Show SjP' ulaj o Simla tThc Morning Jul Suit Cult tribune 10 1939 F to - Efrei Monte ‘ X r ' tK V V o s c ft :c USI 4x last is refits a you're the ag M c i Inspiri 9 IS d I Ma lular $1 hampoo 50 spe z Asks Boxoffice Success George Brent Who Reveals Here His "Mystery" Role After the Day's Work at the Studios 4 t 1 & among Brent’s best friends are actress Bette Davis shown with him in oval at top and pretty Olivia de Havilland in bathing suit :1 Ity Lucie HOLLYWOOD movies may be gone forever there ue plenty of silent stars in 1 hey aren't the of pre talkie days They re euirent favorites whovc screen careers and pi iv die lives down to the list detnl are interesting to millions of fans It doesn't mailer tbit on the vieen thrv vns and eloquent air the most eonvmung In lollies When the y aie coineud on a set oi in an interview room — inmninnly called the toiluie chamlxr — live i at gi Is their tongue With some of them it's obvmudy nilurd — they're lerally dumb from shyness in ability to make easy conversation fear of siving someWith otlieri it's an act thing out of turn And with sonic just jltm don't give a d imn 1 hey t dk only when if ami to whom they like In a recent poll of lolly woosTorrC'j ond ddv was voted the most difficult enls Nelson Introduced to an out of to interview actor like be as "buie !y is as not to say (owner 1 remember your town -- worn! bold I ever " Another time and another idler flayed in (I amusmg slones virvvir may find him reding many I them on himself Joan ( nwford dieted the rm t difficult ailie'S to interview is uncomfi italdy umsiious cf fans’ avid intuct in hei divorce and srl f I nflu of r lecent Conscious filling rreoij Is Hie sees only well recommended correspondi nts then speaks caution ly and afterward bu anxious moments sundering whrlhrr she bn sud too nnidi T SILEN EEN 01 1 dso who fully usi 1 1 npnds h r and Po psticl in r Powda h Numbered c f ram tint In t Tone is politely monosy II due him (nitlonina their ro its mlerv irv ejs rue tound their necks Don Aim die although "Why don’t you just write whatever you want h ou know what people like to about me5 to read " With so little assistance his studio publicists have fallen back on live strong and silent legend which suits Brent afl right "I think Actually it amuses him a lit'le I know why they write that kind of tripe about me” be said "It’s because I don't go anyI come to work I go where or do anything What can they home have dinner go to bed about that’s a write guy like me? interesting "But I know I don't get along well with "I can’t help it and people” he admitted the only way I know to keep from offending more people than I do is to see only the ones I feel comfortable with" These best friends aie a queer mixture Bette Davis Brent's stand in Jack Jenks Greta Garbo professional Ribbrr and Actor Albert Morin Olivia de Havilland miners be met at Wraverville while making “Gold Is Neillc as agreeable as possible and anxious to please simply hasn’t tlte gift of easy chatter his first press agent resigned in disgust because Ameche was so inarticulate Spencer Tracy teeters back and foith on a chair snapping his gum and answering "Yeah Let’s not talk about that No I guess so" Kay Francis while a star at Warner Brothers refused to see any outsider during production Moie agreeable now tint bei contract was not renewed and she still suspiciously sires she is free lancing and knits funously so that she visitors all set up can't be approached for a casual conversation Irene Dunne also refuses set interviews preferring to crowd several into an afternoon when she is at leisure I isn't always the star’s fault wlien he or she During the gams an uppity reputation miking of "Marie Antoinette" Metro's publicity department tiftocd arm ml and let visitors waKh Norma 5htarer only if they were bid den behind a btindi of oMnch plumes and Mns bhrarcr not accussitin hrop'kn Is tomed to such revcirnt treatment felt lonely and divouiagrd finally asking the script gul After why nobody ever diojped m to see her that she Im k matters in her own hands ami w hrnrver o siw a lurking viilor would and wave him over delighted at the chance T yoo-ho- to t ilk Grets Gaibo's famous silence was sludio-nnente- d to shield her heavy accent and limited Aho studio tnsde is knowledge of I nghsli George Bient'a rrputitnn for Icing a strong silent min with a romantic d pist -- a Iiwhm ill f moods bluk-biowe- JL t & 4 - £ '$i Another close friend of Brent and a tar just as silent is Greta Garbo I he k airier Brothers’ ballyhoo boys uwi ally corner him for one dvy during a pictuie and under prmiding get enough facts out of him for a number of stories that are doled out At all times he is reticent and carefully fiecjuenlly surly about answering questions on lus romances past and prevent his activities m Irish politics his deceit hideout and personal tidbits such as lus favorite color and delicti Willi oulsidetj he miy be picas s nt ami he 5omrtimrs he jut iiys "ves" arid rrny n't ‘no" (I hr Rarrlv u) W c K M tu mvy iu siigge h intr I I In I helpfully A ) Where You bind It” navy flyers at Pensacola one studio publicity man actors Patrir Don Terry and John Payne and Knowles Stuntman Don Turner It is Turner who sometimes goes with Brent to the actor’s vacation place a mystery hide‘ I don't go into retire out from his studio the mrnt in great i pen spaces" Brent said "I've just got a shack on about 12 acres o ground halfway between Hollywood and Palm l hen the studio Springs — and no lelej hone has to reach me rny agent can get me through Ami Im nut tvk the Palm Springs anport the South Seas al to secret cruise any ing lvrn a trip to Honothough I would like to lulu was cut slvort because I was called back lot a small part in ' The Old Maid' then I tame directly over here to 20th f ox on a loan ‘ for I he Rams Came ' "And that's why I'm nursing this lev" he said regndgig I of scalding some disgust 'Brcauvc for 10 days irge It tup with we have been soaked m studio rain The earthquake and the love scenes come later” IlS being borrowed for the best role in Rains Came" is proof of how Brent'i From unscreen fortunes have risen lately hero distinguished roles of the noble the actor within the last two years has been ih characters — clashing cast in Rbett-Butle- r and unscrupulous but chivalrous scoundrels "Gold Is Where You Find It” was his first of this series "Jezebel" brought even more popularity and "Wings of the Navy" followed "Dark Victory” a boxoffice success definitely I - two-fiste- d him on top a handsome leading man is Inescapably gossip coupled with his current levdmg woman as Brent now is with Bette Davis Gossips now have nothing to go on except guesswork and occasionally seeing Miss Davis with the actor Hollywood is betting it will end titer e His three previous marriages have ended in divorce He hubs bis sentimentality and lus soft spots His studio knows that bis as much as be can was killed but no pure Doberman It doesn't know that Brent found more details the dog crawling home its skull fractured and that lie didn’t sleep for three nights afteiward "I've been flying since 1925 when they were using condemned army cratrs and you could get a pilot's Iicene with 10 hours of "I was playing in tok soloing" says Brent U hy did I want up in New England then jvut r to fly? Beiause I was afraid to That isn't self discipline" lie denied "I just don't like to be s ared to death "No I'm not superstitious I just know lint fiery tune I've gone against a bunch or invtimt or wlntever you want to call it — with limes or wiih prop!r--I'- vf got into tiouble X mi ve pot to like ’em the fust tune you see I cm si |