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WHAT THE FANS THINK
The Academy medal for the best performance of 1935 should be awarded to Bette Davis, according to Gordon Sellett.
The Perfect Bad Girl.
I HAVE read Rose Salyman's letter in March Picture Play about Bette Davis. She must have a personal grudge against Miss Davis to talk like that. In her heart she must know that the Academy medal for the best performance of 1935 should go to Bette. If she is a high-hat, conceited snob, that belongs to her private life. Her acting is paramount.
Search the world over and where
Mrs. George Seeley places Gene Raymond in the class of modern youth of the newer and more dignified sensible brand.
could you find a girl to play the mean, sniveling, common little Mildred in "Of Human Bondage"? Bette played the role magnificently. There isn't an adjective in all the dictionaries to describe such perfect acting. The cockney accent, the whining to have her own way, her infuriated outbursts o'f temper, the sickening, pinched expression on her little face, her vulgar invectives. And in the end did she not show to perfection a woman sunk to the very lowest depths of degradation? Marvelous, Bette ! If the American movie public is fair, they will see to it that you receive the 1935 Academy award for such acting. Keep on playing the bad, bad girl, Bette. No one can play her as you do. You play her so sincerely and
Two Pennsylvanians have only pity
for Paul Boring who referred to
Shirley Temple as an "insignificant
and fatuous mite.'
relentlessly that opposite the charming Leslie 1 Inward in "Of Tinman Bondage." the real Bette Davis was dead and buried. There only lived Mildred with her cheap and salacious little mind. Yen gave us no sordid exterior with a refined nature. Your interpretation of the character had a heart ami soul as mean and low as the exterior, and that is superb and masterful acting. Bette. You have marvelous courage to attempt such r61es. You are all too magnificent for mere words. I rl IRDON Si I I 111'.
561 Twent\ -first Street,
Wesl New York. New Jersey.
Jane Withers will outshine all child
stars if given the right stories, says
Mrs. Maria E. Westbrook.
An Adorable Imp.
WK went to see "Bright Eyes" because Shirley Temple was in it, and came out talking about that adorable imp, Jane Withers, a comedienne as marvelous as I have ever seen. She actually makes you forget you went to sec Shirley, for when she appears on the screen, which isn't often enough, you can't see an) one but Jane. Where has she been while the producers have been crying for another Shirley? This youngster
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if they give her
Marie Dailey is so enthusiastic about
Dick Powell because he always lilts
through his songs as though he
really enjoyed singing.