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Evening star., 1944-08-06
His Chin Means Firmness
By R0saIind Shafer.

Andrews has touch of Texas In
his marriage. He believes marriage
is the only way of life. that people
get more happiness and real liv-
ing from family life than from any
thing else. He has six brothers and
two sisters. Two careers wouldn t
make his kind of a home.
He told me that when he proposed
to his wife. Mary Todd, then a
promising young comedienne, he
asked her If she could be happy Just
as his wife She said she thought
she could. Imagine that; he didn't
know if he'd 60 over or not, but he
asked her to take the big chance
with him and give up her own
career. That's typical Andrews for
you.
Married previously, his first wife
died in 1885. leaving him q son,
David, now 10. He and Mary have
a daughter, Kathryn, 2. Financial
| success blends into TYPICAL home ex-
penditures-the new awnings were
an event. He plunges into buying
camellias, then has personal grief
when an unskillful gardener culti-
Yates them and spoils them.
Now working with Gene Tierney
in "Laura"-one of those popular
psychological murder dramas-he's
quiet. inclined to slight reserve. Yet,
the minute that any one from Gene
to set carpenter looks friendly, he
smiles back, and turns on that
Texas charm. He's nice guy to
have around.
Evening star., 1944-08-06
Mr.. Rose Views the Future
BY Ward Morehonse
NEW YORK.

| NEW YORK.
| Billy Rose used to operate a zoon
in the basement of the Hippodrome
here, and that was when he was
doing Jumbo He had Ted Healy
and his stooges on tour in the
extravaganza called Crazy Quilt"
and down on the Texas plains he
wore sombrero and ran the From
tier Centennial Now he's moving
ahead; he's going in for Shake
speare
Mr. Rose. at "A, is preparing for
the biggest season of his career. He
is now concerned with these prof.
ects: Cd King Henry VIII," ca an
ambitious revue production and 90
the ziegfeld Theater, which he is
taking over.
The house that he and Eleanor
Holm own in Beekman place is
closed for the summer; he has been
committing between his Mount Kis-
co home and the Hotel Astor. I
found him at pm. in slacks and
slippers. in his air. cooled suite. the
one that was once the Times Square
home of the late Charles Dilling-
ham. From his hotel quarters Billy
Rose runs his business via the tele-
phone. He receives callers by ap-
pointment. His week runs from
Monday afternoon to pm. Friday
night, when he goes TO the country.
Likes His Associates.
I'm preparing" he said. for the
kind of season I've wanted and
planned for myself. But whether I
can do fine things. whether can
get away with Shakespeare and
I that revue, remains to be seen. I
couldn't have better setup of peo-
pie. I've been fortunate that "a I
have been able to attract such talent
as Margaret Webster, Robert Ed
mond Jones, Hassard Short and
Cole Porter. I think that once
every season somebody should do
first-rate Shakespearean revival.
Now I'm going ahead with Henry
VIII and I'd like to do King Lear
some time If I could cast it.
You're opening Henry VIII cold
at the Alvin?"
Sure. No use to take it out of
town. Not going to rewrite it-won't
have to call in Kaufman and Hart.
Well open here after preview per-
formances. Hope to get into rehear-
sal the last week in September.
adore working with Peggy Webster
and Bobby Jones. I think Marta
Abba fine actress and that Wilfred
Lawson will be wonderful, and that
Laird Cregar will be an excellent
Henry-if we get him. The produc-
ton should be lush and spectacular,
and it will call for about IS people. ;"
Your revue will open out Of
town."
Yes, at the Forrest, Philadel-
Evening star., 1944-08-06
Cotton Reminisces of y. C..
BY Inga Arvad.

