Modern Screen (Jul-Dec 1945)

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Like the one where she leans against a pillar, looking beautiful and queenly as all get out, and says in her throaty, dramatic voice, "I'm the loneliest woman in the world!" The young officer looks at her with his eyes practically popping out of his head in sympathetic excitement. He says droolingly (honest, that's the only way to describe it!), "Oh, your Majesty!" That's all, but it used to kill Tallulah. She'd shriek with laughter and say "Darling, do it again! It's so wonderful, I can't bear it!" royal chase . . . Then there was the scene where he tossed her into a wastebasket. That's when he has just found out that she has been trifling with his young affections, and his ego is smashed to small and painful fragments. He advances toward her, retaliation in his eyes, and the czarina sees what's coming and runs like hell. He chases her all over the palace, and when he finally catches her, he picks her up and heaves her into the wastebasket. "The greatest actress on earth," he told his friends in awed embarrassment, "and I'm chasing her through corridors and tossing her into wastebaskets." He gave her a little souvenir of one of their scenes together. The one where Bill says menacingly, "I'm going to send you where you'll never see a man again. No men, your Majesty! East or West, North or South, no men!" Bill sent her a silver compass mounted on a heart, with the inscription "Your Majesty, no men!" Bill wears tights in "A Royal Scandal." The costume of white and gold blouse and tights and boots is fantastically becoming to his lean, dark good looks. But the tights proved a definite hazard when he was chasing Tallulah. They split up the back! Bill could feel them going but there wasn't a thing he could do about it except back hastily off the set. Everyone ran around witn needles and tape and pins and got him looking respectable again. He started toward Tallulah once more, cameras grinding, and this time the damn tights split' up the front! It was very funny — for everyone but Bill! There was a young soldier on the set who had just returned from a couple of years in the South Pacific. He came up to Bill afterward and said fervently, "Gee, thanks, Mr. Eythe! That's the first time I've laughed in twenty -five months!" "Come in anytime," Bill said helpfully. "Always glad to oblige, if the supply of tights holds out." proof positive . . . "A Royal Scandal" convinced any doubters there might be left in Hollywood that this Eythe was headed for stardom. There are probably some people who are not pleased about this. Bill is too outspoken, too much of a law unto himself, to achieve great popularity in a town as governed by gossip as the cinema capital. He does as he pleases, not because he is trying to establish a reputation as a "character" but because he is essentially too lazy to change his habits. "Colonel Effingham's Raid," his most recent picture, was exciting to make because there were so many accomplished actors and actresses in it. Joan Bennett, Charles Coburn, Allan Joslyn, Donald Meek. Donald used to throw them all into hysterics by wandering around, very dead pan, with an enormous picture of a monkey, saying politely, "Will you autograph your picture for me?" Joan was swell to work with. Neve: pulled any heavy star stuff, laughed a herself all the time. One night when the: were all cold and exhausted after a particularly hard day's work on location, Bil was sitting in Joan's trailer, feeling lik the end of the world. Joan, taking makeu; off her lovely face with cold cream, stopperabruptly and leaned forward to surve; herself dramatically in the mirror. "Twinkle, twinkle, little star! What i silly jerk you are!" she declaimed. It broke Bill up. He laughed till he wa sick. After that they both felt fine. They used real soldiers in the last par of the picture where the young reporte: played by Bill, enlists in the Army. On of the soldiers approached Bill. "Uh — Mr. Eythe, would you please giv me your autograph?" Bill beamed happily. "Oh, you don really want my autograph," he said, wit all the phony modesty of a chorus gir accepting her first mink coat, "I'm nc much of an actor." "Oh, I know that," said the soldier earn estly. "But after all, you are in picturesAfter "Colonel Effingham's Raid" wd finished, Bill went on a sort of cross • country tour, making personal appearance and doing a bit of radio work. Radio ^ a medium which turns the brash M, Eythe into a quivering jelly-fish. E. stands in front of the microphone, and hi hand shakes so much that the script he, holding is just a blur in front of his eyes "In the theater, you can gauge yot performance by the audience's reaction he explains. "In pictures, if it isn't rigl: it can be re-shot. But on the radio, yc talk into that damned little mike, and fc, all you know what comes out of people radios may sound like Mortimer Snerd! There are a couple of words which \ invariably muffs if they come up in tl script. One is "interested" which he car pronounce at all unless he says slowly arj solemnly — "in-ter-es-ted." The other j "executive." He encountered that in h script on the Paula Stone program whe i he was guest-starring. He saw it coming ] couple of paragraphs away and cast H agonized glance at Paula, who hadn't tl least idea what was wrong with him. SI smiled sweetly, encouragingly. Bill we on, in the manner of a victim approachii the guillotine. When he finally arriv< at "executive," he pronounced it (a) e: exretive, (b) exelutive, and — finally, wi triumph, "ex-ec-u-tive." It slowed t^ program up a bit, but you can't ha everything! plug happy . . . In Chicago, he guest-starred on t Breakfast Hour, which is MC'd by D. McNeil. Don is a great guy, and he ga Bill quite a build-up as they began. B he ended his eulogy by saying, "Bill Eyt! who is currently appearing in 'A Rom Scandal.' " Bill plucked at his slee^ "Royal," he hissed. Don looked at hi blankly; Bill took over the microphor "I hate to start out in a negative manne he said, "but the film is named A RoV Scandal.' " "Oh," Don repeated, "A Ron Scandal!" "This," Bill announced, "shot' get me a raise at Twentieth. Three pbJ instead of one!" His next project, which is already unc way, is a picture about the FBI. Llo Nolan is to be in it, too. Part of it is be made in Washington, and the rest New York. Bill has taken a small apa ment in New York, and is happily boui ing around from one theater to anoth in between work on the picture. It is be semi-documentary in nature, and based on Ambassador Dodd's diary. I plays a kid who is sent by the FBI Germany before the war to assimil, German technique and plans. He abso: