Motion Picture (Aug 1935-Jan 1936)

call but proved to be a thunderbolt. "Marc Connelly wants to talk to Fonda." Fonda returned from the phone. "He wants to see me right away about the part in The Farmer," he reported, trying — without marked success — not to be excited. The others didn't even try ! Rehearsal was promptly dismissed, and Fonda went to see Connelly. /^ONNELLY put the young actor ^ through no nerve-racking inquisition. Taking one look at him, he asked : "Like me to read you the first act? — give you an idea of what it's all about? Then you can read it." Seated quietly in a chair, he began reading. Presently, he was on his feet, moving about the room, going through the gestures, transforming printed words into flesh and blood. Connelly finished and handed the script to the actor. "Let's hear you do it." Fonda read half a page. "O.K.," said Connelly, picking up the phone and calling Max Gordon, the producer. "Henry Fonda's coming in tomorrow," he told him, "to sign a contract." Between that time and the opening night in New York, Fonda did what be could to keep himself from getting excited. "You may lose the part in rehearsal," he reminded himself sternly. "You may be a flop." Even when the curtain fell on the final performance, he wasn't sure that he hadn't been a flop. The audience had been kind, but most first-night audiences were. What would the critics say? He went with some friends to a place around the corner, where they waited till Bide Dudley, a radio reviewer, came on the air at midnight. Hearts in their mouths, they listened. "Not so hot," pronounced Mr. Dudley in effect. "And that's that," thought Fonda, departing for home and bed. "^"EXT morning, at eight, he was ■^ aroused by the phone. "Congratulations !" sang an exultant voice. "What about?" he inquired, still drugged with sleep. "Haven't you seen the papers?" To cut the story short, Mr. Bide Dudley had constituted a minority of exactly one. "The others liked us," was Mr. Fonda's way of putting it. The others, as a matter of fact, caroled hymns of unrestrained praise, with particular attention to the new leading man. In rapid succession, a series of events followed. Fonda was signed to the movies by Walter Wanger, Fox bought the play and borrowed Fonda for the role he'd created, the first rushes brought raves from within the studio, the first previews, from without. By the time this appears, you'll probably be raving yourself. Fonda, hustled straight from The Farmer into Way Down East, remains the modest, level-headed person he's shown himself throughout. Though success has "hit him square in the face," he's still afraid to believe it, afraid to let himself get excited over it. So much the better. He doesn't have to get excited. For everybody who sees him act is going to get excited for him ! Gains of 10 to 25 pounds in just a few weeks reported by users! FIRST PACKAGE MUST INCREASE WEIGHT OR THE TRIAL *tw! 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