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2 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, OTGTJST 1, 1935 Summ er Sa voya rds Charles Boyer' Second Career Charles Boyer, seen in "Shanghai" at the Paramount, is that enviable person, an actor having a second career. Boyer's second career is not like that of the late Marie Dressier, for example, a comeback. It is a new career in another country and another language. Not much has been said of it. Evidently Boyer has not employed a corps of press agents to publicize it.

perhaps for fear of arousing another "out with foreigners" wave at Hollywood. Charles Boyer was a highly successful "jeune premier" in Paris for many years befora he tried either the United States or the screen. In this country he ould have been called technically a "juvenile" a totally misleading term in view of the fact that legitimate stage juveniles seldom were or appeared as children. Boyer played leading man to half a dozen popular French stars and came to America only to make French versions of a few American films. That was before "dubbing" was invented to enable foreign audiences to see and hear American films with the original star's faces and somebody else's voice.

Thus Joan Blondell might be heard talking perfect Italian in Italy, perfect German Germany, Polish in Warsaw or French In Paris. In the French version of "The Big House," first of the prison screen dramas, Boyer, acting in Hollywood, was as good as or better than the original. He stayed on, learned English, and has had considerable success as an English speaking actor. Those who have heard him in both languages say, however, that in English Boyer loses some of the finer shadings of his very real A Note on the Blonde Legend Certainly the shallow judgment that blondes are more giddy than their brunette sisters is one that will stand very little serious study. How do these fables get started? We know of one, the legend that in a French motor car accident it is the pedestrian who is run over who is always fined, not the driver who hit him.

We knew the man who started it, or at least the man who confessed he started it. One Sterling Heiling, afterward a well-known syndicate writer in the lighter vein, went to Paris around the dawn of the century expecting to remain a week or two. He remained for the rest of his life, which came to an end only three or four years ago. But one of the first articles he wrote during his early weeks in Paris was one in which he explained what he thought was the paradoxical nature of French traffic regulations. "I did not then know the language, the people or the law," he explained many years later.

"And I was completely wrong in my story. But it was a story that editors liked and they printed it all over the United States. For the last 20 years I have tried to down that legend. Over and over again I have written paragraphs into my articles mentioning 'the mistaken notion that the person run over in an accident is the one who runs afoul of the law Some time the original slanderer of blondes may come forward with, his confession. The man who created the Paris "Apache" out of nothing confessed long ago.

But he was unable to uncreate his legend. And so blondes will go on perhaps to the end of time as the symbol of uncertainty. Frank Moulan, Margaret Daunt and Vera Ross in a scene from "The trhich the Civic Light Opera Company will present tomorrow evening as the fourth of a Gilbert and Sullivan series Adelphi Between Cues at Henrv Miller's The Cast Indulges in a Round of Reminiscence -ERSONAL APPEARANCE" portrays the old lady in the play, funnier if I crawled right under it, "p1 found itself almost literally "without a shirt" re MOSCOW THEATRE FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 1 to lO INTOURIST, inc. U. S.

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One of the sound effects operated backstage was a drum, with an electric clapper. That made a noise like an airplane. The control was a small box with a lever on the outside regulating the volume. "Suddenly, during a part of the play in which there was no plausible excuse for a plane to be heard, came a deafening roar. I didn't know where the control box had been placed and scrambled around for a few dreadful minutes that seemed like years before I found it.

Later the new stage hand confessed that out of curiosity he had moved the lever all the way up and walked away without even knowing that he had made all the noise." At this point John Robb came hurrying over with the whispered command for less noise, and if you never heard a big Princetonian whisper a funny story then you don't know how much Phil Ober innocently contributed to his little yarn. "It was this way, hissed Phil. "I was in some darn play forget the name of it but I had a scene where I had to pick up a bottle and hit a guy over the head and then drag him offstage in his chair. The bottle was made of some material that looked like glass and broke very cently. The calamity occurred during the test act, when some one discovered that the little pink shirt, on which hangs the now famous last line of the play, was missing.

It was John Robb, the stage manager, who calmly came to the rescue. "What's all the excitement bout?" asked Robb. "I have a spare." John Robb hasn't been actor and stage manager for 30 years come next St. Michaelmas Day without knowing that souvenir hunters have a way of prowling around backstage. And so the play went happily on its way.

But the incident started a round of reminiscing behind the scenes while members of the cast waited tor cues. Otto Hulett, who plays Carole Arden's pubUc relations counsel in the play, began: "Something happened to me once that I still have nightmares about. It was during the run of Christopher Morley's Thunder on the Left." "Shortly before leaving my hotel for the matinee I lay down for 40 winks or I thought so. Meanwhile, half-hour and then fifteen-minute call was being announced bark3tage at the theater. Nobody discovered that I was missing until the curtain was going up.

Then the fun began. "Luckily. Mr. Morley, who was out front, knew the part and played it for me. The first thing I knew aryth.ng was wrong was when the ttlepiione operator called and said: but when I got half way through I discovered the front was too low and nearly suffocated trying to wriggle backward.

It was awfully difficult for the others to pretend not to notice, especially when I emerged covered with dust and cobwebs." Dorrit Kelton and Minna Phillips contributed the only two exciting episodes. While playing in "Daddy Goes a-Hunting" in stock, it was Dorrit's job to light two candles on either side of a bowl of artificial flowers. Says Dorrit: "I lighted them and turned away and then I heard a queer noise run through the audience. Turning back, I discovered the flowers a mass of flames. I picked up the burning bowl and walked off the stage, while the audience applauded.

Talk about girl scouts and good deeds!" "Well," said Minna Phillips, "how do you like this one? In all my 30 years on the stage I have had only one experience like it thank heaven. We were doing 'The Heart of Maryland' down at the old Academy of Music, on 14th St. There was a part in the play where I had to swing back and forth across the stage on the tongue of a huge bell. The property man always fastened me to a big hook. "However, one night as I started the swing I noticed that he had failed to fasten the hook.

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