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By RUTH WATERBURY
THOUGHTS of an editor vacationing in Europe ... I believed I knew about the power of the word '"'Hollywood" but I didn't really until I got over here . . . you have only to announce that you come from the place to find yourself invested with an automatic glamour and turned instantly into a question and answer department. . . .
Coronation Day in London with its banners flying vividly against the steady downpour of rain . . I sat and watched the crowds going up to the temporary newsstands erected in the various stands and buying books on Shirley Temple . . . there were other things to buy there . . . magazines, novels, newspapers . . but hundreds bought a sixpence booklet on Shirley to one who bought a newspaper . . . Coronation night at the very chic Savoy . . . everyone in carnival mood
... a table of English musical comedy stars near-by . . . the crowd asked them to sing, which they did, but what the crowd called for were song hits from American musical comedies . . . said one of the comedians, Jack Hurlbut, climbing up on his chair and waving a champagne glass, "Ladies and Gentlemen today we have seen a spectacle that Hollywood could not surpass". . . .
I LEFT London to get away from the
Coronation crowds and visited Windsor
Castle . . . sitting in the dining room where
Charles the Second had so often had his
meals, walking beneath the balcony from
which Anne Boleyn had looked out across
the gardens, strolling about the courtyard
where Elizabeth had watched her horses
being groomed ... it was the past, completely
peopled with ghosts until a voice somewhere in
the servants quarters of the palace began singing
"Pennies from Heaven". . . .
At Oxford staying overnight at a hotel more than six hundred years old and the little maid who brought breakfast begging my pardon with much blushing and stammering but oh, miss, could I please tell her was Clark Gable really going to marry Carole Lombard. . . .
I muttered to myself that I was on vacation . . . fed up on movie stars, bored with the very idea of Hollywood ... so my chauffeur drove me further and further away from the cities . . . into the tiny English towns . . . through what the English call "the black country" meaning the ugly industrial cities of the north . . . but there were the cinemas . . . Joan Crawford in [please turn to page 94]
"I want to get away from it all," said Miss Waterbury when she sailed for Europe. But did sne? William K. Howard, who's directing Tamara Desni, right, in 'The Sgueaker" is but one of the many Hollywoodians she met up with in Lunnontown
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