ON OCTOBER 17, PAUL BERN escorted Joan to the West Coast premiere of John van Druten’s play Young Woodley, first produced in London, later on Broadway and now at the Belasco Theatre on South Hill Street in Los Angeles. Writing many years later, Metro’s former publicist Katherine Albert recalled that Paul Bern “began the awakening of Joan’s mind. He taught her things she had not known existed—the beauty of words on paper, the feeling for musical harmony, the appreciation of form and color on canvas.”
