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Freddie Bartholomew at 12 Decides on Writing Career; Yearns for Country Home Boy Screen Star Has Pal in Cocker Spaniel Given Him by Constance Collier; Likes to Ride Horses, but Cissy Fears for His Safety. BY FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW A* Told to Rt'TH M’TAMMAVY Times Special Writer "Cissy and I live in rather a small house, but it is very convenient to the studio where I have to go nearly every day. Shall I take you first around outside? “You see, there is nothing unusual about the architecture—it is really Just another stucco and tiled roof California house —but we have three bathrooms. That is indeed a luxury; sometimes a large 18 or 20-room house in England will only have one bath. But those houses, of course, are very old ones. "There is too little space between the house and the street to play, because my dog Concol would most certainly run out in front of an automobile. ,

"Concol was given me by Miss Constance Collier, who often comes to see Cissy and me. She is the very great English actress, you know, and a dear friend of mine. This little cocker spaniel she gave me I named for her—Concol—the first three letters of her two names. “She tells me of her wonderful experiences in the theater playing Shakespeare and Ibsen and then I get quite confused and think perhaps I will remain an actor after all, although I would love to write. Thinks of Future “Having just passed 12 I have started to think seriously about my future. This probably is my last year as a boy actor and perhaps my last year of acting. Cissy thinks that we will go back to England so I can go to school and college. “I should miss America terribly, but on the other hand I have made up my mind quite definitely to be a writer. You see I met Mr. H. G. Wells and while he was here I thought I would like to be an historian. It is rather difficult not to be influenced by such great men. “Then, when I talked to Mr. Hugh Walpole, I thought I should write stories. Os course, I could prepare for either of those careers here as well as in England, but I was born in England so I expect I shall always be British. “There is a small garden in the back and a veranda. If you like flowers, we have a few. Dog Is His Shadow "Concol is a very friendly animal and while I am at home he is a sort of shadow of mine. I’d love to have more flowers. Have you ever seen the English countryside? Remember those thatched roof houses along the road —all vine covered and earh one with a garden! But I am home so little and these are about all Cissy and I can take care of. "Look at Concol running around, trying to get his exercise in a 20 to 30-foot space. You see clearly what I mean—he needs a big field. Cockers like to hunt. In England my grandfather has a lot of land and grows things—flowers, vegetables, fruit. "When I lived in England we used to visit my grandfather quite often. Peter, a cousin of mine, lived right next door and we built a house in a high tree. We built it all ourselves and then we used to raid the pantry for things to eat—take them up into the tree and have a picnic. I must confess that although the house was originally built with the idea of a Robinson Crusoe hideaway, we played little of that game and just ate cookies, mostly. "Peter’s father is a soldier and sometimes we went to his house and played at soldiering. His father drilled us and when I played in ‘Professional Soldier’ I discovered I knew a great deal about being a soldier king. Shall we sit down here on the veranda? Would Like Country Life "Now I do not mind the smallness of this house in the least. Os course, most of the screen stars have very large places. I rather have my things all over the inside and Cissy is not a bit fussy about my habit of leaving my airplanes and electric tracks in nearly every room but the kitchen. Cissy is very understanding in most things. But a boy should ! live in the country where he can hike and play at real games. "When I went to Palm Springs, Cal., I rode a horse and learned how to spin a rope and round up calves. I think the American cowboy is the greatest fellow I have met in America. If I had a farm —I mean a ranch, it has to be a ranch here, you know—l could do all those things on my days eff from the studio. But Cissy says that she does not want me to get spoiled. “She says to friends: " 'I came to Hollywood with Freddie with great reluctance. I was afraid of too much success for a boy as young as he. In his work at the studio, Freddie lives in castles, splendid homes—he has even been a king. But I am determined that he shall not lose the simlicity of surroundings in which the was born and brought up. This little house could be the home of any average American or British boy, and that is exactly what Freddie is—an average boy.’ Can’t Have Broken Arms “Then I say: “ ‘Granted, Cissy, but I have met many boys here who are average boys and they are allowed to go hunting with their fathers . . . they are allowed to ride a spirited horse. I really can not see how those things would spoil a chap.’ “Then she says: " ‘But, Freddie, you have no father here, and riding spirited horses is a bit dangerous for a boy who has a motion picture contract and does not dare have his arms broken.’ “I had a two-mile gallop the other A FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT WORKS PROGRESS ADMIMSTATION ■/ PITU'C PHONE VVLiI In O LINCOLN 9000 FEDERAL PLAYERS in “THE BARKER** HELD OVER BY POPULAR DEMAND NIGHTS. 15c. 25c. 40c. SAT.. MAT., 10c, 20c, 80c. SE& “DO UNTO OTHERS’ WITH CHARLES AI.THOFF AS GI EBT STAR iswarais mpMfcHfrWnimwl Till U**—kiwu-w IDvntmlc Show!—•‘Today” | PAUL MUNI 'V." I Plu—“l Dream Too Much”

