Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1935, Page 15

AMUSEMENTS. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1935. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., Best Actresses Have Urge To Make Characters Live I Vilner Star l Elizabeth Patterson Says Beauty Alone Does Not Make a Star—Tells of Struggle - » : . _ : " Against Family’s Prejudice. ] : , A \ g (Elizabeth Patterson, well-known artist of both stage and screen, s guest columnist today for Mollie Merrick. Miss Patterson answers the question so many of her fans have asked her: “How did you happen to go on the stage?”) BY ELIZABETH PATTERSON. HOLLYWOOD, October 23 (N. A. N. A).—Two types of girls usually have ambitions to go on the stage—those whose beauty 1s outstanding, and those who look forward to learning the art of depicting various characters | and making them live for others. The girls in the second category usually | become the really fine actresses ofu stage ol; :c‘rrceln. le_\ough the beauties often 2 develop acting ability in proportion to their loveliness, which makes the P’ - & 3 - {des] combination. — Don’t miss this last opportunity to share fully in the T've often heard it said that people | . 2 . A S ihia s Cone! bl niee, tpec LRI L8 1008 (apprenticesbip dn the tempting array of exceptional values offered on the oc- Vi before others bl | B ple who love to get up before OUDerS. savannah, Tenn. T longed to g0 on | casion of our 76th Anniversary! and put on an act, 4. |the stage. My father and the rest| Professional life in order to be noticed. | o F8FL L R RIS OO ally dis- This is probably true to some €xtent. |, c0q’ toyarg the “show business,” too, and I, for one, would not dis- |y 0o "o Ty 4 i1 | s ad to keep my ambi- credit people of éh": U'l;ei i“ 1‘,'“““‘31' | tion to myself. people this isn't distasteful at all and | "y o™ Martin ¢ College and has led to the development of latent | o mpia ‘Ingtitute in my hor:;e State talent that has made them highly | ng gnneared in amateur theatri- successful. cals, but so opposed was my family Acting Medium of Creation. |5 the theater that, by the time I fin- But the real actors and nctresses!’shed school, I nad seen only one ONLY 2 MORE DAYs (A A New Ultra-Modern AGP FOOD STORE 109 11th St. S.E. Featuring a Complete Line of Groceries, Fresh Meats, Fruits and Vegetables. S| BELLA BALERINA Is the leading lady of the famous Vilner Troupe, which will be pre- sented in a play Sunday evening at the Jewish Community Center, AMERICA’S MOST POPULAR COFFEES way eventually led to Hollywood, where I have made pictures for the last four years, dividing my time have a deeper urge than this. If they | jooirimate play. aren't reasonably endowed with good Jooks, they have to have a very strong urge indeed, or they wouldn’t put up with the hardships of trying to shape | an acting career. For them, acting is a medium of creation, not just the excuse to be the center of attention. And” those who have the urge just have to act, regardless of how they look. To tell the truth, one can’t be com- pletely unattractive and get along in any line. You may be short on looks, but you have to make up for it in charm and intelligence. Then, too, many players who appear homely on the screen nevertheless are exception- ally attractive. It just happens that they don't appeal to the camera. My own screen career was backed Pierce Hal Stage Has Ibsen Play «wild Duck” Is Given With Sincere Work by Players. THE Pierce Hall Players’ production | “The Wild | of Henrik Ibsen's Duck,” presented last night and to be repeated tonight at Pierce Hall, is about equally between the camera and the New York stage, to which I return for part of every séason. So that's how I happened to go on the stage and how many of my con- temporaries got their start too. I've often thought that the great beauties of the theater have it harder than the others, as they don't get the chance to act as soon as the others do. Pro- ducers often fail to take them serious- ly, thinking it is enough to let the Studied on Inheritance. After graduation I was sent to| Europe to forget the footlights, and. of | course, spent most of my time in the the European capitals in going to the theater. An inheritance left to me by my grandfather gave me financial independence enough to go to Chicago and enter dramatic school there, later joining the Ben Greet Shake- | spearean Co., with which I played a 1epertoire of 23 roles. A long and varied career on Broad- Conrad Veidt *THE PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK. Labeled by ‘““good women” as g?od-for-noflning .« . But he saw in them . .. nothing but good Reserved «'e;ul:“l:‘n‘uh::-fl;:fle at the Wardman Park Shoreham Carlton Willard Mayflower Also at the Theater Box Office Seats reserved for Fri- #% day Evening ONLY— Regular prices start Saturday, 11 A.M. emiere performance es audience just look at them. (Copyright, 1035 by the North American ewspaper Alliance. Inc.) WORLD PREMIERE BEG. 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Whether you believe it or not youll wish it could be truel help from the roles they are doing. *The Wild Duck” provides interest- LIONEL ing tasks for an amateur cast. . There is Gregers Werle, the ideal-| §st who inadvertently wrecks the | ives of Hjalmar Ekdal and his wife. | Linna. and causes the death of their The story of @ man _th re- turned from the spirit world daughter Hedvig, all because he tries to take them out of the depths and to redeem the mess he had made of life. . build their marriage on truth. Gre- gers is done well all the \A'a}'vthruugh and better than well at times by Francis Koonce. 4 Charles Bell also does a fine piece ©of work in his interpretation of Ekdal, whose life was built on illusion, but who would have been passably happy in it had not Gregers stepped in to right what he considered wrongs of the past and arouse suspicions of his wife in Ekdal's mind. 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