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WE
COVER
THE STUDIOS
BY JAMES REID
WITH flu germs to the right of us, flu germs to the left of us but our duty before us. we have covered the studios.
Pardon us while we take another pill and ease the mustard plaster a bit more to the left.
The doctor tells us that we have the choicest collection of bacteria that he has seen in Hollywood all winter. He's telling us! As if we didn't know that it isn't everybody who could manage to be around Robert Taylor and Olivia de Havilland and Clark Gable and Errol Fl\ nn and Ida Lupino and — name your favorite star — just when they were beginning to run temperatures
Never have we seen such a month! Never has Hollywood seen such a month!
If you remember, the original movie settlers trekked westward so that they could work th; year, around in warm sunshine. And the bright blue California sky has been wearing a Stepin Fetchit complexion, because of a smudge pall from the orange groves The weather has been as frosty as the outside of a mint julep. The flu epidemic has been just an appropriate topper.
But why brood about dark days and stuffy heads? The world is crying for romance and advent u e and entertainment. (That's always a consolation.) The show must go on. The show does go on. Colorful, exciting, amusing, infinite in its variety. Like its players.
At RKO-Radio, there is one show that is going on, and on, and on, and there is nothing that the studio can do about it. The Front Office can't hurry up the director, if he doesn't want to be hurried, because the director owns the screen rights to the story. And he refuses to be hurried. He insists on taking a scene twenty-four times, if he doesn't like the first twenty-three "takes." (Executives are swooning in droves.)
The name of the picture is " The Woman I Love." The name of the director is Anatole Litvak. The names of the stars are Paul Muni and Miriam Hopkins. There is a romantic interest between Mr. Litvak and Miss Hopkins. She interested him in Hollywood, and he interested her in a role in his first Hollywood picture.
Arc you surprised to find Paul Muni in a picture entitled "The Woman I Love"? So, undoubtedly, is Mr. Muni. When he started in it, the title was "Escadrille." A single word, easy to say, easy to remember, not to be confused with the title of any other picture, and endowed with a certain amount of foreign appeal. But no come-on, apparently.
Muni, true to Muni form, is unlike anything he has been before. He wears a short, bristly beard and the uniform of a pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille, the French aviation unit in the World War. He is a friendless, bitterly sensitive man who
Miriam Hopkins with Director Litvak and Louis Hayward in the Ferris wheel that caused her such terror. Middle, Ann Sothern and Don Ameche have lots of fun in "Fifty Roads to Town" but Gable has to watch his step (note the white line) with Myrna Loy on the "Parnell" set, M-G-M
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