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SCREENLAND
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A star tells the truth
By
Laura Benham
FOUND at last. A motion picture and stage star who admits she prefers the screen to the theatre ! Thus does Sylvia Sidney shatter another precedent.
Since the ascendency in the film firmament of luminaries recruited from' Broadway and "the road," the tendency to accept with condescending grace the_ fair fruits of cinema fame and fortune while maintaining staunchly the superiority of the theatre has grown from a few random remarks into a Hollywood tradition.
Todav, almost every plaver of note upon the silver screen confesses a burning urge to return to the footlights Several have done so for a brief moment or longer, with varying results as far as both their incomes amf professional futures are concerned. _
There are those who believe that Katharine Hepburn did her career irreparable damage by her short-hved and sensationally disappointing appearance in 1 he Lake" in New York. Certainly, Miriam Hopkins added nothing to her histrionic stature by starring in "Jezebel on Broadway. Even in the cases of Helen Hayes, who
rose to new heights of drama and prestige in "Mary of Scotland," and Walter Huston, who won both critical and box-office acclaim in "Dodsworth," it is doubtful if their accomplishments before the comparatively small metropolitan audiences will add materially to their future film advancement.
Leslie Howard sacrificed a lucrative motion picture contract to appear on the stage in London for Gilbert Miller, who gave him his first chance; and Herbert Marshall, the current cinema "rave," expects to do likewise in the autumn. All for the sake of "Art !
These are but a few of the actors and actresses who elected to turn their backs, temporarily at least, upon motion pictures and cast their lots with the theatre. Others who have not vet suited their actions to their words insist that at the first opportunity they hope to return to the scene of their earlier triumphs— (never failures— such things are dangerous to remember m
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This altruistic devotion to "Art" and "Idealism has become the unwritten law by (Continued on page Xd)