day and it was really the ride of my life. In fact, it took me the two miles to rein in my horse and I venture to say that if he didn’t throw me then, he never will. "Oh, well, perhaps we shall go back to England before long and I often paint an imaginary picture j of the home I would like there. “It would be sunset and the sky all aglow with color. A little hill in the distance would be purplish blue. 1 In the foreground would be a little cottage with <a thatched roof and lamp lights showing through the I windows. There would be a fence and a gate and waiting at the gate are cows, horses and sheep. I would be on the inside of the gate, wearing overalls and boots because I have just finished feeding them. After Supper—Writing "I would be waiting just a bit until the sun goes down, then I will say good-night to all the animals, particularly the horses. In the door of the cottage will stand Cissy, smiling because she has just prepared something very nice for supper. And after supper, I shall write another chapter in my book. "True, i have just returned from New York and had a wonderful time, really, but some day Cissy and I would like to go there on a real vacation. You see, this time, I had a radio program, personal appearances and the flu. I was going to fly down to Washington to meet President Roosevelt and then on to Warm Springs, Ga„ where the crippled children were going to be •shown the picture ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy.’ “I couldn’t go. I have never been ill before and it was rather strange to have a doctor and every one saying—‘don’t this’ and ‘don’t that.’ However, I talked to the crippled children at Warm Springs over the telephone and I understand they heard me through loudspeakers. "But when I got better, I went to a hockey game at Madison Square Garden. That was perhaps the most exciting thing I have done since I came to America. "We got in that tremendous place and everything was happening. Someone was talking on the loud speaker and I could hear my name —there were crowds of people and it seemed like every one was yelling. ‘Wave to Them, Freddie’ “ ‘Freddie,’ said Cissy, ‘wave to the crowd.’ 4 “‘I can’t Cissy, I have to hurry down on the ice—l think they want to begin the game and I must throw out the puck!’ “ ’But the people, Freddie, they see you—wave your hand or your hat.’ "They aren't yelling for me. Cissy—it’s time to get on with the game. You wait right here and I’ll throw the puck and run back. Who is calling me?’ “ ‘lt is the announcer over the loud speakers, telling the crowd that Little Lord Fauntleroy has arrived.’ “ ‘Lord Fauntleroy? Oh, yes—quite so—what a place—l’d like to have this ice at the studio—could I skate! I’ll start the game.’ “I wish we had ice skating in California. Os course, one could go to the mountains, where there is ice —if you had time. Likes Pjter Pan Role "Then in New York I played Peter Pan on a radio program. We had great sport at rehearsals—the other children and myself. There are only a few boys at my school on the studio lot, and it was rather a j treat to play tag through the big : corridors of the broadcasting sta- j tion, with so many children. I : should like to play Peter Pan on the j stage—in fact, I want to do it very much, but Cissy tells me I shall | have to wait. • in a week or so I shall begin another picture—‘Captains Courageous.’ "Whatever I do eventually, nothing will be as wonderful as my stay in America. I have been most fortunate; it was the greatest adventure of my life. I hope to travel a great deal—l expect to see the world, but no matter where I .go—there will never be another entrance to New York harbor like the one Cissy and I had when we came from England, on our way to Hollywood to try for a role in a picture, when 10,000 boys had already applied for the part. “Hundreds of letters came to me every week from unseen friends all over the world. I just hope they won’t forget me while I am away at. school . . . and also. I’ll have a longer story to tell you then, because I am afraid the life story of a chap of 12 isn’t a very interesting one." THE END, LYRIC Sk V/ . I “fm IV // Lust / L Days! I one solid hour of \ VAUDEVILLE \ Headlining I A YORK & KING , “Old Family Tin Type” // t STEVE EVANS ///* 'VaV Other Act* SC 1 WiODFF \ If OID MAN A ROCHELLE HUDSON / I

