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The scene is where Max and "I" arrive from their strange marriage and get a cool, damp reception from the evil Mrs. Dani-ers. Judith Anderson plays Danvers. All four are bent over a sketch Hitchcock is explaining. He was a draftsman and a civil engineer before he took up making movies. He still draws out every scene before it's shot. "Here is Max," explains Hitchcock, meaning Laurence. "And here is T." "Do you mean me?" asks Joan. "No, I mean 77' winks Hitchcock. "You're 7' from now on." "I'm you," Joan keeps it up. "Funny — we don't look a thing alike!" It sounds like Gracie Allen. VER at RKO-Radio we see Raymond Massey, in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." Massey won extravagant praises of the Broadway stage critics last year. This year he's repeating on the screen. The set we visit is the bedroom of a log cabin where Ann Rutledge (Mary Howard), Abe's only real sweetheart, lies dying. Massey is a startling reincarnation of the young Lincoln. He has the long, loose face; a built-up nose is about the only make-up addition. Everyone speaks in whispers. Mary Howard lies in a giant bed. A microphone is concealed in the pillow to catch her expiring whispers. "All right, Abe" whispers Director John Cromwell. Massey, awkward, gangling, but intense, steals across the floor and kneels at her bed in silence. You could hear a pin drop. Tenderly, Mary strokes his lank hair and says — (we can barely hear her) "come close to me. I've wanted you so much." You can see the hope rise on Massey's — we mean, Lincoln's face. Though Ann Rutledge is dying, the important thing is that at last she loves him. This moment will be his forever. He is almost happy. Then as she turns to die she says, "John." His name isn't John. She has never loved him. And the next expression of Mr. Raymond Massey's face is probably why he is a great actor. The cameras hold it long after the scene should be cut. There still isn't a whisper on the set. "First Kiss" is the title Darryl Zanuck has picked to launch his seventeenyear-old wonder girl, Linda Darnell, on a starring career. The idea is that Linda has a husband, Tyrone Power, who likes to cheat on dates with his secretary, Wendy Barrie. So, to find out what secretaries have that wives haven't, Linda gets herself a secretary's job with Warren William. They all step out in a foursome one night and the big blow-off arrives. Director Gregory (Accent) Ratoff is having a little trouble with Linda, today, though. She's never worked with Ty before and she has the jitters. Before she played Cinderella at TC-F, Tyrone Power was her dream man and the idea of actually making love to him on the screen is much too much. But the antics of Ratoff snap her out of it. There's a dog, Zero, who figures in the plot of "First Kiss." The scene we see is supposed to be Ty coming in late at night and tripping over Zero. But Ratoff decides that the pup will take too much time getting himself ready to be tripped over. "I'm goink to be playink de dahg!" he announces. "A great pufahmance. Watch!" Well, probably neither Linda nor Ty nor us nor anyone has ever seen anything quite like the sight of Gregory Ratoff on his hands and knees, woofing and ki-yi-ing as Ty Power kicks him in the ribs and tumbles. It's sights like these that keep alive our faith in Hollywood as a screwball community! The Zanuck fall picture boom at Twentieth Century-Fox is just getting under way with "Swanee River," Don Ameche's attempt to bring the sad but tuneful story of Stephen Foster to the screen; "Everything Happens at Night," Sonja Heme's new ice epic; Alice Faye in a modern version of "Little Old New York," and Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," which goes ahead any day, now. DUT the major attraction for us at Twentieth is Shirley Temple, in Maurice Maeterlinck's fantasy, "The Blue Bird," in Technicolor, which has practically monopolized production facilities at TC-F. Shirley is playing a mean self-centered, quite nasty little girl (who reforms in the end, of course). She has that dangerous little picturestealer, Sybil Jason, with her, too. Also, for the first time, a very cute child, younger and smaller than herself, one Johnny Russell. All in all, Shirley must watch her P's & Q's here. Shirley is being her most villainous when we arrive on the set. But she's having a swell time. Because after every naughty take all her camera crew make terrible faces and go — "S-s-ss-s-s! S-s-s-s-s!" Shirley thinks the hissing is swell. It's a new experience, and she giggles with glee. Shirley and Johnny Russell are supposed to be wolfing their Christmas Eve supper — a very savory stew. But the scene just shows them starting in. 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