Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1936, Page 12

EVEN GRANDPA FORGETS HIS RHEUMATICS WHEN SIMONE SIMON APPEARS 3 BY E. de S. MELCHER. | OLLYWOOD, Calif., August 21.—Begia right now rehears- | 3 ing the name of Simone| Simon, who hit Washington | today in “Girls Dormitory.” Gene | Markey says she is “the greatest| screen find since Fred Astaire.” | We were lunching yesterday with | Mr. Markey in the Cafe de la Paix | on the Fox lot when, suddenly, lunch | ore or less fell to pieces. Into the yoom walked a little girl no taller thnn\ Janet Gaynor with frizzled lightish hair hanging loosely around the neck, | & blue sailor suit, a small tumed-up‘ nose and a pair of eyes that sparkled from one end of the room to the| other. 'In an instant, the entire| populace had put down its knives aad | works, opened its mouth and stared | such a stare that any one but a movie | 6tar would have run out of there like | & rabbit. But not Mlle. Simon. In her young, eager, elfin way (“she is sometimes | called a wisplike Janet Gaynor,” said Mr. Markey) she marched boldly to ® table in the center of the room end sat down next to a Mr. Ralph Blum. Mlle. Simon not only galvanized that lunch room, but she has gal- vanized the 20th Century-Fox lot and Hollywood besides. Brought over here almost a year ago from France where she starred in a series of French films, she was taught Faglish, the American style of acting and other things until it seemed time to plunk | er upon the world. Now she has| bloomed with such a bloom as only §outh and exuberance can give. Shy Despite Her Success. " When she came over to the table to say hello to Mr. Markey and his ests she was reasonably shy, but 4lso evidenced a courage and a cock- suredness that comes with success in Pictures. She talked with an accent, #miled the smile of prosperity and #aid a lot of nice things that indicate ¢he is still young in the business. She wasn't in the lunch room long— but during that time life seemed to | Bave popped up from all corners, old‘. men had grown young and some of’ the old gals had wistfully reached | fnto their purses to get a look at their fading cheeks and shiny noses. Mr. Markey is one of the ever-in- #reasing group of writers who has turned producer. He has pitched his tent at Twentieth Century-Fox, within & stone’s throw of the elegant quar- ters that once belonged to Jesse | Lasky, and he intends to write and be a producer all at the same time. He is a great Hollywood booster, fnasmuch as he believes that “the fllms present one of the greatest me- | diums ever devised for story telling” and better than writing for the movies, he says, is producing, “because in that way you are able to follow your story | from start to finish and not see it torn to shreds before it appears on the screen.” © Married to Joan Bennett, at present working with Cary Grant in a new film at Paramount and hence not able $o wander over for lunch, Markey is one of the most popular people in | of individuals is % & MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION W 34 1408 H ST TR BMATE NN W o ON THE SCENE / pictures. Lunch for him is a con- tinual round of bowing and shaking hands. Suddenly we looked up and there was Mrs. Hardie Meakin floating by in a new green hat with little Hardie. We waved, yelled, jumped up, sprang up, sprang down—to no avail—she was snatched away in a cloud of admirers and we saw her no more—(Hardie where are you!) Next to Mile. Simon greatest inter- est locally is being shown in a young star who isn't here at all. Her name is Nova Pillbeam and you may have seen her last Winter in a film at the | Belasco called “Little Friend.” 1 Miss Pillbeam has grown a little older since her “Little Friend” days, but not too much older. She is the star “Nine Days a Queen,” a Gaumont- British picture about Lady Jane Grey, which some prefer to “Mary of Scot- land.” It tells the story of the young girl who ruled England for only nine days, and while it doesn't always stick precisely to the fact, it is done with great good taste and presents Miss Pillbeam in by all means her nicest role. ‘This is a picture which, while it lacks so much as a vestige of humor, it presents its assortment of kings and queens and notables with excellent in- sight into character and King Henry VIII and Little Edward and Mary Tu- dor and even the proud face of Queen Elizabeth, which lives only as a por- trait on the wall are all paraded by so that you will remember them. The toast of the picture is, how- ever, its 17-year-old star (that's all she is.) The Hollywood praise that has been sounded in her behalf should havé reached England by now. 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After viewing “Nine Days a Queen” last night & call came that the Donald ‘Woods were back from vacationing at Laguna Beach; that Jean Muir and Lynn Riggs and Jerry Asher were dancing in the blossom room; that Mae West was back from the desert; that Jean Harlow was still in bed with that sunburn fever; that Una Merkle, the Frank Shields, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Jimmie Stewart, Har- riet Parsons, and Michael Bartlett would attend the party that M-G-M's Kay Mulvey is tossing for us later this week. So—to bed—feeling swell. o TO CLOSE SEASON ‘The Washington Civic Orchestra will make its final appearance at the Sylvan Theater this season on.Tues- day night's program. With 8. Page Pord conducting, the orchestra, which has been heard in Summer festivals at the theater under sponsorship of the Community Center Department and National Capital Parks, will play the preliminary concert. % A double bili of drama and opera will be offered, with the play, “A Game of Chess,” by the theater group of the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion, and “Cavalleria Rusticana,” by the Estelle Wentworth Opera Group. The program Tuesday will begin at 8 pm. KILL Dethol WHAT COULD BE MORE DOUBLE SIZE FAMILY SIZE g GOLD CUP CRUISE SHOW PROGRAM ANNOUNCED “Singing Cop,” Boys’ Club Per- formers, Dancers and Opera Chorus to Take Part. An all-Washington cast will be pre- sented in a floor show on board the steamer Potomac next Thursday night when the President's Cup Regatta Association holds its annual Gold Cup Cruise. Henry Nestor, “singing cop” of the Washington police force, will be one of the artists featured. 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