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Elliott Nugent Is Another
Versatile Man of Theater
Latest Actor Chosen by Miss Hepburn
As Her Leading Man Can Write
And Direct Very Well, Too
By JAY CARMODY.
Noel Coward is so sensational about it that he rather obscures the
fact that he is not the only fellow in the theater versatile enough to
write, act and direct plays that are very clever in what they say if not
alarmingly deep in what they mean. There are, indeed, men strewn from
Hollywood to New York, or vice versa, who will tell you with varying de
grees of civility to have a look at Elliott Nugent.
A look at Nugent is illuminating. It sort of brings you up sharply
aware tnat tne man is amazingly
versatile, reminds you that he is so
normally Ohio Statish and modest
that you haven t
realized his
cleverness.
Right now Nu
gent i s under
taking a task
that calls for
acting ability
and agility of
the highest type.
That is to say he
is playing op
posite Katharine
Hepburn in
“Without Love,”
the Theater
Guild's newest
tfiterprise which
Jir Ciraodr.
was authored by Philip Barry. Miss
Hepburn Is recognized as an actress
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NEXT WK. BEG. MON-Siats Nowl
The Theatre Guild Preaenta
Philip Barry « New ComtJy
Without Love
With
WTHLRINE HEPBURN
ELLIOTT NUGENT
Itm., Orch.» S:30j Wed.-SaL Mats., f.15
tr
' of extreme discernment in choosing
leading men. her greatest coup being
the selection of Spencer Tracy in
‘‘Woman of the Year.” That was
part of the original deal she made
with M-G-M and is generally
regarded as its canniest part.
Nugent is another smart arrange
ment on her part.
* * * *
It was a decade in Hollywood that
made theater audiences less aware
of Nugent than in the 20s when
he and his father—J. C„ and a
rather spectacular fellow over many
years—wrote nine plays. "Kempy"
was perhaps the best known and
most enduring. At least so far as
the latter quality is concerned, there
are dozens of high school players
and other amateur groups who see
that the play has no rest. Nine
plays is a lot of writing in a decade,
even by a father and son team, and
the Nugents also acted in a great
many of them.
They were making lots of money,
as who wasn’t except about 85,000,000
Americans, when 1929 came along
and smacked them, too.
The theater did not flourish for
a while after that, and Elliott, who
had heard of money in Hollywood,
decided to investigate the truth or
falsity of it. He found it was true,
all right, and for five years there
was a great deal of acting to be
done. There was enough, to be
literal about it, to give him work
in two dozen pictures.
Nugent had not directed up to
then, but one day somebody who
knew about his writing and acting
thought he might be as good in the
third department of the art.
It had the greenness of a new
pasture, and Nugent leaped at the
chance. His feel for the dramatic
made him an immediate success at
the new business, and he was flat
tered that studios did not hesitate
to give him big budget pictures to
direct.
He might have been there yet if
it had not been for the fact that
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GROWING VP—To be 14 on her next birthday is Shirley Temple,
who manages to avoid anything like the awkward age if this
Hurrell photo is accurate, which it is.
he and James Thurber never could
forget they had been pals at Ohio
State—to the discomfiture of some
of the more dignified and energetic
students around the campus.
They always had kept it in mind
to write a play about their bright
college years, and a couple of years
ago they got busy on a prankish
comedy, "The Male Animal.” Nu
gent was not content merely to be
co-author and director of the play.
It occurred to him when it was
finished that acting always had
been his first love and that the lead
ing role in the plav was a fine one
for a fellow who liked acting.
Accordingly he found himself
back in the theater, which made it
necessary for him to defer and de
fer a lot of Hollywood engagements.
When the play finally ran out—only
to become the most popular sophisti
cated item in the programs of sum
mer stock and amateur groups—he
finally reverted to Hollywood and
directing.
He didn't like either as much as
he had during those other 10 years.
That's why he is back.
* * * *
Bulletin board: "Louisiana Pur
chase” will remain at the Earle for
an extra session starting tomorrow.
. . . The adult dance production
group of the Jewish Community
Center will present its first full
length concert program tonight at
8:45. . . . Flora Blumenthal Atkin
is directing. ... As well as partici
pating. . . . "Lady for a Night.” with
Joan Blondell, will be the Pix next
.attraction.
