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Evening star., 1944-05-21
Mary Is Realism's Child
Bv Frances Lonq.

hand up to 1870 words a minute
landed the job in the CO. class, that
she sought.
After her marriage to Kenneth
McKenna in Hollywood, seven years
ago. Mary Phillips decided keeping
house and domestic problems was
more than enough to occupy me-
and retired from films and the stage
completely.
The recent movie, Lady in the
Dark" brought her from domesticity
back to f1lmdom.
Clothes Caught Her.
always sucker for clothes, ]
just couldn't resist wearing those
gorgeous garments in the movie,
she says of her return. "After Lady
in the Dark followed my husband
to New York (he's in the Army now
and gosh darn If I didn't fall for
Chicken Every Sunday" (She had
the featured role of Emily Block
man, boarding house keeper)
It wasn't the clothes this time
however. The book Chicken Every
Sunday" had always appealed to hel
as warm portrayal of characters
and after reading the script, she
liked it just as much.
Surprise, surprise!" she says
gayly. "I love chicken, I eat oodles
OF, it-not every Sunday, practically
every day! There was time, though
when I didn't. Out in Hollywood
we had eight pet chickens. Wher
we left for New York we had killec
every last, one of them. It, almost
broke my heart to eat them :.
Now the only chicken Mary Phil.
lips has left is an ornamental one
presented to her opening night By
| Frederic March and his wife.
Evening star., 1944-05-21

in India. to collecting old china,
paintings and books.
Eventually the dinner drew to a
close with freshly breWed coffee
served in tiny antique china cups
with golden knobs as handles. Then
we all got up. Scotty showed me
the house. the patio. the flowers. the
trees, and. eventually, we went back
to the drawing room, where Sydney
was seated smoking long thin cigar.
From now on it will be hard to
take you along with me, because the
rest of the evening isn't a thing to
describe, it must be felt; you should
have been there. We happened to
talk about good plays and Sydney
said. Il must show you one which 1
would really like to play in in spite
OF both my size and age" 1t turned
out to be That Was Balzac," bv
George Middleton.
Curled up in the corner of a sofa.
l sat quietly, just listening-listen-
ing not only with my ears, but with
every fiber of my body, because be-
fore me unfolded whole play, acted
by just one man, but he made every
character live.
He Acts Whole Play.
Honore de Balzac, one of the
greatest writer's who ever lived in
the world, was 20, unknown, am
bilious, a genius, living in a garret,
when we started out, and we fol-
lowed him through his loves, his
disappointments, his successes, his
constant debts, his friendships with
such contemporaries as Victor Hugo
and George Sand.
At every curtain fall, Sydney
asked, Are you sure you want to
hear any more?" I Just nodded.
afraid that my voice might break
the spell. Then he went on, never
tirlng, through three hours Of, mind
you, not only reading, but actually
acting all the parts.
When Honore de Balzac drew his
last breath, there was the silence
which is always in Hollywood around
midnight. The windows were open:
the moon was nearly full and
could see the roses waving gracefully
in the breeze. 1t had been not only
a wonderful evening, it was, and al
ways will be, memory-lasting and
beautiful
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Evening star., 1944-05-21
Gail Finds Gotham Exciting
By Eileen Creelman.

