Hollywood (1938)

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Hope doesn't speak of her artistic triumphs on the operatic stage of this country and Europe. She could, if she'd lay aside her modesty for an hour or so, tell about the time all France did her honor following her appearance with the Opera Comique in Paris. If she displayed any of the tendencies of the typical Hollywood show-off she'd let you gaze upon the medal the French government bestowed upon her as its award for artistic merit. And a similar medal that the Italian government pinned upon her as its award for artistic achievement. Then, if you were still unconvinced about her reception in foreign countries, she could describe the high honors she received from the Belgian government. But about all these awards and triumphs and honors showered upon her both here and abroad she's as voluble as the Sphinx. ■ But get her to go back to the very beginning of her operatic career and she's off in a cloud of verbal dust! "If anyone had come to me," she says, "when I was starring in the silents and prophesied that some day I would be singing grand opera I would have thought that he was a mental case and yelled for the police! I was doing well in pictures and as time went on I hoped to do better. The pay was good, the hours satisfactory, and better yet, I was learning how to be temperamental! You may not know it but you weren't classified as a good actress in the silent days unless you threw a tem permental fit at least once a day. Well, after a few lessons I was getting so I could throw fits all over the place and I felt that given time I would throw bigger and better ones and so crowd myself into the select group of the Triple-A classification. But as for my voice — well, if I sang loud enough I was fairly certain that I could be heard in every corner of a moderately sized parlor providing the neighbors kept quiet. But as for ever attempting grand opera — why, the idea wasn't even good enough to win a polite laugh." | Now that's the way Hope starts out as she describes the first halting steps that eventually led her to the operatic stage, and far be it from us to doubt this famous little lady's word. "I would never have forsaken the screen but for one thing," she says. "Personal appearances!" It took us a full five minutes to recover from that one because a movie star these days would be glad to cut off your right arm rather than go on these personal appearance tours. For the simple reason that the word has gotten around that a tour of this sort usually means to those on the inside that you're definitely on the 'way out.' "But in the good old days," Hope reveals, "it was the exact opposite. You simply didn't rate unless you toured the sticks and it finally got so that I was making more personal appearances than pictures. And thoroughly enjoying it." Hope's first hint that she might have something better than a parlor singing voice came during a tour of the Loew circuit with one of her pictures. "I've forgotten the title but it was either Lawful Larceny or Love's Penalty," she says. "In any event the title was just as bad as the picture, but we were sent on tour with it. After it was shown, the usual routine was to come out on the stage and smile our prettiest at the audience Sigrid Gurie, vacationing on Lake Arrowhead after finishing Algiers and before starting The Daring Age. Her crew is named Rolf, and he is a prize winning Great Dane 40 MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT