Tovarich (Warner Bros.) (1937)

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(Advance) Tells Star How To Do The Dishes Even one of the ablest directors in Hollywood can’t tell a woman how to wash dishes. Director Anatole Litvak found that out this week. He tried to change Claudette Colbert’s dishwashing technique in a scene for Warner Bros.’ “‘Tovarich,’’ coming to the Strand Friday, but Miss Colbert, usually the most amenable person in the world, stood her ground and washed them her own way. Miss Colbert washes the dishes and Charles Boyer dries them in **Tovarich.’” The dishes, it may be added, are dried according to Litvak specifications, for Boyer admits he knows little about the art. Miss Colbert doesn’t hold herself up as an expert dishwasher. She admits that in the past few years she had done very little of it, on screen or off. She says she never did think much of the job, anyway, and is glad to have someone else do it for her. But, according to the star, a woman instinctively knows the proper dishwashing technique. It comes natural to her. Men, even the experts hired by restaurants, go through a lot of lost motion. Their stance is never correct. They forget to follow through. And they know nothing about the art of rinsing which is one of the most important elements. The dish-washing scene in *‘Tovarich,”’ oddly enough is agreed to be one of the most charming sequences in the picture. You wouldn’t think that one could get charm into anything connected with sinks, soiled plates and silver and cakes of soap. And ordinarily one couldn't. But ordinarily one doesn’t have Miss Colbert and Mr. Boyer around a kitchen. Kitchens would be a good deal more interesting if they came equipped with Miss Colbert and Mr. Boyer, don’t you think? Gets Fontanne Role On the completion of Warner Bros.” comedy ‘‘Tovarich,’’ Isabel Jeans, the English stage star, returned to London to play the Lynn Fontanne part in Robert Sherwood’s “Idiot's Delight.’ Miss Jeans is making her American film debut in “‘Tovarich,’’ now at the Strand Theatre. She was given the part by Anatole Litvak, the director, who saw and admired her in London last year in **Mademoiselle.”’ Fan Writes Monthly Anita Louise, one of the stars of Warner Bros.’ ““Tovarich,’”’ at the Strand Theatre, believes she has the most loyal fan on record. The fan, a man named Sidney Biglow, of Brooklyn, New York, has been writing a letter a month to Miss Louise for sixteen years. The letters started coming when she began her stage career at the ag of five. Miss Louise sends Biglow a Christmas gift every year though she has never met him. Has Trick Plumbing Melville Cooper, one of the stars of Warner Bros.’ comedy ‘‘Tovarich," which will be seen next week at the Strand Theatre, has no faucets in the bathroom of his home. The water in the wash bowl and tub is automatically turned on when Cooper steps into the path of a light from photo electric cells. Mat 204—30c CHARLES BOYER — internationally famous screen star, currently costarred with Claudette Colbert in “Tovarich” at the Strand Theatre. (Aaa) The Butler Prince Hard To Interview By Dan Mainwaring Interviewing Charles Boyer on a hot day on a hot sound stage burns up a good deal of energy. It is a fine way for a person who is overweight to reduce because Mr. Boyer is one of those migratory interviewees. He refuses to stay put. It isn’t that Mr. Boyer is rude. On the contrary, he is a courteous man, a charming man. But he isn’t one All work on the Warner Bros. back lot was stopped for five minutes one recent day while Charles Boyer, the actor, talked with Sacha Guitry, famous French playwright, by long distance telephone. Guitry called _Boyer from Paris to ask him to. come to France and star in one of his plays. for small talk and unless you have a definite question to ask him, he is prone to wander away. As usual, we were totally unequipped when we ran Mr. Boyer to earth on the Warner Bros. ‘“Tovarich”” set. Mr. Boyer is playing the Russian Prince in this comedy, which will be the feature attraction next week at the Strand Theatre. For a while we held Mr. Boyer by