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1— The candid camera caught the three Campbell sisters in action at one of Horace Heidt’s recent broadcasts. The girls are in Heidt’s show, which is to open at the Lyric Friday. 2 "Opera in the Rough” might be a good title for this scene from Shirley Temple’s latest offering, "Captain January,” which opens at the Apollo Theater Friday. She is shown with Slim Summerville. 3 Weeping on Charles Butterworth’s shoulder is Margaret Sullavan, star of "The Moon’s Our Home,” opening at the Circle Theater tomorrow, with “Silly Billies,” a Bert Wheeler-Robert Woolsey comedy, as the second feature. 4—Edward Arnold and Lee Tracy are shown in a scene from “Sutter’s Gold,” the main feature at the Indiana starting Friday. On the same program is to be “Big Brown Eyes,” starring Joan Bennett.

Tech Seniors to Give Play ‘Growing Pains’ Scheduled for Friday Night. lona Schlueter and William Waters are to have the leading roles in the play, "Growing Pains,” by Aurania Rouverol, to be presented by the Technical High School IVZ division of the senior class Friday night in the Tech auditorium. Miss Clara Ryan is director. Others in the cast are Georganne Schilling, Jack Lockhart, Jeannette Uhl. Rosemary Moore, Betty Nuckles, Robert Milholland. Floyd Robinson, John Rochford, Bob McCord, Robert McConnell, Clarence Shannon, Marian Morris, Eloise Linnemeier, Alberta Rogers, Jacqueline Mason, Marjorie McCreery, William Schneider, Darrell Walton, Wilbur Martin, Sam Scott, Robert Wolfe, Shirley Ten Eyck, Joan Schrader, Deloris Stickney, Louise Plummer and Helen Tolin.

WHERE, WHAT, WHEN APOLLO “A Message to Garcia.” with Wallace Beery. John Boles and Barbara Stanwyck, at 11:35, 1:35. 3:35, 5:35, 7:35, 9:35. CIRCLE ‘•The Parmer in the Dell." with Fred Stone and Jean Parker, at 11. 1:50. 4:40. 7:30. 10:20. Also •Boulder Dam.” with Ross Alexander and Patricia Ellis, at 12:40, 3:30, 6:20. 9:10. INDIANA •‘The Singing Kid.” with A1 Jolson, Cab Calloway and Yacht Club Boys, at 11:30, 1:35, 3:45. 5:50, 8. 10:10. KEITH’S "The Barker.” .Kenyon Nicholson’s famous play, directed by Charles Berkell, produced by the Federal Players, with Bernice Jenkins. Jack Duval, Ned LeFevre. Betty Anne Brown. Ira B. Klein in the cast. LOEWS “Small Town Girl," with Janet Gavnor and Robert Taylor, at 12:30, 3:40. 6:50, 10. Also ‘'Moonlight Murder,” with Madge Evans and Chester Morris, at 11:20, 2:30, 5:35, 8:45. LYRIC 'Everybody’s Old Man,” on screen, wi h Irvin S. Cobb, at 11:19 2:05. b.C. 7:48. 10:34. Vaudeville on stage, with York and King, at 1:05, 3'51, 6:48. 9 34.

