The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15
WALTER WINCHELL
Continued From Page Six

.u,ss. The producers wired re-
w. Was lust one word: mo"
fpnf Ethel had he last word. She
W. him 4 wire that was just as
brief: oh"
n an interview with Michel
NIX II years ago, Margaret Sui
1,van really knocked the movies.
Che was at it long before Katha-
rine Hepburn had her trouble with
.he craft. Il went out to Holly
,ood because I needed the money
,nd because I knew that security
xo1ld give me independence,
Maggie said. mo matter how
much money you get, you earn
.verv cent of il. There's nothing
.ssv, nothing pleasant, nothing
,Iamorous about it. It's the tough
&C. work in the world. You slave
Ill dav ard at night there's moth
wv for it but to go to bed. And
men you're madden than ever be-
,,use YOU can't have any fun"
Judith Evelyn had been acting
= England and then sailed for
America on the Athena in Sep
,.nhsr, 1889. The boat was hit by
German torpedo. In a lifeboat
tor several hours, Judith and
,bout 80 others finally sighted a
rescue ship and rowed toward it.
Blu. q wave crashed their boat
AGAINST a propeller and sank
them. She swan around in the
darkness for an infinity with the
nd Of a bit of wreckage until
picked up by other rescuers, one
Of eight saved from those in her
li,eooat. Little was made of it,
Judith says, because sit wasn't
sonsidered good policy at the time
10 disturb Americans in that
way"
Florence Eldridge needn't be
Mrs. Fredric March to sl1bslst as
an actress. . Her fans who watch
her quiet, motnerly and gentle
technique as the March winds
blow in Years Ago. know it. :.
In 1927 Percy hammond reviewed
"off-Key," a play in which he
found the characters bearably
artificial!' But of Florence Ed
ridge he said this: "She afforded
more than the customary excuses
for two actors to be mad about
her"
Enid Markey's tavorite memory
80 far Of the Happy Birthday"
nit concerns the young man IN the
east whose wife had their first
child. In one scene Enid and her
drinking companion, Grace Valen-
tine, are supposed to toast the
character he plays. Instead OF
water the actor found real cham
payne in his glass and bright, best
wishes in the eyes Of Enid and
Grace.
Judith Anderson has played
many evil ladies, beginning with
her first local success, COBRA
and including movie roles like that
n "Rebecca." When she was
small, instead Of yearning to be
Juliet, ike her little frinds, she
wanted to play Lady Macbeth! .
Still. in the hometown, Adelaide,
South Australia, she won all the
temperance m d ais a maiden
could wjn-then had them melted
and cast INTO 4 brooch.
Mady Christians fathe r, Ru-
dolph, conducted a German stock
company 1t the old Irving Place
Theatre before the first World
War. Young Mady would stand
stage-struck in the wings and beg
tor a kids part''-after all, it
would save him money. Finally,
Ne gave in when he had to have
SOMEONE IN q hurry, and she went
on. Later he told her that he knew
med never be an actress and
now she could set about getting
i husband.
The warm and humane qualities
which make Dorothy Gish's acting
showed to special perfection in the
snortlived "The Story of Mary
surfatt." AS the tortured Mrs.
s%ufratt. she electrified the thea
re with qualities the patrons oil
drama rarely feel. Perhaps this
statement of hers will illuminate
why She's as good as she is: "1t's
KIN Of pathetic, you know, I'm
pam stage struck. If l. couldn'1
40 anything else in the theatre,
/ q fnrr1y