., 1941-08-10

of Miss Sten is that Of an actress
who is starting career, not an
actress passing from an elaborate
phase into simple one. The Arab
ian Nights epoch, when she drew a
huge Hollywood salary and had
nothing more difficult to do than
learn English and later the few bad
pictures to perform. has left no ap-
parent marx on her. She regards
herself obviously as a girl on her
way. a simpler. more hopeful way in
a more sensible and humble branch
of the industry. She discusses it
freely and easily in her barely ac-
cented. highly expensive English
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-23
CAPEVERDEAN CLUB
 IN ANNUAL PICNIC

Members of the Capeverdean So- cial club will hold their fifth annual picnic and outing at Lithuanian Park, on Chestnut Hill road all day tomorrow. The general public is cor dially invited to attend. Alvaro Cruz is the chairman of the com mittee on arrangements.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-23
Miss Eileen Pyle Becomes Bride OF Charles A. Colt

Peter Carey, Cambridge; and Will liam Lyman, Norwich.
 Reverend Doctor Moses R. Lowell of Brooklyn, N. r., a former pastor of the Second Congregational church in this city, will oficiate at the ceremony for which the church will be attractively decorated with pine boughs and varegated gladioli
 The yellow chiffon frock of the maid of honor has a fitted bodice with bishop sleeves, and full skirt in flowing lines. She will wear a floral cluster in her hair and carry red gladioli. The bridesmaids will be dressed in matching gowns of blue chiffon fashioned similarly to that of the maid of honor. Each will wear floral headdress and carry yellow gladioli.
 Three hundred guests will attend the reception at "Top O'the Brae" the home of Doctor and Mrs. Pyle at Blue Hill. Garden flowers anC pine are being used for house deco rations, and the music will be fur. nished by Jack Marchand. When leaving for an unannounce6 wedding trip the bride will travel in two-tone blue ensemble with matching hat and accessories.
 Miss Pyle is a graduate of Chat ham Hall, Chatham, Virginia. MT Colt is an alumnus of Taft school and Yale University.
 After September fifteenth, the couple will reside at Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-23
Morning SerDice Unites
 John Reed, Alice Scheu

Reverend John J. McGrath offi- ciated this morning at the wed- ding of his cousin, Miss Alice Eliza beth Schell, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Otto Schen of West Main street to John Reed, son of MT. and Mrs. John Reed of New Bruns- wick, New Jersey.
 The double ring ceremony was performed at 9:3O o'clock at St. Thomas rectory in Thomaston, with Mrs. Quentin Scott-Smith attend ing her sister, and Joseph G. Stella as best man.
 Given in marriage by her father the bride wore a gown of white marquisette studded with SC d pearls over satin. The full skirt terminated in a train. A wreath of orange blossoms held her knee length veil of tulle. She carried an arm bouquet of white roses with gladioli and asters.
 The matron of honor was dressed in a gown of white, the elongated
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-23
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
Couple United
 This Afternoon

A four o'clock wedding will take place in Middletown this afternoon when woodrow w. Dillon, son of MT. and Mrs. James F. Dillon of Wan street takes as his bride, Helen E. HilL daughter of MT. and Mrs. Thomas J. Hill of Middletown.
 Reverend Ralph A. Christie will perform the ceremony at the First Congregational Church, which will be decorated with assorted garden flowers.
 The bridal party will include Miss Virginia Peterson of Middletown as maid of honor, with Marcia Peter son of Wethersfield, as flower girl James H. Dillon will attend his brother as bestman, with John Hill and Leroy HilL brothers of the bride, as ushers.
 Escorted to the altar by her father, the bride will wear white marquisette over satin. Her veil is of illusion, and she will carry white gladioi. The flower girl will be dressed in pink organdy, with a nosegay bouquet.
 The mother of the bride will wear poudre blue crepe; the groom's mother, navy blue crepe.
 A reception will follow at the home of the brides parents. As a travelling costume the bride chose navy balue with white accessories.
 MT. and Mrs. Dillon will reside in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-23

At four thirty o'clock this after noon, Miss Eileen Juliette Pyle, gowned in traditional white, will ex- change her nuptia1 VOWS with Charles Armistead Colt, Her bridal frock is fashioned with a sweet heart neckline, long sleeves, and a bouffant skirt which terminates in a long train. A heart shaped Queen Anne halo will hold her veil of tulle. She will carry a cascade bouquet of gardenias with Chinese lilies.
 Escorted to the altar of teh Con- gregational church at Blue Hill, Maine, the bride, the daughter of Doctor and Mrs. Edwin Pyle of Middlebury, will be attended by her sister, Miss Nancy Sage Pyle as maid of honor, with her younger sister, Miss Julie Harriet Pyle, Miss Joan Lilley, Mrs Talcott Barnes Clapp, Miss Josephine A. Bucking- ham and Mrs. Francis Field as bridesmaids.
 MT. Colt, the son of MT. and Mrs Charles Colt of Norwich, will have as his mest man, John Paintor ot Hartford. The ushers will be An derson Macleod of Albany, N. Y. Allyn Brown, Rochester, N. Y.:: Thomas Taylor, New Haven; Edwin Pyle, and Hugh Mackay Pyle, of Middlebury, brothers of the bride; Weston Pullen, New York City;
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-23
Norville-SpilLane
 Nuptials In Church

Pastel sladion with palms, deco- rated the altar of St. Thomas church this morning for the wedding of Miss Anne Spillane, daughter or MT. and Mrs. Michael Spillane of Bronson street to Edward E. Nor vile. Jr., son of MT. and Mrs. Ed ward E. Norville of Clinton street.
 Rev. John P. Kennedy performed inc ceremony at g o'clock for which a, special musical program was ar ranged, with William O'Brien sng-. ing "Aye Maria" and Mother at Your Feet Is Kneeling."
 The bride wore a gown of white ninon. the shirred bodice having a sweetheart neckline edged with lace. The WaiStline was also trimmed With matching lace. Her fingertip veil was draped from a Queen Anne bon- net trimmed with orange blossoms. She carried prayer book marked with gardeniaS and baby breath.
 Miss Dorothy Richmond, who at tended as maid of honor, was dressed in a similar gown of cornfiower blue. She wore a picture hat of leghorn and carried pink roses with blue del- phiniunn.
 The groom had as his bestman, James Spillane, 8 brother of the bride.
 Mrs. Spillane, mother of the bride, wore a blue floral print with white accessories, and a corSage of gar- denias. Mrs. Norville, the groom's mother, was dressed in medium blue wool crepe with, navy acces- sories and 8 corsage of deep pink roses.
 "A reception followed at the Cop per Kettle for the bridal party and members of the immediate families. when leaving for an ullannounced wedding trip the bride traveled in a black faille suit trimmed with white and black accessories.