Evening star., 1944-06-11
OneDay Comes the Payoff
By Jay Carmody.

Not for anything that Hollywood change
methods of promoting its glamoous people
good show to watch gigantic hypnotic that always just
wacky enough compensate repetitiousness.
Moreover of the after effects make aesng
and interesting thing look upon
We have in mind specifically the
glamour budup through the has represented of the
cnema colossal labo biographers producers his
directors and connected with his studio have bent their
most persistent and inspired energies to fixing him in the public
mind the romantic type unlimited opportunity
swashbuckle pictures Heiresses society beauties finest
female wits of their times and Queens have succumbed to
his charm.
He played many parts but he never was much of an
Mr. Flynn always Flynn who lived his billing
which big and ustrou and reiterated that he was lhomme
fatale~
working, when the publicity normally
friends his enemies,
kept another That the not destined
always to be profitable rather eoqenty implied in Fynns
most recent picture Uncertain Glory" at the Earle.
The Public lust Knew Better
Than the Authors Had Thought.
character the anky Irishman
plays a tough spot picture
opens lying the Bastie waiting be guloned They
are testing the euotne before the swings around to pick
Flynn, unkept figure lying nsnaven and unshorn
dirty bunk Until the audience knows what has brought him to
this predamen whether he guilty innocent he should be
pabe figure the audience with which the picture
believe That not fellow named Jean Picard 1t
Flynn swashbucker who would knock those,
aers escape the stones out of his cell wall
getaway Instead of pityng him. just laughed 1t
laughter not Intentionally knowing rather
that Fynns predicament ironc or
Whatever thought was not the intent OF
producers Glory good for the
picture and it not good for Flynn
good audience either suspect but it
will nothing modify the Hollywood system of building its
personalities developing them actors There
many equally tesaments that the thing
will kick back some day.
emphasis to the point given throughout the picture by the
equally important basis far roles OF Paul
actor such brilliant that he
years Academy without paragraph of
publicity kind that into his private nfe told
the night before what he ate and whether
Cros later and with whom There the
slightest dsceible any present
playing Surete Inspector Bonnet real
better than authors seemed done
forced to detach hnsek from personality fictitious
time and agents had built between
watching him play it. And, of the two he is
mquesonaby competent have done such thing had
been necessary.
good case could be made competence
could be determined in inverse ratio to the amount OF
publicity he is deemed to need.
Many Of Outstanding Stars
Stand Pat Against Publicity.
To do do exhaustive basis naming for
would manned by the vocferous fandoms OF
pubczed pretty intense people and take
their affections with a kind of savage seriousness.
The remains, however that seldom Spencer
acys the public prints Bette Davis mentioned rarely
principally connection with work for Hoywoods
Caneen Teresa Wright Walter Pidgeon Greer
Clark Gable (hen they busy
acting careers Ronald Frdric March, James
others who manage to keep
spotlight finish strong at the box oce
notable single of twodecade career which
was marked by complete publicity that Of
The only story able to write
about her that there no story, ~ ,ss
to but of course the story
day-unti the public gets too wise or too bored.