Madeleine Carroll Sidesteps Lamont Ban, Reviles Hollywood Before Mob

Actress Madeleine Carroll crashed the taboo against women in Lamont Library yesterday when she visited it to tell an overflow audience in the Forum Room how much she hated Hollywood.

Miss Carroll, frequently glancing out the window to display her million-dollar left profile told the open meeting that she had never liked the movies because she couldn't "live" her parts surrounded by a maze of movie-making aparatus. She thinks movies take the art out of acting, and she winces when she sees her own films.

After telling about herself, Miss Carroll went on a tour of the Harvard Theatrical Collection in Houghton Library with William Van Lennep, the enrator

Then she went to a party given by the HDO to be questioned and looked at closer. Before she went away she said she "loved Harvard and the boys."

After performing for servicemen for five and a half years, Miss Carroll went back to Hollywood, even though she didn't like it, because she had nowhere else to go. She stayed just long enough to make "Lady Windermere's Fan" and "An Innocent Affair."

Then she left in disgust to play in "Goodby My Fancy." She has been playing the same part ever since and is playing it in Boston now. Boston audiences she finds prudish.