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“THE BLACK ONE” T uise Rainer’s elfin personality is 1-4 the strangest and most delightful that Hollywood has given us for a long time. And Hollywood itself is not quite certain what to make of her. To begin with, when the momentous day on which she was to start work on her first American film, " Escapade." was onlv a week away, she got into her car and went off on a vagabond holiday, a tour of exploration which took her into Mexico, leaving studio officials tearing their hair. By all precedent, she should have been tearing her own hair and suffering from a severe attack of nervous prostration at the thought of what was ahead. But not Luise. She was even strange to her own parents, who at times could not understand her—her father used to call her “ The Black One " when she was in one of her inscrutable moods. He was a merchant, wealthy until Luise was sixteen, when the family fortune faded and Luise had to work. She chose the stage without hesitation. Two years later Max Reinhardt engaged her. For three years she appeared in a wide variety of roles, almost all heavily dramatic, however, ranging from Shakespeare to Piran- dello and Ibsen, and was acclaimed as a genius. Then came M.-G.-M.'s offer of a contract. She accepted—and started to learn English. She arrived in Hollywood with her Scottie, “ Johnny." She sings, dances, paints, plays the piano; she swims, plays tennis and hockey, and is keen on flying And her energy and enthusiasm are unbounded. She has no special beauty fads—she follows no diet, eats whenever she feels hungry and whatever she feels like eating. THE BUSY BARITONE CuBSTITUTING for another singer at a concert in San Diego first brought Nelson Eddy to the screen. Hunt Stromberg, the producer, was there, and signed him to a contract straight away. Yet it was two years before Nelson Eddy scored his sensational screen hit in “ Naughty Marietta." For Stromberg, having signed him, had nothing suitable for him to do. Meanwhile, however, he was not idle. He had done two jobs ever since he began to earn his living, and was used to working twelve and fourteen hours a day. So his spare time he spent in mastering the complexities of sound recording. Serious though he is, he has a great sense of fun. He lives with his mother and his sheepdog, Sheba, a gift from Jeanette MacDonald, in a house which is flanked by those occupied by Gladys Swarthout and Lawrence Tibbett. His close friends are Frank Morgan and W. S. Van Dyke, the director, both of whom are musical. He has none of the opera singer's complexes about diet, drinking, smoking and exercise. He eats what he likes, has an occasional drink when he wants one, smokes a pipe, plays tennis, rides horseback, and thoroughly enjoys sailing. If he had to be a mollycoddle to be a singer, he says, he would stop singing. 0