way and on the road before I ever
came out here. As a rule, would
be in one good play season. Good
enough for the talent scouts back
East to want to make a test of me
and 1t became quite a routine to do
it every year. practically tainted
when I saw them and the same
must have happened to the execu-
tives out here because I never got
good offer. When I eventually did
arrive in Hollywood, it was on a
holiday between two shows, but I
stayed to play in Orson Welles' 'Citi-
zen Kane"
Ran Salad Factory.
Joe has been in numerous busi-
nesses in his life. In Florida he
used to have a potato salad fac
tory. not big one, but nevertheless
there were quite lot Of potatoes
to peel.
Joe is superstitious. The other
day, no less than four times. some
body came into his dressing room
and began whistling. That as you
know Is a bad omen. - So, as Joe
says. "every time I rushed out. spit
on the ground and turned around
three times"
In Double Furlough," where Joe
plays opposite Ginger Rogers-you
should have seen their love scenes
together-Joe regarded Rolf Won
Erestsel apprehensively. For Rolf
an 8-year -old, 98-pound German
Shepherd dog of distinguished pedi-
gree, had to attack the star in one
of the scenes.
The dog was imported from Ger
many six years ago. where he hac
been taught the tricks of fighting
| by the police. Once in America, the
dog had TO learn his lesson ovel
again in the English language.
/ On the walls of Cottens dressing
/ room are numerous paintings ot
clowns Joe explains, That is what
I really would like to play in pic.
ture. AS matter of fact, If evel
have sufficient time and can ge
around to it. I am going to write &
real good circus story Somehow
the subject hasn't ever been utilizet
in the right way. Once I went 81
far as to stay with a circus for quit,
a while just to gather material, bu
the writing hasn't begun yet"
Joe Gotten is one of Selznick'
most valuable properties and Is il
constant demand because, unlik,
most actors, Joe can play the maj
who gets the girl in one picture ant
the one who doesn't in the next.
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Evening star., 1944-08-06

phia. November 6. New York in
December. I've been on that show
since the day after Carmen Jones
opened. It takes me about a year to
do one of those babies. AS you know,
I'll have lot of wonderful people
associated with it . Beatrice Lii
lie and Bert Lahar will be in it. Bea
is expected here the last week in
August"
Will Beautify Theater.
He reached for a cigarette;
answered his phone. and indicated
a sample square of gold carpet
which was beside the window.
That" he said, lis a sample of
the 5000 yards of carpet I've woven
for the Ziegfeld Theater. 1 want
that theater to be something that
will make going to it an actual
event. Work on the renovation
starts September l. I'll have Offices
on the seventh floor and then I'll
at least have a place where the
girl can say, Hes not in"
Billy Rose, you see. has never
liked working in an Office. He pre-
fers such a spot as his bedroom in
Beekman place, With four tele-
phones on table, the living room
Of his Astor suite.
He was in his chair beside his
phone and continued.
Il also have a property called
Carmen Jones It's going so well
l haventsbeen near the theater in
months. 1t will probably run until
the hrst OF the year-then goes on
tour -. The Diamond Horseshoe?
can't get over there. either. It
goes along like a well-oiled clock :.
Yes. ! bought couple of plays. One
OF them is Emily Brady by Donald
Ogden Stewart. Work on it is neces-
sary. The other is Money, Money
Money a very funny play by Ma
thaniel Curtis. That's not ready
either"
He came to the west window of
the living room and gazed down into
Forty-f1fth street. the exact window
at which Irving Berlin and the late
Sam H. Harris had stood at 8:3O
O'Clock on the night of the opening
OF their beautiful theater, the Music
Box, more than 20 years ago.
Billy Rose went on quietly:
I've been around % years since
/ started as song writer. I've been
in almost every end of show busi-
ness except the movies. I now think
face 10 very happy years produc-
ing at the Ziegfeld Theater. I'm
happy that I've got such talented
people around me. I think I have
kind of gone to school. I'm de-
termined to do series of good
shows"
And, as I took my departure, II
was my impression that I've never
known Billy Rose to be more ir
earnest.
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Evening star., 1944-08-06

