Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1935, Page 6

THE EVENING S TAR, WASHINGTON, Melcher in Filmland Among the Stars Being One of a Series of Hollywood Chronicles by The Star’s Dramatic Critic. Editor’s note: This is the thir- < teenth of a series of articles by E. de S. Melcher, dramatic critic of The Star, who is in Hollywood to tell you how the film folk work and play, and to write of the production activities in the big studios. Another article will be published tomorrow and each day thereafter as long as Mr. Melcher remains in the moving Ppicture capital. BY E. de S. MELCHER. OLLYWOOD, Calif., September | I is not an unknown sport. Rumor has it that when Di- an extra $5,000 or so, instead of flaunting it with a caviar-and-catsup braus, he hies himself to a musty little bookshop and there sinks his fancy. Joseph Schildkraut’s Holly- wood library is said to house thou- walls of Dick Powell's new Taluka Lake estate are lined with books rang- Hurst's latest romance. Robert Montgomery is. however, the collecting drifts into a single channel. Over a lunch of chicken soup, milk Max Beerbohm and his essays col- lected in “Around the Theater.” In stopped working, both of his eyebrows had risen to new and quizical heights derment and excitement he had said: “Those are my Bible.” ter which he wrote for the London Times are only half of it. The mere name brings forth salvos of eulogies from a man who not only collects him as well. For years Montgomery has been on pennies into anxious book collectors’ laps and building himself one of the finest gallery, that this country or any other boasts. Montgomery visited Italy this Sum- mer he was invited for tea by the They were asked at 5. At 10 they were still there—Mr. Beerbohm being that his manuscripts had found such a pleasant homing place. JNsTEAD of an hour's discussion | concerning “my next picture,” do on vacetion” “what I do when Tm not on vaction” Montgomery to which he has devoted probably as | much time as he has to the newly he is president—and with which one | of Washington’s favorite actors, Don- Furthermore—after browsing ver- bally among the Beerbohm higher- erley Hills home—and there, after a thunder and lightning trip in his look at with great admiration and on | which the Marx brothers have hung into a library which few know lboul—" 30.—Book collecting out here rector Al Green has an extra dime or festival at one'of the gilded hauf- coin in whatever yarn may suit his sands of rare volumes—and even the ing from Plutarch’s Lives to Fannie only person we have run into whose and crackers mention was made of an instant Mr. Montgomery's jaws had and with an expression of both won- | Mr. Beerbohm's essays on the thea- mention of this distinguished writer's Beerbohm, but has read every line of this secret treasure hunt, pouring his finest Beerbohm galleries, if not the Not only this—when he and Mrs. Beerbohms at their villa at Rappallo. undoubtedly very well pleased to hear * Kk X % “how 1t feels to be a star,” “what I spoke freely and feelingly of & hobby | formed Actors’ Screen Guild—of which ald Woods, is also vitally concerned. points, he suggested a trip to his Bev- new English car, a car which people | many & Marxian slur—he initiated us | and which & good many less have seen. The south wall of his large living | room is devoted to his books, and| there Chaucer finds himself next to| the Rackham edition of “Midsummer | Night's Dream,” and the last of the many shelves is devoted exclusively to | Mr. Beerbohm. | Mr. Beerbohm is handsomely bound in red morocco—and there you may see great portions of his original| manuscripts in his fine, legible and also occasionally blotted handwriting as well as “firsts” of “Zuleika Dob: | son” and other popular works with which you are undoubtedly familiar. | On his living room walls may also be seen several of his original draw- ings—one of an old critic and a young | critic particularly delighting Mont- | gomery’s soul. We were doing the rounds of further | volumes and paintings when a smnll’ voice said: “Hello, daddy”—and there stood 2!5-year-old Miss Montgomery in the doorway, a cunning little girl with a blue ribbon in her yellow hair, hugging a villainous looking pig dol, | 30 R and accompanied by her nurse. After proper and formal introduction and | |a chance to note the resemblance be- | tween daughter and father and a| minute of admiration for the pig, she was led out into the garden to play and it was time for us to depart. In the meantime, however, we had seen a new side of one of the screen's most popular gentlemen—and an able | and sensible citizen besides. He is said to be as thorough in his screen acting as he is in his book collecting—and if he is pleased over his Beerbohm | | collection, why then we don’t wonder that Mr. Beerbohm is pleased, too. School Group to Meet. SILVER SPRING, Md. September (Special).—The Association of the East Silver Spring Elementary School will hold its first meeting of the vear to night. Maj. Frank L. Miller, president, will announce standing committee per- sonnel and a budget will be adopted. Parent-Teacher | Reports on Drive Due. ARLINGTON, Va. 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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, ‘1935, State mental hygiene commissioner, and Dr. A. O. Gillis of the Johns Hop- kins University, examined her yester- day in her cell. They issued a state- ment that they found that Mrs. Bux- ton appeared to be “mentally sick.” To Go to Grand Jury. Even though she has been com- mitted to the State institution, her case will be considered by the grand Jury of the October 21 term of court, it is understood. Beck, in his letter to Judge Keating, also said that if snd when Mrs. Bux- ton is brought to trial, a plea of in- sanity would be entered. NEW “TORSO MURDER” DUMFRIESSHIRE, Scotland, Sep- tember 30 (#).—A double “torso mur- der” mystery confronted authorities here last night with the discovery of two heads, four arms and four legs wrapped in paper parcels in a ravine 2 miles from here. ‘The heads were believed to be those of a man and woman. A newspaper used as wrapping one of the parcels bore an early gptember date. . 5. RED MENACE AT BY IPGRAY Assistant Labor Secretary Addresses Richmond Holy Name Session. By the Assoclated Press. PORTSMOUTH, Va., September 30. —An indictment of communism and & warning ‘against its growth in the United Sta.es was given by Edward F. McGrady of Washington, Assistant Secrejary of Labor, in an address be- fore the sixteenth annual convention of the Holy Name Soctety of the Rich- mond diocese in the City Auditorium here yesterday. The convention was in session throughout the day. Electing officers at & business session, —— tions and selecting Roanoke as the convention city of 1936. A thousand men, representing Holy Name Societies in communities in every part of Virginia and part of West Virginia, heard McGrady brand communism 8s anti-American and anti-God. “No one can be a good Catholic and a Communist at the same time,” said the speaker. Hugh McGra® of Clarendon was chosen president, succeeding Timotny Halloran; Walter Murphy of Lynch- burg, vice president; Thomas D. 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