Watch on the Rhine (Warner Bros.) (1943)

AIMED AT THE. WOMEN’S PAGES ‘Watch on the Rhine’ Becomes A Much Be-medalled Subject “Watch on the Rhine,” the stage play, arrived in Hollywood for Warner Bros.’ motion picture production, a much be-medalled subject. To wit: The New York Drama Critics Circle had given it the award as the best play of the season; Its star, Paul Lukas, had received the medal of the New York Drama League for the best performance of the season; President Roosevelt had selected it for the annual “command performance” in Washington, D. C. Warner Bros. thereupon added its own laurel in the designation of Bette Davis, two-time holder of the Motion Picture Academy “Oscar,” to co-star with Mr. Lukas in the picture, which is now the current attraction at the Strand Theatre. Also assigned to the film was Max Steiner, Academy Award winner for his scoring of “Now, Voyager,” to do the music. Still WR 25* ; Mat 206—30c After seventeen years in Europe, the Muller family returns to America. The family: Eric Roberts, Janis Wilson, Paul Lukas, Bette Davis and Donald Buka, shown with Donald Woods in this scene from Warner Bros.’ ‘‘Watch on the Rhine,” now at the Strand Theatre. No DiIM-OuT ON EVENING GLAMOUR Ss Bette Davis, currently starring in Warner Bros.’ “Watch On The Rhine” dons a long dinner dress for special occasions. Of white crepe it has an all-over design of white bugle beads. The skirt has front fullness and is topped by a fitted jacket of self material. At center Bette wears a full-length fitted evening wrap of tomato-red wool complete with hood. Gold sequins are used as trim. Right: Geraldine Fitzgerald, featured in “Watch On The Rhine” models a youthful dinner dress of beige and brown sheer crepe. The shirred bodice is accented by a wide belt of gold and brown. Order “Mat WR 301B” (art and type) — 45¢ — from Campaign Plan Editor, 321 West 44 Street. New York 18. N.Y. Paul Lukas ‘Kills’ Actor 503 Times Paul Lukas has “murdered” George Coulouris exactly 503 times. He topped the 500 mark on Stage 16 at Warner Bros. in the big dramatic scene of “Watch on the Rhine,” now at the Strand Theatre, in which he puts the Nazi villain away with an automatic. Counting long shot, medium shot and close-up, the scene required only three takes, so Paul performed only three murders for the movies. But previous to that he killed Coulouris nightly, and at matinees, for 15 months during the run of the stage play, in which both appeared. Luckily for Mr. Coulouris, he is a durable citizen. BETTE SELECTS HAIR STYLES TO Suit HER ROLES In the film “In This Our Life” Bette wears her hair curled around the face and with a curled bang. “Because in that, I was very, very During the time “Now, Voyager” was being filmed, Bette liked her hair dressed high on her head, with her ears showing. She played a glam horrid,” explains Bette Davis. orous, sophisticated role. What the well-dressed secretary should wear is highlighted in Bette’s hair-do of “The Man Who Came To Dinner” where she was an efficient private secretary. Bette Davis wore this simple, charming hair-do in “The Great Lie’. In that film she portrayed a natural, wholesome young woman whose life centered about her home. The screen’s most versatile actress, as she appears in the role of a courageous wife in Warner's stirring drama, “Watch on the Rhine’, her Part of the secret of Bette Davis’ success is in her hair. The Warner Bros.’ star, now appearing at the Strand Theatre in “Watch on the Rhine,” has never repeated a single hair-do in all the many pictures she has made. “It’s more or less unintentional,’ Miss Davis explains. “It just happens that way. When a new role has been decided upon, I go to the studio to talk to Maggie about it. She always reads the scripts early, too.” “Maggie” is Margaret Donovan, head of the Warner Bros.’ hair-dressing department and long-time friend of Bette’s. “We talk about the picture and about the character I am to play,’ says Bette. “We wonder out loud how she would wear her hair. Then we start in, pulling my hair this way and that way, parting it here and there, chattering all the time. “We work at it until we have an effect, a hair-dress that we both think would be the sort of hair-do that this particular woman would be apt to wear. Then we put it up that way and have it photographed to show the producer and the director and whoever else has to pass on it.” In all but a few of her pictures Bette has worn her own hair. But these, she explains, were necessary for the historical roles she played. Whatever way Bette’s hair is dressed for a picture is often her favorite way—at the moment. During the time ‘““Now, Voyager”’ was being filmed Bette liked her hair dressed high on her head with her ears showing. Before that, in “In This Our Life,” she wore it curled around the face and with a curled bang on her forehead. Out of her extensive experience with various hairdresses, Bette has reached some very definite opinions about hairdress current picture. in general. It makes her furious to see a child with a permanent, just as she now thinks it is foolish to bleach a head of hair to a synthetic blondeness which doesn’t match with other features and coloring. In all of this Miss Donovan agrees completely. As reported, she and Bette are close friends and they know they have, between them, one little secret of Bette’s admitted success with a variety of roles. It’s done with the aid of the dressing room mirrors, a cup of tea, and a little ‘discussion of the character of the woman involved. Art and caption type only on mat. 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