Modern Screen (Dec 1938 - Nov 1939 (assorted issues))

MODERN SCREEN Ann, "arid let the pennies take care of themselves! I'm not extravagant about clothes. I didn't buy a rag all last summer. I do sort of go haywire over shoes and hats. I'm always buying hats which sit on shelves because I have nothing to wear with them. "It's things for the house that drain my purse. For instance, I am an antique addict — old Adam pieces, Chippendale, Waterford glass and the like are my. vices. But even where my passions are concerned I'm fairly shrewd. For instance, I recently ordered, from New Orleans, a Waterford cut crystal chandelier for our dining-room. But did I have it delivered to Ann Sothern, Beverly Hills? Not so. I had it addressed to Harriette Lake (my real name) . address somewhere on Main Street. And down to Main Street I went to pick it up, thus saving myself the fat little "overhead" which is the curse of all screen stars. Yes, I have my little softnesses but I'm not a sucker! ''Nor,''' continued Ann, self-appraisingly, "am I sentimental. I am sentimental about children, dogs, cats, birds, but I'm not sentimental about old dance programs, a faded rose leaf here and there. I think that sort of thing is cluttery and silly. On the other hand, I am a saver-upper of stills from all my old pictures. I have all of them up in the attic. That doesn't really come under the head of sentiment — they'll be good for some laughs in our old age." Nor is Ann superstitious, she continued. Give her a swell part in a swell story and she'd start any picture on Friday, the 13th. The other day she broke "the biggest mirror in the world," at Elizabeth Ardens, and all she said was, "The heck with it. I don't believe it!" "I have a sense of humor," she said, but gratefully, "which should be Mother's little helper. I have, thank goodness, the kind which enables me to laugh at myself. There's never a time when I can't say to myself, 'Come on, Toots, let's face it. Why are you so important?' "I may look the playful type," grinned Ann, "bin boy, when I work, I work. I study. I'm in bed at the right time. I worry, I lose weight. On the first day, I just plain die. "Even between pictures I'm not exactly a bon vivant's idea of a good time Answers to Quiz on Page I I 1. Ronald Colman. 2. Francis. 3. Louella Parsons. 4. "The S+or Maker." 5. Ellen Drew. 6. Roger Pryor's. 7. May Robson. 8. Director Rouben Mamoulian. 9. Daisy. 10. Annabella. 11. Raymond Massey. 12. "The Blue Angel." 13. Jack Benny. 14. "On Borrowed Time." 15. Champion. 16. Tyrone Power and Annabella. 17. Marlene Dietrich in "Destry Rides Again. 18. Priscilla Lane. 19. llona Massey. 20. "The Rains Came." 21. Cliff Edwards. 22. Joan Crawford. gal. If Roger and I go to the Troc once in six months we're dissipating. We like to stay home and have people here. We play a lot of bridge. We do a lot of talking, just the two of us. My husband," said Ann, with proper pride, "is a very stimulating person, knows all about political matters and things I don't read up on and we discuss 'em. I've become a rabid horticulturist." Here Ann waved a hand at her chaise-longue table, "See all the Garden Books. I've already ordered three hundred and fifty tulip bulbs from Holland for next Spring's planting. Well, I don't lay claim to being one of those stable, folksy folks, but at least I try not to be the dizzy dame type and cause the publicity department to work nights keeping my name out of the scandal sheets. I'M not what you'd call moody. With me, it's entirely up or very down. When I'm down, I'm downer than anyone you ever saw I hope. When I'm down, it's usually about my work. I get dark, blue periods thinking that I can't act, I don't know how to act, I'll never act again. Writers get the same 'going stale' periods, I know, and the only way to work out of them is just to sit down and write or stand up and act, just do whatever it is you do. "And I guess that about does it," said Ann, planting her small feet firmly on the floor. "Now let's go downstairs and look at a lovely old piece I bought yesterday. I sit and look at the things in our house like one in a trance. You should see Roger giving an imitation of me staring, hypnotized, at my possessions." On the way down the lovely, winding stairway, Ann said, "I'm worried because of that old Bogeyman, Bad Parts. I'm divinely happy, of course I am, but I know that happiness is something that doesn't just 'stay put,' like a chair or a picture hung on the wall. It's something you've got to keep on wooing, every hour of your life. I've signed a contract but contracts have clauses. I've 'come back' today but there's always tomorrow. 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