HOLLYWOOD INDICTED

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 79, 14 March 1936, Page 9

HOLLYWOOD INDICTED

Views of Nelson Eddy. Hollywood is like a madhouse, according to Nelson Eddy, the grand opera-singer, who starred in “Naughty Marietta,” and who is playing the lead in “Rose Marie.” Mr Eddy finds a place in the select list of America's most eligible bachelors, which makes what he has to say of film stars particularly interesting. “They are,” he said recently, “egotistical, insincere, self-centred and look like animated paint boxes. Most film actresses are incredibly boring. I have not met one that I would even vaguely like to marry.” But he admits it is not altogether their fault. He blames the unnatural life they are enforced to live. Male stars also excite his anger. “I have never seen such a bunch ofi conceited men,” he said, “with the possible exception of those working in. opera. ’ ’ In order to avoid his erstwhile screen colleagues Mr Eddy has his phone number changed once a week, just to avoid party invitations. Hollywood parties are very boring, he says. There is no doubt about it, Mr Eddy does not like Hollywood, and he does not like film stars, except one or two, perhaps, like Jeannette MacDonald and Ronald Colman. They are different, he says.