The New York visit was supposed
to be a rest, after all the travel and
excitement of a bond-selling trip
through Canada. In spite of her
resolutions, Gail Patrick has found
herself In a whirl of going,
dancing and shopping. One Of Hol-
lywood's most beautiful women, tall,
dark of eye and hair, and five
pounds simmer than she was when
she left the Coast, Miss Patrick is
amusd at her own activity.
That always happens when
I come to New York." she said. Il
love it. The climate is so exciting.
1t makes you feel like rushing
around. In Hollywood I just stay
at home and look after chickens.
I've got eight of them, right on Hol-
lywood boulevard" es- ..s-.. sy s,es ~..
Was Serious Student.
Her latest picture, up in Mabel's
ROOM" is showing now on Broad
way. She has cockeyed comedy
role but it Is not her first. She had
one in MY Man Godfrey"
Eleven years ago Gail Patrick,
then Fitzpatrick, would have been
startled to find herself in a Wild
eyed farce. She was a college girl
then, head of the student body,
studying law at night school and
looking forward to a serious career
in law and perhaps politics.
Gail had an Alabama accent but
that has long since disappeared. Her
first six months at Paramount were
spent in eradicating it.
"A Southern accent in pictures
means you have to be either cute
or comic" Miss Patrick explained.
I'm too tall to be cute, and I don't
think I'm very comic. So Para
mount promised not to put me in
any pictures until the six months
were up"
She hadn't much wanted to be an
actress anyway. She kept telling
them that at the studio and that
she was to be a lawyer. Marion
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Musical Costs
Delay Profits
On Top Shows
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK.
Two of the most lavish successes
Of the current Broadway season,
Carmen Jones" and "One Touch of
Venus" are only this week getting
out of the red and paying dividends
to their theatrical investors"
Carmen Jones" cost s237, 900 to
present and passed it's 200th per-
formance before paying off its orig
inal investment.
"One Touch Of Venus" played
more than 80 weeks to packed
houses before It's hackers received
dividends.
IL Is quite understandable, there
fore, why most theatrical investors
avoid financing lavish musicals,
The ethereal profits amassed bv
sucn modest comedies as, say,
Kiss and Tell" put an exclamation
point after their preference for such
simple production, which paid of
Its initial obligation in two weeks!
George Abbott put kiss and
Tell' on the Biltmore Theater stage
tor $4,000, which along the stem
Is considered just about enough to
pay the freight of a moderately
elaborate flea circus.
opening March IT, 1s43, the F.
hugh Herbert comedy about teen-
ayers Is the first play in more than
lo years to have four companies on
the boards simultaneously New
YORK Chicago, two touring.
More than sl,ooo,oo0 has been
reallzed at the combined box offices.
gible.
Another straight play whose ever
mounting earnings are enough to
make hackers shrug off all lures
1oWard musical comedy financing Is
arsenic and Old Lace" which this
week passed its l.40Oth performance.
me original was financed for
go 200 by % investors. To date it
Z mas as brought profit of more than
1000 per cent.
Only three other shows havs
Rose" Tobacco Road" and the
OF other Lindsay Grouse perennial
Life With Father"
Evening star., 1944-05-21
The Darlings Are Tyrants
BY Harold Hefernan.

friendly attitude required by the
script. Ringsiders say If ever there
comes a case of man bits dog this
will be 1t.
Getting back to the baby angle,
we asked Director Cummings to re-
cite some of his most narrowing ex-
periences. Cummings Is a senti-
mentally domestic person with q
great love for home and babies.
However, he looked panied at the
query. -
When Seconds Count.
He couldn't forget the time that
he directed ALEXANDER Graham
Bell" There was scene In which
the Bells, played by Don Ameche
and Loretta Young, became the
parents of baby girl. The scenes
were played with a 1-month-old in.
FAINT, and gem, of course, at which
it is virtually impossible to control
babies and an age also (and most
importantly when the California
welfare folks hover over the set and
allow the babe to be exposed to the
camera no more than a few seconds
at time.
To complicate matters, Cummings
recalled, a visiting guest of honor
that day was the elderly Mrs. Gros-
venor, whose first days on this earth
as the daughter of Alexander
Graham Bell were being portrayed
by this same infant.
The director was anxious to have
everything go we'll, to add touch
of serene glamour to Mrs. Gros-
venor's babyhood. But the baby
actor cried in the wrong places, fell
asleep when it was to look wide-eyed
at its adoring parents and loudly
expressed hunger in a scene where
1t was supposed to have Just been
fed. No one knew what to do about
1t, Cummings said. Actors, workers,
Everybody connected with the pic
ture was at hysterical pitch try
ing to get the baby to act-all but
Mrs. Grosvenor, who was thor
oughly amused by the procedure,
remarking that she knew she
couldn't have been that much
trouble TO ner parents.
"In such cases." said Cummings,
you have the same feeling as in a
dream when you try to run away or
do something else and find your
self helplessly rooted to the spot.
No matter what your directions are
for the behavior of an infant it will
always do the opposite. You can
express all the authority you want.
You feel utterly helpless. And the
bigger your staff the more helpless
you feel" E.
But don't get me wrong about
babies" Cummings concluded. "You
know. I've raised few of them
myself. They're plenty nice to have
around-the house, and not on q
movie set"
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Evening star., 1944-05-21
By Laurence Perry.

