The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-08
In -
Hollywood
BY ERsKINE JOHNSON
NEA StaR Correspondent

Ten years ago when Hitler and
his gang were rising to power, a
director for the UFA hlm company
In Berlin, Alfred zeisler, met an
actor named Paul Andor. Zeisler
was stricken by Andor's resemblance
to DR.. Paul Joseph Goebbels and
said, You should bet job as Goeb-
bells double"
Andor laughing1y said, yes, and
might get shot"
Today In Hollywood Alfred zeis-
Ter is directing Paul Andor in DIR.
Paul Joseph Goebbels, His Life and
Loves" The actor who looks like
'Goebbels and the director who
watched Goebbels' rise to power
were brought together by w. r.
Frank, the Minneapolis theater chain
owner who likes to produce his own
motion pictures.
Their film biography Of the No.
Q Na1 will be sensational and
powerful celluloid. AS director in
Germany, zeisler picked up many
Goebbels anecdote which he's
using in Herbert o. Phillips script.
Andor's resemblance to the propa-
ganda minister Is really amazing.
And as the films leading lady,
Claudia Drake, once Hopalong
Cassidy's foil, has one of the best
feminine roles of the year. Only
bad acting in the picture is by the
guy who plays a radio announcer.
Director Zeisler had a terrible time
with his scenes. I know. I played
the radio announcer.
Street scene: A group Of r. A. F.
flyers talking to studio gateman
in hopes of crashing the gates to
see how movies are made. II
don't know why you guys want
to get in says the gateman, every
body in there is crazy!"
YADDO YARN
Usual scholarly poise of Mrs. Bes-
sic McGaffey, head of the RKO re-
search department, received jolt
when she read the script of q new
film, 1.-The Curse of the Cat People"
One item read: Exterior Woods
The trees stand still and quiet. At
first, no breeze rustles the leaves.
The Yaddo on the lawn is notion
less Then whisper of breeze
moves the branches of the tree and
the yaddo flutters gently, coming to
life" The startled Mrs. McGaffey
grabbed q dictionary, but failed to
find "yaddo" listed. She called the
public library after leaving tele-
phone message for Dewitt Bodeen,
who wrote the script, but who was
away from his Office at the mo-
ment. Some of the people she con-
tacted thought yaddo was an ami
NAL. Others said it was a bush, but
most everybody said they didn't
know what in blazes it was.
Finally, after she had worried for
hours, Bodeen returned her call.
"a yaddo?" he said with what
she thought was exasperating calm.
why, that's a pet expression Val
Lewton, the producer, likes to use.
He got 1t from Edgar Allan Poe
and 1t means an interplay Of lights
and shadows
GROOM GAG
It's Bob Hopes story about an
actor whose car broke down as he
was on his way to church to wed a
Hollywood film queen, who had three
husbands ahead Of him. Very ex-
cited, the actor rushed to telephone
and called the church, explaining
his situation to his fiancee and add
ing, Don't marry anybody else
I'll be there in five minutes"
An actress at party was trying
to prove to Helen Vinson that she
wasn't drunk. "Just bring my car
into the house," she said, land I'll
show you can drive it,
And Rosemary de Camp offers
this definition of columnist. "He"s
the only person who is ininding his
own business when he's minding
yours" Thanks, Rosemary.
Paulette Goddard leaves for two
weeks holiday in Mexico City on
Sept. /, the day following compile
to.l of her role in Paramount's
standing Room Only" She will be
a house guest of Mrs. Diego Rivera
while in the Mexican capital.