N1OLL1 WOOD.
Girls often are told that a good
looking man doesn't make a good
husband-forget that and meet
Dana Andrews, the proverbial tall,
dark and handsome man from Texas,
just a hint of a soft drawl. He's
family man.
Listen as he talks, gaze into his
dark eyes and get to dreaming about
running your hands through his
hair. Now snap out of it, and look
at that chin which juts a bit and
is cleft by big dimple.
In case you don't know, a chin like
that is supposed to mean trouble. In
his case, it tells the same story his
friends can verify-hes got a will
OF his own; it has to be his way,
and not your way.
Our handsome friend started
young, and learned fast. His life is
pretty we'll figured out and is op-
Grating according to plan. He's
made progress at 80.
Dana's fair for living first ap-
peared when he was in his late
teens. He saved 81 900 for a trip to
New York-then spent it all in two
weeks, and landed back home with
reports of wonderful time. At 10
he gave up a job as bookkeeper in
Austin, Tex, which was paying him
$225 month, because he was bored
with it. II hate business" he says,
referring to that job.
Andrews talks easily, rapidly, sim
cerely. He likes acting. He's not like
many actors who did it only to make
money. Andrews even liked trying
to be an actor so well that he worked
at all sorts of jobs for nine years, all
Of them unrelated to acting, before
he got in front of Hollywood cam
eras. Legend has film scouts find
ing talent with some sort of super
human divining rod. Yet Andrews,
with that face, personality and ply
sique, picked figs, sold concrete and
filled gas tanks before he got q
chance. He was a community play
house student, too, and took singing
lessons.
1T never occurred to me that I
wouldn't make the grade" says An
drews. I'D still be trying If I
hadn't"
Evening star., 1944-08-06
Even Roast Beef
Uses Makeup in
.Cinena's Scheme
By the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD.
If you've ever nursed roast of
beef through a couple of days of
family dining, you know that it
darkens when it's cut, and doesn t
look so appetizing, after days wait
in the icebox.
Just the same thing happens to
the roast of beef that's being used
in Guest in the House." with Ralph
Bellamy as the carver and Anne
Baxter as the feminine trouble
maker. Since the whole cast has
been going through a series of dra-
matte scenes at the family dinner
table. the roast beef is very much
in evidence, and has to look right
all day long. To renew that fresh
look, and not waste the precious
beef which is popped into a re-
frigerator between shots, Al Boro-
dino, former butcher, now screen
culinary expert, gets out his vege-
table dye paints and paints a lus-
cious look on the beef.
Evening star., 1944-08-06
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
You wonder where vaudeville has
been hiding out? Well, you need
look no further. 1t has taken ref
uge with the movies-the same me-
dium that struck it down some Is
years ago when the silent screen
became equipped with vocal organs.
For years what was left of vau-
deville hitched its wagon to radio
and the night clubs, and became
more or less settled But now that
movies have settled down to a steady
diet of musicals and light plots, vau-
deville at last has become medium
of prime importance to the screen.
During the past several months
every studio in town has been comb
ing all possible fields for novelty
acts. Radio, night clubs, burlesque,
and even the amusement parks have
been raided by contracts which as
sure individuals and their acts OF
steady work.
Old Days Live Again.
The movies are now the happy
hunting ground for the crack spec
ialty people. They brighten up the
corner of musical movies and COM
edies--out-and-out dramatic films
too-and the good old days of two-a-
day live again, under the arcs oI
the sound stages.
Couple Of months ago M-G-M ex.
ecutives got an advance tip on the
public's trend toward vaudeville. A
picture called Bathing Beauty,
featuring Red Shelton, Esther vii.
liams and several lesser name folks
received its sneak preview at a sub.
urban theater. When the audience
reaction cards were assembled aftel
the show, the raves were mostly fol
an unbilled speciality artist named
Ethel Smith. Miss Smith, demurely
cute, played the electric organ likt
nobody's business. The preview au.
dience went wild. Although Ethe
Smith was known to them through
her sultry style of Latin arrange.
ments on the Hit Parade" here sh,
had become visual for the first time
Concurrently, M-G-M found sh,
could act. too. That means a solie
future in the movies for Ethe
Smith.
Top dancing specialties are &C,
high in film demands today. Their,
are the Kraft sisters, Beatrice anc
Evelyne. who come from Broad.
way night clubs to do their spec.
tcular East Indian dance number.
in 'Kismet."
The best Of the old-time dancins
troupes would meet their match ir
the Devi Dja Balinese and Javanese
Temple dancers. who make theil
screen bow in ''The Picture of Do
rian Gray" They are subjects from
the Dutch East Indies who made
their escape after the Jap invasion
Walsh Is Dance King.
No vaudeville program was ever
complete without a dancing single
Today's counterpart is Arthur
Walsh, the world champion litter
bug. Winner of 108 of 109 national
contests. the slim, loose -jointed
youth jitterbugs with Myrna 10y in
THE Thin Man Goes Home" He
can act, too, for he landed a straight
comedy role with Frank Sinatra in
Anchors Aweigh."
Evening star., 1944-08-06
HOLLYWOOD

