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Child of the Devil

...she drives men

CRAZY!

HOWARD HUGHES

Vendetta

Harring

FAITH DOMERGUE

George DOLENZ * Hillary BROOKE * Nigel BRUCE

R.K.O. Radio Pictures

TO-MORROW AT 11.30 A.M. AT THE KING'S

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SHOWING

TO-DAY

AN INDIAN PICTURE

Beginning The Bette Davis Story. When The Sun Shone Through The Rain In Hollywood

It began with eleven world-shaking words..... "Wait a minute, wait મા minute: you ain't heard

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They were spoken by Al Jolson in the second reel of a film called "The Jazz Singer." It was the first talkie. It was 1928.

Two years later, in Ber- jin, von Sternberg was finishing a film titled "Blue" Angel with a star called Marlene Dietrich. In Paris, Rene Clair was making "Sous Les Toits de Paris." ·

In Hollywood, the film city was watching the fade- out of the stars of the silent screen. Studios were discovering that actresses who made big money in the silents were "not suitable" for the 'talkies. Acting ability wns

longer enough; something more was needed and that some- thing was a good talking voice.

no

All over América talent scouts began to look for new names new speaking faces.

It was a scout from Universal pictures who wandered into Bette Davis's dressing-room in New York during the run of a play called "Deep South." He was the second to arrive.

a

Sam Goldwyn had sent man. His V.sit resulted in screen test and one piece of ad- vice: "I suggest," he said, you get your teeth straightened,"

The man from Universal got the benefit of his rival's advice and signed Bette Davis lo three-month contract. She went to Hollywood with her mother. She remembers that it was rain Ing.

Bette Davis as she is today.

She Was rushed home to "The following year," she re- mother who nursed her day and members, "was the most miser- night for two weeks-applying able of my life. I didn't know wet boracic pads, to her face what to do-which way 10 every fifteen minutes.

turn."

Bette was 14 when she was entered for Cushing Academy.

But thero was always mother. She took a house in Connecticut,

a co-educational school-where spolled her daughter-and fin- for the first time she began to ally took another job in New find 2 real interest in acting. York so that she could pay for Lois Cann, the Academy's Bette to enter John Murray dramatic coach, cast her as lead Anderson's Theatre School, in a production of Booth Tar- kington's "Seventeen." She She was accepted, worked played opposite a student named hard and eve ually carried off

O. Nelson-the Harmon

a scholarship mon

The other side whom, ten years later, she was of the footligi... came nearer.

In Bette's cinse that year were se eral other youngsters who were later to become big names of the American screen. There were blue-eyed, blonde

to morry.

She graduated when she was 10 and went home to new house which her mother had taken at Newion, Mass., "for a

year of practical education in the art of housework."

It had been raining In Lowell, Massachusetts, twenty-two years carlier when Ruth Elizabeth

At the end of that "irksome" Davis was born in an old tim- year Barbarn went off to college bered house in Chester-street. Bette and her mother left for Her father-Harlow Davis-was New York. a lawyer, the son of a Baptist Minister who ran a college for negroes.

Farm School

"By that time," says Betic, "my mind was set on a stage career,"

So for os she was concerned, New York was the centre of the And Miss Davis, all of -19, set off to conquer.

Two years later, Barbara, her world. only sister, was born.

There is nothing in the early Stardust In Her Eyes

story of the two girls that points

to the future until Bette was eight years old.

She was 19, stage-struck- determined to be a star,

Joan Blondell, Anita Page (de- stined to become the star of America's Arst

sound- big musical "Broadway Melody") and a long-legged, jawed determined youngster by

square

the name of Katharine Hepburn (then studying dancing in order to learn to walk gracefully).

Meeting Muni

Another

serious young man

classmate was

from the Jewish theatre. His name was uni. Neither he nor Paul

Belle guessed then that they

were to meet again later as the big-name-stors of a film call- ed "Juarez."

After two years at the school

They were packed off, that And to any girl with stardust year, to Florida, in charge of an in her eyes Mecca was on 14th Bette moved on to a job with a old family friend. They re- Street.

stock company at Rochester. Eva Le Gallienne had taken Mother summed up the situation the cultural ellte of New York

and

in with a plece of came by storm with her brilliant pro- advice.

"Learn the parts of both lead. ing Indies," sold mother. "On

turned home to find their parents arranging divorce,

"I saw my father few times ductions at the Civic Repertory after that," Belle recalls. "He Theatre.

farm school and went off to

was not wealthy and though the Batte Davis haunted the the opening night the girl who funds provided by the terms of theatre, the divorce were sufficient for Gallienne until she finally got leg."

pestering Misa Le plays the lead may break her us to live on, mother decided to an appointment.

And it is a fuct that on open- find some way of eating out her Income,"

She wore her newest clothes, ing night leading lady Rose crossed her fingers and went off Lemner sprained her ankle.

"When I was told of Miss with mother to try her luck.

says Bette, first thought was

My God. did this

to her." Mother, of course, did not.

But a foretaste of the tem- perprent which was later to ser!g of 10 A

of Hollywood Jead "I can see your attitude upheavals put an end to glory Mrs Davis plays a big part in towards the theatre is

not in the company. Belte wanted to on playing leads. Director

She placed her daughters in a There was a part to read-that Lerner's accident" New York to become a profes of an Old Dutch Woman. The

Mother Gallienne listened sional photographer.

great Lo while the girl tried to play the part of her life.

Then she delivered her ver- dlét

First Part

- Santa

yourself for

again.

the Belle Davis story. She it sincere enough to warrant my was who detected her talent at giving my time. to you. an early age, encouraged it have not prepared

You George Cukor, thought otherwise stood by as guide and adviser this Interview. You are a fi and Bette, was out of work and saw her eventually became volous little girl." the highest paid actress ia

There followed a small part What was Betty's crime? She in New York a larger one in Hollywood.

had failed to "swot" for the absen's The Versand an Ducker When Bolle was 10 it was test and she had admitted as name in the her mother's nursing which much.

offer of a job at Cape Cod. Sho went, but only to find the man who

had engaged her had done 20 without authority.

made her career possible. This was the great occasion – when

Bette played her first part-as

Despair

Santa Claus in a Christmas tree A good mang millions have After this she went back to ceremony. She struck a match passed through 14th Street since New York-played in "Broken to light the candles. The flames that day, but Bette · Davis has Dishes”—then "Deep South,”

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