Screenland (Jan–Jun 1948)

parison. Hollywood men have more to offer. They are the most charming, hand-some and entertaining men in the world. After all, they wouldn't be movie stars if these hadn't been their outstanding qualities in the first place. Analytically, they may be a little too ambitious, more calculating. Maybe they don't have the polish and veneer of the diplomatic crowd. But they are more intriguing. Yet sometimes I miss Washington. After all, it's my home town. I grew up there. I had my debut there. I know everyone. At times I even miss the formality— things like getting dressed for dinner and arriving in a formal — with everything about the dinner party done just so and everyone being very intelligent, with minds that challenge. I miss meeting the diplomats who come to town. I even miss getting the latest government gossip ahead of the rest of the nation, the feeling of being "in" on things before they happen. Still, when I add it all together, I realize that I know Washington. I lived there so long I almost know what the people will be saying next year at this time. While out here it's more unpredictable, more lusty. Everything is new to me. So I'd like to stay around to see what will happen. I think I will! Cory Grant Goes Crusading Continued from page 25 They have already decided on some stories, the first going into active production in November. Because Cary has a strong streak of personal reserve — "hangover from my British birth, I expect," he says — he hasn't talked much to the reporters or indeed to anybody else about his crusade. So some most peculiar rumors have been whispered in the spots where film folk gather. Cary gets quite pink in the face when they're repeated to him, even though he characteristically admits it's partly his own fault for not being more openly talkative! Well, here's the low-down from Cary himself, as he ate his coffee-toast-andtomato-juice breakfast in a pleasant London room overlooking the Hyde Park treetops. He was wearing a plain skyblue rayon robe over his striped cotton pajamas, wriggling his bare toes impatiently in his leather slippers as he talked. The fall sunlight glinted on the tiny gold medallion of St. Christopher which he always keeps round his throat, highly appropriate talisman for a man whose hobby is travel. "I have not turned my back on California," he stated definitely. "The reason I'm making my current films in Britain is because London happens to be the most convenient base for the work. And I don't want my first production to be called 'a new British film' because I loathe these labels. I don't care whether a film was made in America or Britain or Italy or China. I only recognize two labels for any film. Good and bad." Coffee went cold while he detailed the story of his coming presentation. It really shows Cary as himself, a man travelling in search of adventure and experience, ranging from New York to London and Paris, with nearly half the scenes set on the beautiful rocky coastline of the Mediterranean, not far from Nice and Monte Carlo. "Now how can you tie any national label on to a film like this?" Cary demanded logically enough. The second film, already being scripted, is "The Devil and the Angel," a mixture of realism an-1 fantasy. "And I play the Devil this time," Cary remarked with satisfaction. "It was positively my last angelic appearance in 'The Bishop's Wife.' Gosh, the trouble I took learning to play that harp! I rubbed the skin right off three of my fingers and they were sore for days. And after all that, the critics complained my harping didn't look like the real thing on the screen!" One Hollywood columnist wrote that Cary was obviously deserting California because he had sold his house and stored his furniture. That has made Cary angry too. "Certainly I sold it! It's far too big a house for a bachelor. And I'm coming round to thinking it's best for a man of my temperament to be a bachelor, you know. What that gossipworn an hasn't discovered yet is that I also happen to own a small bungalow out in the hills. That is where I am going to make my future home. Since the present occupants can't get out until February, naturally I had to store my things meantime. But the first day my bungalow is empty, they'll all be moved in and set about. In March, when we should have finished the first film at Shepperton, I plan to fly over and stay there a month, saying 'hello again' to all my Hollywood friends, before I come back again to start playing ole Debil." China narrowly escaped being swept off the table as Cary's strong brown hands emphasized another point: "There is absolutely no inner significance, either economic or political or anything else, about my being in London just now! 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