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By RUTH WATERBURY
I WRITE this with one foot on the gangplank ready to sail for Europe, to see the
Coronation and visit the English movie studios . . . so if this dash of Close Ups and Long Shots sounds ;is though I had an acute case of jitters it will be only too accurate . . . going away, however, is a fine rowdydow . . . it pulls so many things into perspective ....
Take the pictures I've seen this month . . . "A Star is Born" is definitely the finest color picture, the most accurate reflection of the real Hollywood and the finest acted production I've ever seen ... to me, good acting is not acting that makes you conscious of the performance ... I don't like to be aware, as I always am with Charles Laughton, for instance, that the actor is
going to town ... I like to live with the character throughout lh" picture with no awareness of who is playing I he role until it's all over ... 1 did this with .Janet Gaynor and Fredric March in "A Star is Horn" . . . Geepers, how real they were . . . But then I'm a Gaynor fan from way back . . . it's not fashionable in critical circles (up to now) to say little Janet is a consummate actress . . . but I've always thought she was ....
I've never understood why playing disagreeable or eccentric people labeled you great ... it seems obviously so much harder to play a perfectly normal heroine, as Janet has been all her career, and yet make her interesting ....
Weird, though, what a lot of difference casting makes even with fine actors . . . Fredric March in "A Star is Born," relieved of those eternal costume roles of his, becomes a charming human being . . . Loretta Young, tagging up "Love Is News" with "Cafe Metropole," emerges as a real girl, with beauty and allure, instead of the frigid clothes horse her other releases have always made her ....
IT'S tricks like knowing how to present a star which make smart producers and millions of dollars . . . the Hollywood wouldbe-wise guys mutter, "What a gamble Selznick took with Gavnor, what a gamble
Smart showman Darryl Zanuck takes unknowns, casts them in top-notch productions and rarely loses. Newcomers Sonia Henie and Tyrone Power are but two who have made good under this human dynamo