"The Baroness and the Butler"

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20509, 27 May 1938, Page 4

"The Baroness and the Butler"

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There is bound to be a certain spirit of unity in two motion picture stars who agree on the fundamentals of tiie dramatic art. Take, for instance, William Powell, one of America’s foremost exponents of the sauve gentle r in | Uu and Annabelia, Europe’s most ivacious exponnt of feminine narm. They are o-starred in 20th entury - Fox’s The Baroness nd the Butler.” nd they both refer the movies y the stage, nnabella has a und reason for

tier preference In x...w..... -rr-nf-T “When I played Shakespearean repe toire.” she says. *1 was thrilled by the footlights and the •touch' with the audience beyond them. But after a few weeks I found myself reading the same lines over and over and getting the same laughter at the same moment; the same tears; the same tense moments. In Hollywood,” Annabelia continued, “Perhaps one (does the same scene over and over several times—but only for one day. Tomorrow is always a fresh adventure.” William Powell sees eye to eye with Annabelia in her preference for the screen, but In another line of reasoning ; “The Stage,” he says, “particularly stock company- work, is a great school, and I spent 0 years there. It is true that there is Is the so-called personal contact. This enables one to gauge audience reaction to the actor’s mood or manner of presenting a part. But we get our applause in pictures too. Fan mail tells us both in quantity and quality, whether we are satisfying the audiences.” The supporting cast of “The Baroness and the Butler.” Darryl y. Zanuck’s latest hit, features Henry Stephenson, Helen Westley, Joseph Schildkraut, J. Edward Bromberg, Nigel Bruce and t.ynn Bari.