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Hollywood's Fast and Furious Race to Success Is Marked by Rapid Turnover of Screen Talent

Few Survive for Long the Heavy Demand of Giant Industry. Times Special HOLLYWOOD, April 15.—1 t is a bit dismaying for a veteran actor like Richard Dix to look about and find, in his own studio, only one contemporary among a contract list of 50 players who has remained with him from the days of silent pictures. Mr. Dix’s somewhat rueful reflection was that Hollywood lives on its turnover. Whereupon William Powell, the other survivor, remarked that at any rate, Hollywood turns over. One thing the advent of ‘ talkies” has demonstrated: The picture industry draws in a surplus of talent like a vacuum cleaner. Much of it is drawn from New York, to the annoyance of the New Yorkers who have a stage of their own to keep up. List Has Broadway Ring A glance down the list of players at Mr. Dix’s studio reads like a Broadway first night. There are Walter Abel, John Beal, Eric Blore, Doris Dudley, Fred Astaire, Louise Latimer, Burgess Meredith, Fred Stone, Barbara Stanwyck and Ann Harding, to name only a few. Actors, of course, are not the only theater craftsmen who are brought to the West Coast. Many executives had their beginnings in Manhattan. Then there are such writers as Dudley Nichols, author and newspaper man, who teamed with John Ford in adaptations of “The Informer” and “Mary of Scotland.” Also there is Howard Lindsay, whose specialty is musical comedy; Allan Scott, playwright, who with many other actors and writers, coriimutes between Gotham and Hollywood; and Mortimer Offner, John Twist, Anthony Veiller, Rian James, Brooklyn columnist, and others. The movies, says Mr. Nichols, do better far the writers than publishers and the public may believe. Publishing houses and producers are forced to make at least one trip a year to the movie colony to line up material, which irks them considerably. However, Nichols points out, the writer’s financial future is less of a problem since advent of sound pictures. He does not believe that movie writing damages the more conventional literary product. Fewer directors than actors and _

script men are imported, possibly because the job requires a complete knowledge of the business, including cutting room, camera, stage technique and speech, plus the all-im-portant ability to get the most out of a cast. There are, however, those who have not risen from the ranks. Phillip Moeller of the Theater Guild is

# Opening Tomorrow Circle "THE MOON’S OUR HOME” —Margaret Sullavan, Henry Fonda, Charles Butterworth, Keulah Bondi, Henrietta Crosman. Directed by William A. Seiter; screen play adapted from story by Faith Baldwin. Story—Temptestuous, spitfire movie actress has heard of famous young author-explorer, determines to hate him. He also has learned to despise sound of. actress’ name. They meet, fall in love without knowing each other’s identity, marry, separate, reunite. “SILLY BlLLlES”—Wheeler and Woolsey, Dorothy Lee. Directed by Fred Guiol; screen play by A1 Boasberg and Jack Townley; music and lyrics by Dave Dreyer and Jack Scholl. Story—Two dentists go West via stage coach, land in desert town at dark and open dental emporium. Next morning entire town has gone on gold rush. Dentists pursue wagon train, arrive, only to be captured by Indians. Escaping, tooth pullers rescue companions on verge of general tomahawking.

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one; George Nicholls Jr., Mark Sandrich, director of the Fred As-taire-Ginger Rogers team, and John Cromwell, who, in New York, was both actor and director, Hollywood’s chief requirement is talent, and producers may take a writer of comedies and set him to work on melodrama, or they may cast someone like Franchot Tone, who considers himself best in character parts, as a leading man. Harriet Hilliard Makes Good A recent example is Harriet Hilliard. Until a few months ago she sang in Ozzie Nelson’s band. She had one or two screen tests, and had received a few perfunctory offers, but she did not consider herself an actress, even when Mark Sandrich cast her for a part in “Follow the Fleet.” No one was more surprised than Miss Hilliard at the favorable critical opinion her first role received. But Mr. Sandrich was not in the least amazed. He knew, first of all, that she had ability, and with that start, considered it a good bet that she could act. Despite the example of Miss Hilliard, quick success still is the exception. The average player who achieves recognition does so after spending considerable time and effort at work. So, although Hollywood drafts talent right and left, it lets much of it go. Some go back to the stage, some drop out of the picture, but the turnover goes on. After all, motion pictures are a costly venture. El WALTZ TONIGHT ffl phi |vl Gentlemen 25c Before 9 3 Dutton-DeCautelle Orch.