George Daubek, a tall. handsome
man Of middle age, was an indus
trialist in Czechoslovakia with an
estate some 20 miles outside of
Prague. It still stands, according to
latest word. First it was occupied
by German troops, subsequently by
refugees. Time will come, says Mr.
Daubek. when his family will once
more resume their life there.
At the time of the Munich pact
little George was soon to be born
Foreseeing inevitable results of that
act of appeasement, Nine. Novotna
went to London so that the child
could be born there and thus become
a British citizen.
80 it worked out" said Nine
Novotna as she turned to me from
the piano, the fame of her big dark
eyes matching the fire of sunlight in
her red-gold hair. "I was at oul
estate, under the Germans, for two
months when I went to Belgium
SAy A1Oo0dllO 1ollOWCu 1OuI II1O1lb{lt
later, by motorcar. We have never
been back since. But we will ge
back, surely, inevitably"
The United States? It seems that
in 1889 Toscanini was making plans
for the production of LA Traviata'
at the New York Worlds Fair.
so I came here in the spring o.
that year." she said, land the res
of the family arrived the following
october. AS perhaps you know
plans for 'Traviata' did not-mate
rialize. do you say? But soon l re.
ceived a contract from the Metro
politan Opera Co Perhaps because
it was the means of my coming herr
I prefer 'Traviata' to all operas il
which I sing. But my debut her,
was in La Boheme which not onl,
because of sentiment, I love yer.
much, too"
Does she like the United States
The question seemed so inevitable
so trite, that I did not ask But
did ask if American audiences, II
sympathy and inspiration, were II
Evening star., 1944-05-21

her liking. They were, she said. Very
much, indeed, and she enjoys play
ing IN such a medium as the cur
rent successful operetta, Helen
Goes to Troy" because an actress
may be less constrained than In the
more classical mood.
yet" she added. IT do think that
even In operetta one must take care
not to be too free, too robustious-is
that the word? AS to audiences, I
am apt to find them much more
freely responsive than northern au-
diences who have to, as you say, be
be shown"
The Daubeks will, of course, spend
the summer in New York in associa-
ton with the fortunes of Helen
Goes to Troy" They were wonder
ing how hot it will be in their pres
ent eyrie near the East River. 1t is
probable they will take no chances
that they will settle for the summer
in Old Westbury whence Nine
Novotna can motor into the city
every day.
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Evening star., 1944-05-21

You don't always want to hear
about interviews do you? I thought
not. That is why I am going to
take you along as nearly as possible,
to a dinner I had the other night
with Sydney Greenstreet. Mind
you, had just seen him as the ex-
aminer in Between Two Worlds"
and loved him. So when he called
me and said, What about having
a bite here tomorrow night?" I
jumped at the opportunity. 1t is
no secret that Mr.. Greenstreet is
a wonderful host.
High atop hill the house was
standing. majestic but very friendly.
A lady opened the door and her
smile was as warm as day in June.
Her brown eyes were laughing and
I knew she was from Scotland.
Mr.. Greenstreet appeared, took
me by the arm and led the way to
a small cocktail lounge. He said,
What will you have?"
Now, actually it wouldn't matter
a bit what one has in the Green
street house, because the conversa-
ton is so lively, so interesting and
so varied, But I settled for glass
of sherry. Scotty (the lady who
met me at the door was called thus
by Mr.. Greenstreet joined us.
Dinner Home cooked.
A little later we all sat down to
a real home cooked dinner. Sydney
placed me on the side of the table,
where I could see the garden, the
many blooming roses, and the view
without any obstacles beyond the
mountains to the sea.
The grapefruit and avocado, the
saddle of lamb Gust right and crisp
and that lemon pie. Well! 1t added
unwanted poundage, but it certainly
was good.
During dinner, Sydney told me
about England, about the time when
he went back to his native Kent,
and walked into the bakers shop
asking an elderly lady who was
waiting behind the counter, do
you remember some 40 years ago,
when a little boy was brought in
here after having been run over?"
"Of course" the woman replied
He was Sydney Greenstreet, and
he always used to like those buns
over there" and she pointed to a
''sa rhat hat right" tn. actor said
Evening star., 1944-05-21

ously. That he is against any fell
low actor who doesn't know his lines
to perfection before setting foot on
the set. Probably his 30-odd years
in the theater business taught him
that. You don't play some of the
choicest parts in Shakespearean
roles by never having looked at the
play before you go on the stage.
He would like more rehearsal and
seriousness. Then the pictures
would be much better; their possi-
bilities are unlimited"
Sydney has charming weaknesses,
they range from his son John, who
Is " Ath the armed forces somewhere
Evening star., 1944-05-21

