THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1934.
TRIPLE LIFE ROLE OF SCREEN CELEBRITY
By JULIA CHANDLER'
THEN,-a few weeks ago, Now much of romance and charm that
WHO the first producing the marital happiness of the dis-
eliurt of Charles MacArthur and tinguished couple has not received, Ben Hecht in a motion picture so much as a dent through the Their called "Crime Without Passion," pursuit of separate careers. written by this celebrated pair of love and faith and loyalty have clud single them both in a protective armour playwrights, I doubt if a person without foreknowledge left against which the cheap Infatun- the theatre aware that one of the tians af Hollywood have beat in foremost atars of the American vain. stage and screen played a "bit" in which she spoke no word, and in which she was seen by the audience for Acarealy mord than the flick of an eyelash.
Their respective work has kept the MacArthurs much apart, but no matter what the distance between them he talks to her daily over the long distance phone, and is untiring in the delightful surprises with
Last 'in a motley crowd of "exitas," doing nothing more im-which he fills her experience. portant than to sit allently in the
When she crosses the ocean with- lobby of a hotel, without so much out him MacArthur manages fresh as un identifying gesture, Helen flowers at Helen'a plate cach day. Hayes is scarcely recognisable innst autumn he was on the Pacific const when she was in New York the swit action of the film.
Yet her presence there tells a rehearsing with the Theatre Guild the title part of "Mary of story far more human, infinitely for more important, than that unlded | Scotland", but the fact that they by the authors of the spectacular were separated by the width of a production in which she thus incontinent did not deter MacArthur consequentially appeñrs.
Broadway said it was an amusing gesture made by a famous star,
To me it was ton saturated with Algnificance 10 be particularly amusing, being, as it is, a clear index to the motivating forces in both the personal and professional life of Helen Hayes:
First of all, it was a loyal and loving gesture to Charles Mac. Arthur, and to the marriage which has withstood all the reductions of Hollywood.
It further indientes her freedom! from the pride and egoism which so often attend celebrity.
from arranging a birthday party her by telephone from Lok for Angeles. When he makes her [ if it is always surrounded by delightful mystery, and he is pos- sibly the one husband in the world who never forgets an anniversary.
Knowing all this, I was not sure prised when Helen Hayes told me winter that she valued her art marriage above her career,
A WHER one considers that Charles MacArthur is the dominant factor in her domestic happiness there is again nothing astonishing in the fact that the star of "Mary of Scotland" volunteered to dt un And it loudly proclaims the strusively in a hotel lobby as an "extra" girl when MacArthur and charming simplicity of " public favourite to whom arrogance and Hecht found themselves suddenly in concert would be so easy were it noted of someone for a "bit" in the midst of their first moving pleture for her exceptionally level head,
production.
MARRIAGE AS CAREER
As I watched the revealing episode in the MacArthur-Hecht cinema my memory switched me to of Inst winter
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FIRST APPEARANCE
I have known this gifted
as a child, since she lived, Washington. D. C. In fact, I review. e her first alage periorinative au
When I sat across a luncaqnit The Prince and the Pauper", when from Helen Hayes, watching the
she made her porfessional baw at glad light creep into her blue eyes, the age of eight.
Since that dis- a radiance wrap her like a
taat yesteryear she has skyrocketed lovely, iridescent mantle when
15 dizzy heights of fame and asked her a question which touched.
popularity. Neither has spoiled the wollsprigs of her being.
her. She is still the same shy, un- suming, ingenuous child 1 knew then.
just after she had given the stage the Lunching with her
most poignantly beautiful charac- terisat 201 of her career as tragic heroine of "Mary of Seol- land."
I found the rare quality of her heart and mind, unimpaired by the eulogy accorded her perform ance by press and public alike.
"Can a woman make a success of marriage and have a career at one and the same time?" I wanted to kuow,
If I couldn't the earcer would end to-morrow," the young wife of Charles MacArthur assured without moment's hesitation. And meant it.
me
Her appearance as na "extra" girl in her husband's first producing effort for the screen la proof of just how much she meant it. I appreciation her portrayal of Sent-
While he was happy over the
Soaring from Ford airport, Detroit, the balloon gerézing Jean Piccard and his wife, Jennetis, fo- ward the stratosphere, is shown at the left, a few minu'es after it quit the ground. The condola appeari aquare because of the attached sandbags. At right the ground crew is shown clinging to the ropeajust before the takeoff. The Piccards hope a ko solve the my....eży of cosmic jays.
