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A hit in "Farmer Takes a Wife/' Fox cast Fonda in *'Way Down East" with Rochelle Hudson.
THERE ARE a lot of people in Holh'wood who claim that Henry Fonda has had a lot of luck. In the cinema city less than a year, the lad who until recently was merely a producer's gift to the summer stock company, has found himself cast with Janet Gaynor in "The Farmer Takes a Wife," and serving as leading man to Lily Pons diminutive star of the Metropolitan ( )pera. Any
one of the al)Ove assignments would have sent the average leading man ahout town "into the throes." but our Henry seems to have taken it all in stride.
It is easy to believe that the Fonda could easily play the original Bashful Boy. There are plenty of conceited youths in town who have a strong "Ritz" complex and who charge their concentrated aloofness to being that shy. However, it is the belief of those who know him best that Henry really would have plenty to say if he'd bother to put his thoughts into words.
Several years ago he met Margaret Sullavan in New York. He became one of her beaux — the one she'd go
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MEET HENRY FONDA! HOLLYWOOD PREDICTS BIG THINGS FOR HIM
BY MARTHA KERR
to the movies with if the city slicker forgot to phone or if the handsome youth on the fifth floor suddenly remembered that he always took his sister to the movies on Saturday night. Then Henry would get a break. Not that he was ever a male wallflower, mind you. No indeed. There w€re plenty of girls who would have enjoyed his company, but they weren't Margaret Sullavan, so he wasn't intere.sted.
Finally, came their engagement in stock. It was summer stock in a town flooded with moonlight and honeysuckle. The roles were romantic and Miss Sullavan said "Yes" to the sincere youth who had been asking her to marry him for man}' months. After the stock engagement. Margaret went to Chicago in a play and it was from the ^^^indy City that Henry received a wire informing him that he was a free man once again, that the little woman had divorced him. He had no inkling that she had any thought of becoming a divorcee in her pretty head. But who ever has an inkling of what goes on in the Sullavan cranium ?
To say that this was a blow {Continued on pai/c 75)