Evening star., 1948-02-24
Capital Careers

fading out and Frightening again.
The young beginner, whom the
studio had dubbed Robert Taylor.
was sick with disappointment for
he knew his big chance for success
was fading with that defective film
Like her current cinema counter
parts, gals like Barbara Britton,
Constance Moore and Marjorie
Reynolds, Muriel has played every
thing from drawing-room dramas
to westerns. Westerns with Buck
Jones, next to Hart and Mix the
greatest cowboy star Of them all,
and with John Wayne.
Westerns were the most fun.
Muriel rides like a demon and can
match any cowboy for courage any
day. Used to do lot Of her own
more dangerous scenes sans double
for the sake Of authenticity.
Whether Muriel would have been
a top star like Colbert or Crawford
is one question that will probably
never be answered. She gave up
before the fight was over. Signed
"a life contract with Marshall
Worcester, advertising man here,
for different sort of role, q gra-
cious hostess, devoted wife part.
It's even more fun than westerns,
especially when special contract
clauses allow outside activities like
the Hollywood gossip broadcasts
she did a couple of years ago at
WINK, her turn as a mcdel school
instructor last year and the woman's
program she is currently expert
menting with at WBUZ-FM.
Some day the Worcesters will 60
back to Hollywood and Muriel may
take up where she left off. Four
years ago when it looked as If Mar
shall might go off to war, she almost
signed again with MGM. But the
Army rejected Marshall, so Muriel
turned down MGM. What she'd
rather do, she thinks now, is to turn
talent scout or coach, training newly
signed youngsters in dramatics.
makeup and posture, as she did for
while at the Pearl Atkinson School.
Mother Muriel," she calls the Evans
of that phase of her life here.
She thinks Washington is full of
potentially pretty girls who are too
self conscious to make the most OF
their possibilities and she gets
great kick out of helping them do
just that. She's always willing to
set an aspiring film player on the
right road to Hollywood, too, for the
very simple reason that she knows
what it is to struggle for success
unaided. The days when Hollywood
drew on its native stock for new
faces is past. The rules now are to
get as much experience and reputa-
ton acting, modelling or whatever
in the East, in stock companies and
little theaters and on Broadway.
New York is the key that unlocks
the big iron gates IN Hollywood
these days.
In spite Of their cinema attach
ments, the Worcesters are not steady
movie-goers. Their film sessions are
more in the nature of sporadic binges
during which they are apt to see
three movies in day and no more
for the next three weeks. For re-
Taxation, Muriel, chef and dish
washer for their Sixteenth street
apartment, reads-says she likes
particularly books about various
religions, but she displays suspi-
cious interest in other peoples |
rental library historical romances.
She's crazy about old Southern
homes. If she likes Washington,
and she does in spite of finding 1T
a cold town (and she doesn't mean
the weatherD she dotes on New
Orleans. First time she went there,
she rushed out to the cemetery first
thing to see If the graves are really
that high above the ground! /