Shirley Temple 'Ad Libs' . Like an Expert in Latest Picture, 'Captain January' Impromptu Bit by Child Star Is So Effective That It Is Made a Part of Film Which Is to Start Run at Apollo Theater Friday. BY JOHN W. THOMPSON Shirley Temple, in her latest picture. “Captain January," which is to open at the Apollo Theater Friday, takes her place alongside Will Rogers as one of the few movie stars who can “ad lib" in picture scenes and get away with it. In one sequence of the picture, Shirley, who will be 7 April 23. was called upon to sing a burlesque of the sextette from “Lucia” with Guy Kibbee and Slim Summerville. The trio sang it without words, substituting "la-las.” With the cameras grinding. Director David Butler observed that Shirley was having a difficult time reaching the higher notes of the song. He was ready to shout "Cut!” when suddenly the child star frowned, waved her fists in the air and screeched:

"Too high! Too high!” right in time with the music. Because it was a burlesque and Shirley's naturalness added rather than detracted from the scene, Mr. Butler ordered the mistake to be left in the film. You'll see it twice in the picture. "Captain January” contains much more of the Temple tap dancing than others of her films. Her partner this time is Buddy Ebsen, whr. with his sister, Velma, made a bit with their dancing in "BMoadway Melody of 1936.” In the production of "Capfain January,” the huge, new Will Rogers memorial stage at Twentieth

Chief Jester With Horace Heidt Once Hit Danish King With Roll It Happened at Monte Carlo and It All Was a Mistake; Famed Orchestra to Open at Lyric Friday. Not since the day that Jerry Bowne, chief jester with Horace Heidt’s band, hit the King of Denmark in the back of the neck with a dinner roll, has there been a boresome moment in the band's program. Mr. Heidt and his Brigadiers are !

to appear on the Lyric stage for one week starting Friday. His career as a director had anything but a prosaic start. With his back broken in a California football game, Horace was told by his doctor that he never could do anything more strenuous than to play the piano. With four other students at the University of California, Heidt organized an orchestra which he billed as the "greatest band on earth.” The band attracted large crowds, who came not to hear it play, but to jibe at the world’s “greatest.” Several years later, with an alltime attendance record established at the Palace Theater in New York, Heidt took his band to Monte Carlo. It was there that the rolltossing incident iook place. Mr. Bowne, the trumpet player, threw a roll at Heidt, missed him and caught the Danish King squarely on the neck. The King, instead of fomenting an international quarrel, merely remarked that "boys will be boys.”

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Century-Fox studios was used for the first time. One day during the "shooting” a distinguished looking visitor walked onto the new stage. Shirley, sitting in Director Butler’s chair, asked Sara Haden, who appears in the picture, who he was. "Why that’s H. G. Wells,” said Miss Haden. "the English writer and one of our greatest living men.” Shirley looked him over, sat for a few minutes in silence. Then she leaned over to Miss Haden and whispered: "Oh, no he isn't,” she said proudly, "My pop's the greatest and after him comes the governor.”

Felix Feist, M-G-M Head, Dies in Easf Bp United Press NEW YORK, April 15.—Felix F. Feist, general manager of MetroGold wyn-Mayer, died early today. He died at Mount Siani hospital where he had been a patient since April 3. In poor health for almost a year, he returned north recently from an extended stay in Florida that failed to improve his health. He was first taken ill while on a business trip to the Pacific coast last summer. He was 52 years old and had been general manager of the motion picture firm for 11 years, being in complete charge of sales and distribution. Teaching Aunt to Ride Freddie Bartholomew is teaching his aunt, Miss Myllicent Bartholomew, to ride his new horse, San Toy.

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