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BROADWAY WHICH USED TO SCOFF AT HOLLYWOOD HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY ITS STARS. MANY WERE SUCH HITS THAT HOLLYWOOD, SHOWING NEW INTEREST, CALLED THEM BACK. BUT BROADWAY CONTINUES TO BE INVADED
|OST spirited rivalry in America's amusement world today is that of Broadway theatres vying for public favor under the palpitating names of Hollywood. The largest division in the parade past the footlights the past season was that of motion picture stars. When the curtain rings up this Fall still more of the cinema great will take up stage assignments of saying "I love you," convincingly, yf impersonating all kinds of characters persuasively, getting off a wisecrack without too much effort.
Here and there will be a few who will shake a leg or a torso in the South American way. There are some pretty clever persons in Hollywood, says Broadway, getting down off its condescending perch.
More than a score of screen stars have had their names neoned across the Broadway front in the past year. In practically every case they had something definite to offer those who go down to see — and hear — in plush seats. Not always was it a good play, but invariably it was an arresting personality.
If Broadway — the new Broadway of fruit juice stands, chain stores and barkers — has been more exciting, more colorful in recent months it has been due largely to their efforts. A large number of the movie stars can point to a Broadway background, for it was discovered some years back that a Broadway background, with its knowldge of pace and tempo, its development of poise and self-confidence, was useful to the screen. Many of them were troupers on and off Broadway before the movies were anything but flickers that hurried the wearing of spectacles in the young.
Only this last season Harry Carey, perennial cowboy of the films, came back to the stage after an absence of decades, renewed his theatre youth in a thing called Heavenly Express. The express came to a quick stop, but Carey was not discouraged. He is traveling on to Skowhegan, Maine's summer haven of Thespis, there to advise his stage-struck son and per haps do a chore or two himself on the boards.