Cinema: Rebellion

What stormy Cinemactress Bette Davis likes better than anything else are cinema roles she can get her claws into. Last week Bette took a disdainful look at the script of Author Faith Baldwin’s Comet Over Broadway, said it reminded her of weak tea, flatly refused to play in it.*Promptly her studio, Warner Bros., suspended her, cut off her $3,500-a-week salary for the six weeks it may take to find her another picture. Commented Bette, whose rebellion against Warners nearly two years ago wound up in the British courts: “I feel we will have legal trouble.”

*Less concerned with the strength of the brew than with his place at table, Warner Crooner Dick Powell this week refused to play in The Garden of the Moon because Actor Pat O’Brien had a better role than his. For Crooner Powell: twelve weeks’ suspension.