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Show STGE$CREEPOADI0 By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) IT'S difficult to write calmly and critically about Walt Disney's "Dumbo" in fact, it's practically impossible. This story of the baby elephant ele-phant with the over-size ears, who's born into a circus and made miserable by the other animals because of those same ears, is completely enchanting. There's Timothy Mouse, successor to Jiminey Cricket; Crick-et; there's the band of black crows, there's the squealing circus engine and there's the really lovely sequence se-quence in which pink elephants dance. Every moment of this hour-long hour-long picture is delightful no two ways about it, you'll have to see "Dumbo." Jean Phillips, once Jean Harlow's stand-in, had moved from a bit to a co-starring role in just two pictures she's the first stand-in since Adriehne Ames to become a leading lead-ing woman, which is bad news for girls who hope to climb to stardom by that route. Her first break came when she was cast in "Among the Living"; that performance earned her the second lead in "The Morning Morn-ing After." Now she's co-starred with Macdonald Carey in "Dr. Broadway." Her resemblance to Ginger Rogers blocked her career when she first went to Hollywood. Glenda Farrell is happy. She's signed to play the ex-sweetheart of a gangster in "Johnny Eager"; says she's fascinated by the part, and GLENDA FARRELL also wants to do it because the picture pic-ture is being directed by Mervin LeRoy, who gave her her first part in films. Irving Berlin has written 14 new songs for "Holiday Inn," more than have ever before been turned out in a single picture. Bing Crosby will sing some of them, Fred Astaire will dance to them. The score includes in-cludes two old Berlin favorites, i "Easter Parade" and "Lazy." Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant will co-star in RKO's production of Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man," with an original score by Oscar Strauss, the Viennese composer. compos-er. If you want to see another version of the same story right away, you can go - to Metro's "The Chocolate Soldier," with Nelson Nel-son Eddy and Rise Stevens, of the Metropolitan Opera company. It's Miss Stevens' screen debut, and Metro executives feel sure that the public will take her to their hearts. Remember the parting of the Red sea in C. B. DeMille's "The Ten ! Commandments" or the chariot race in "Ben Hur" or the earthquake earth-quake in "San Francisco"? Mr. De-Mille De-Mille thinks he's added a memorable memo-rable sequence to that list the squid fight in "Reap the Wild Wind." Ray Milland and John Wayne, in diving suits, are exploring explor-ing the hull of a wrecked vessel in a search for Susan Hayward when they encounter the sea monster. Mr. DeMille donned a diving suit and directed the scenes, in a huge tank. For other scenes in the picture pic-ture he descended 20 feet into the Pacific, to the ocean floor. Said it was the only way he could get the eerie realism that he required. Who'd be your choice to portray Will Rogers in Warner Bros, film of his life, made from the book, "Uncle Clem's Boy"? At present Stuart Erwin, Spencer Tracy and Roy Rogers, Republic's Western star, are under consideration. It's said that Mrs. Rogers prefers Tracy, though Erwin's supporters urge that he's a better choice because be-cause he resembles the famous comedian and philosopher. ODDS AND ESDS Paramount will star Charles Boyer and Veronica Lake in "Hong Kong a romantic story played against modern, war-lorn China . , . Ginny Simmx has ju.it been made an honorary colonel of Southern California Cali-fornia district, American Legion . . We hear that Tony Martin said he was "ready and willing" to enter the army, even though an appeal from his draft classification hd been filed . . . RKO's "Mexican Spitfire at Sea" brings you not only the team of Lupe Velez and leon Erroll, but Zasu Pills, Elizabeth Ris don, Charles (Buddy) Rogers, Eddif Dunn and Harry Holman as irelL |