Silver Screen (Jun-Oct 1940)

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Cooks fried chicken; roast beef; yorkshire pudding; shepherd's pie, which is hamburger with a potato cover — popularly "toad in the hole" in America. Takes her maid and a basket and goes to market. Takes the maid to have someone to restrain her from buying the whole place. She delights in Coast barbecues and drive-in places. Three things must be plain; food, clothes and jewelry. She is a nut about flying and is going to learn how. Recently flew over Death Valley, where borax comes from, for the first time. It was 8:30 in the morning and cool. When the pilot motioned downwards she looked out and saw a vast expanse of snow. Shivering by this time she wrapped herself in a blanket and prepared to freeze to death. The pilot' saw her and grinned. Then he pointed to a thermometer which read 102 and shouted "borax!" The "snow" was borax. . . . She has a bright sense of humor. When she writes to her friends she signs herself "Anne G. Louse" for "Angelus." Her screen favorites are Carole Lombard, Claudette Colbert, Maureen O'Hara and Irene Dunne. She thinks Helen Hayes is "perfectly beautiful." She has a story about Maureen O'Hara. It seems that Miss O'Hara was being followed around at a party by a pompous bore who kept trying to talk to her. Cornered at last she was forced to listen to his boasts about his important Irish ancestry. His name began with Fitz and that made it important in Irish nomenclature, did it not? he demanded. "Certainly," snapped Miss O'Hara, "Fitz means illegitimate-son-of !'" She's quite a philosopher and her talk is disconcertingly studded with pedantic bits that the average person couldn't get away with. Believes in relaxation — that breakdown saw to that. Life is what you make it, no more. Only a few of the film people are egocentric — most are real folks and the day of the great bluff in Hollywood is past. Doesn't believe in heredity. Hates people who use it as an excuse for every fault they possess and which they won't make an effort to change. It's environment that moulds us, she declares. Fear is an experience common to rich and poor alike, so why fear fear? She went into a lion cage (she practices what she preaches) to have some publicity stills taken. There were twelve unfed lions (she called them "lah-ons") in it, but she forced calmness on herself so they wouldn't see that she was afraid of them. She even cracked a whip and made one of them roar. She wasn't worried, but the photographer outside the cage almost dropped his Graflex at the first roar. Someone in Hollywood told her to play a game for the New York Press — put on a big show, they said, the boys will eat it up. To her credit let it be said that the greenest cub on any sheet in town could have told you that this Angelus girl was as free from anything artificial as distilled water. He would definitely have dragged out his very best adjectives for her just as — well, who could help it? Reviews [Continued from page 69] Tom has to put up with plenty from the brutal bullies, but he and the headmaster both win out in the end, and good once more triumphs over evil. Jimmy Lydon plays young Tom Brown and lives up to his publicity of being the sensational juvenile find of the year. He is. Another remarkable performance is given by Freddie Bartholomew who is progressing quite nicely into an actor of maturity. Billy Halop of the Dead End boys surprises everyone by bursting out with a beautiful English accent. Josephine Hutchinson as Mrs. Arnold has one very touching scene, and Polly Moran is welcomed back to the screen as Sally, the shopkeeper. CROSS-COUNTRY ROMANCE Just What the Patient Ordered — RKO GENE RAYMOND returns to the screen, after much too long an absence for such a talented young actor, in this very breezy romantic comedy which is pure escapism from' the troubles of the world. Gene, at his best, plays a very personable young doctor who is motoring cross-country to join a scientist in China. He stops en route to deliver a complimentary scroll in commemoration of her hospital charities to one of those wacky society women (played by Hedda Hopper, and at her best, too) and soon afterwards discovers her heiress daughter has stowed away in his trailer. Wendy Barrie is the flirtatious heiress and she sets out immediately to snare the young doctor, which she eventually does, but not until after all kinds of amusing complications. MY LOVE CAME BACK Welcome Back Olivia! — Warners IF YOU are world-weary these days here's a gay, charming comedy that you should welcome with open arms. Olivia de Havilland, in her first picture since her sensational Melanie in "Gone With The Wind," plays a poor, but proud, violin student who simply can't make both ends meet on a six y dollar a month scholarship. Charles Winninger, the millionaire president of Monarch Music, sees her at a concert one day, and decides that now is the time for him to retire and take an interest in classical music in general and Olivia in particular. It's the most innocent courtship in the world, but of course Jeffrey Lynn, the vice president of Monarch Music, misunderstands everything, which confuses Olivia considerably when she falls in love with him. The comedy touches are magnificent, and great credit should go to Kurt Berndhart for [Continued on page 98]