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LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JULY 24 1'938 — T 1T yn T Seeking a comeback the German star needs films that will make the fans sorry for her role flopped and a the glamor-gir- l again-f- or return to beaten-by-fat- e parts is indicated S' y :J- ) -f x Paul Harrison HOLLYWOOD ARLENE DIETRICH is in a Standing as she docs tough spot at the crossroads or maybe the detour of her career she scarcely can escape a good deal of critical estimation and of her stature as an actress a glamor-ga- l of movietown A group of exhibitors already has protested her as a Paramount "pojsonality" personality box-offi- discharged her whopping sum last December NOT to appear paying in her a “French x-- 'X A ' n v r - v & X H sJU i 4 fvVin - f T f f versationalist But during formal interviews in' her mirrored dressing room she always has been monosyllabic and terribly terribly bored Before an interviewer was admitted he wae her pledged not to mention her husband the Von last Sternberg or (during daughter About the year) Douglas Fairbanks Jr she has her liuir about said ever only thing band for publication was that she did not intend to divorce him Rjjslolf Sieber a blond young man with an studied preoccupation sometimes visits When he Hollywood for a month or two does he makes up a threesome to premieres apd right clubs with his wif? and whatever escort she has been going about with lately Miss Dietrich often has attempted periods of Garboesque silence but she has been quick defense to anger lashing out m Paramount publicists often were busy trying to that had filtered squelch stories of flare-up- s out of the studio An influential director told this reporter: "Most of us who are her friends have begged her never to give any interviews or make any Marlene has a statements about anything for the things" always wrong genius saying I Without Tears “ With her salary reduced with at least by half she is under contiact No longer the box-offic- her enjoyment "I of a Holly wood ON STERNBERG had a simple formula for tuning her to a desired emotional pitch He’d simply criticize and mg'her to tears She'd He’d run to her dressing room and cry it out lead her back to the set Then she’d work Incidentally although these two were the victims of some vicious and unwarranted stories there never was any indication that their low-prof- it ‘ drama-glamori- box-offic- Marlene and her husband Rudolf who goes' tKreesoming with his wife and her current escort when he visits Hollywood Sieber But Paris hooted lier off fi'hion was born the streets and prompted her to ttfn detei Legs came in handy then mincdly feminine association Was anything more than an artistic infatuation Certainly there was no indication And only of tender feeling in his bullying — — be involved not to sentiment seemed pride when they parted No director h is bullied her since then Ernst Lubitsch who made “Angel” her last picture and a resounding flop never flared at Fie arher or even said a scene was bad the with cameraman and ranged a secret signal he when snapped his fingers it script girl But to the meant “Don’t print fhat take” actress he would say “Very good Miss DieNow let’s do just one more for protrich tection and this time look a little' naore away from the camera" All players want closeups but she demanded She also wanted to face the camera in them every scene thus forcing other players to turn away from it There were so many of these shots that Lubitsch feared audiences might foiget what Miss Dietrich’s leading man looked like So when she left for Europe he made (Coi riK lit 1038 she is right-mistre- ss star of "The Blue Angel” glamorous Marlene finds e that she has lost appeal with her extra Even that apparently does not diminish pounds options to Columbia And so Holljwood is wondering what now? Observers of the movie mdustiy have been insisting that thefe is nothing wrong with Miss Dictuch nor with any of the other hgh-pa- y stars that good stories and intelligent handling cannot cure How will she get along with Frank Capra her next director? Will she insist upon following the poses and rules laid down for her by Josef Von Sternberg whose cinematic creation she is? Will she be cast in stories of’the type that were so successful early in her career? Miles of essays have been written about her but the answer qualities as a is more easily read from the scripts of her pice returns in all of her tures and their successful films she was a futile figure strugShe was dominated gling against gieat odds by the circumstances of her stories But Miss Dietrich didn’t like being dominated Instead of a haunted abstraction of woe a lovely specter of despair she became a calcuAnd the" customeis weren’t sorry lating exotic for her anymore And what of her celebrated legs Hollywood wonders? The actress herself never has decided whether they’re good publicity Still make to assigned photographers “leg art" might be sent away with nothing one day and the next day have to caution her against revealing more than the Hays Office allows Her wearing of trousers she always insisted America was just because she liked them and a new informal gaped and gossiped almost buxom German full-cheek- ed LTHOUGH becoming an American the citizen star sometimes has shown confor Americans There was the time that tempt Lisa Maxwell of New York society’s parties went to Europe and won worldwide f attention for herself by naming the 10 most charming gentlemen she had met abroad This seemed like a dandj? opportunity to publicize Miss Dietrich by having her name the 0 most charming American gentlemen But she made no selection's and her reply to the suggestion was not released to the press What she said was “I have not met any gentlemen in the United States” When she came to Hollywood in 1930 Miss Dietrich’s figure and accent were much heavier than they are now Bewildered but she mostly just said “Ja” Von Sternberg had her gowned coiffed put on a diet and delivered into the- - hands of a masseuse and make-u- p expert Once she had plenty of money and incentive the actress proved that she knew how to dress both fashionably and glamorously Studio costumers and department store salesgirls often have been flabbergasted when called to help her with fittings to see that when she peeled off her street dress she was wearing absolutely nothing under it Her studio never was permitted to publicize some of the warm human qualities of Miss Dietrich Her doting motherhood has been one A party retakes of some of the scenes with the camera the pointing toward Herbert Marshall and past back of Miss Dietrich’s stand-i- n Some members of the movie colony are Set that Miss Dietrich will be ting found patient gracious and cheerful m her new It s true that in the association at Columbia past while woiking on loan from Paramount to other studios she has appeared happy and agreeable English fans and writers idolize her and they are inclined to regard as malicious fiction all stories from Hollywood which represent her Her work as being difficult or temperamental "Knight Without Armor” for Alexander Korda was marked by especially jolly relations Also by the gleeful inciwith the company in she tried to step dent m which into a soapy bathtub and slipped and sprawled d crew nude and giggling before the towel-shield- pop-eye- rilO though Hollywood correspondents “Legs” Dietrich always has been the Introduced to a most unpredistable celebrity writer on the set she might chat pleasantly or abruptly walk away?" Again she might gra ciously acknowledge an introduction to someone who had come to inteiview her then turn back to her mirror and primp for an liour without any further notice of the squnming visitor Among friends she is an fble and gay con 1 good-nature- d forbidden subject Her talent as a cook She lovei is another to prepaie and serve complete dinrers for half a dozen frieitds Her cakes arid soups are especially famed locally but shc'wvanls nothing punted about them I am a glamor-vvoman- ” to Paramount press agents she has protested “not a hausfrau" |