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THURSDAY, FEB. 10,

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Norma Shearer's Return; Van Dyke Directs Film

Picture Called Gesture of Fulfillment for Dream of Star's Late Husband; Work Goes on In Isolation,

By PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD, Feb, 10.—It's nice to see the First Lady of Holly-

wood, Norma Shearer, in front of the camera again, and in a

produc-

tion which seems to represent the meticulous preparation and all-round dramatic integrity which characterized the work of her late, great hus-

band, Irving Thalberg,

Of course Thalberg began prepabation for “Marie Antoinette,” and it may be that she is undertaking it now partly as a gesture of fulfill-

ment,

There were many who believed Miss Shearer never would ast

again, and certainly there was no economic persuasidn for this wealthiest

of screen queens, she is acting because she likes to act, and that she will continue to act in other productions, The attitude of the studio toward a Shearer picture is a little difficult for an observer to fathom. I suspect that she is neither pleased nor flattered by the obsequious, tiptoeing humility displayed by almost everybody except the players and crew who actually work with her. For several weeks she was placed in the same sort of isolation, without even any still pictures, that ordinarily surrounds a temperamental banshee of the cinema. Of course she is nothing of the sort, but the guarded treatment has given rise to all sorts of false rumors. Most of the Metro sets have been closed lately, and to Hollywood a closed set suggests trouble in the company. Gossipers jumped to the conclusion that she wasn't getting along with Director W. 8S. Van Dyke.

Main reason the set was closed was because they were shooting the love scenes first in order to release Tyron Power for his scheduled picture at his home studio. Also, some of the most tragic scenes were filmed at the beginning, so Miss Shearer Vi her lines and her mood to think about,

Hollywood was flabbergasted when Van Dyke was announced as the director of “Marie Antoinette.,” Research for the picture has been going on for years, and the director originally selected, Sidney Franklin, was steeped in the lore and atmosphere of the period. Franklin is a slow and careful pilot accustomed to the deliberate tempo which usually characterizes =a Shearer production, He doesn't mind doing a scene 20 or 30 times. Imagine the surprise, then, when Franklin fell ill almost on the eve of the beginning of shooting, and Van Dyke was announced for the job. There's no onkey business abouts Van Dyke; he's the fastest topnotch director in Hollywood and okays many a first shot. He's dramatic by virtue of his mere matter-of-factness; says picture making is just a chore and that all he cares about is that weekly pay check.

He's Boss on the Set

He's the absolute boss on his sets, and never has been known to com=promise with the whims of a star. Hollywood predicted fireworks when he directed Greta Garbo— and nothing happened. He says that when he worked with Joan Crawford, and recently with Jeanette MacDonald, the film colony was making bets on whether a blow-up would accur on the second, third or fourth days, But he had no trouble at all. Asked to take over “Marie Antoinette” he had exactly 24 hours to read the script and figure how he wanted to shoot it. Sidney Franklin's production schedule had been set at 127 days. Van Dyke was told that he should be mble to turn out the feature in 65 days. He accepted on the condition that Miss Shearer would place herself unreservedly in his hands. She did. The scenes have been going off like clockwork, and in from one to five takes. Van Dyke usually gets it on the second try. He has confided that the way to handle important stars is never to ask their opinion of scenes—‘'because, if you do, they'll always fig-

My guess is that @

ure they can do it better next time,” When word got around Hollywood

that a noted French director, Julien Muvivier, had been assighed to work with Van Dyke on the picture, gossipers grinned and said, “Ah-ha, I told you so!” Fact is, though, that Duvivier will handle only a second

unit of the production, directing a |

few mob scenes in which Miss Shearer will not appear.

Turns Down Jinx’ Music

to Play

'‘Pathetique.’

Kolar Refuses

DETROIT, Feb. 10 (U. P)) —Victor |

Kolar, conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, today flatly refused to play Tschalkowsky's Six« teenth Symphony, the ‘“Pathetique,” recalling a strange series of 15 deaths which followed as many performances. Mr. Kolar is willing to admit that his conviction might be based on

superstition, but he Is taking no |:

changes.

The story of the mysterious "“co- 3

incidences,” beginning 25 years ago and ending in 193¢ when Mr, Kolar's best friend died after he conducted the piece at the Chicago World's Fair, was recalled when the conductor rejected plans for a performance scheduled Feb. 26. Olga Fricker, Detroit dance instructor, submitted her plans for a program in which her dancers were to appear with the orchestra. One number was ® “Lament” to be danced to the finale the “Pathetique.”

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June Clayworth Marries Director

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. Feb. 10 (U, P.).—8id Rogell, film director, and his bride, June Clayworth, motion picture actress, planned today to remain at her home here several days | before returning to Kollywood. They were married last night at the home of Miss Clayworth's parents, Mr, and Mrs. Davis J. Cantor, by Rabbi Louis Levitsky, Rogell arrived from California Monday. Because all arrangements for the marriage had been ecompleted, the Pennsylvania law requiring a three-day wait after application for a marriage license was

waved by the Luzerne County |

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Marjorie Onll, Indianapolis Symphony harpist, recalis a story surthe composition of Ravel's Rondo and Allegro for harp and orchestra, whi¢h she will play at Sunday's popular-priced concert in

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the Murat, The work grew, indirectly, from the rivalry of two Paris firms, One of them, which manufactured both pianos and harps, commissioned Debussy to write a composition for harp and orchestra. The result was the “Danses Sacre ¢t Profane.” Since there was little such litera~ ture in existence, the new work attracted considerable attention—to the manufacturers as well as the composer, Whereupon the rival concern, which manufactured only pianos, decided that something immediate and drastic had to be done. 80, as a retaliation, the piano firm not only installed a "harp department” but commissioned Debussy's most noted contemporary, the young Maurice Ravel, to write a harp-and-orchestra work for them, And that’s how the Rondo and Allegro came into being. Sold for $50 Each These two compositions were written in the early years of this century and brought each of the composers only about $50, Miss Call says, Besides the Rondo and Allegro, Fabien Sevitsky will conduct the orchestra in Rossini's “William Tell” Overture; the Scherzo and Finale from Tschalkowsky's Fourth Symphony; excerpts from Bizet's “L’Arlesienne” music, an Adagio by McCollin, and the Polovetzian Dances from the opera, “Prince Igor,” by Borodin, The concert is scheduled to begin promptly at 3 p. m. » n » The Indianapolis Maennerchor will give its second concert of the season on Monday night in the Athenaeum. Miss Elma Igelmann, wellknown Indianapolis soprano and teacher at the Jordan Conservatory

will be sung by Ernst Heberlein and Hdward La Shelle, Karl Reckzeh is to conduct, and accompanists will be Olarence Elbert, associate director, for the Maennerchor, and Louise Mason Oaldwell for Miss Igelmann,

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Mae West Faces Contempt Action

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 10. (U, P.)— Mae West was threatened with contempt action today by counsel for Mark Linder, playwright, who sued the blond actress for a $1,000,000 half share of profits from her film “She Done Him Wrong.” Linder's lawyers sald Miss West refused to answer questions for a | deposition, They announced that | they would petition the court to or- | der her to answer on pain of contempt action, Linder said the film was taken from his play “Diamond

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