Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1936 — Page 4

to Success in Filmdom

Star of Picture to Show at Circle Puts .in Long Hours.

BY JOHN W. THOMPSON . Glamour is no longer the secret formula for screen success. Beauty isn’t enough. It takes a well roundcombination of personality and old-fashioned hard work to ke good in the movies nowadays.

Evidence of the above prescription, i dashing little Jessie Matthews!

Who is the main attraction in “It’s Love Again,” the film feature opening at the Circle Friday. Statisticians, who can always produce some intriguing material when ~ turned loose in a movie studio, have - decided that the amount of energy expended by Miss Matthews in one day before the camera, is equal to What a normal man would use up in climbing the stairway half way up the Empire State Building. Routine Bears Out Statement An investigation into Miss Matthews’ daily routine makes the statement believable. A 9 o'clock studio call makes § 8. m. the dancing star’s rising time. ~ Her professional schedule calls for one solid hour of exercise before breakfast. The first set of exercises consists of elemental routines, such a8 deep-breathing and setting-up stunts. If the day’s dancing is to be strenuous, the easy exercises are expanded into more difficult, backbending and toe-touching acropatics. One of the few stars who is her own dance director, Miss Matthews works out her choreography just after breakfast. With no one to help her except her husband, Sonnie Hale, who also appears in “It’s Love Again,” the British miss even plans the timing and technical setting for the dancing in the films she makes. Creates Steps at Home She has a special room in her home where she works out dance steps. It is paneled with mirrors, enabling her to see every angle the camera might include. Because she goes over _her work so carefully before geting to the studio, Miss Matthews rarely has to have more than one rehearsal before “turning on the cameras. This is a rarity in the screen dancing world, where most dance stars require hours of rehearsing before the steps and acgion are o. k.d. Since each scene is filmed at least three times, it isn’t difficult to see where Jessie's energy goes. Between scenes, instead of resting or drinking'a cooling concoction, thie British star works on the next scene's routines. Starred with Miss Matthews in this, her third movie, is Robert Young, who deserted Hollywood for a chance at the up-and-coming English movies. Partner British Star In addition to several lavish stage numbers, a special Oriental dance is given in one sequence of the film story, which pictures Jessie as an - ambitious but unusuccessful chorus girl, impersonating ‘a mysterious stranger from the Far Bast, Miss Matthews! idageing partner fn “It's Love-A making his début in movies as far as America is concerned, but already a luminary in England and on the continent. Music and lyrics for the Matthews’ Specialties. have been written ‘by

. Sam Coslow and Harry Woods.

Some of the songs to be featured are “I Nearly Let Love Go Slipping Through My Fingers” and “Got To Dance My Way to Heaven” with a humorous skétch, “Tony’s In Town.”

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and Irene Hervey. 2.—The pretty British dancing star, Jessie Matthews, is the main attraction in “It’s Love Again” which the Circle will / feature starting Friday. ° “Dracula's Daughter” with Gloria Holden, is the Circle’s second feature. 3.—Feminine band leaders are few and far between. And girl band leaders as popular as Ina Ray Hutton are even fewer. Miss Hutton’s orchestra will be the Lyric’s stage show for the week beginning Friday. “The Lyric screen fare will be “Little. Miss Nobody” starring Jane Withers. 4—Held over for a second week at the Apello, “Private Number” seems to prove. that folks like the

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First Featured Role That

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Westerns; Now Slated for Important Part in 2 a0 Cecil DeMille Production.

BY GARY COOPER } Written for The Times

HOLLYWOOD June 10.—What

adds up to a star? What formula

of attributes gets a person top billing on the billboards?

enter ve eain sams {hut by sow © should have a pat answer, but I haven't. If there is a formula I probably didn't follow it, because I was picked from the extra ranks for my first featured part. And everybody knows that a thing like that almost never happens. Hollywood doesn't

gives chances to extras. The phenomenon of my being yanked out of the $5-a-day class was made even more irregular by the fact that I wasn't aiming to be an actor—much less a star. I didn’t think I had a chance: All my previous experience indicated that I was not cut out for a histrionic career. As an undergraduate at Grinnel College in Iowa, I tried repeatedly join the drama group.: They wouldn't even have me as an offstage thud. And the male stars when I landed my first screen job were- all sleek devils. I was pretty rough around the edges. You can imagine the effect on me: when they told me I was to be a leading. man. I was breathless— but if was more from amazement than excitement. Up to then I'd been shooting at becoming a cartoonist. All through the time that I was going to school at Dunstable, in Bedfordshire, England; and later, while I was attending high school back home in Helena, Mont., I was drawing busily. Drawing, I had decided, was to be my life's work. I finally had a try at it on a Helena newspaper. The world did not ¢atch on fire. Five years later I thought I would fight out for Los Angeles, where my feeble virtuosity

‘with the pen might find a wider

public, I hoped. Can’t say 1 didn’t have the chance to win that public. An editor put me on. Then a short {ime later he put me off. I sold advertising for the newspaper for a while and then began to look into the - movie business.

‘Extra work seemed easy and excit-

ing and there was at least a remote possibility that some kind of steady job might develop for me in the picture industry. After a year of alternately working and starving the mirage of success was pretty hazy, but I hung on. The story that: has gone the rounds about me living on loaves of bread bought with my last nickel and eaten furtively behind billboards is no fiction. I'went through that ‘dismal routine more than once. Then the thing happened that still needs explaining to me.

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Hans Tiesler, an independent pro= ducer, concluded that 'I looked enough like a cowboy to play the role of one in a series of two-reel westerns opposite Eileen Sedgwick, He picked me out of a crowd in which I was acting like a guy in a crowd. And I can't say I enjoyed playing my first part. I worried constantly about the blow-off that was coming when they found that I couldn't act. I expected any minute to discover the meaning of - that curious phase about -being “belled out of town.” Confidence slowly returned as I began to get small parts in feature pictures. B. P. Schulberg, then managing director of Paramount, liked my work in “The Winning of Barbara Worth,” and from that came my test and contract with Paramount—where I have remained ever since as one of the studio’s— heh, heh,—bustling artists. I like to work in pictures that have ‘a lot of color: and action and have a couple on my immediate schedule. The first is “The General Died at Dawn,” the action of which takes place in Shanghai and the interior of China, and the other is “This Breed of Men,” in which I shall- have the role of Wild Bill Hickok. Cecil B. DeMille will direct it. These two assignments will keep me busy until next fall, after which I'll probably take a vacation.

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