Evening star., 1941-02-17

he will have opportunity to visit
| O'Neill. discuss his finished play
and learn the latest news of that
nine-play cycle upon which O'Neiu
is working.
Any inference of levity in the title
of The Iceman Cometh" is some
thing that Bowling would like to
see removed from the public mind
The "iceman" to whom ONeill re-
ferS is death, that chilly figure
which has so long and so dramat-
ically engaged the attention of the
only playwright whose work is fin
ished when the last period is tapped
on his manuscripts.
Il X X X
Catholic University's drama STU
dents and the towns drama and
movie critics will be the special
beneficiaries this week of the visit
of Producer David L. Loew and AL
bert Levin to Washington. The
pair who made so Ends Our Night,
another anti-Nazi picture, at a time
when other producers have gone
into hiding on that subject, will
arrive Wednesday.
Levin is the voice of the Loew-
Levin team. A chap who has been
a college professor, a scenarist, a
right-hand man to the late Irving
Thalberg, he makes a specially of
producing distinctive movies and
discussing the why" of it.
Father Gilbert V. Hartke, head
of c. us speech and drama de-
partment, will be host to the Messrs
Loew and Levin at a luncheon at
the Carlton prior to their appear
ance at the school,
Re Mr.. Pascal via Mr.. MacAr-
thur:
Dear j. c.:
Welcome qm staying in bed all
day today home, and I have a
thing to tell you, as Thomas
Wolfe said: two things, in fact.
They are, to wit:
% See Night Train" at the
Little.
90 See Gabriel Pascal, the fell
low who made "Pygmalion" and
now Major Barbara" the next
time he comes to town. Often
you have sent me to converse po-
litely with certain of the gentry
who make movies and I have
come away shaken to the depths
of my soul. forced to pull myself
together by sitting for hours in
the back room at ODonnell'S,
pondering upon the strange ways
of the human race. But Mr..
Pascal Is not Of this Hollywood
ilk. When I entered the Variety
Club the other afternoon to have
chat with him, he was saying
I don't know what the question
was that brought it on-'Don't
have pity for people who are suf-
fering. Without suffering there
is no life. The person who does
not know how to suffer does not
know either how to enjoy pleas
ure. And besides, something fine
will emerge from all this suffer-
ing in the world today"
1t was something of a shock,
you can easily guess, to find a
producer director who has just
brought his latest picture from
England, via plane to Lisbon
and boat to the United States,
thinking of war in human terms
instead of boX-office terms. Mr..
Pascal can get around to box
Office, Of course, from talking of
the war.
Some day." he says in a fetch
ing accent that makes the Eng
lish language sound like minor
explosion, "and it will be very
soon, I'm sure, these false die
tatorS will fall and the people
will be supreme These dictators
will learn that their force is
nothing against the strength of
the people.
Some day the people will be
the thing, just as some day
Hollywood will discover the story
is the thing" That's how easily
Mr.. Pascal gets around to the
term box Office" He has some
very pointed things to say about
movie-makers who think they are
catering to public tastes by serv-
ing up some new star because, as
Pascal puts it, she is the sweet
heart of some big shot at the
studio" He has some very
pointed, but quite unprintable,
things to say about making mo-
tion pictures. Translated to terms
acceptable in family publica-
tions, Mr.. Pascal's point of view
is that sincerity counts above all
else. Start with a good story
and tell it to the best of your
ability, he contends, and the GUS
toners will approve
And if his theory Is wrong, well,
he still has that farm in Eng
| land.
Il don't know what Major Bar
bara' will do for me-" he shrugs,
"but my prize cow gives me four
and a half quarts of milk. On
this farm it is fine, such beauti-
full meadows, a place to relax,
where I do not have to worry
about the next take And the
peasants do not even know I
am an artist. 1 take my cows to
the fair and have a fine time"
He'll be back in town, Incl
dentally, before very long. He's
promised to return for the pre-
miere here of Major Barbara"
a big premiere, he insists, with
food. Then you can see for your