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Joan Crawford greets old friend, James Hart, at dinner party. She's looking for Broadway play.
Danny Kaye and his wife, Sylvia Fine, arriving at Paris Theatre for N. Y. premiere of "Hans Christian Andersen."
ON BROADWAY
tinue to find their way into print. In an exclusive interview via long-distance telephone, the star of the recent "Sudden Fear" suspense film explained how she feels about returning as a star to the New York stage (she was a dancing dolly named Lucille Le Sueur in Shubert Broadway musicals before going to Hollywood). "Nothing would delight me more," said Joan, "than to find a play I can star in and tour the countryside with before facing the New York drama critics. I haven't found the right script yet, but I will, someday!" Olivia de Havilland and Ginger Rogers understand more than anyone else why Joan won't rush into an acting role in a stage play. They learned the hard way that a Hollywood star needs a
fine script and topnotch director more than fancy duds and a movie "name."
Hollywood's Tyrone Power and Broadway's Earl Blackwell (President of Celebrity Service) have been friends ever since the time both arrived in Hollywood, fresh, young and eager for a screen career. Ty Power's movie stardom is legendary and although Earl Blackwell's film career included a few minor efforts, he returned to New York and became internationally famous himself as "Mr. Celebrity" of Celebrity Service. In the early Hollywood days, when William Wyler gave Ty his first bit part, a three-line role in "Tom Brown Of Culver" (which starred Richard
Cromwell and Tom Brown), Ty and Earl were sitting at separate tables in the studio commissary when Power threw a sugar doughnut across the dining room to attract Earl's attention so that he could tell him the good news. Earl wished him luck and the rest is screenland history. Instead of a telegram or an opening night present when Tyrone Power, returning to the stage (with Raymond Massey and Judith Anderson), opened in "John Brown's Body" at the nearby Academy of Music in Brooklyn, Blackwell dispatched a sugar doughnut to Power's dressing room with a note saying, "I've been waiting a long time to throw this darn thing back at you. Good luck, once again, tonight!" RKO's sultry (continued on pace 701
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