Silver Screen (Feb-Oct 1935)

That Make HISTORY Sir James M. Barries Pictures Are The Milestones Of The Movies. THERE'S a new Barrie picture coming. Katharine Hepburn in "The Little Minister." This is the seventh Barrie picture. They are "Peter Pan," "A Kiss for Cinderella," "The Admirable Crichton," "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" (called "Seven Days"), "Sentimental Tommy," "What Every Woman Knows" and "The. Little Minister." Years ago the gentle Barrie introduced most of us to delicate fantasy. His great success had the usual influence on manufacturers, and Peter Pan collars were worn by one generation, at least. He studied people, and we have felt grateful many times to him for one of his observations. He said that lovers always smile at one another, and, for years, whenever we have seen in the subway or bus a young pair whom we suspect, we have slyly watched and sure enough— lovers always smile. Through all of Barrie's stories runs the mother love type of woman who manages her dumb and contented man by sweet flattery. Perhaps the return of Barrie is the cue for girls to once again bolster up the pompous males. Instead of, as now, taking the men's jobs away from them— and then, rather nonplussed, the smarties find that they have to support the gentlemen. James Matthew Barrie was born on May 9, I860 and made a baronet in 1913. Brian Aherne and Helen Hayes in "What Every Woman Knows," which was released recently. This, also, was a famous play of twenty years ago. A "Kiss for Cinderella" followed "Peter Pan." Tom Moore, Betty Bronson and the war babies cared for by ''the ragged little London drudge." An old still. Betty B ronson as Peter Pan.