Show Anna nna t i i Herbert Herber Wilcox I Captivate i Writer By Bur Burdette ette Jay HOLLYWOOD INS INS Did Did you ever see people you just knew you wouldn't like and then meet them and be captivated I That was our experience with Anna the star and Herbert Wilcox the star director two noted in our midst Several times we looked in on onsets onsets sets of No No Nanette the well known piece Mis Miss and Wilcox are doing We didn't care to meet Miss for no particular reason nor Mr Wilcox although we thought we had good reasons in his case We have no strong prejudice against foreigners being pretty I tolerant of oL thing and people but Mr Wilcox's accent and apparent apparent nt arrogance and conceit were just justa a bit too oo thick for us Which shows how far wrong we can cart be for Mr Wilcox accent and andall andall andall all is neither arrogant nor con con- We finally were introduced to Miss and Wilcox between scenes by Nat James the demon publicist and they took us right into camp pronto and without half trying Miss proved to be one of the most gracious and delightful delight delight- ful fui as well as beautiful persons that weve we've met in years of touring touring tour tour- ing while Wilcox turned out to be be first exceedingly intelligent intel Intel- second very interesting and third and last the soul of courtesy and charm We never were so far wrong on two people As we watched them doing a scene we thought of the old dog eared adage The show must go goon goon goon on for fox never was it better Illus Illus- The sequence called for light happy portrayal by Miss and of course the same kind kinq of direction from Wilcox And that's the way the scene was made although the directors director's and stars star's minds must have been filled lied with horror for on that alt alt- rt the Germans were delivering ering ring one of their heaviest bomb attacks on on London blasting and b burning the city and Miss and nd Wilcox knew it knew It-knew knew that their heir homes relatives and friends were under the searing barrage but jut did not know their fate Both oth played their roles while the cameras were were grinding but their deep distress was very evident between between be- be tween takes They wouldn't talk about bout the war but Miss did id say that she had received a aletter aletter letter etter from an aunt in England a letter ietter which left her with mixed motions emotions emotions Imagine it she said in a perplexed perplexed per- per voice Im simply beside m myself self with worry over my fam fam- ly liy and my aunt writes serenely for or me not to worry a bit about them hem that she and my little niece had lad a lovely week end some place but ut that their train was delayed four our hours That's all nothing about bout how they're faring or how they hey are f Wilcox made some Interesting observations about English and American pictures and audiences and he certainly should be an authority authority au au- au- au I for he has ma made dozens of pictures 14 with Miss alone mostly in England In the United States he said he has to make much faster pictures than in England a- a 4 Mv 7 i y n J 7 77 7 I 7 p 5 I I Anna na Ne gl s P Proves ves to be most gracious del delightful and bea beautiful |