Screenland (Nov 1950-Oct 1951)

was sorry she hadn't landed the role. "Oh, that's all right," said Ruth blandly, "I didn't want it anyhow." Ruth didn't blame the star for walking off with a dubious impression of her. "If I just weren't so outspoken," she says, "I would have said what I meant in good, basic English, and what I meant was that I'd have given my right profile to work with Mr. Garfield, but I knew I was just all wrong for that particular part!" At a recent radio rehearsal when a sudden mechanical failure halted proceedings, Lizabeth Scott blurted out. "Why don't people learn their jobs! There's no excuse for inefficiency!" She could have cut her throat in remorse the moment she said it, of course, because she hadn't meant it the way it sounded. She was taut and nervous over the rehearsal, and was merely expressing understandable annoyance at the delay. But it sounded vicious and mean to the people around her. Today La Scott is trying to teach herself to say things twice; first to herself for censoring, the second time aloud. Robert Cummings has an all-consuming faith in people, despite having suffered a number of personal and busine=s losses because of his misplaced trust. While he recognizes that all people are not good, he cannot help clinging to the inverse theory that all people are not bad. Bob honestly hates this too-trusting quality in himself, and is trying to learn whom to trust, and when to trust them. Eve Arden is one of the nicest, soundest girls in town. She's so well-liked she couldn't make an enemy if she deliberately spit in someone's face. Because she appreciates this affection, she hates her bad memory for names, and lives in constant fear that she'll offend a friend by forgetting what to call him. Eve nas finally trained herself to go off in a corner, whenever possible, to write down the name of a newly-met person. But that routine usually ends up with her going through her purse the next morning, looking at the back of an old envelope and gasping, "Well, for heaven's sake, who on earth is Mr. Piper?" Somehow Mark Stevens is convinced that people don't like you for yourself, but for who you are. His distrust of people is a hangover from a youthful insecurity. "I dislike this feeling of insecurity intensely," he says, "and I have no reason to feel it now. Hollywood has been kind to me." When these moments come over Mark, he literally flees from people. He recently escaped for a week by getting a job at a junk yard in San Pedro, twenty-odd miles from Hollywood. Mark put on his dungarees, packed a tin lunch pail, and reported to work every morning at 7:00. The fellows he worked with liked him because he is a likeable guy; they didn't know who Mark Stevens was. The day they found out he was a movie star, he quit! "I hate myself," says Ann Sothern, "because I can't stay mad." Ann has such a peace-loving nature and well-adjusted mind that thirty minutes after working herself up into a fever of fury, with just cause, she can honestly say. "Now what was I mad about?" "I always lose my point by not being able to stay mad," she confesses. As a result of her natural good humor, people often take advantage of Ann. The gardener who once threw out her imported, prize tulip bulbs because he didn't think they were "important" was given a two-weeks paid vacation a few days later by his forgetful and forgiving boss. Please Don't Ask Me That! Continued from page 47 This, it seemed, was all wrong. They went on disapproving of me until they saw me with the other bridesmaids. We all wore identical pastel organdy dresses. "There! That's better!" they said. "Now you look like everybody else!" So what's a poor girl to do? Well, to get back to the questions. Though it's almost always asked, here's one 111 bet the interviewer wouldn't like personally: "WHAT DO YOU DO WITH ALL YOUR MONEY?" Now, really! It wasn't so hard before I came of age. I just said, offhand-like, "Oh. the Judge keeps it for me!" because as long as I was a minor, the Court had jurisdiction over my salary. But now I have to do the best I can. There isn't any answer because it certainly isn't anybody's business. So I sort of sidestep with an apologetic little laugh and murmur, "After taxes, what do you mean — all my money?" Then the interviewer sometimes leans forward and demands, "NOW TELL ME ABOUT YOUR PRIVATE LIFE!" And what's the answer to that? Truthfully, my private life is very dull copy. I go around with the same crowd here in Glendale that I went around with in grade school and high school. I go dancing and bowling and to the movies; the kids gather here in the living-room and we talk and play games. 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