Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-23 | Page 7 | Claudette Directs Herself; She's Ace Megaphonist

DIRECTS HERSELF SHE'S ACE I t 1 Graham HOLLYWOOD Nov Yes 23 My f Darling Dar arling ling Daughter Priscilla L Lane does a piece oo of ot crochet work and discusses it love with your corre corre- Sure its as to easy get love here as any other lace I but there just isn't time me for r place that l sort of thing i have ave ha had f fewer p dates in m Hollywood than an Where else in m my life When Im I'm e ing I not 0 working have about two dates a T Ts s' s l F t. t ti t I i r at i Priscilla Lane Work doesn't give II her time for love week But none when Im I'm in a picture I Priscilla makes pictures nine months out of the 12 So her annual annual an an- nual date score is 25 But surely when you and Wayne Morris Morris- Morris Morris-It I wT begin Dont Dot talk taUt to me ab about t Wayne Morris Morns says Priscilla hastily hast- hast ily Tin Im All AH Sick sick to death of the sub- sub that publicity It wes was I awful wf I i Another thing Priscilla has against publicity is the press agents' agents desire to call her a girl But what are you then I ask You tell me replies Priscilla I think hard A A budding girl like girl like Hedy Lamarr I tell her Really Really like like Hedy Lamarr and Priscilla lights up like Uke a Christmas candle then candle then sighs wonderful wonder wonder- ful Isn't she I wouldn't mind be beIng being being be- be ing a girl if it I could look like Hedy Midnight Claudette Colbert watches Director Mitchell Leisen while he shows her how to play Claudette Colbert Fine fine she compliments him briefly briefly and and then does the scene her way Claudette Claudette Claudette Clau Clau- dette is a better director for Claudette Claudette Claudette Clau Clau- dette than the best in inthe inthe the business She knows what she can do and do-and and what she cant can't If they leave her alone she does a good job Miss Colbert's hair for Midnight is a hangover from Zaza masses Zaza masses of red-gold red curls that deduct 10 I years from the actress' actress slightly- slightly over 30 age John Barrymore is i Claudette's opposite in this scene scene- which takes place in a fashionable bedroom The dialog blackboard is there as usual but John somehow continues to blow up just the same Every time this happens he says in a funereal voice Once upon a time there was an old man who had hada a long beard Everyone smiles smiles- except Miss Colbert Union Pacific Cecil B B. deMille de deMille Mille is in the saddle saddle saddle-i. i. i e e. e straddling straddling straddling strad strad- the camera boom As usual he wears riding boots bright green shirt tweed coat