talking about French books. That subject seemed to interest him and though we know it would be of no interest at all to the Boyer fans we stuck to it because at least it kept him talking. We switched to ‘“Tovarich.”” Mr. Boyer stayed put for quite a few minutes with this topic. He liked the part, he said. And he liked the Jacques Deval play. Mr. Deval’s sense of quiet humor appealed to him. We found our stock of questions running low pretty quick, and also Mr. Boyer moving away. We buttonholed him again. This time we tried an ald dodge that is usually terrifically effective with actors. ““What we like about you is that you give a role authority,”” we said. Mr. Boyer shuddered and moved a couple of steps away. “And do you take your work seriously ?”’ “Of course,’ he said, and frowned. “I wouldn’t be an actor if | didn’t.”” This time he went into his dressing room and put on his coat. We thought about following him, and then decided against it. After all, we couldn’t think of anything to ask him. Mat 205—380c ON TOP O’ THE LADDER for love and fun set to a fast pace by Charles Boyer and Claudette Colbert in the brilliant comedy-romance *Tovarich,” adapted from the successful stage hit. You'll enjoy it at the Strand Theatre where it starts its run next Friday. [6] (Advance) Film Stars Shy Away From Lens There are two kinds of actors — camera-lovers and camera-dodgers. Charles Boyer, who is starring with Claudette Colbert in Warner Bros.’ screen version of ““Tovarich’’ coming to the Strand is a camera-dodger. He hates to have his picture taken. Mr. Boyer doesn’t mind motion picture cameras. It’s the still cameras and candid cameras that he dislikes. To get him into a gallery for a portrait sitting is a week's work, “Tll do it next week,’ is his invariable answer when asked to come in for a sitting. And he adds, with a smile: ““That’s what I told them when I was making ‘Conquest’ and they never got me in.” Mr. Boyer will pose for production stills, (pictures illustrating the making of a movie) without a complaint. And when cornered he will stand up with his fellow players for an off-stage shot. Basil Rathbone, on the other hand, is a camera-lover. Mr. Rathbone, who plays the Soviet commissar in the film, is a candid cameraman himself. He'll pose for almost any sort of a picture. For the still cameraman on the “‘Tovarich”’ set, Rathbone, wearing a beard and a full dress suit, climbed to the floodlight gallery atop the stage and went to sleep. Claudette Colbert, co-starred with Boyer in ‘“Tovarich,”” is shy of still-cameras. She poses willingly enough, but she doesn’t like to do it. She says she feels self conscious when a lens is poked in her face. Very ‘Doggy’ Stars Even the two dogs had stand-ins on the ‘“‘Tovarich’’ set at Warner Bros. studio. It wasn’t because Omar, a Russian wolf-hound, and Squeegee, a Pekingese, were high-hat. It was because the weather was so hot that the dogs could only stay in front of the comeras a few minutes before they began to pant so loud they spoiled scenes. Omar's standin was a wolf hound named Big Boy. Squeegee’s stand-in is his son, Squeegee II. ‘‘Tovarich,” starring Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer, and directed by Anatole Litvak, opens next week at the Strand Theatre. New Vegetable Boom The entire stock of a wholesale vegetable market Burbank, California, was purchased by Warner Bros. studio for one scene in the comedy “‘Tovarich.’’ The vegetables were used to dress a French market set for the picture, in which Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer are starred. ‘“Tovarich”’ is now showing at the Strand Theatre. No Butler Boyer! Charles Boyer, as a Russian Prince forced by poverty to accept work as a butler, was setting a table on the ““Tovarich’” set at Warner Bros. studio. Carefully he put the silver at each place. **Cut,”’ said Director Anatole Litvak. ‘‘Charles — the salad fork goes to the left of the dinner fork and the cocktail fork to the left of the salad fork.” “Sorry,” said Mr. Boyer. “‘l never did this before.’’ His buttling will be seen in ‘““Tovarich’ next week at the Strand Theatre.