Show Pout Costs Bette Davis Role In Mountain Justice Drama By SHEILAR SHEILAH GRAHAM I U Copyright 1936 by The Salt Lake Telegram HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD Before Before her pout with her studio Bette Davis was scheduled to play the screen role in Warners' Warners Mountain Justice Justice Jus- Jus tice ice grimly portrayed in real life by Edith M Maxwell Instead looking fragile Josephine Hutchinson gives a movie imitation of the mountain miss who killed her father with a slipper and was sentenced sen- sen to twenty-five twenty years in jail I arrive on the set just as George Brent the Brent the lawyer who saves Miss Hutchinson from the electric chair knocks chair knocks out a tough mountaineer annoying Miss HutchInson Hutchinson Hutch- Hutch inson and her young sister Marcia Jones of ot These Three fame Quiet the kids up there shouts Director Curtis Curtiz to the children on the set Because of ot his mispronunciation mispronunciation mispronunciation of ot the English language Curtiz Curtis can always be ba relied upon to supply the come comedy y relief of ot his pic- pic tures ures Too much chin your chin your emotion emo- emo tion ion is all in your chin he t tells the he troublesome mountaineer The reprimand makes the actor nervous and he blows up 10 times I dried up 19 times when appearing appearing ap- ap earing in Purchase Price with Barbara recalls George Brent When you get that way the he only thing to do is to stop wOl working ng for a while rib Til have enough money in two years rears to retire from the screen and live ive comfortably for the rest of ot my iny life ife Brent continues But Ill I'll keep on working until 1942 when my contract expires with Warn Warners rs The Irishman dislikes picture work The works work's too hard Ive I've only had four days off oft this year My only excuse is money The presence of Miss Hutchinson dissipates the gloom caused by Georges George's words You look too frail to kill a man she is told When its it's a matter of ot killing brain not brain not brawn u is is what counts she replies Tons of ot rain rain from from a network of sprInklers are are pouring down on Burgess Jurgess Meredith and the reproduction reproduction reproduction of Brooklyn bridge in R O Winterset Director Al Santell and his camera crew rew are protected with oilskins plus lus an awning over the c camera mera buggy Dolly on wheels on which they hey are crouching The rain is heated but Burgess Meredith sneezes and San Santell tell hastily commands commands commands com com- mands the rain ram to be turned off oft The shooting of the picture is near- near ipg ig ng its end and it would be a catastrophe catastrophe catas- catas i if it illness of the star player held up the finish I IA A happier scene is being enacted on another stage in the same same studio Gene Raymond clad in pajamas and dressing gown is having hi his head rubbed by Ann Sothern in a avery avery very public bathroom Gene has t tsay to say Dye know ow I never had a woman mother moth r me But he f forgets repeatedly the simple line Th The subterfuge is revealed when Gene Gen says the line correctly and asks th the director to do it over again as h he enjoys having his head rubbed b by Miss Sothern Someone should page Jeanette MacDonald |