'MAKE WAY FOR TO-MORROW' ITS AUTHORESS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 8, 2 October 1937, Page 10

'MAKE WAY FOR TO-MORROW' ITS AUTHORESS

"Malce Way For To-morrow" hau , been hailed overseas as one of the moefc dramatic 'and human documents ev'er to be put on eelluloid. It is writtea around the problems of every family, the forgetfulness of youth, helplessness of old age, embittered at each other when there should only be love. It does not pretend to offer a solutioa to this problemj it i3 merely portrayed and left to the audience to decide. Tho cast includes such chara,eter-actors as Beulah Bondi, (Vjctor Moore} Eorter Hall, Barbara Read, Maurice Moscovitch and Fay Bainter. You might think from her novel3 and " stories that Vina Delmar is a womaa of experiep.ee, but the accurate thing to say is that she is a woman of ob* servation. She was married to Eugene, Delmar before she reached the age of her famous "Bad Girl" and, on m very ' slim income, they promptly had a baby son. Their idea of an exciting evening, after they had put the baby to sleep, was to etretch out on the flooc and collaborate on attempts to write * stories. That introduees an interesting thing. about Vina Delmar. She is one of two persons. The other one is her husband. The twocf them work together on all of "her stories," but thiey decideA early in -their mutual writing career\to . nse only her name, in the bellef that xeaders woulji find it simplor to rein'ember the one name and that, somew how, many readers preferred a womaa . author. Sensational success has tended to confirm, their opinion. Even so f howeveX;, it appears that the original impetus to write camO from Vina Delmar. As a little girl she wanted to be an aetress and when this ambition wais ■ denied in her life, she turned to writing* Eugene DeH mar's original ambition. was the radio and inasmuch as this required soma writing, he found, his interest paralt leling hers more and more, In 1928 came the famous "Bad Girl'* novel, from which she is still receiv* ing royalties. There followed "Women: Live Too Long" and "Marriage."' Ta , addition to these there have ,been hundreds of stories published in rnaga* zincs. Eugene and, Vina Delmar accepted an offer to go to Hollywood five years ago It was to be just a short stay in the movie capital, so they left their houstf intact. They have nover been back is New York City and their house standi) as they left it. Meanwhile, they have) acquired a completely furnished housein Hollywood and have made it thei? permanent home. Vina Delmar is, a young and attracw tive woman, bearing a slight resem-t blance to Colleen Moore. She and her liusband lead a well-ordered domestio life, working and playing at threemonth intervals. Their young son, Grey, lives with them. . Miss Delmar likes movie people, finding them gen-» erally the, most interested in thoir homes and families.