Lt. Colonel M. Hammond Smith dismounts to'exchange greetings with his friends, Colonel and Mr. Stewart in Shanghai. Lt. Colonel Hammond Smith is commanding officer of the lat. Battalion
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and Colonel Stewart is a former officer of the regimani.
credulorily.
"The explanation is quite simple,"
may seem to the casual observer and queen had received, Helen Miss Hayes informed me.
¡Hayea did not go back on rae SOLES
but a trivial thing for an Interment she had made to me a few nationally fumous star to have done months earlier that she prefors the for the man to whom sne i marri ed. but it is, in reality, a big and screen to the stage.
Asked why, in that case, she had significant thing because it typifies come all the way to New York from the attitude of Helen Hayes toward California to appear in the Maxwell her marriage and her career, and Anderson opus, Helen laughingly told me she has never been able to resist literary quality in a play.
her sane valuation of each.
NO ONE TYPE
the Dream Girl in James
£60,000,000 Estate Claimed
England had been clamouring for him to return to England to pro-) secute the claim,
The estates are, presumably, the Angell and Stockwell Estates.
"When I was offered my first
Reputed to be worth £30,000,000, picture contract, I had become that
these estates comprise several pernicious thing in the theatre Mr. Bert Stockwell, of Tacoma, known as a type. I made my first Washington, who sailed for square miles in South London, outstanding New York success as land recently Ont board the In 1930 sixty claimants met at M. Duchess of Bedford from Avebee, Bristol to endeavour to find the As much as Miss-Hayes loves
'said that he intended joining his heir. A committee was formed to her art she loves her husband, her
I have always loved beautifully larrie's 'Dear Brutus. She was a relatives in carrying on igation examine the claims, and claimants was the tender, wistful child of Barrie's to claim an estate reported to be were asked to trace back their five-year-old daughter and her manipulated words. It home so much more that she would terary quality of the Barrie plays imagination and 1 adoreil her. valued at £00,000,000, unquestionably sacrifice her whole which so enticed me. It was the brillant career should it for a lovely, tilting lines
of Molnar's Nevertheless she proved a stumbi- moment even threaten her domestic, The Good Fairy which intuenced ing block to my development because claimant, and that his relatives in to furnish copies of documents, happineza.
my appearance in that piece. And she stamped me in the eyes of the,
It was when she was playing in it was the literary quality of Mary New York managers as an ingenue "Coniette" on the New York atage of Scotland' which decided me to of the wistful type. They jumped that Helen Hayes married Charles accept the offer of the Theatre MacArthur, Because of the quality, Guild to come East for the produc-at the stupid conclusion that, be of his imagination, his deep sense tion.
cause I had injected a nota of poign-
of romance and his great originality "Just the same I find in the ant pathos into this make-believe he made a fascinating sweetheart.novies' a fuller expression for my heroine of the famous English play. He has been no less fascinating as art than I have ever found on the
a husband. When he asked Helen stage. As a matter of fact I owe
to marry him he expressed a doubt that he would always make her happy, but he felt safe in promising her immunity from boredoin,
KEPT HIS WORD
MacArthur has kept his word, filling the subsequent years with ag
my greatest professional progress to the screen," she told me.
Remembering the condescending approach most stage stars mako, to
frank Hollywood-in
admission that it is the larger salary which lures them thoro-I sat regarding my luncheon companion a little in-
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wright, I could do nothing except that type of part.
While I have loved my Barrie heroines as I have perhaps loved no others, and while I don't in the east mind painting wlatful por traits, I do object to being shut up to any one type of part. That was just what was happening to ne when I got my first movie' contract. Once in a great white i nad been given an opportunity to play a strongly emotiviral rale- such as the horaine of "Cajuette-- [but it wasn't often, and even when:Į I had such chunces, stagn directors invariably expected me to weave some sort of wistful spell around them.
me.
"Well, Hollywood, gave me a chance to graduate from the wisti ful Ingenue to a great variety of roles which developed every side.of It also gave me the greatest directorial thrill of my life. As you know, I've been-on the slago since I was 8 years old. 1. bad many directors before I went to Hollywood. Some were good, some bad and others just indifferent. In pictures It was the same until I met Frank Borsage and began work uhder his direction in A Farewell to Arms. He is a great genius. and I owe the most satisfying ex- perience of my entire career to his direction in that picture. It did more to advance me artistically than everything that had over happened to me before in, all my- Hlfo," Mina Hayes told me.
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