Evening star., 1949-05-01
Mori|yn PrefersFi|n
Made debyP|oyPottern
By Joy Carmody

may being in Carnda Iowa. gives girl
optimistic feeling e Certainly Maryn Maxwell Clarndas
only gift to show business. is a optimistic one.
Maryn. poised pretty does mind that
life fate throws occasione After all she knows
useful girl That she has not hit the top
Hollywood does not bother her There is always tomorrow and
she expecting great things OF it.
I'm lucky gr she and then to prove that is not
just that which gamblers she eces
long happy that happened which she
tainly expected back there in Clarnda
Washington also singing at the Capitol
Theae where she appears once year she was all set up about
the played Summer Holiday That musical movie
version Eugene ONes Ah Wilderness brought her under
the of Reuben Mamouan She excited about
how much she had learned of acting the brief sketch Of making
that picture.
1t was not big every expected. and that Metro
GodwynM Mayer certainly hoped it would be- but Marlyn still
exciting picture be excited about on
Washington visit 1t is The Champion which
already which has small part that attracting
attention than of the larger parts she played in the
past.
Small Parts Can Be Largest.
from things like that she says You learn that
small close to life and played as negenty as one knows
0 And vo1 learn SO much from working with a group
Stanley Kramers Champion think Stanley is
ducng genius and Mark Robson who directed
picture approach making pictures young or new
and S stimulating
too is an adoption of Broadways production style
doing play. Mariyn says We rehearsed on
big stage before remembered there was 10
he We knew the script parts but
every one eses relationships between character
and and character and character We had ieeng
telling story and that every one was In on 'ne 'u
She found it quite and superior to- the usual
method of bringing player set giving him or her an
idea and dialogue were supposed 70 De- ana
shooting after a brief run through of both
She does that the new way Is the pest way 70
make pictures know the way that proouceo tne
best picture been She likes to think tna IL Will
widely used in Hollywood and that WILL proouce
better pictures ~
natched on some OF the most pop
bandstand in America not turning her PACK On singing
merely she enanced by the possoes o. aene
truth that facing of her biggest career prof.
ects one which BOTH That the feminine eao IN t
musical version Gentlemen Prefer Bonds (than wno no e1
s more which is being assembled Tor boao"ay
know Broadways appeal for girl Mary Martin Ann Mher Oh
Marilyn Maxwell" ,. ,o
II was while reading original story about gente
men and preparation for the singing teshat
discovered the origin OF Jack Benny gag WHICH e
her in Paris last summer
"You probably know the gag she says i mean tne oHe
by telling hem IN french
naturally that have baby We dlont know
French but Jack me- 1t certainty WORKED
hut did not know said until the elderly driVe u
of solcde helped of the cab carefully at the emo OF
the ride Then Miss Loos story and knew wnere came
from ..-..5 :. - a.ra g!...e. +.
AS white lies co. Maryn thinks she never told more COM
fortne .'. :,
Among the current hits Mayns pet everybody
elses namely, South Pacific"
"That Tzio PIMA she SAYS What He's not hand
some-as men Holywoodbut what man IN What SNOW"
How to that music (meanins Rodgers ana faa"e
steinso. !. ,,.u;,,-s
conscious mind it may has to do with gof She
had time to learn the game as ~
should learned, from professional 49,,
As it is says have beautiful swing but also nave
near sghtedness that never hit the BALL
inexhaustible bright Ones she
expects will take Of that too
In find time, land I'll learn I'm lucky er