Apology Accepted?

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 February 1935, Page 10

Apology Accepted?

W. C. molis stage and screen comedian, whose-second starring Paramount picture, Old-Fashioned Way,” will screen at t/h-e Gjrauch-Tli eat reon Sattrrday. and Monday, recently revealed this choice aneedote' from his colourful past. -v It seems Fields ivas .standing backstage off the opdning night of a pretty dismagl flop, while'’’the audience were shouting “'Airthod Author!” ‘•‘Go /9P.t say something to them,” ordered thq. stage ..manager to the pale altd t.fcmbjipgf author, who haltingly declared, “I 'can’t make a speech. t . .

"Tha*lV-an*. riglif,? . said tlje ' stage manager,just go dub'and tell them

you’re sorryi.” , . * "The 6 1 d-Rashienod Way” is a funpacked comedy of an old-time stage performer who, between eluding furious sheriffs and over-ripened- vegetables, linds time to foster His daughter’s romance and to indulge in a little romance himself.

Thelma *Todd. Thelma Todd, who plays • with Wheeler and Woolsey in "Cockeyed Cavaliers” at the Opera House next Tuesday and Wednesday; used to be a school-teacher in Lowell; Mass. Her heroes then were Emerson, Thoreau and Wendell Phillips. To-day they are Joe E. Brown, Harpo ;Marx, Charlie Chase and AVhoc.lcr and Woolsev.

Believing people should do what they arc really fitted for and not what thcii neighbours or ancestors want them to do, Thelma became a Hollywood actress. Even there they tried to det.our the Todd destiny, and groomed hdr for a blonde-haired villaincss. But the film moguls failed, and Thelma is definitely a comedienne.

Her childhood ambition wa3 to build bridges, and to-day she 3till retains a worshipful admiration for engineers and logarithms. She loves sunshine, French cooking and funny papers, prin-. cipally because these were so scarce in her New England childhood. She has a firm faith in her own taste, having bought chapeaux in Dubuque, Bond Street and the Rue de la Paix, and liked them all.

Thelma Todd enjoys the distinction of having appeared on the screen with some of its leading funny men.