1934-11-30 — Page 17

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

Work saw the first producing the marital happiness of the dis-

ohort of Charles MacArthur, and tinguished couple has not received Bon Hecht in a motion picture so much as a dont through the called "Crime Without Passion," pursuit of separate careers. Thair written by this celebrated pair of love and faith and loyalty have clad playwrights, I doubt if a single them both in a protective armour person without foreknowledge left against which the cheap infatua- the theatre aware that one of the tions of Hollywood have beat in foremost stars of the Amorlean vain. stage and screen played a "bit" in which she spoke no word, and in which she was seen by the audience for scarcely more than the flick of an eyelash. Lost in

a motley crowd of "extra,

"doing nothing more im portant than to sit silently in the lobby of a hotel, without so much as an identifying gesture, Helen Hayes is scarcely recognisable in the swift netion of the Gim.

Thoir 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 which he flus her experience,

When she crosses the ocean withs out him MacArthur manages fresh flowers at Helen's plate each day. Last autumn he was on the Pacific const when she was in New York Yet her presence there tolls. a rehearsing with the Theatre Guild story far more human, infinitely for the title part of "Mary of fact that they more Important, than that unioned Scotland", but the

| from arranging a birthday party for her by telephone from Los Angeles. When he makes her gift it is always surrounded by delightful mystery, and he is 709- sibly the one husband in the world who never forgets nn anniversary.

by the authors of the spectacular were separated by the width of a production in which she thus In-continent did not deter MacArthur consequentially appears.

Broadway said it was an amusing gesture made by a famous star.

To me it was too saturated with significance to be particularly armusing, 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 hns withstood all the seductions of Hollywood.

It further indicates her freedom from the pride and egoism which so often attend celebrity.

And it loudly proclaims the charming simplicity of a public favourite to whom arrogance and conceit would be so easy were it not for her exceptionally level head,

MARRIAGE AS CAREER

AB 1 watched the revealing epizode in the MacArthur-Hecht i

A WHICH

Knowing all this, I was not sur- prised when Helen Hayes told me ber lost winter that she valued marriage above her career,

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 sit ostrovy in a hotet lobby as "extra" girl when MacArthur and

echt found themselves suddenly in need of someone for a "bit" in the mhist of their first moving picture production.

FIRST APPEARANCE

.

I have known this gifted girl as a child, In cinema my memory awitched me to since she lived.

ก

erisp noontime of inst winter Washington, D. C. In fact, I review.

when I sat across alter

from Helen Hayes, watching the glati light creep into her blue eyes,

1

The Prince and the Pauper", when ed her first stage periorimice in she made her porfessional bow at

and radiance wrap her like a the age of eight. Sines that die. lovely, iridescent mantle when tant yesteryear she has skyrocketed asked her a question which touched, to dizzy heights of fame and the wellspringa of her being.

"Can a woman make a success of marriage and have a career at one and the same time?" I wanted to

know.

popularity. Neither has spoiled her. She is still the same shy, un- 5suming, Ingenuous child I knew then. Lunching with her just initer she had given the stage the most poignantly beautiful charac-

"If I couldn't the career would

terisation of her cafeur that 100 end to-morrow," the young wife ui

tragic heroine of "Mary of Scot- Charles MacArthur'assured me without a moment's hesitation.land," I found the rare quality of And meant it.

Her appearance as an "extra" girl In her husband's frat producing effort for the screen is proof of

her heart and mind unimpaired by ance by press and public alike, the eulogy accorded her perform-

While he was happy over the appreciation her portrayal of Sent-

Souring from Ford airport, Datrol, the balloon carrying Juan Piccard and his wife, Jaanatle, 10-^. ward the stratosphere, is shown at the luft, a few minutes after it quit the ground. The gondola appeare square because of the attached sandbags., At right the ground crow is shown clinging to the ropes just before the takeoff. The Piccards hope to solve the mystery of cosmic rays.

Li, Colonel M. Hammood Smith dismounts to exchange graslings with his friends, Colanel and Mr. Stewart in Shanghai. Lt. Colonel Hammond-Smith is commanding officer of the lut, Battalion

The Royal Inniskilling Fusillers and Colonel Stewart is a former officer of the regiment.

Credulously.

