Screenland (May-Oct 1937)

"What has happened to us, Dear? Universal studio heads saw enough in the first few scenes she did to build up the part and definitely schedule her for the very ambitiously-planned "Top of the Town," a musical, but in it Doris so impressed Hollywood with her dramatic abilities that in the future she will have the kind of parts she's most interested in doing — dramatic characterizations. The latest picture is "As Good as Married," with John Boles, Walter Pidgeon and Alan Mowbray in the other important roles. The contract under which she is now working — it was signed by her mother as guardian, for Doris won't be twenty-one until come next July 14th— allows her six months' picture work and six months on the stage. She has another play to do for Al Woods, who by the way, with a little luck, might have had the neat little sum of $20,000 handed him by Universal last Fall. Mr. Al Woods lost out on the twenty grand when he produced "Arrest That Woman" last September. Doris Nolan had completed her first picture and came on to do that play for Mr. Woods. Universal was ready to start "Top of the Town," and thev wanted their Doris Nolan back on the lot. They got nervous about it, and decided to offer Woods $20,000 for her release from the play. Meantime 'Arrest That Wqman" opened — and not to cheers but slams in spades from the critics. Mr. Al Woods, of course, knew nothing about the $20,000 in the offing. All he knew was that the customers were not showing up at his box office. So after living through seven performances, "Arrest That Woman" just naturally folded. The collapse of the show in no way reflected on the cast, nor particularly on Doris Nolan. Woods wants her back for a play next season. But for his sake we don't have to pray he will be precipitate and do what Universal nearly did, and rush out with an offer of $20,000 for Doris Nolan's release —because Mr. Al Woods isn't precipitate when it comes to that kind of money. You get accustomed to meeting comedians who are very glum, grave fellows, sad and dripping melancholy when thev are not working at being funny. It shouldn't be, and isn't, surprising therefore to meet a girl who likes dramatic roles, vital, even a bit purplish if that darkish ingredient is necessary to give them dramatic substance, but who, behind the make-up, is all gaiety, good-humor and fun-loving. Such is Doris Nolan. Plied with many questions about her impressions of Hollywood, she answered most of them tentatively. But then she summed it all up in one hearty statement. "Personally," she said, "it's a great place for laughs — even mayhap, one big scream. The thing that bowls me over with the heartiest laugh is the super efficiency of the top men. Such efficiency when they're in the business environment of their own office suites! They press buzzers and locomotives steam over the rails, planes soar into the sky. It's colossal." So far as the excitement of limelight honors is concerned, this glamor girl who doesn't work at being glamorous,_ finds its greatest amusement in seeing pictures of herself printed with the labels "beauty" and "glamor girl," and she admits perhaps looking that way in the pictures. The laugh comes, she says, when she thinks how much fussing has been made by the make-up people and cameramen and lighting specialists, to achieve the shining beauty these pictures show. All of which, for all the modesty it may show, is not a rehearsed "line." If you'd hear her say it, you'd believe that too. Yet truth compels the report that there's glamor in her eyes and smile and the spirited toss of Doris Nolan's head, even without the make-up. How could he answer frankly? How could he tell her that one serious neglect — a lack of proper attention to feminine cleanliness — had made her almost repulsive to him? 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