Evening star., 1944-04-09
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Bp Jay Carmodv.

~ NJ
Bv Jay Carmodr
Once in Holyvood-well several times to be
theater being shot The up
packed house growing delous the terrific that
going the 1t handsome audience
somely dressed, the sitting
TITS first night in New York" the girl told
play a
position the wings, looked the 1t
of conduits mcrophone directors chairs
similar devices
is play going be?" asked navely.
on that stage the script girl said but won't get around
shooting play be the last
just shooting audience reaction now"
idea little alien to experience we had known
heretofore liked during
best of the interval when the
sitting center would tell the wel-dreed audience
just 90 He mentioned anything about
the play the customers were supposed to be seeing he just to
into the heaer looking happily anci-
patory hardly had New York first
night teater their method being to walk In
what the others had actually come to
something enticngy fresh about the
lad Ever Seen a Play,
The Script Girl Explained.
1t took for the patrons into the theater
with the right expressions their
Most of them play the script girl
said They're actors"
explaining that director continuing
tell the audience what expected it. What expected
explosion of applause something little less dignhed than
that evoked by Toscan little more so than that which follows
a sinatra ballad
won't long, the girl told They dress
through is shot They get
pay whether it takes minutes or all day"
hour but of the engrosslng
experiences of watching Hollywood makebeleve.
experience through unscathed.
Ever since we have been no less than FASCINATED IN watching mo-
ton picture dealing with heater night club
moviegor who bohers watch them closely
likely spectacle of the finest make
believe picture The participants nothing except
cluster mchrophones and and feeling nothing except
possibly occasion demands they pretend
enthusiasm what they seeing and
feeling. They should maybe get an Academy award.
Audience Sequences Feature
Many Musical Biographies.
Now that Hollywood has fascinated with
the lives of erStwie entertainers
George ershwin to mention only the audience sequence
of the
whose include something resembling oldasioned
suit of tails with period evening that
looks if it might have the era
make movie theatergong virtually ulme job
can't sWells
thing and work in those honktonk which
to notable that photographed
The following reactions of
on-screen audiences not in the costng
OF given individual in such Those interest
to be but far engossng study difference
in the reaction the audiences under conditions
audience and the the screen.
Presumably course seeing the same thing which
just trick OF cutting and splicing
it be different night day. frequently
splendid illustration, several of them
in musical biography the story
OF Nora Baye visible at the Earle
Sheridan literally bursting the bravo on-screen
Rlbenian audience listening number about
why she is Irish The precisely unnloved but
what madness in those presumably sitting before
Sheridan
The to be which group
OF stooges in the employ of heel Bayes
or Sheridan fairly hoots her off STAGE
That's acting supposes
Playing to such audiences rather experience to Miss
Sheridan The championship in the field clearly belongs
Faye In cycle of pictures dealing Chicago frisco
and other cities which violently she has
played to extras than any other the cinema
That they have loved her sort of feel