Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1935, Page 41

YOUNG FILM STAR FINDS TIME TO PLAY Hero of “David Copper- field’ Says He Is Now Learning Rope Tricks. more will appear again with the National Playe THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1935. Announcement was made today that Miss the week of June 3 in “Declasse.” Friendly Backstage Reunion Ethel Barrymore (center), now appearing in “The Constant Wife” at the National, greets S. E. Cochran (left) and Marvin McIntyre backstage after the performance. L i Troupers (This is the youngest contributor the Mollie Mefrick column has had. You have identified him with the role of David Copperfield, but he has a striking personality of his own.) BY FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW. OLLYWOOD, Calif, May 23 (N.ANN.A)—So many people cannot understand how boys like myself can work in pic- tures and enjoy a real boy’s life. T mean, they wonder if we ever have any leisure and, if we do, how | we spend it. I am having most fun learning cow- boy tricks with a rope, and I think I am getting along pretty well. When I ‘was on a vacation at Palm Springs re- | cently T had lots of fun with Lester | and Johnny, my cowboy friends. They | showed me how to spin a rope, saddle | & horse and round-up the calves. My favorite sport is horseback rid- | ing. Of course I love swimming, ten- nis and badminton also. We have our own tennis and badminton court home in England, you know. I also have a bicycle which was| given to me by a friend in New York, | and I ride it on the back lot at| M.-G.-M. studio. Up to now I have had only one spill and one flat tire. Of course, we do not work in pic- tures every day. When I have a free | day I must always do my school work | in the morning. I study my script Glimpses of Stage Folk in Washington. Perhaps you know I am working in a second picture. I am playing the | JEANETTE HACKETT blossomed on part of Greta Garbo's son in “Anna | ¥ a family tree bristling with almost Karenina” and the script takes lots of | as many show people as a Barrymore time to study. I also listen to the | plant. To begin with, and most people radio and have a card game with my | do, there was her mother, Florence Aunt Cissie which is nearly always Hackett, who played bits with Olga exciting. | Nethersole and At present I am learning to play | others of her vin- the ukulele. Although Cissie doesn’t tage, had small like it much, perhaps some day I shall | % roles in the Bio- learn to play well enough so that I 53t graph can stand under a balcony and sere- nade her. I also play the piano a bit, but I find 1 have little or no time to practice. | 1 prefer to listen to a good musical program on the radio. I aiways at- | : | with my Aunt Cissie in the afternoon. | | - ' of great names infancy. The mother of all the little studio| 2/% when that cradle | scribbling such bright little numbers as the scripts of “The Thin Man” | (in collaboration with his wife, Frances Goodrich) and “Naughty Marietta.” He now rates five stars beside his name on the list of West Coast scenarists. Raymond Hackett, the baby of the three, has most recently appeared in the public prints in connection with persistent rumors that he will marry Blanche Sweet, if his first wife wins a pending divorce suit. Miss Sweet was an exceedingly young Biograph star in the era when Florence Hackett and Arthur Johnson were known around the old plant. His personal affairs aside, Raymond has estab- lished himself as a skillfyl mimic in | “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” in sun- | dry othcer screen and legitimate pro- ductions. Jeanette Hackett is not beautiful, a | FINAL PROGRAM. The final program meeting of the season of the Lyric Music Club, Dor- othy Sherman Pierson, director, ‘will be held tonight at the home of Jean- ette Higgins. Florence Dordell is presenting, as the subject for the eve- ning, “Puccinl.” Ethel West Bonuso and Frances Burger will illustrate with Puccini arias. “The Flower Duet” from “Madame Butterfly” will be sung by Frances Burger and Betty Steele, with Elaine O'Flaherty at the piano. Violet Warren Plerson, reader, will be heard in charactertistic Italian readings. Water Supplies Improved. More than 1,200 projects for im- fact which is entirely overshadowed by a level, amiable charm of manner. | She is graceful, possessed of a strik- tend the Gilbert and Sullivan operas in London. Now you can see that after all this I really haven't so much leisure time left. I wish I could have a little more time for gardening. I love gardening. I Cissie's hobby and mine is garden- | ing. in England, where my grannie Hacketts, left a widow at 21 with three children to support, never at- tained any great personal fame as an actress, but she did marry Arthur V. Johnson, ANAY UL | and grandpa live. My grandpa likes Wwho was a sort of Gary Cooper of his to grow roses best and Cissie and I |day, and she saw her daughter and help the gardener quite a lot. We two sons turn out after this fashion: also grow the most wonderful dahlias | Jeanette, whose dancing with Ivan and sweet peas. In the greenhouse Triesault is a feature of the Loew’s we grow grapes and tomatoes, and Fox bill this week, became an ingenue, when my little cousin Peter comes to & dancer, a shrewd organizer of stage stay with me we spend mucn time | units, and eventually the head of the sampling grapes. R-K-O art department, selecting the 1 should tell you about the lovely costumes, directing the lighting and house Peter and I have built up in one molding together the acts for presen- of the trees on our lawn in England. We spend hours up there playing Robinson Crusoe. We raid the larder and take all sorts of food up there to eat. Peter's father is an officer in the army, and when we go to his house we play soldier: tation houses on the circuit. Albert Hackett, who is now under | 30. acted a while, wrote a play called “Up Pops the Devil,” couldn’t find a leading man to suit him, played the part himself and got most of the notices, and ended up in Hollywood DAILY SHORT STORY WHO LAUGHS LAST When the Plumber Decided to Go in for Blackmail the Whole Town Quaked with Fear. BY EDITH H. JOY. N THURSDAY, May 16, the Bartley Argus was scanned list- lessly by its sul &cribers until they turned to the last page. Then they came to life with a jerk. For stand- ing boldly out among the per- sonals was & lengthy item that once read was read again by