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Show McCLINTIC FIRST SAW CORNELL BACK IN 1917 Katharine Cornell's only Impression Impres-sion on her future husband Guthrie Guth-rie MoClmtie when he was a budding bud-ding drama talent scout was "Interesting, "In-teresting, monotonous, watch." I Kvidently McClintic was wrong in his appraisal of the young actress as "monotonous" because first thing he knew he was court-j court-j ing her on a park bench In Detroit, ; according to an article which he ; wrote for the April Issue of Cos-i Cos-i mopohtan magazine. It was back In April 1917 when MoClmlie first saw Miss Cornell, he reveals. "The place was the old Comedy theater in New York where a gnmp of young hopeful actors were struggling to get a start," he states. ' I was a producer's assistant out scouting new talent. f Katharine Cornell w as appearing in her first important role. No one in the Broadway professional pro-fessional theater had ever heard of her; up to that time she had been in one play as a voice off stage and in another as an old Japanese woman who opened her mouth jut once to say 'My son. my son!' This night she appeared without an old woman's make-up to mar her strange beauty. Her dark hair lay in soft curls at the rape of her neck Her eyes were deep brown, her mouth full and expressive. Her features were nl-; nl-; most Oriental. I thought, yet her skin was pale as a lily. 1 "Cosid her name on my program pro-gram I pencilled the comment. ( Interesting, monotonous, watch.' A fine thir.g to write about one's future wife." |
