Show STARS IN THE SPOTLIGHT w w BY ETHEL VINE or or among the many skillful character actors in hollywood henry oneill stands out for his por per odthe of the typical american Americ hn male whether he is playing a banker lawyer or doctor the quiet dignity of his characters combined with forcefulness and directness makes him akin to vast numbers of gentlemen comprising his audience eyen his appearance as a slim straight conservatively dressed man with graying hair bair and faintly aristocratic fea features is true to the consert con conservative conventional type of american business or professional man tortilla flat perhaps this is the reason oneill works so consistently in addition to the fact that he is is an air excellent actor with a quiet rather than flamboyant style he always has a keen understanding I 1 I 1 HENRY ONEILL of the man he is is playing recently oneill has appeared in portent important roles in such outstanding pictures as johnny eager the bugle sounds and born to sing currently he is playing in this time for keeps with the young juveniles ann rutherford and robert sterling at present he is working in tortilla flat co starring spencer tracy and hedy lamarr 0 oneill neill hails from orange new jersey where his parents settled after their parents had come to america from ireland As soon BOOR as young henry had finished his formal education he joined a stock company then playing in orange and got his training doing bits and small parts the world war came along and he served in the navy ild he is very active in naval veterans affairs broadway star following the war he came to new york and appeared on broadway in such as john ferguson the hairy ape the great god brown th the e last mile jarnegan the squall lind a repertoire of irish plays artistic oneill lives in hollywood 0 1 00 I 1 ith his wife and daughter patricia he says he would like some d day a y t to 0 c iii act pictures one of his favorite actors is spencer tracy and actress ctr s katharine hepburn his hia favorite playwright is eugene oneill to whom hom lie he is is not related but who Is a close friend of his ho IV first knew eugene when he appear appeared edin in his plays on broadway he is interested in sculpture and architecture and is a talented musician |