Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

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entire season. Then Faust and Caprice, with Lunt and Lynne Fontanne. In this latter he was an outstanding hit in New York and London, as well as on tour for two seasons. Next he did Sam Behrman's Meteor (Behrman once told me that he never went to a fashionable party in London at which he did not find Doug conspicuously in attendance), and Many a Slip, in which he again appeared opposite Sylvia Sidney — which gives an idea of his consistent good fortune! Then, Three Years Ago, with the closing of an engagement of summer stock in Baltimore, he decided to vacation in the old home town. He hadn't been West for four years — not since he had sallied forth to battle the theatrical dragons. So he appeared at Edgecliff, to rest, to swim, to read under its magnificent old trees, and hike about in the surrounding hills. To get acquainted with the earth again — the urge which every Californian periodically feels. Too, he wanted to test a theory which slowly had come to him when the Theatre Guild was making its celebrated tours; that the movies are the American theatre of today. All his short life had been packed as tightly as possible with activity pertaining to the footlighted stage. Yet — and it is to be remembered that in the cities which so famous an organization as the Guild plays, it allegedly is the attraction — whenever he was outside New York proper he was faced by the irrefutable evidence of hundreds of movie theatres for every legitimate house. "I began to wonder if perhaps I wasn't affiliated with a dying profession. The crowds all were going to the pictures, and the patronage of the crowd shows the state of an enterprise's condition. I thought 'Am I not too young to be with anything which seems to have had its best day? Shouldn't I, as a young actor, be with the most active theatrical affairs of the period?' "And thinking so, I would look more and more to those huge, glittering signs of the picture palaces, those great gatherings of people — all that magnificence which goes to make the opportunity of the motion picture actor the greatest the world has ever known." But the test ended, for him, in disappointment. He made several pictures, and though he was well received, concluded that pictures were not for him. He went back to the stage, and there he stayed until given the chance to appear opposite his old friend Katharine Hepburn in Little Women. This was an inspiring engagement, in that he considers that she has "the greatest natural talent in the business today" — and he next took the part of the young student in Eight Girls in a Boat, which further clinched Hollywood's opinion of the sincerity and fine articulation of his work. He was an inevitable choice, then, for the role opposite Margaret Sullavan in Little Man, What Now? "Naturally, I'm enthused," he says. "Who wouldn't be, getting such parts? And if I continue to get them, I'll continue to stay here, and gladly. It seems that I may have the chance to do this, what with pictures growing up as amazingly as they have been doing. If not, well, I suppose I'll be off to the races again!" And there, frankly stated, is the credo of one of the most eccentric, talented — and honest — young men in filmdom. Will Hollywood be able to hold him? We shall see — we shall see. JUNE, 1934 HELEN STOPS A WANDERING EYE JOHN I* BRINGING THAT OLD FLA.WE OP Hi* TO DINNER. TOHISHT ANO I «IMPLV CAN'T FACE ANYONE— MV HEAD ACHES SO HEXIN STOPS A THROBBING HEADACHE NOW there is no need to avoid a difficult situation when you feel "below par" — no need to break important engagements on account of ordinary aches and pains. "2 Hexin with water" is a magic phrase to people in pain. It means relief in record time and — above all — SAFE relief. Hexin was originally developed for children. It could not and does not contain any habit-forming drugs. Hexin eases pain safely by relaxing tenseness and nervous strain — by removing the pressure on sensitive nerve ends. Buy Hexin from your druggist in convenient tins containing 12 tablets or economical bottles of 50 and 100 tablets. Send coupon below for free trial size package. HEXIN, Inc. 8 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS I HEXIN, INC., 8 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, III. -*'• » ■" { | Please send me a generous FREE sample of HEXIN. Name _ _ _ [ Street Address.. CUy .Stole.. 51