Miss Lupino Is Glamorized,
But Keeps Wickedness
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.
We cam# upon a sight yesterday that no Hollywood eye has witnessed
In a great many moons. Yes, sir—Ida Lupino all dressed up!
She wore a dinner dress with long sleeves and a white wool top.
Her draped skirt was of metal cloth in a paisley pattern. She wore a
heavy coiled gold bracelet set with emeralds.
"Gosh,” she said, staring into a full-length mirror. "I feel like that
ola iaay in Alice in wonaeriana, •
or ‘Mother Goose,’ who said, ‘Can
this be I?’ Where’s the party.
These can’t be my working clothes,”
Miss Lupmo, as every schoolgirl
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probably knows. Is not an actress
noted for setting new styles on the
screen. She is noted for going crazy,
for being mean, for heavy dramatics.
“Bette Davis roles," they call them
In Hollywood.
She gets to wear the stylish gar
ments in “The Hard Way,” just get
ting under way at Warner Brothers.
Against all Lupino rule and prece
dent, Ida will be trigged out in no
less than 28 costumes, all designed
by Orry Kelly, one of the towTi's
chief fashion masters.
* * * *
Any woman, of course, would be
pleased about all those fancy togs,
■ but the Lupino is particularly happy
because she gets the glamour-garb
without having to abandon her
favorite role of meanie. In fact,
her part in "The Hard Way” is de
signed to make all her vixen roles
look like Persian kitties. Her bad
ness bounces off that nice little girl,
Joan Leslie, which will probably
make Joan seem all the sweeter and
Ida all the meaner.
“It s fun to wnggle Into an evening
gown just for a change, even In the
daytime." said Ida, as she inspected
a dozen other formals laid out for
her approval in Orry Kelly's work
shop. “This is really the first one
I’ve had on in months and months."
This was probably no exaggera
tion, because Ida's night life is not
composed of parties at Clro’s or
smart gatherings at the homes of
stars. Her evenings are spent with
her ambulance corps. She never
discusses her war work, but it is
known, however, that she requires
a new uniform about every fort
night. It seems that she gets into
a lot of mud and grease and some
times snags the seat of her trousers.
There are mornings when she comes
to work with circles under her eyes
and traces of mud under her finger
nails.
Ida Lupino, so to speak, is a lady
of the evening only in the morn
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♦ * * *
Jack Roper, a heavyweight con
tender of some years back. Is get
ting $100 a day for teaching Victor
Mature, the beautiful hunk of man,
to look like a fighter for his forth
coming battle scenes In "Strictly
Dynamite.”
Roper, who will be kayoed by Ma
ture in the opening fight of this
musical comedy, upped his price for
the picture by $500 when he dis
covered he would have to be shown
taking the count.
"I may not be as good as I once
was,” commented Roper, "but a fel
low still has his pride to consider.”
* * * *
Jane Darwell, whose tires began
blowing out the day after rubber
rationing became effective, has pur
chased a motor scooter.
"Dignity be blankety-blanked,"
commented Miss Darwell, speaking
of the conveyance she now uses In
getting to and from the studio. “The
thing gets me around, goes a hun
dred miles on a gallon of gas and
is a blanked sight better than
walking.”
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, me.)
Helen Hayes Sought
“Miss Appleby Gets Her Answer,”
an original screen story by Val Bur
ton, has been purchased by Para
mount to be submitted in screen
play form to Helen Hayes In an
effort to win her back to Hollywood.
Despite her refusal of screen roles,
Buddy De Sylva, Paramount pro
duction chief, believes that the role
of Miss Appleby would prove an
attractive vehicle for the actress.
The story is a romance set against
the backgrounds of the United
States in the First World War and the
present one. In it a lovely young
girl in 1917 writes a note “To Whom
it May Concern” and incloses it in
a Red Cross kit she has made. She
gets no answer until 25 years later,
when the kit, undistributed in the
first war, is given a soldier in the
current conflict. He believes the
undated letter to have been written
by a young woman of today, and
answers it. Miss Appleby, now 45,
eventually promotes a romance be
tween her niece and the service
man. __
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