The Latest of My Obsessions: Snow White

Sorry again, for being M.I.A on here. I've been crazy busy and last week, I started feeling under the weather, but all is well again.

I don't know, if you guys were like me at all, but when I was younger, I absolutely adored Disney princesses. For a long while it was Belle from ''Beauty and the Beast'', but as I got older, I leaned more towards Snow, from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". I don't know, if it's the whole romanticism of the story, or what but I utterly love everything about Snow.

My obsession of the story was rather small, until the show "Once Upon a Time", came out. I was completely awed by the show, and how they portrayed Snow. She wasn't defenseless, or the damsel in distress. She could kick major butt, and it really appealed to me. Of course, I do love the version the Grimm Brothers' created, but I'm really enjoying this newer upgraded version of Snow. She can defend herself, and she's not afraid of the Evil Queen. Of course, I can't deny that I love the romance between Snow and Prince Charming, but even more so, in "Once Upon a Time". After I got hooked on the show(which honestly, I was hooked by the first episode), I was desperate to watch the two movies, that were coming out about Snow. The first one was "Mirror Mirror" starring Lily Collins and Julia Roberts, and the second being, "Snow White and the Huntsman", starring Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart. I was pretty eager to see both, but in all honesty, I'm not a fan at all of Kristen, and after seeing the film, I still don't think she's that great of an actress. They were both very thrilling to watch, and both were very different in telling the story of Snow. The Kristen Stewart version, was a lot darker, while the Lily Collins was bubblier and more kid-friendly. If you are a fan of Snow, I'd recommend watching them both.

All in all, I think my favorite version of Snow is Ginnifer Goodwin's version in "Once Upon a Time". If you haven't seen the show, you ought to. It's thoroughly entertaining!

School Teacher in Clover: Part Three

Written by: James Street

Then they really began working him. He did "Yes, My Darling Daughter" and "Daughters Courageous." Next he did a chore in "A Child is Born" and "Four Wives." Mr. Lynn has had a lot to do with women for a bachelor.

Amusingly enough, "The Fighting 69th" followed "Four Wives." His role in "It All Came True" was sappy, but he was a top hand in "All This, and Heaven Too." It was the "Heaven" picture that Mr. Lynn a star. America went a bit daffy over him in "My Love Came Back." Many people wondered why.

A fan in St. Joseph, Missouri, explained it in a letter to Lynn. "I am so glad," she wrote, "there is an actor on the screen who is handsome yet real." With the foreign market Hitlerized, there is a wholesome demand for American players with American background working in American stories. Mr. Lynn fills the bill. He's as New England as beans and cod.

Mr. Lynn enjoys reading and he writes for his own amusement. He could write for everybody's amusement if he'd do a job about slimsy dodads. He has a hunch he can write better scripts for himself than those the galley slaves turn out.

"Hollywood," Mr. Lynn said, "is a funny place."(That's an original idea and a possible plot for a screenwriter.) "Don't let them tell you that movie-making is the chief business here. The chief business is falling in and out of love. But, boy, I fooled 'em! I went to live in the prosaic Hollywood Athletic Club. I didn't buy me a long, yellow roadster, and I didn't fall in love the first day I got here--- unless you're talking about the place itself."

He is one of eight children and has a strong home feeling.

Some people say Mr. Lynn is a stick-in-the-mud, but actually he's gentle, sensitive, well bred.

"My friend here accuse me of not knowing how to live," he said. "They say I take things much too seriously, don't know how to enjoy myself, and don't have enough vices.

"When I'm working, I never go out anywhere. I got to bed early every night, don't drink, and keep fit by working out with a Swedish trainer at the Athletic Club. I like outdoor sports, too. Last Summer I was burned black from sailing a little boat I used to rent down at Santa Monica.

"I seldom smoke. I give a pack of my cigarettes to my stand-in, one to the script-girl, and one to Pat Lane's hairdresser, and they dole them out to me, one cigarette after each meal.

"It's funny that if you yourself don't drink, people ---- especially the Irish------ think it's an implied reproof of their drinking. I don't frown on drinking as long as I don't have to do it myself.

"I frown on gambling, and I frown on cocktail parties----- I had enough of those in New York. And the cheap way Hollywood men have of discussing women, commenting on their figures, swapping anecdotes about them."

