Screenland (Nov 1944-Oct 1945)

We went to Helmut's dressing room. It was a shanty on wheels. I thouglit about a claim shack I had lived in back in South Dakota. The door swung back and forth in a wandering breeze that came in and ruffled our hair. "How about the stage?" I asked. "Would you like that?" "Yes," he said, waving his long-fingered hands. "Once I was offered an opportunity to tour with Katlierine Cornell. But it was not possible. Mr. Warner, you see — " "Well," Jerry said kiddingly, "you had to stay here and make a lousy fortune." "But I am going to New York next week," Helmut exclaimed, "on a personal appearance tour. There I shall endeavor to learn about my people in Vienna. I have not heard from them in five months." His face was very grave and Jerry said, with a warm note in his voice, "That's sure tough. I hope you locate them." But as if it was impossible for him to dwell long on unpleasant subjects, Dantine said eagerly, "I shall work hard in New York. I shall try to make the people there like me. It will be my first opportunity to appear on the stage, you know," he added turning to me, "except, of course, in Pasadena. I must be good. I want to be good." "Don't be such an eager beaver," Jerry said. "You'll do all right." A shadow suddenly darkened the door and a beautiful woman came in wearing a long white gown and a silver fox jacket. It was Andrea King, who liad come to talk to Dantine about the personal appearance tour she is to make with him. His face lighted up with the curious inner glow which, I suspect, appears in it whenever a lovely woman comes upon the scene. He turned to me. "Is she not the most beautiful?" I bowed too. "Very beautiful," I said. Miss King was concerned. She was thinking about the clothes she would wear in New York and whether or not the studio would send a press representative. "Now what do you want a publicity man for?" Jerry asked. "All he could do would be to carry your luggage." "But what will we say to the newspaper men?" Dantine asked. "You won't have any trouble," Jerry said. "They'll take care of that. They're eager beavers, too." Presently a call boy came to say that Miss King and Mr. Dantine were wanted on the set where they were making retakes. We went outside and breathed some magnificent air. Dantine turned to me and said almost wistfully, "If you didn't get enough for your story — just call up Jerry. He's very good at making actors sound like human beings." He bowed and we shook hands. Then he and Miss King walked away together, two very handsome, very interesting young people intent on their careers. Jerry Asher and I went back to his office. He sighed. "When Helmut first came on this lot he was very shy and very confused. He isn't any more. Now I'm the one that's confused." You see, Jerry did tell me quite a lot about Dantine after all. Anil Dvorak I'ictiir. h .Star 9 , ^ triplication of m irOt; v„u«el/«'i^^*'''^ '^f Treatment ■ Convince Medicinal Irea Fnmon. 3^Way ^^^^^^ Many of l^^^^^^'^^Jt/u Iway ^^f aT« u^e iW* "''"you too, can make color-iones ol ) ledicinai ^^;,,,„ed racV. th i Send Coupon for all three products in hermetically-sealed bottles, with complete instructions for Glover's 3-WayTreatment. and useful FREE ■booklet. "The Scientific Care of Scalp and Hair." GLOVER'S, 101 W.3lstSt.,Oepf.80IO,NewYorkl,N.r Send Free Trial Application package in plain v per hy return mail, containing Glover's M Medicine, GLO-VER Beauty Shampoo and Glo Imperial Hair Dress, in three hermetically-so bottles, with informative FREE booklet. I em 10c to cover cost of packaging and postage. rap anso aled ;losa Name Address-. City -Zone -Slale SCREENLAND 87