lloIA w oob.
Back to pictures after flve-year
absence comes Conrad Nagel, the
actor, who more than any leading
man helped the newly born talkies
over the hurdles in 1928.
In contrast to most of his brother
heroes Of the silent era, Conrad
could speak up with a voice ideally
suited to loudspeakers. Conse
quently, for the first two years OF
sound, he was more in demand than
any leading man. His tone and die
ton were clear as bell-still are
for that matter-and producers
frantically securing the country for
trained voices used to compare the
talents of candidates to those of
Nagel.
His return will be via monogram
In the infantile paralysis film, They
Shall Have Faith" Recently Nagel
has confined his activities mostly
to radio and the legitimate theater
Movieland's expectant parents are
putting in requests for a fling at
Constance Moore,s famous baby
bed, a 175-year-old French provin-
cial cradle which is already amass-
ing quite name for itself in Holly
wood. It housed Miss Moore's baby
up to couple of months ago and
was recently loaned to the Ronald
Colmans for their new daughter
Miss Moore is having a silver
nameplate mounted on the side OF
the cradle, with names and birth
dates of all the Hollywood babies
who have used it. They include the
offspring of the Lee Bowmans ano
the Herbert Marshalls.
Carole Lands shower for Martha
Raye's baby was manipulated by
remote control. After making al
arrangements for the party, Carole
was sent to the South Pacific with
Jack Benny So he party was helo
on time with Carole's mother, Mrs
Clara Ridste, presiding. The results
were sufficient to insure the Rayt
baby of just about every necessity
and luxury she can use in the mex
five years. A baby shower in Holly
wood really brings out the merchan.
disc.
Closeups: Now that several bis
stars in Hollywood are going out fol
individual production, some strange
and colossal names are springing ur
in the market. Don Ameche is call.
ing his outfit Command Pictures
Inc. Word from returning South
Pacific veterans is that Cesar Ro-
Nero, seaman first class, United
States Coast Guard, and one-time
Good Time Charlie of Movieland
is doing a great job on the cargo
transport. The boys at Twen.
tieth Century-Fox also have letter
from 1t John Howard, U. S. N.
dated Pompeii. Howard. whose
name was frequently linked with
that of Hedy Lamar before he went
off to war, is commanding a mine
layer. >. Teddy Pavelec, one-time
University of Detroit football star
has been signed to play Steve Tay-
lor, who will wage battle with 1.-THE
Great John L. in the Bing Crosby
production. :. . There's nothing sc
modern about hitchhiking, Deanns
Durbin will point out in Cant Heir
Singing" This story, laid in 1849
Evening star., 1944-08-06
Legit Managers
Gloomy; Rivals
Get the Profits
BY the Associated Press.

Ds tic hSSUCldbeu fEcSS.
NEW YORK.
Legitimate theater managers are
beeflng that the sizzle is keeping
the public at home, mountains
anywhere but Times Square.
They can't even do their annual
summer squawking in their usual
haunts; Sardi's and Jack Bleek' s
Artists and Writers Club are closed
to give their help summer vaca-
ton.
While commiserating with each
other, they neglect Times Square
movie theaters, where record crosses
are being posted. Since You Went
Away" a seven handkerchief picture,
is busting records at the Capital,
where it did $4,000 more business
the first week than did Gone With
the Wind"
The Broadway theater season off,
cially opened Tuesday night, when
Roscoe Karns was starred in School
for Brides" It was eclipsed, so far
as glamour is concerned, by the
world premiere the same evening OF
the new movie Wilson" at the Roxy
| Much hoopla attended the "Wil-
son" debut, with dozens of movie
stars and celebrities on hand and
autograph hounds had a field day.
Evening star., 1944-08-06
Nagel Returning to Screen

shows Deanna moving West, and
hitchhiking most of the way.
Western stars have long brooded
over neglect of the academy to in
clude horse-opera endeavors in the
annual balloting. Now they're out
to form their own group and plan
to vote Oscars each year. One
chimp has died. another has gone
berserk on Sol Lesser, producer of
the "Tarzan" pictures, so the latest
in this series is indefinitely de-
layed
1t. Van Hef1in. in London, ordered
an Army blouse and a pair of
trousers at a tailoring establish
ment. On his way there for a fit
ting he learned that the shop had
just been hit by a robot bomb and
destroyed. Word of his close call
came by letter to his wife in Holly
wood.
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Evening star., 1944-08-06
HOLLYWOOD.