The explanation is quite simple,"

just how much she meant it. It land'a queen had received, Helen Miss Hayes informed me. may seem to the casual observer but a trivial thing for, an interlayes did not go back on the ide nationally famous star to have done she had made to me a few for the man to whom she is marr-months earlier that she prefers the

rereen to the stage.

ed, but it is, in reality, a big and Asked why, in that case, she had aignificant thing because it typifies the attitude of ficien Hayes toward her marcinge and her career, and

her Rane valuation of each.

the way to New York from California to appear in the Maxwell Anderson opus, Helen Laughingly told me she has never been able to

£60,000,000 Estate Claimed

England had been clamouring for him to return to England to pro- secute the claim.

NO ONE TYPE

The estates are, presumably, the Angeli and Stockwell Estates... **When ̄ 1-was-offered-my-first picture contract, I had become that

Reputed to be worth £50,000,000, these estates comprise several; rernicious thing in the theatre Mr. Bert Stockwell, of Tacoma, known as a type. I made my first Washington, who sailed for Eng.quare miles in South London. ол boord the In 1930 sixty claimants met at As much as Miss Hayes loves resist literary quality in a play.

outstanding New York success as land recently the Dream Girl in James M. Duchess of Bedford from Quebec, Bristol to endeavour to find the her art she loves her husband, her "I have always loved beautifully Barrie's 'Dear Brutus.' She was a relatives in carrying on litigation examine the claims, and claimants

said that he intended joining his heir. A committeo was formed to: five-year-old daughter and her manipulated words. It was the tender, wistful child of home so much more that she would literary quality of the Barric plays imagination and

Barrie's to claim an estate reported to be unquestionably sacrifice her whole which so enticed me.

valued at £60,000,000,

were asked to trach back their brilliant career should it for a

it was the Nevertheless she proved a stumbl

He said that he was the oldest pedigrees as far as possible and moment even threaten her domestic The Good Fairy' which fanuenced ing block to my development because claimant, and that his relatives in to furnish copies of documents, happiness.

It was when she was playing in my appearance in that piece. And she stamped me in the eyes of the "Coquette" on the New York stage of Scotland which decided me to

it was the literary quality of 'Mary New York managers as an ingenue that Helen Hayes married Charles, accept the offer of the Theatre of the wistful type. They jumped i 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, of romance and his great originality

lovely, lung lines of Molnar a

I adored her.

cause I had injected a note of poign- "Just the same I find in the ant pathos into this make-believe

heroing of the famous English play-

wright, I could do nothing except that type of part.

he made a fascinating sweetheart. movies a fuller expression for my ile has been no less fascinating as art than I have ever found on the u husband. When he asked. Helen stage. As a matter of fact I owe to marry him he expressed a doubt my greatest professional progress that he would always make her to the screen, she told me.. happy, but he felt safe in promising

Remembering the condescending

"While I have loved my Barrie her Immunity from boredom.

approach most stage stars make to

heroines as I have perhaps loved Hollywood-in frank ndmission no others, and while I don't in 'the that it is the larger salary which ¦ least mind · painting `wlstful por- MacArthur has kept his word, lures them there eat-regarding traits, I do object to being shut filling the subsequent years with so my luncheon companion a little

KEPT HIS WORD

NEA,

Her goal New York city within 60 hours, Union Pacifio's naw stream lined train is shown ready to leavs Los Angeles. Powered by Diesel motors, the train weighs loan than one'third the conven- “tional-typa^al^steam÷tralss.”

to any one type of part. That was just what was happening to mu when I got my first 'movie' contract. Once in a great while 1 had been given an opportunity to play a strongly emotional role- such as the heroine of 'Coquette'-- but it wasn't often, and even when I had such chances, stage directors Invariably expected me to weave some sort of wistful spell around them.

"Well, Hollywood gave me a thance to graduate from the wist- ful ingenuo to a great variety of roles which developed every side of me. It also gave me the greatest directorial thrill of my life. As you know, I've bein on the stago Aince I was 8 years old. I had many directors before I want to Hollywood. Some were good, some bad and others just indifferent. In pletures it was the same until I met Frank Borsage and began work under his direction in A Farewell to Arms. He is a great gontus, 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. lfe”-Miss-Hayes told me, sie

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