smilingly. Il am Sydney Green
street"
He told me about jokes, which the
British find funny, and Americans
probably find rather silly.
He Wants a Gentle Part.
Then there was some talk about
movies, about parts, and Sydney
said, Il don't want to keep on play
ing blackguards." And why not?"
l inquired. He said, looking rather
sternly at me, because who wants
to play or hear the same piece of
music all the time?"
discovered that Sydney Green
street takes his work extremely seri-
Evening star., 1944-05-21
"Hairy Apes" Critics
Asked to Look Again
ry the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
OF great comfort to playwrights
who are sore beset because of the
way Broadway drama critics carp
and beat the air when play is not
to their liking is the manner in
which Eugene O'Neill's Nobel Prize
play, "The Hairy Ape" went on to
win success artistically and finan-
cially despite tepid press.
None of the opening night critics
thought the play was unqualifledly
good. Three looked askance.
Therefore Jules Levy, producer of
the imminent film adaptation of the
O'Neill drama, is looking for as
many Of the critics of that day who
are alive and agile enough to totter
to the theater to take another look
and see If their attitudes have
changed in the light of a new
medium.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Novotna's Home in Exile Is Happy One

Where, on East End avenue, the
East River makes broad, sullen
turn around a corner Of Manhattan
Island, two children, girls of II, are
accustomed to meet on their way to
a private school. After school they
are likely to walk home together.
One of them is the daughter of the
Fredric Marches. The other is Jar
milia Daubek. daughter of the
George Daubeks, whose mother on
the stage is Jarmilia Novotna, star
of Helen Goes to Troy"
Finding an actress such as Nine.
Novotna leading normal life diff
fering in nowise from that led by
average citizens. one is impressed
with a sense of anomaly. For, in the
very nature of their profession, its
demands for frequent migrations
and unusual hours, its typical Gus
toms and unconventional habits,
people of the stage are very likely
to differ from folks leading normal
lives.
Yet, entering Nine. Novotna's S
apartment on East 57th street on a
recent afternoon when the Manhat-
tan spring was at its very best, I
found myself in an abode rejecting
In its atmosphere as definite tai
ent for homemaking as this lovely
singer and actress expresses so sig
nally in more public sphere.
She was standing by the piano in
a little music room, hand upon a
sheet of music, something by Rubin
stein, which the younger Jarmila
was playing. At the other corner OF
the piano listening intently was the
5-year-old son George, while in the
background, smilingly paternal
George Daubek, father and husband
completed tn group. May sunlight
streamed in through a broad win.
dow. 1t gently Illuminated the Dau-
beks. The mother wore a light
frock, pink; the daughter wore pink
too. and each of her pigtails was
caught in pink bow. A charming
scene; it suggested those lovely
fragile groups that the late T. w
DeWing used to paint.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Today's Schedules

NATIoNALFaust 2:ao pm "cavaneria Rustcana"
Eacci" $3.50 pm.
CAPITOL-"Broadway Rhythm" 1885, Ais pm. Stage
shows, 1885 340 625 and 9:10 pm.
COLUMBIA-Andy Hardys Blond Trouble" 10
and 945 pm.
EALEPassage to Marsailes 145 tbs
shows 105 $3.50, 6:35 and 9:15 pm
MTTLEPrivae Life Henry vI11," 32o $780, 735
9:45 pm
KEITHsLadies Courageous $40, 525 pm.
Let's Dance" 1:35, 1885,
9:45 pm.
PALACE-"Gasight" 1:4o, 4:20, 6:55 pm.
PIX-"Cowboy Canteen," 2:10. 4:55 735 1920 pm.
TRANS-L -LUX-News and shorts. Continuous pm.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Barrymore Acting
A Costly Purchase
RS the Associated Pre-
HOLLYWOOD.


Expenditures of $4,000 to secure
the services of Ethel Barrymore tor
flve-week stint in None But the
Lonely Heart" recalls the lavish pay
checks of the middle '20s.
David Hampstead, producer of the
film, justifles the cost, which in
cluded $4,000 in salaries and profits
for suspension of Miss Barrymore's
touring company in The Corn Is
Green" and $4,000 for her own
stipend for five weeks. He figures
he'll get the money back at the box
Office.
The film, with lavish budget, is
a prestige picture, and the role is of
sufficient Importance to the story to
warrant Miss Barrymore's selection,
says Hampstead.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Gangster Pictures
Have a New Dav
By the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD,