|
AS a small boy with golden curls,
he looked like Little Lord Fauntle-
roy. Later when his curls got in
the way and I had my head shaved
like a billiard ball. Little Lord
Fauntleroy turned out to be a Dead
End Kid" That is, If you can be-
lieve Joseph Gotten, himself.
Today, he is mixture of both
and the combination, as you know, is
exciting. Apart from being one of
the best actors in the business, Joe
has blue, humorous eyes and a face
which inspires woman to caress
him with one hand and slap him
with the other. He is feet 2 inches
tall, athletic and has a rasping voice
with slight Southern drawl. He
was born in Petersburg, Va, where
the legend Of swords and roses is
still lively.
AS he sat in his bungalow on the
David o. Selznick lot, sharing his
sandwiches and cake with me. he
dangled one leg across the arm of
his easy chair.
Got His Voice Here.
He talked about the time when II
went to dramatic school in WASH
ington. I lived next to what today
is the Mayf1ower Hotel. 1t was be-
ing built at the time and I assure
you 1t was pretty hard both to learn
roles and lose Southern accent.
was told to speak clearly but that
was unnecessary, because the racket
OF the building next door was SC
overwhelming that practically had
to shout all day long. 1t helped me
later on-my voice can be heard tc
the farthest corner of a theater."
Whenever Joe Is upset you car
hear him murmur under his breath
Mrs. r. got me into this" which he
explains thus:
L have a very close and deal
friend called Tom Rutherford. HI
and I were playing in stock com.
pany down in Richmond, Va, anc
We hardly ever had sufficient money
to buy three square meals a day
But Toms mother, great old lady
said to me one day. Il hear so mucf
talk about Hollywood and all tn.
money the stars earn out there
Now, Joe, why don't you put ir
an application for job?"
We'll, did you?" I inquired. 10,
smiled again as he took big bit,
Of his chocolate cake.
He answered. No. It couldn'
quite be done. AS a matter of fact
years and years passed by on Broad
Evening star., 1944-08-06
TrueLOve Never Dies
By Jay Carm ody.


know, fellow with speculative mind and not too
familiarity audiences has found
movies Substance his conjecture what effect his placement
the Army Air Forces inactive list for will have
actors future a romantic figure screen.
There unsc1upuous characters in the would
play upon the mans innocence draw him into bet the
matter but family ignorance by
pointing out that Army and movie age limits entirely different
things Many males in the heaer and the movies
in romantic fiery dalance
present OF them In spite of their rmes intentions
branch out into other phases of the of acting
much likely to be caught that predcament public
demand for his continuance the public has
than in the of finding himself beyond the romantic
Would Drop Earlier
Almost invariably among reasonably painful
sedeception they ready
public is willing to surrender its romantic
Ronald Coman who would be the
of beyond Cables ago Coman
of the realistic romantic figures the
that he through with thing
be character for him. character
the favore expressions of English than
He did want old necessarily being
girl out.
minimum of consideration from employers Circumstances
against him in that the beginning
deep nroads into Hoywood stock leading persisted
in his attitude however until he in
Random Harvest touching love played with
Greer Carson and which became of his greatest
"Kisme which not exactly an
adolescent version OF profoundly the
romantic side.
Marshall Still of Past.
Another skilled performer felt as Colman who
feared he might allowed romance on the
Herbert Marshall with speaking voice de-
signed to accomplish the singing
without the swooning
Marshall for many more wears than he was WILING ot h ~ W.
entirely free demonstrated Andy Hardy picture
In that Marshall president the feuratve
father of whole campusfu children, even in that
character he could not get out of the
echo OF his youth tender inerude with Granville
Movie audiences their hardly ever
There have been CT actors who did
romantic tr1umphs the until
that the Army soldier
Walter Pidgeon is such In his
actor the enormously popular PdgeG
other think possible exception of
Robert Young. Runnerup the many
player but winning side instantly
with the top-hght lovers of the screen.
Brutal Boyer Was Just Acting
Another of muny against
OF Charles conquest
several he has been threatening
pcuresa rather universal trend
circumstances permitted him escape cortshp
matrimony.
turned remarkably kind with
drama that perfect opportunity murder
universal of him
full Ingrd of
that would Illusion
the movie public undoubtedly will dismiss with
he merely acting actually always Just has
thought him to be-
That of Cables beginners in the
romantic field also to be noted in the Spencer
Tracy. has played variety biance
that he generally
occasionally has he dabbed in the field of
when appear who marries
a tyke
The truth probably that the movies love really
Evening star., 1944-08-06
Mcclure Just Forgot
That Opening Speech

When Greg Mcclure, winning
candidate for the star role in The
Great John L." was first inter-
viewed by Bing Crosby, who is pro-
ducing the picture, he had to excuse
himself and leave the room to re-
gain his composure.
Il had set opening speech all
ready when I went into his Office,
said Mcclure. Before I could say
word Crosby took the pipe out
of his mouth and said: Say, you
look like the guy I have in mind.
I was so excited, I asked him to
wait minute. / went out in the
hall, got drink of water and came
back five minutes later"