The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-01
THE BACALL oF THE W1LD

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 Most of the young stars who bang at the Broadway and Hollywood barbed wire wreck themselves on it.. Nearly all of them have some talent and most of them are beau tiful Betty Macall (2O), the Julia Richman high school student, who was an usher in a New York theater Cat $8 per week) less than two years ago, is one of the very, very few hopefuls to crash the Hollywood heavens Her first movie is opposite Humphrey Bogart in Hemingway's swiftly-paced melo- drama: gro Have and Have No"
 She has been described by critics and others as ian American Diet rich"-"a tall Veronic Lake" and what most men expect their fav- orite girl to look like Less than Is months in Movieburg (where Howard Hawks, her manager ana director, ''nursed herO Betty, now Lauren Bacall, has attracted consid- erable attention from manys news papers and nationally circulated magazines .. She is presently mak- ing "The Big Sleep" (with MT. Bo- gart), another Warmers film She was born in Manhattan 24 hours after this reporter started on a New York newspaper, Sept. 16 1924.
 One of her biographers reported ren by some unsung hero" on the that Betty was given the name Lau- Warmers lot, after the press depart ment distributed questionnaire seeking a name from the personnel ... The fact is that she took Lau- ren in memory of her grandmother .. She has no mink coat or any furs. She dwells with her mother in Beverly Hills Her approach Con the screen) to a male is sini- lar to the technique used on women by men, roues and ordinary every day wolves. She plays a "wolver- inc" Lauren attributes some of her success to what she calls her "down-under lock-. A sort of bash ful glance upward with the head slightly bowed. It was natural with her year ago. Now 1t is habit which she practices on newspaper men,
 Her favorite day is Wednesday Because everything nice seems to happen to me on Wednesdays She has tiny facial scar near the right cheekbone. She got it at the tender age of 5 shaving her face with her fathers razor ;. =. She likes the scar Her favorite film &C., tress, Carole Lombard, had one in the same place. T wish I could be her kind of actress" Betty added It is weu-known now how she got her chance The wife of Dl- rector Howard Hawks saw a photo of Betty in Harper's Bazaar and said: T like her face. Why not find out if she can act?" .. Not every actress even with such influential backing, comes through the lens. Or the "one-eyed mon- star," as Joan Crawford calls the camera when it is rolling" The exciting thing about Lauren's success is that she defeated all the obstacles when they confronted her such as stage-fright, etc.
 She spent two years walking the Broadway pavements seeking a job. She thinks a girl trying to be- come an actress must always have some one to "lean on" Some one who will keep having faith in her and keep her from quitting ., Some girls, she thinks, are strong enough to keep going even without an outside romantic interest. But most need "one strong person" who will continually say: You can't fail" That man was press agent Larry Spooner.
 When things were at their worst for Lauren Bacall (when she was without a jop-and just had a TO- nance smashed firm under her feeD she was walking down Broadway one cold December afternoon You know" she said to girl fiend, things are just horrible. They can't possibly get any worse" The girls went into Walgren'S at filth Street (for cup of hot cof- fee, and the radio was on An announcer flashed the attack on Pearl Harbor!
 After Lauren was signed to her Hollywood contract it was impressed upon her by mail what a glamor- ous town she was cgoming to She rode out on the train with Earl Robinson They arrived at Union Station but signals were crossed and there was no one to meet her She went to the Bev- erly- Wiltshire Hotel where she though she had reservations. But they had never heard of her ;. Finally, she got in touch with her agent, wh sent her to the Clare mont Hotel in WeStwood Village, where there were no men-only their mothers" For two weeks she sat on the hotel balcony Con . rocker) and wondered where the 1aAsyWood glamor was Then someone from the studio rescued Ser.