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They Say in NEW YORK
Photo by Arme
Jeanette MacDonald arrived to play
in "The Cat and the Fiddle" with
Ramon Novarro.
IT must seem pretty dull to Jeanette MacDonald in New York. No scurrilous magazine articles to make her sue for libel as she did in Paris, bringing out the fact that a writer who had never met her had thought he was merely heing funny when he 1 masted of a close acquaintance, to 1 'lit it mildly. No tumultuous audiences to hear her on their shoulders as she comes mu of a concert. No hint of a royal scandal that persists in spite of the fact that Jeanette was not even in Europe when it was supposed to have occurred.
Life in New York, in a terrace apartment in the Ambassador Hotel far above the noises of the streets, is complicated only by the plaintive looks of Captain, the huge English sheep dog, and Stormy Weather, her Skye terrier, who want her to get going toward Hollywood and big yards to play in.
Interviewers in general, and tin one in particular, do
not get much from Miss MacDonald. She answers every question gravely and earnestly and as stolidly as if a lawyer had rehearsed her for an appearance on a witness stand. But don't blame her for that. Blame the pitiless spotlight that has all too frequently misrepresented her.
She stands in the very top rank of sought-after players, but it would be my guess that essentially she has changed little since she first came from Philadelphia. She says she has changed. She says that any one who goes into theatrical life hardens because of the continual fight between artists and business men.
To the casual acquaintance she seems sedate, almost prim, rather than hard. Just a nice girl. But I do wish she'd either marry her manager. Bob Ritchie, or break her engagement to him. People are beginning to call her "The Perennial Fiancee."
Traveler's Return. — Norma Shearer came back to New York after her European vacation, well rested and a little anxious about the effect of having let a year lapse since. she made a picture. She got back just in time to celebrate her birthday, and she looked as young as she did when she was posing for commercial artists years ago, hut a lot prettier.
She exhibited her young son with a great deal of pride. 1 le's very good-looking — gets his looks from her, but she says that he inherits his father's talent. She was hurrying hack to Hollywood with two good vehicles.
Lona Andre hopes to make the public forget that she won that Panther Woman contest when she is seen in a merry musical.