every one with an avidity for spicy news. To whom it may concern: “I, John Alton, bave closed my shop because of insufficient funds. I need money to run my business and to feed my family. I have tried to collect part pay- ments on many outstanding accounts. Since I have failed to honorably collect what is rightfully mine I shall try other plans. “If by May 31 these bills have not been paid I shall seek redress. Call 1t blackmail or what you will. Never- theless, I have left with Judge Wilson a list of those who owe me. I have also left with him a sealed package, the contents of which may be made public after the 31st. “Have you a skeleton in your closet that a plumber might have seen? Then beware!” A restless undercurrent of excite- ment pervaded the entire town during the two weeks that followed. The churches had never been so well at- tended as on that sunny Sabbath the week that Alton’s notice had appeared. The first of the week many good citizens of Bartley straggled into the Judge’s office, but no two ever came together. Among the first to puff up the dingy stairs and into the waiting room was Patrick Conley, one of the well to do of Bartley’s worthy citizens. He was the boss, sub rosa, of the town hall political gang. The judge closed the door and waited. Pat’s olly, ready tongue failed him for once. He stuttered and made several attempts before he hit upon & satisfactory beginning and launched into the purpose of his visit. “You see, it’s this way, Judge. I owe that d——d little plumber $900 fer puttin’ them furnishin’s in my two bath rooms, that the missis nagged the life out of me till she got. But you know how it is about payin’ bills. I didn’t know the little cuss was so hard up, or I'd have paid him a long time ago. So that's what I'm here for. Here's my check. I want a receipt.” His nonchalance wWas all on the outside. For as he lumbered down the stairs he inwardly cursed the plumber, whom he was positive had the private letter of the Walker Pav- ing Co., which he, Pat, had lost when he was having his house remodeled. He inwardly cursed the contracting company. Why had they been such dumb fools anyway as to put their bribery on paper. : Even poor silly Molly Reid came with-a few dollars, frightened to death for fear Alton had seen her bottle of AUNOTTA WAL “So that's wha most ready to ask her to say “Yes.” One day the minister called | Paul with $10 in small | Luther Place Memorial Church, will | GLORTA change, collected from God knows where, He had felt that he could not pay the plumber just now. Church collections had been so poor. But on the other hand. he confided to the judge he just could not have the peo- ple know that he| had lost his tem- | per because his | loving, incompetent little wife had | spoiled the boiled dinner — the very day that the plumber had called to fix the furnace grates. | ‘The judgescanned his list and looked up with a broad smile. | “Your name is not here, Parson. I { can't collect from you.” A little dazed, the minister put back into his pocket the money that would | buy food for the coming week. t I'm here for.” |ing figure and only interested in using these gifts and her knowledge of dancing to make her way until | she has the opportunity to utilize | much more valued qualities—her | brains and experienced taste. The | | terpsichorean interlude, as one of our | local penmen described her act, is therefore precisely that for her. So s it for Trisault, whose story we save | for_tomorrow. Proudest moment of Miss Hackett's | life: When she opened in Denver ! stock and the newspapers topped the | | dramatic page with “Vaudeville Head- liner Appears in Denver Stock Com- pany.” The others of the cast were | merely Sylvia Sidney, ingenue; Albert | Hackett, juvenile; Fredric March, leading man; C. Henry Gordon, heavy. R.B. P, Jr. RECITAL TONIGH;I'. Malton Boyce, director of the choir of St. Matthew’s Catholic Church in | Washington and member of the fac- ulty of Sisters College of the Catholic University, will give a pianoforte re- cital in the Music Building audi- | torium at the university tonight at | 8 o'clock. Mr. Boyce will play com- | | positions by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Palmgren, Lavallee, Rubin- stein, Mokrejs, Liebich and Liszt. The public is invited, SPRING CONCERT. proving rural water supplies have been | started in England. ‘ VERNON Steel E: ity of on Steamer on DAILY — 10 AM.-2 P.M. 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HOLLYWOOD, Calif.,, May 23 (#)— Lumsden Hare, English film actor, was | painfully injured, and Anita Louise, blond screen ingenue, was dazed but unhurt when both were thrown from their horses during taking.of a movie scene yesterday. Galloping past the cameras, one of | the horses stumbled and collided with | the other. Ry DIAMOND IDNEY LUST Among the last to visit the judge’s | popular office was Mary Holt. Aggres- | sively she stalked into the room with | | money to pay for the stationary tubs Alton had installed for her six months | previously. Judge Wilson grinned a | trifle maliciously as she gave the dirty | | greenbacks a longing look before handing them to him. ) He would have laughed in unholy glee had he known that she remem- bered Alton was at her home the day that she sold to a second-hand clothes vender the best of a quantity of cloth- ing turned over to her for charity. In the meantime what had become of the would-be blackmailer? Sallie Rudder, the village gossip, reported, after a call on Mrs. Alton, that Fan- nie did not know where her’ husband was. Said that he had taken his gun and driven off, to be gone until the 1st. By the 31st everybody who owed or thought they owed Alton a dollar had called on the judge. About noon of the 1st a muddy car stopped in front of the rambling old | frame building which furnished office room for most of Bartley’s profes- sional men, and John Alton ran nim- bly up the dingy stairs. “Hello, Judge! I'm back.” “So I see,” and the judge handed iIcl:m a qumm{' of bills, checks, and oose change, along with the kage left in his care. * P There was a broad grin on Alton’s lean brown face as he checked the list. The grin changed to an saudible chuckle when he came to Pat Conley’s check. It was almost a shout when he saw Mary Holt's name marked in full.” paid “Well, John, don't you think you owe me something besides my fee for all of this. Open the package. 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