The Brat

This hour in Hollywood is presented by the makers of Lux Flakes. Those sheer fine flakes that keep fabrics and colors smart, new looking and fresh so much longer. That's why they're used in all the leading studios, including Paramount, whose world famous director now takes his place by the microphone.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. The island of Manhattan was bought from the Indians for merchandise valued at $18.21. Critics say that the 21 cents was for Brooklyn.

If that's true, small change made great changes in motion pictures, because one Brooklyn neighborhood gave the screen, Norma and Constance Talmidge, Lillian and Darath Egeesh, Anita Stewart, Irving Thorberg, and the star of tonight's production, Marion Davies.

Known throughout the world for her generous support of deserving enterprises, Miss Davies' most famous charity is the Children's Clinic, built and maintained by her, Toutel, California. Throughout her career as artist, model, chorus, girl, Shakespearean actress and picture star, She has preserved a refreshing wit.

She's unexcaled as comedian and mimic. Her father was Judge Bernard J. Duras, a New York magistrate. And as a little girl, she often watched the drab parade of transgression and poverty, the past before his bench.

In the role of the brat, she plays a character that she's known since childhood. The courtroom in which our play opens might well have been the very room in which she and her father sat so many times.

Co-starring with Miss Davies in tonight's drama is Joel McCray as Steve Farister, the black sheep of a wealthy New York family. Both Miss Davies and I claim to have discovered Joel, but I'll take that argument up with a look.