The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-25
Irish Temper Inspires
 PIoywriting
GouIdins, Hollywood Director, Hos N. Y. Hit in The Ryon Girl
By LACK GAXER

United Press Staff COFrespondent
 New York, Sept. 25-(UP)-The first item of @ limping new the- atrical season that can lay any claim at all to raising audience temperatures stems from, of all people, a Hollywood personality. "The Ryan Girl" is the play and Edmund Goulding is the person. ality.
 Of course Goulding originally was a Broadway practitioner, but 1t Is popular (and not too erroneous) generality that even six months in the celluloid mines will ruin play wright for stage purposes. And Goulding has been away from the theater for 42 times six months, or 2l years as the calendar manufac- turers insist on recording 1t.
 Gouldtng, who has been In Holly wood so long that scarcely anyone remembers him as anything but one of the 10 or l2 very best film di- rectors, made his Broadway return the hard way-by writing a melo- drama. This type of play was easy stuff in the old days when the puo- lie was less hep and more credu- lous, but it's tough to do a good one in these sensation -Sated times.
 Now, I've seen better melos than "The Ryan Grl," and in 1t June Havoc Is hardly the latter day Jeanne Eagels that some of the ad- vance ballyhoo would make her, but both play and actress are on the credit side. A big help, too, is Ed mund Lowe, another Hollywood minion who hasn't set foot on Q Broadway stage in g years. Regu- lar old home week.
 Goulding said he wrote "The Ryan Girl" because he got mad. It seems that he's always doing suc- cessful things because someone rouses his Irish, which is what he has plenty of, 0 being & native.
 For instance, there was the time back in the early twenties when he went down to Philadelphia to con- suit with novelist Joseph Herges- heimer about making picture. The writer did considerable poo-poohing of things Hollywood, implying that denizen thereof would be pushed to write his name. Gouldfng came back to New York mad clear through, holed up in the Algonquin hotel and didn't stir out Of the place for il weeks while he wrote a novel of the sea called Fury" Critics hailed 1t and, better yet, It sold hugely.
 "The critics called me a master of sea stories," Goulding recalled. "They classed me with Conrad and Jack London. The fact is that don't know thing about sea- faring,"
 No more novels. But Charming Pollock, who wrote that famous hit play "The Fool" got bit pompous and condescending over Hollywood filming his masterpiece. He guessed the boys would ruin 1t. This set Goulding of again and he turned out play called Dancing Mothers" which Helen Hayes played and which was one of the "l0 best" Of the l924-26 season.
 No more plays (until now). One day he was making talking pie ture and was trying to get Q spe- cial musical background. A Hun garian composer named Joshua Zero said he didn't know do from re. 0oulding said he hadn't been a choir boy in St. Paul's Cathedral for nothing and he proceeded to dash of in anger @ slight compost ton that with words from Elsie Janis) became the ever popular Love, Your Magic Spell Is Every where"
 As for "The Ryan Girl" that came out c! anger sterrs!nS from disappointment. He came to New York over Q year ago looking for Q good play, or prepared to lay $5,000 advance on the line for anyone who's talent he could respect who would write one for him. Couldn't find a soul who was available. He was bemoaning his fate at the Players club during card game game one night and Fulton Oursler said he might try looking up Q fel- low who had @ hit in New Yokr some IS years ago. Busy with the cards, Goulding told OurSler to write down the name and address When he looked at the slip of paper