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Show STAGESCREENRAfrlO By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union.) TWO April weddings in the Hollywood movie colony are still topics for conversation, conversa-tion, one because it was so conventional, for Hollywood, the other because it was so unusual for that colony and just the accepted thing anywhere any-where else. The Yuma marriage of Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland was Hol-lywoodian. Hol-lywoodian. It was Miss Bennett's fourth marriage, they drove to Yuma by themselves and the clergyman clergy-man had to supply witnesses. The other, Deanna Durbin's marriage to Vaughn Paul, was a big church wed-ding, wed-ding, very beautiful, and motion pic-ture pic-ture stars who were friends of the - bride and groom were invited but not featured as part of the performance. perform-ance. An achievement, in Hollywood! Holly-wood! Kudy Vallee Is ready to chuck his career and undertake a new one at I the drop of a megaphone. mega-phone. Now appearing appear-ing In Columbia's musical picture, "Time Out for Rhythm," with Ann Miller, Rosemary Lane and Allen Jenkins, Jen-kins, he's ready to drop acting and singing if he can get a chance to direct di-rect pictures. He's Rudy Vallee even bought a home In Beverly Hills to be near the center of the movie business. busi-ness. During the next few months there will be a virtual parade of film players play-ers to the Latin-American countries. Spencer Tracy and Eleanor Powell are slated for good-will visits; Douglas Doug-las Fairbanks Jr. will be a sort of good-will ambassador, and Marsha Hunt plans on spending six weeks in South America after she's finished 4,Blossoms in the Dust." "Citizen Kane," Orson Welles' first RKO Radio production, aroused plenty of controversy controver-sy long before it was released, and will bfc.one of those pictures that people will argue about years after they've seen it. It may not be the best picture ever made, but certainly cer-tainly it is one of the best but there are those who main- tain that it should 0rson WeUes never have been made at all. Welles himself scores superbly as writer, actor and producer; pro-ducer; the rest of the cast is so good that you forget that they're acting. The first day she appeared on the "Manpower" set Marlene Dietrich announced that she'd take whatever punishment the script asked George Raft to hand her. That included his slapping her twice across the face, knocking her down a Bight of stairs, then leaping after her and hitting her across the mouth with the back of his hand. But George hit her harder than he intended. Marlene' tumbled down the stairs (as per script), but wound up by severely spraining her ankle (which the script did not call for!). Two more well known stage and screen players Martha Sleeper and William Harrigan have joined the cast of "We Are Always Young," Mutual chain's star-studded serial. That cast probably includes more "name" actors than any other serial se-rial on the air; among them are Jessie Royce Landis, Linda Wat-kins, Wat-kins, Margalo Gilmore, Joe Laurie Jr., Horace Braham, Pert Kelton, George Coulouris, and William Jan-ney, Jan-ney, who's starred. Andy Hardy's own, a squadron of RAF fighters, will soon take to the air. Mickey Rooney, the Hardy series se-ries "Andy," received a letter the other day from a young RAF flier who wrote "We're all young fellows in this squadron and we all think you're an o. k. sort of lad, so we've nicknamed our squadron (soon to see action) for you." Stirling Hayward lost Madeleine Carroll in "Virginia," but he's slated slat-ed to win her in "Dildo Cay." As originally planned, it was Dorothy Lamour whom he was to win, but she will be unable to finish her current assignment in "Aloma of the South Seas" in time to appear in the picture. ODDS AND EA'DS MutuaTs news analyst, ff'ylhe iTUliams, is sponsored on more stations than any fellow analyst ana-lyst has 100 stations . . . Robert Donal has leave from the British army to make 'Ti the l oiinncr" in an English studio ... If nrner Bros, have bought a story-called story-called "Coffin for Dmitrios" and Columbia Co-lumbia is making one called "Obituary" and trying to think up a netc title for it . . . As soon as Abbott and Costrllo finish "In the i'avy" they'll begin "Ride 'em Cowboy" . . . Shirley Temple itill have a brand new hair-do when she returns re-turns to the screen, and her hair, groto-ing groto-ing darker as she's grown older, is brown instead of golden. |