Evening star., 1943-04-11
Now for the Little People
Hollywood Finds Them Both Dramatic
And Profitable Through Saroyan
By Jay Carmody.


great that should be natural Hollywood would
yes yes knew should and would and feel quite badly that
deserved reproo
quick drink slip bathing pair quick
dip in its heated lighted swimming
paneed dining and aferward
into the luxurious library would burning
the drinks
upstairs to its bedroom with
its pajamas would have laid the
right temperature and would tuck itself into the pastel
sheets for the night Everything within
pretty soon Hollywood would be asleep.
again. quite obvous of
the reproof and its of before
its unreal home its unreal studios deep
na1eVer OF lie went on outside In the streets we'll below level
HOLLYWOOD simply could not see 1T and so persisted its that
was rich and wonderful with the world because that the
way it was in its own private
Hollywood Crnse
When 1t Was Reminded
critics would say the next time
they met remember what day?
know they write novels plays paint marvellous
murals and very lives out of the
little people you constantly ignoring treating
that right Well make picture
a the % that & one One and loves and out of which they
That's what HOLLYWOOD would and then would
palaces m and once inside the walls, it would forget again.
great while something eoncree came M IL very marc once IN
picture was rather
wonderful and dramatic thing all little
old mother they the children couldn't be
with them That like h m Hollywood felt
pretty good about it. the kind people always
saying & 1T should produce and now every would
Well every did stayed away unani-
Ihe picture did not cost much but whatever
Almost other enterprise would have felt sad
went picture about little The
little people who not
ke pictures about people like themselves We did would
out you talked so knowingly convinced
Hollywood did altogether pictures One of them
would pop up every and then between
working an apane factory working an at
actve widow the running the
floor OF night club pursued few
humanity proporoned pictures And so often thew were oe
by the showon spirit behind them Of
again with little people attitude.
And a Tinge Of Insincerity
Marred Some Significant Films.
When made "The Grapes OF WRATH" we'll
oo went around pounding its proaming socially con-
sclous
always making pictures like often
attached " ~ - va ~ ~
There always family dishonest not quite whole
heared and innocent about damnng
self consciousness, if nothing condemnabe
The little people Hollywood as damned
when it did something about ignored them in favor
that script about from rags tn es
starring Lana Turner somebody.
1t dscourang Hollywood go right along
was being abused but making and taking
tude when noves themselves
greatness over the trivia of small dmensoned lives
Now its contentmen Jolt In kind of FUNNY
sort for the publicity Of the thing started
Win Wlhan Saroyan about
writer sitting Club being the
idol OF the new he wrote
1t would amusing
because saroyan could papers than
glamour GIRL Mero-Godwyn Mayer hired him.
ana once hired what did that funny saroyn
out SIT down and write what thought THE Human
Comedy his somewhat less as he were
Homer somebody getting ready postey Before
it was finished the studio and author falling almost
evane ending OF affairs between big studios violently
writers.
Whatever Of emotional discomfort how
ever te alliance has worked out beautifully
those old friends have
great picture about little
fair o make enough that Hollywood
In hs scstacy With which the critics