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Visits to the various studios to see what pictures are in the making
then adds apologetically, "It's the first time I've been satisfied with anything I've done since "Of Human Bondage'— and that part played itself."
"Then you're not human," I retort. "Perhaps all your pictures haven't been as good as you'd like them to be but I defy you to show me where you could have improved your work in any of them."
"I'll take you up on that," she laughs. "There isn't one, except 'Dark Victory' that I haven't wished I could do over — and known I could make it better."
"We'll argue this out over a cocktail sometime — if it takes all night," I promise her. "But now I've other sets to cover."
Here on the next stage to Bette and her unwanted love token is another picture
called "Give Me A Child" with Geraldine Fitzgerald (you saw her in '"Dark Victory" and "Wuthering Heights"), Jeffrey Lynn, Gale Page and Gladys George.
This, too, is near the beginning of the picture and, somehow, it all reminds me of a beautiful picture Loretta Young and Eric Linden made years ago called "Life Begins." The scene I see is in the maternity ward of a large hospital and its only purpose is to introduce all the characters, so there is no use giving the dialogue. But any picture with a cast like this — and, particularly, any picture with Gladys George, is a picture that shouldn't be missed.
Next is "Enemy Agent" with Boris Karloff and Margaret Lindsay. This is an absorbing story of the espionage system during the World War. Karloff is a master German spy and Margaret is supposedly a German spy, although in realityshe is the ace British operative. And this scene is where they meet the first time.
for July 1939
An important scene from "Tarzan in Exile," which boasts of Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan and a huge cast.
"Give Me a Child" is the film from which this scene of Gladys George, Johnny Davis and Gale Page is taken.
Lucille Ball, Evelyn Brent and Allan Lane in a cabaret scene from "The Second Shot."
I watch Maggie intently. Somehow, every time I see her I think of Madge Evans, too. There are two girls, both swell actresses, both with a superlative sense of humor, and neither of their real personalities has ever come through on the screen and neither of them has ever really been given a chance to show what she can do.
When the scene is over Mag comes over to shake hands. "You know," I remark seriously, "every time I watch you work I think of you in 'Cavalcade' and that grand start you got off to. And when I see you in the run-of-the-mill pictures you .usually make I can't help wondering what you're thinking while you work."
"Fortunes of war," she shrugs. "I bluffed my way into that part in 'Cavalcade' by pretending I was British. If it has boomeranged, that's my tough luck. If you try a bluff at poker and it works one time and not the next you don't get [Continued on page 56]
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