Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-10-28 | Page 8 | Sheilah Graham:

Sheilah Graham STARS STAR'S BAD MEMORY AIDS SCREEN PLAY PIA Y HOLLYWOOD Oct 28 The Great Man Votes John Barrymore Barrymore Bar Bar- is the star star star-In in the movie movie- and on the set John is wearing a dirty dressing gown and powdering powder powder- ing his legs from which the pajamas have just been removed He plays an ex-college ex professor gone to the dogs via ye yo olde bottle As usual the blackguard is very much In evi evi- dence How are you going to do that play in New Y York rk John if you cant can't remember a few lines at ata a time But it is a lesson Jesson in acting to watch Barrymore speak his dialog with one eye on the blackboard which of course is be beyond beyond be- be yond the camera range He says a few words pauses glances round the room picks up the blackboard and is back into his scene as though the pause were part of it What an actor Music Costly Spring Dance Maureen O'Sullivan has to float through a large gymnasium and whistle The Blue Danube To make snake sure Maureen Maureen Maureen Mau Mau- reen whistles The Blue Danube and nothing else Sam Sara er of the Metro music department plays the tune off Its these copyright laws ex ex- plains Studios have to pa pay for every bar of music used in pic pie tures Metro paid to Warners' Warners for the right to Look for the Silver Lining But got their own back when Warners' Warners wanted Tiger Rag owned by the music publishing publishing pub pub- lishing firm owned in turn by Metro pUb pUb-I They wouldn't let Warners' Warners have t tat tat tat at at any price Metro paid for 16 bars from I And Madame Butterfly only Girl Is Like 1200 for A Pretty a Melody They didn't think it would catch on said Sam Aids Child Actors Little Virginia Weidler has to push Pappy Barrymore into a chair He shows her the best way to do doit it John is that strange anomaly among movie He likes acting acting acting act act- ing with children and actually coaches them in an spotlight stealing How do you like that Mr W. W C. C Fields Producer Cliff Reid I is wildly excited over his star and story Its as good as The Informer Informer Informer In In- InI I former says Cliff who produced it And as cheap which believe it or not is very very cheap for cheap for Hollywood I The Three Musketeers i Will You Come Into My Trailer said the spider to the fly fly I I mean Harry Ritz to your reporter The craziest of the Ritz brothers is positively handsome in his blond waved wig and dashing musketeer ensemble Wait until Robert Taylor Taylor Tay Tay- lor br sees me he giggles t. t I Maureen O'Sullivan k She has to fo whistle Blue Danube on set