A Lost Lady (Warner Bros.) (1934)

Barbara Stanwyck Thinks kame Largely Due to Luck Success Will Not Come Without Hard Work, However, Says Star Of ‘Lost Lady’ By BARBARA STANWYCK (Star of the First National picture, ‘‘A Lost Lady,”’ based on Willa Cather’s novel now showing at the ............... Theatre) "VE often been asked, by various people, whether I had any rules for success in motion pictures. I don’t believe there are any rules for suecess, on the sereen or any where else. There is so much luck in success of any kind that, after you have laid down all the rules that are supposed to be reliable, the ultimate result still remains a gamble. Julius Rosenwald, the great Chicago industrialist and philanthropist remarked, shortly before his death, that suecess in business was 95% luck. That is one of the few rules that I would apply to success in almost any line. More important than so-called ‘‘rules for success,’’? it seems to me, are the things worth remembering and practicing so _ that, when you get up in the morning, whether you’re a suecess or not, you eanlook yourself and other people in the eye and be satisfied that you’ve done your best. Perhaps the most important thing is to be honest with yourself and toward your work. It’s of the utmost importance on the screen, beeause if you don’t believe completely in what you are doing you can’t make your audience believe it, either. Along with that goes the willingness to work as hard as may be necessary to accomplish what you set out to do. Hard work of . itself won’t lead infallibly to sue BARBARA STANWYCK Mat No. 18 10c¢ cess, but success was never attained without hard work. Working and loafing are both habits and one is as easy to cultivate as the other. Be able to recognize a mistake when you have made one, but don’t let it worry you too much. Correct it and go on. If you want constructive eriticism, listen to the people who are working with you and around you. That’s especially true in a studio. You’ll get reactions from electricians, grips, property men, hairdressers and wardrobe mistresses that are priceless because they are spontaneous and genuine. No matter how you may feel, make a point of always looking your best. It will have a surprising effect on your feelings in the long run. Most of what I: have said will apply, I believe, to almost any form of human activity. One may follow them all and miss success. But at least, one can have a eertain amount of happiness and selfsatisfaction. As for myself, I give every pieture the best I have and then trust to luck for the outcome. I do all I can to coax Lady Luck around. And I am gure all suecessful players do that. I watched Frank Morgan, Riceardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, Phillip Reed, Hobart Cavanaugh and others while making my latest picture, ‘‘A Lost Lady.’’ Everyone worked indefatigably for the success of the picture. The same goes for Director Alfred E. Green, the cameramen, props and everyone connected with the picture. That’s one thing everyone does in making a film production. They work, and work hard. —— oS Barbara Stanwyck Is Busiest Actress Acting or ‘‘ between pictures,’’ Barbara Stanwyck, star of the First National production, ‘‘A Lost Lady,’’ which comes to the ene eat Rae Theatreones, is the busiest actress in Hollywood. She is up every morning at six — her adopted son Dion sees to that — and personally superintends the daily routine of her home, devoting hours every week to her unheralded philanthropies. A certain amount of time every day is given over to the consideration of stories, novels and plays which have been referred to her as possible screen vehicles. An expert swimmer and an ardent cyclist, Miss Stanwyck relies on these two forms of exercise to keep her physically fit. Her own swimming pool and a bicycle track which she and her husband, Frank Fay, have recently added to their Brentwood estate gives her ample opportunity to indulge in her favorite sports. Mat No. America's Favorite 4—-20¢ Barbara Stanwyck Her real name is Ruby Stevens. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, in July 1907, of Scotch-Irish parentage. Her earliest ambition was to become a missionary, and she studied industriously for such a career, deserting it to seek fame as a dancer. Her first position was in the chorus of a New York revue. From an important role in the play, ““Burlesque,’ stage roles. ° she graduated to leading She married Frank Fay, the actor, and they settled in California, where Barbara was launched upon her screen caree?, speedingly rising to stardom as an exceptional emotional actress. Her current picture is “A Lost Lady,’ which comes to the Ra ae Theatré*ons #722... 6 ec Barbara Stanwyck Never Went In For Hollywood’s Social Whirl Star Of “A Lost Lady’? Eschews Film Colony’s ‘Big Shots’—Picks ‘Wrong People’ ARBARA Stanwyek is nice to the wrong people. Her best friends in Hollywood are not the ‘‘big shots’’ of the film industry. She has fought stubbornly, sometimes bitterly, with those who could, presumably, do her career the most good. Her friends, and she has more than most, have been chosen almost exclusively from among the ‘‘unimportant”’ people of Hollywood. They say she is ‘‘swell.’’ The other think her ‘‘diffieult.’’ Miss Stanwyck, whose latest First National production, ‘‘A Lost Lady,’’ comes to the ............ ‘Theagtre:.On ==. ages , was soured on Hollywood when she went there as the wife of Frank Fay, who had been signed to a contract to make talking pictures. She had been ill. She was pale, quiet and particularly sensitive and Hollywood did not give her a very warm welcome. Her fame as an actress, won through hard work on the New York stage in ‘‘Burlesque’’ and other successful plays, had not preceeded her to the West Coast. Barbara was introduced to a famous producer at a party. The introductions over, the hostess volunteered the information to the producer that Miss Stanwyck ought to be of interest to him as a possible sereen find. He looked at her indifferently. “No,’’ he said shortly, ‘she wouldn’t do.’’ A woman as sensitive as Barbara Stanwyck can never forget nor entirely forgive these thoughtless cruelties. She tried being a good sport about it a few more times and then gradually retired from Hollywood society entirely. At the last few big parties she attended in the film colony she had a book along to read. This added to her reputation for being ‘difficult’? and eventually Miss Stanwyck and Hollywood screen society definitely parted company. Occasionally, after her first suecess on the screen, she and her husband tried, half heartedly, to take up the social end of film colony life again. A few other experiences not unlike her first ones, sent her quickly back into retirement. There was an evening when a famous film couple, seated with them at a table, talked a kind of pig-latin to each other, ignoring the fact that their guests, Barbara and Frank Fay, could not understand what they were Saying. During her first two years in pictures, after ‘‘Ladies of Leisure’’ and ‘‘Tllicit’’ had made her name important to the industry, she was under part-time contract to two different companies. It was a difficult situation and led to much quarreling and bickering between herself and her employers. The result of all this is that Miss Stanwyck regards all pro ducers, executives and influential people in pictures a little skeptically and considers none of them her friends. But among the ‘‘lesser lights’’ of moviedom, Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay have a host of friends. The big, walled estate in Brentwood Heights is wide open to dozens, perhaps hundreds of them although other stars and big executives are almost never admitted—nor invited. It is almost, if not quite, the most self sufficient estate and household in Hollywood. The house is fairly large and entirely comfortable. The grounds are spacious — and extremely private. There is a swimming pool, one of the largest in the colony, a gymnasium which also serves as a party house, tennis courts and a bieyele track. Figuratively speaking, Barbara Stanwyck has snapped her fingers under the nose of every ‘‘big shot’’ in Hollywood who has tried to impress her with his importance. But.she has never failed to lend a symphathetic ear and to open a generous purse to any ‘‘little shot’’ who needed either comfort or cash. In ‘‘A Lost Lady’’ Miss Stanwyck has the title role, that of a beautiful girl entangled in the meshes of a strange love net. Others in the cast include Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, Phillip Reed, Hobart Cavanaugh and Henry Kolker. Barbara Stanwyck Sets New Record For Gown Changes Barbara Stanwyck set a new record during the production of her latest First National starring vehicle, “A Lost Lady,” which-comes: tO“thei esgic tes TNCAtreON on eee eee During the eight hours of that particular shooting day, Miss Stanwyck wore four different evening gowns. Besides which, she performed the somewhat amazing feat of being the central figure at four different social functions, all important dramatic events in the picture, and separated, so far as the drama is concerned, by weeks and, in one instance, months of actual time. Impossible as such a proceeding sounds, it is explained by the methods commonly used in laying out the production schedule of a picture. For the sake of economy of both time and money, all scenes that take place in the same setting are made consecutively, regardless of the order in which they appear in the final edition of the picture. Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, Phillip Reed, Hobart Cavanaugh, Rafaela Ottiano, Walter Walker and Samuel Hinds are the principal members of the cast surrounding Miss Stanwyck in this version of Willa Cather’s famous novel of American life. Alfred E. Green directed the picture from the screen play by Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola. Stanwyck Introduces Startling Hairdress Barbara Stanwyck, who delights in tonsorial experiments, introduces a startling new hairdress designed for her by Perey Westmore in her latest First National starring vehicle, ‘‘A Lost Lady,’’ which comes to the ...............c0000 eNOAU OOM ...c. ker eee Formal in design, it is the perfect complement to a striking Orry-Kelly evening gown with which it is worn. Her flaming locks are severely drawn back from the hair line, and the ribbon bandeau, set with two rows of flat curls is attached in a halo effect, and is placed across the top of the head and from the ears it is drawn low across the neck. Miss Stanwyck enthusiastically recommends it to career women whose time prohibits frequent visits to beauty shops. “A Lost Lady” That’s the title of Barbara Stan wyck’s latest starring vehicle for First National, which comes to the Strand soon. Mat No. 1—10e Page Seventeen