The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-03

 :. HOLLYWOOD, May a-In front ~ tho Beverly Hills Brown Derby, asae ether noon, saw a certain fa- sR10ss movie hero-I won't use his name -6iWtng autograph books, snnd quite obviously enjoying the hask. I chuckled, remembering an incident that happened another noon, some i've years ago in the same cafe.
 That day the star was complain Ing bttterly to three other we'll known players about the annoy anceg''bo which he was constantly {. subjected by the adoration of his Eans. Bob Burns and I lunching kn an adjoining booth, overheard the grandiloQuent remarks-and Bob desided then and there to at- tempt Q cure. Whereupon, he took the head waiter aside an enlisted
 his aid for e practical joke, as he had already enlisted mine. Quietly, the three of us toured the restau- rant and urged everyone present to go to the stars table and ask for autographs from his three compan- ions, while completely overlooking him.
 After the fifth or sixth autograph hunter had looked through the bored" star, apparently without recognition, while beaming on his companions, he began to wilt. By the time the procession had ended he was a,changed mGn. He got up and left the Derby without word, looking neither to his left nor to his right.
 I like to think that perhaps I - have actually had sonething to do with the preservation of a brilliant career.
 Memories That Bless And Burn: when 2Oth Century-Fox bosses, as . masterstroke in publicizing Irwin 6. COhbS first movie, "The Ark ansas Traveller" asked the famous author to "dash off" 8 few articles about his set experiences. Cobb did and billed the studio at the rate of A2-a-word!. When Joan Craw- ford, then unmarried and just start s,ag her screen career, wore 8 Wed- ding ring to give herself an '1n- teresting past. When Dr. Dafoe guardian of the celebrated Dionne ouintuplets, refused to let his charges see their motion pictures on the -justified ground that see aaaR themselves on the screen might Saflate their egos. When dozens of ScottiSh societies in the united states declared war on Paramount because that studio dared to let one of it's singing stars do 8 swing ver- sion of Scots Wha' Hae WI Wal , lace Bled."
 For some time I've been wonder ing why Ingrid Bergman, one of the least egotistical top-h -highters US eyer been my good fortune to meet, is so insistent on having an author {, tive voice in almost all matters a1- fecting her pictures. Now comes Q story. which, if true, probably holoS the explanation. I'm told that David O. Selznick. who's anything but a seR-e1acing man, broadly h1nted to ! her (wnen she left his contract nsU that her future pictures would never he LID to the standards of those she had made for him, because he had always given her career his personal attention. I'm also told that Miss Bergman was so incensed by the Syengali-T -Trilby implications of hls remarks that her chief interest, ever since, has been to prove SelznlcK wrong. It is not because under-rate DOS. but because consider Miss Bergman an unusually clever lady, that I consider it extremely likely he may find himself "eating crow" :"
 ' visited dSyJnstarnf1 and ararr | visited the Warner Brothers set, where 'aThe Sentence" is being film i, cd. just as Ann Sheridan, clad in a skin-tight evening gown. stepped before the cameras to essay 1it- terbug dance routine. "Not' nearly enough animation, Ann!" protested Director Vincent Sherman after each take, ''try 1t again-and put more xip into it." After the seventh CT eighth take, he gave a grudg- ang okay, adding, by way of final protest, the observation that 1t cer- !. 8ainly wasn't perfect. Maybe not" snapped Ann, but at least 1t was i. sa1e!''
 When . yoHngSter is exposed, for q week or two, to the howery super ! latiyes that garnish all studio con- versations, it's small wonder if h1s sense Of word values becomes dis torteG. Consider, for instance, six year-old Anthony Sydes, 2Oth Gen. trry-Fox'S new child discovery When he finished his first screen role last week and returned to school, his teacher asked him to