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I and Charles still has a personal as well | as financial interest in them. I Elsa and Charles recently spent a holiday at the Scarborough hotels and one morning the star called a massed gathering of all the chambermaids and gave them practical demonstration of the quickest and easiest way to make up a bed. He always makes up his own every morning, whether in London or Hollywood.
He likes to lay the dinner-table for himself, too, whenever he has the time. Coming from the snowstorm set, he took off Rembrandt's^ purple cape and led the way to the studio restaurant where the experienced, waitress quickly handed him a tray holding, china, cutlery, etc., which he could arrange to. his satisfaction. Finally he sat comfortably down to an out-size. in grilled steaks, supported by fried potatoes and tomatoes and at least half a cauliflower.
"Well," he grinned between moutlifuls. "now you know why I have to . be . a character actor ! And I never shall be able to -play romantic parts because I never shall have 1 that romantic slender figure !" •. r T ..:
Elisabeth Bergner carefully poured out a dose of medicine for the sick man lying on the" bed. She :\vore a trim green suit and a high-crpwned hat under which her expressive brows were puckered in concentration as she measured the deadly drops into, the glass. Sunlight fell on her through ;'the open window, illumining the modefnistic London apartment room in which 's.he stood. : "Again, please."
. Dr. Paul Czinner motioned to the cameras and once more the little blonde Austrian star took up the dark bottle and began to pour. Over and over and over yet again she had to go through the simple scene before her gentle-voiced director husband, whose word is her law, nodded at last and said "Thank you, Bergner." Elisabeth made a mock bow and smiled at him tenderly, affectionately, before she came across the set and sat down beside me.
"What do you think of it?" she asked, "our 'Dreaming Lips'? It is the old tearful story of a woman who is loved by two men — you see it being enacted in life many, many times."
In her own vivid way she told me about this new English version of a German film in which she scored tremendous success five years ago. She plays the happy wife of a violinist in a second-rate orchestra, quite contented with her simple domestic life until she meets a world-famous musician who shows her more glamorous and luxurious things. She learns to love him — but her husband's fortunes fail and he needs her comforting affection. In her misery she eventually kills herself.
Elisabeth enthused about the production but it was different when I tried to coax her to talk about herself. She lit another Turkish cigarette — she smokes them continually— and laughingly shook her head.
"Pouf! You know everything about me already ! You know that I am now quite recovered from my illness again and that I am not high-hat, only very shy, and that I will not have strangers watching me when I work because my work is my life and I must give it all my energy and thoughts. So now let us go and have some coffee in my dressing-room and I will show you my new pyjamas that I am going to wear as Gaby in this film."
Elisabeth is exceedingly happy to be film-making in these great new studios.
Among others working there is Conrad Veidt, who once played in Max Reinhardt's famous Berlin theatre with Elisabeth. When I presently go across to the set I find a Stockholm pleasure-garden with rustic tables under the trees and gay bands
of peasant singers, the kind of pla which Garbo loves to dine and dance wl she goes home. Conrad is drinking v. j and flirting with a pretty dressma, ' played by curly-haired Marjorie Picka She is Sir Cedric Hardwicke's sisterlaw. She gives me the latest news Cedric, who has hurried back from C fornia for a few weeks to fulfill an contract with Gaumont-British.
Before Cedric left, he rented his 1 old-fashioned North London house to Bt Rathbone who came over to work w Ann Harding. When Cedric had to retu he was homeless and as he detests hote he has accepted Basil's offer to become guest in his own house for the time!
I go to visit Basil two stages alor waiting while he makes passionate love Ann Harding, gently yielding, in a see for "Love from a Stranger." Slim dapper as ever, he chats chiefly about foot ball and golf, two of his greatest interest and shows me a letter he received from girl in Ohio after she had seen "Private Number" in which Robert Taylor gave him such a stern left-hook to the jaw It read:
"Having seen you in all your films, am highly satisfied you have got your des serts at last. When Robert Taylor struck you, I said 'Thank goodness, that's done for the beast now.' " ,
Basil is eagerly looking forward to his next film in Hollywood for he is to achie\ a long-cherished ambition and portray George Washington. What a surprise for that girl in Ohio! And what a change from sinister villains !
Across the studio gardens, with sun-dial and colorful flower-beds, I reach yet another stage and go inside to watch Edward G. Robinson playing a sociallyambitious business man in his first British picture "Thunder in the City." His leading lady is a romantic discovery, beautiful wide-eyed Baroness Lulu von Hohenberg of Vienna whom you will know as Luli Deste. That's the name just chosen for her by Producer B. P. Schulberg who signed her up for Hollywood on a long contract after he had seen her in a small Continental film. She has a rich warm voice and almost always dresses in black and white and looks very much like her friend and countrywoman Marlene Dietrich. '
Not far from Piccadilly Circus is an old-fashioned London "pub," the little taproom with its sanded floor and traditional row of shining brass pump-handles presided over by a buxom Cockney barmaid. Taxi-drivers and street-vendors patronize it and so do famous film folk. It's quiet and completely unknown, so they can sit at the little marble-topped tables enjoying a pint of real mild English beer and talking about the affairs of the studios quite safe from autograph-hunters and overdemonstrative fans.
Constance Bennett and Miriam Hopkins have been here to wield a tankard and chat with the jovial landlord — who has never visited a cinema in his life! Sometimes Edward Everett Horton stopped in. Edward G. Robinson was another patron, spending some of his leisure studying British legal methods. He has been to several prisons and court-rooms and attended a murder trial at the Old Bailey where the dignified panoply of the red-robed judges in their ancient oak-panelled hall tremendously impressed him.
Helen Hayes, wearing a grey suit, and Charles MacArthur dropped into the pub one evening too — he startled the other visitors by suddenly whipping out a crumpled envelope and writing furiously on the back but he had only been seized with new inspiration for "Wuthering Heights" which he is adapting for Walter Wanger."