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Show ! STAR j DUST J Movie Ra Jio By VIRGINIA VALE HENRY FONDA'S mar-riage mar-riage to Frances Seymour Brokaw will increase the little circle of smart society women who, married to motion picture actors, reside in Hollywood. Richard IJarthelmess, Gary Cooper and Fred Astaire all married into the Social Register. Regis-ter. Incidentally, Mrs. Brokaw's life story is rather like that of a movie. Born In a small town in Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, she was the poor cousin of the wealthy Rogers family. Very pretty, very charming, she had everything ev-erything but money. She met George T. Brokaw, who had both wealth and social position, fell In love with him, married him, In 1931. Mr. Brokaw died nearly two years ago, leaving his widow and their small daughter well provided pro-vided for. She never forgot what it meant not to have plenty of money. She has done notable things in charity work. Henry Fonda, whom she met this summer in Europe, Eu-rope, is a fortunate young man. Bette Davis may seem to be a temperamental star when it comes to battling over stories sto-ries and salary, but away from the studio stu-dio she is most decidedly de-cidedly just another human being. Not long ago she and her husband were traveling through the Canadian Canadi-an Rockies, on the first part of that vacation va-cation trip she's tak- Bette Davis "g. She did rather startle the other guests at the hotel at Lake Louise by wearing a very low-cut evening gown but she startled them still more by taking the bus to Banff the next day, instead of being exclusive and going in a private car. Here's a new way to break into the movies. Marjorie Gage, a young society girl, likes to fly. bhe entered en-tered her own plane for the Ruth Chaltcrton Flying Cup race and first thing she knew, had been engaged en-gaged for a picture, "The Flying Hostess". Simone Simon does so well in "Girls' Dormitory" that she is being be-ing pushed right ahead. An American Ameri-can girl who, just for fun, acted in a French film made in Salzburg summer before last, declared when she came back that Simone was the cutest thing she ever saw. "Her face and her figure are both cute," she announced. "And her mind's cute too." Take that as a compliment or the reverse just as you please. Anyway, Simone will be seen next In "White Hunter," with Warner Baxter. A short story which has attracted much attention, "Beyond the Sound of a Machine Gun," has been purchased pur-chased by a leading studio, and In it will appear George Raft, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott and Fred MacMurray. We're to have still more Dickens on the screen. "Pickwick Papers" will be the next Dickens picture. Paramount Intended to make it with W. C. Fields, but that plan has been abandoned, and Metro has taken it on. Jean Muir decided recently that she'd like her hair better if It were brown, instead of blonde. Also, she cut off her bangs. Then she made some tests for Warner War-ner Brothers. They objected to the changes. And as a result of a lot of argument, ar-gument, the hair stayed brown but the bangs returned. Some movie fans I,. r wmsim 1 : a its are betting that JeanMuir eventually Jean will return to blonde hair. They point out that it was as a petite blonde that Jean first attracted attention and that its appeal is one of her big assets. The cycle of war pictures Is well under way. Twentieth Century-Fox launched it with "The Road to Glory," and continues it with the forthcoming "King of the Kyber Rifles." and "The Splinter Fleet." ODDS A'D ENDS ...The younn Dionnes are learning tome English uiord or "Reunion" their next pic- ture . . . Eleanor Powell plans to drive EaU in October, see some new plays in New York, pick up her grandfather and grandmother and drive back to the coast . . . Pretty good for a girl uho learned to drive so recently . . . William S. Hart may return to the screen . . . Did you know that the John D. M. Hamilton who is so prominent prom-inent in the Republican party is a brother of Hale Hamilton, tcho once was a movie star? ... Ruth Chatter-ton Chatter-ton plans to return to the stage this fall, no matter how many motion pic- ' ture companies want her to work for them. i O Westers Newspaper Union. |