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Show "Blockade" At Cameo Theatre October 2 and 3 William Dieterle hates war and everything connected with it. He prefers musicians, scientists, nurses, doctors, writers and painters as the heroes of the pictures he directs, and his greatest successes have been stories with such heroes "The Life of Louis Pasteur," "The White Angel," "Another Dawn" and "The Life of Emile Zola," which last was acclaimed the best film of 1937. Yet when Walter Wagner decided to make "Blockade," his romantic drama set against a background of war torn Spain, which co-stars Madeleine Ma-deleine Carroll and Henry Fonda at the Cameo Theatre on Sunday and Monday, October 2 and 3, he chose Dieterle to direct it. For, although the civil strife in contemporary Spain provides merely the background back-ground of the story and the plot is told without taking sides, it is war that emerges as the real villain of the picture. And Wanger felt that Dieterle's hatred of war made him the ideal man to direct a film whose villain was war. Dieterle was born in Central Europe, the ninth and last child of very poor parents. He came to Hollywood to act in and direct foreign versions of pictures. pic-tures. He did such a good job that he was soon put on English-speaking productions. He has a rambling home atop one of Hollywood's hills and a library stacked to the ceiling with books-all books-all of which he has read. He admits he knows absolutely nothing about business and his affairs are handled by his wife, the former Charlotte Hagenbruch, who was a famous actress ac-tress in Europe. She is regarded as one of the shrewdest business women wo-men in Hollywood. Dieterle is Hollywood's biggest directorstands di-rectorstands 6 feet 4 inches. He has dark hair and deep blue eyes. He directs a picture with the quiet almost pleading gestures of an orchestral or-chestral conductor and helps his actors ac-tors to better performances by never losing his temper or indulging in a temperamental outburst. He always wears a sweater and white gloves while- directing. |