HOLLYWOOD.
Just when a Hollywood corpse has
been decently inferred for all time,
in popular opinion, a shot Of pro-
duction adrenalin brings it back
again, ready for further box-offce
adventures.
Gangster pictures long considered
buried, or metamorphosed into
Hitler or Hirohito atrocity films, are
back again. This time it's good
old bang-bang number written in
1884 by Martin Mooney, based on
authentic New York gangsters and
what Thomas E. Dewey did with
them, called Crime, Inc"
Gangster pictures seem to be the
city counterpart of the western,
and as such always popular If well
done,
Evening star., 1944-05-21
The Simple Life

HOLLY WOOD.
When he's not appearing before
the cameras, w. c. Fields stays at
home. Although he lives in huge
mansion in Hollywood, he spends 80
per cent OF his time in one room.
He used to be quite a golfer, but
the exercise got him down.
I gave all that up in favor of
alcohol" he muttered.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Miss Cornell and the Road
Bv Jaw Carmodv.

By Jay Carm0dp.
the thea on the road" is enioy-
ing the boom which confidently predicting
ascribed the fact servicemen
Among disputants claim however
who know the contributions Barrymore
and Tauah Bankhead the foremost actresses keeping
to Broadway
the country
the days of the depression She playing
been advised and it's insnirad her to rher dsann
of the prophets by taking it tour.
Prophets Doom Failed
To
The movies have spplanted the teater West of
Many
legitimate 10 Audiences
Miss Cornell did not believe
the plans
between play together
sloyed triumph.
The tour proved that, instead being
uleater had during the long period aloofne
productions
statuesque musicals well the straight drama Moreover
pattern for Miss Cornell from which she has departed Her
play has been routed
Lovers and Friends the current production which brings her
of Nationwide touring in her successful production
only Chicago When closes there Miss Cornell will
template her next venture
than Miss Cornell a good idea this year.
1t applies such smash hit Voice of the Turtle"
Despite success inspired to
offer it lock- stock
fred De Lae r has concluded that his cast Margaret SULLIVAN
Elliott Audrey comedy
have its last public the night
women,
gust %.
In the meantime tickets available through
indicating that there change in the popularity John Van
Drutens amusing tale of three week end.
Also disappearing from New York the
Guilds popular revival "Othelo"
record of 296 performances addition breaking
Shakepearian revvals Broadway Oeo
giving performance
theater this
played but then neither
the
critics.
winged Victory" Run,
Due Become a
by the departure last night remarkably
cessful drama, Winged Victory"
Its author Moss Hart has preceded by several months
Hollywood where he has the adaptation that
for Its transfer the Unlike the first triumphant
show, This the the
deemed existing
transportation conditions
the for fall release regarded much
Of bringing it country a large.
The cinema version 20 to the relief of
servicemen and their dependents will utilize
played Winged Victory for six enormously profitable months at
the Forourth street teater opening until
the na last night the than
complete seI-out .,-
AS motion picture out to be the most profitable
Of the pictures.
Evening star., 1944-05-21
Coming Attractions

NAT1ONA1-Iets Mary Walsh Monday
CAPToLEou Before Dawn with Veronica Lake and Francho
Tone, starting Thursday.
EARLETe Story of Dr. Wasse starring Gary Cooper and
Larane Day. starting Friday.
starring Daniee
KEITHS-"Chp OConner starting
Thursday.
METROPOIITAN-"Man From Frisco with Michael Oshea and
Ann Shirley, starting Friday.
PAACEBuffalo BILL starring Joel McCrea and Maureen
P1x-"Hey, Rookie" starting Friday.
Evening star., 1944-05-21

MOODS ON DISPLAY-Des-
peration is that OF Carol
Thurston and Dennis O'Keete
in "The Story OF DR.. WasSell,"
coming to the Earle. Veronica
Lake is n1urderouSly truculent
in "The Hour Before the
DaDn," aDhich moDes into
Locus Capitol on Thursday,
1Dhile Dick PoUeH and Lucille
Ball are feeling Dery cosy tn
the pictured sequence from
inject the People," an MGM
musical, Dhich toiH be coming
along one OF these early days.
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WE HAVE FAT

of
The symbol millions and
in factories essential business who
Victory work long hours make sacrifices symbol
Of Americas who believe all
triumph How does faith stack
raised in government
have faith fighting in
will bring better world" But money
being into War Bonds Keep faith
children world for freedom
The Four Freedoms Have FAITH! Buy Bonds the limit
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