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The Truth aboutTone
mutinies against stuffy ideas he is always planning but remembers in time to restrain. Above, a close-up of his latest characterization in "Quality Street," opposite Katharine Hepburn, with whom he appears at lower right in an intimate scene which Director George Stevens is preparing to film.
What you don't know about Franchot Tone, and learn here, is that his sense of humor makes him tar more interesting than the hero Hollywood ballyhoos.
By Ben Maddox
AT THE swank premiere the long, shiny black r—\ limousine finally edged through the eager crowd / \of fans. The man at the microphone cried. "It's Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone!"
There was a dramatic pause in that vast, typical confusion. A doorman sprang to the car. Out swept Miss Crawford, magnificent in her Parisian evening gown and sables. She hesitated.
Then Mr. Tone, attired in a sweatshirt and cords and sneakers, popped blithely out !
This hasn't happened yet, but this mad mutiny is what Franchot Tone wanted to perpetrate the last time he went to an opening at the ultra Carthay Circle Theatre. Can't you visualize everyone completely flabbergasted? "I can't imagine anything that would have been more
fun!" says Tone. But he can't be himself any more. He's always remembering, in the nick of time.
I'm going to risk telling tales out of school on Franchot. You see, before he was perched on this pedestal in California, he was the convivial, unrestrainedly human person you'd ever want to meet. Impetuously he chucked his Phi Beta Kappa key in a trunk beside the clippings his mother had saved about his campus dramatic supremacy. Parking his past nonchalantly in the basement of the family house in Niagara Falls, he shuffled off to adjacent Buffalo and the stock company there. Soon he progressed to New York City, and the fun began.
Don't for a moment think that he carted along a superiority hangover, as easily he might have considering his collegiate prestige at Cornell. Don't presume that he acquired an important feeling when shortly he was acclaimed the hope of the (Continued on page 76)