"But I love to dance. I like the rumba best. Tango is all right, too. But I'm not a jitterbug. Not that I dislike them! It's just a form of self-expression, people finding a release for their emotions. We all have desires for exhibitionism."

Mr. Lynn has reached the age where if he intends to settle down he had better do something about it. A few more years and he'll be sot in his ways. He is looking for a wife with whom he can rear a family in what Hollywood calls the "old New England manner."

I don't know the difference in rearing a family in the old New England manner and in the old California manner. Really, families are still reared the same way everywhere. a man who has worked in all of those "Daughter" things, and those "Born" things, as Mr. Lynn has, knows enough about life to rear a family. If he doesn't, he can still buy a book.

Mr. Lynn's present steady is Dana Dale, an actress over at Paramount. He says it is not a studio romance.

They see each other often. They dance a lot, but seldom at night-clubs. She thinks Mr. Lynn is very honest and has a delightful sense of humor. He likes to rib people and she says he can take a ribbing with good grace. Miss Dale thinks Warners has made Mr. Lynn an eccentric and rather weak character in pictures. She says he's really a very strong character.

Miss Dale is a rather tall, brunette and certainly not a slimsy caryatid. Her real name is French.

Well that's all folks, I hope you all enjoyed!!! :)

NEXT POST WILL BE IN THREE DAYS!!

School-Teacher in Clover: Part Two

Sorry for the absence everyone, but I'm back and ready to roll. I feel healthy and good, and it only took about four days for me to really recover from the surgery, which is excellent. Just to give you guys the heads-up, I will be having another surgery June 12th, but this time it's for my wrist(I have a ganglion cyst eeek!) and I might be out for about three or four days, really depends on how I'm feeling. So onto Part Two :)

Article written by: James Street

Mr. Lynn say he was the black sheep of his family. "Father was a man who worked with his hands," Mr. Lynn said. "He came over from Sweden when he was a kid of sixteen, and he worked with engines and dynamos the rest of his life. Imagine an actor in the family. Honestly, I don't think there's any greater humiliation for a family bred in the idea that the only good work in the world is done with the hands. It's different now. I guess Father and Mother have resigned themselves to my fate."

Gee, that's sad. Reminds me of a doomed man eating his last meal of caviar before being smothered by blondes and glamour and big checks.

At high school Mr. Lynn was quite a runner, and at Bates College he was a member of the two- mile relay team that won the 1930 Penn Relays.

As a sophomore he began studying dramatics. He was graduated in 1930 and worked for telephone companies in Providence R.I., and Brockton, Mass. But he devoted his evenings to amateur theatricals.

He might have worked up to be a vice president of the telephone company, but he chucked his chance to be a teacher. He was head of the department of English of the Lisbon(Maine) High School. His department had one teacher- Mr. Lynn.

Determined to be an actor, Mr. Lynn went home to save his money, preparatory to his invasion of New York. He worked with a semi- professional troupe at home and reached New York when he was twenty-four. His first job was as a doorman at a theater, but he spent his days as a student at the Theodore Irvine School of the Theater. Mr. Lynn showed promise and got a job in summer stock at the Barter Theater of Abingdon, Virginia, It's quite a theater. The admission is seventy- five cents, but if you haven't got cash you barter your way in with vegetables, molasses, and hams. You can see several shows for one ham.

Mr. Lynn first broadway job was in "A Slight Case of Murder." He was an understudy, but player and assistant stage manager. Next he worked in a thing called "Stick in the Mud." Mr. Lynn later worked the one-gallus circuits for quite a while, and wound up with the leading role in the road company of "Brother Rat."

That led to the movies. From rats to riches. Wow! That's as bad as slimsy what-you-callems.

They put Mr. Lynn in "Cowboy From Brooklyn," "Where Were You Born?" and "Four Daughters." He didn't set the trade on fire. He probably wouldn't have been in "Four Daughters" but for Bette Davis. She thought he had something and selected him to appear with her in a one-act play on a radio broadcast. She could have had her pick of the actors, but she took Mr. Lynn. He clicked. Errol Flynn, who was supposed to do the job with "Daughters," went A.W. O.L and Mr.Lynn scored as a pinchhitter.

PART THREE: COMING UP IN A FEW DAYS!!!

Stay Tuned! :)