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Show I DUST I J Movie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE J WHENEVER a crowd of actors, producers, directors, di-rectors, and writers get together to-gether in Hollywood, the most exciting arguments take place over questions that can never really be settled. Just the other night in the Brown Derby restaurant a group got to discussing who is the most talked-of man in pictures just now and the arguments grew so vehement, an innocent bystander by-stander might suspect that a riot was being planned. Instead, In-stead, it was just a general tossing of verbal bouquets. Several people think Robert Mont-, Mont-, gomery Is the man of the hour. He recently pepped up his somewhat wilting career by Jumping from roles of society playboys to that of the maniac killer In "Night Must Fall" Other nominations for the man of the hour were David Selznick, because he produced "A Star Is Born," and Darryl Zannuck because he has made his pictures stand for a guarantee of hilarious entertainment Not since the days of the Tal-madge Tal-madge sisters long ago, have film fans had the fun of watching sisters climb to fame as screen rivals. Now everyone is arguing about the respective talents of Olivia de ! Haviland and Joan Fontaine. They are 1 sisters, you know. And although Olivia had a big start, appearing ap-pearing In four Ik .. ' Warner Brothers Olivia pictures before Joan de Holland went to work at RKO, there are many who think that by this time next year, Joan will be well in the lead. Mary Livingstone, who has played such a bis; part In the success of the Jack Benny radio programs, is thinking very seriously of taking part in a Paramount plctnre starring Buddy Rogers and Shirley Ross. It ! is a serious decision, because it entails en-tails having an operation on her nose and Mary does not like hospitals hos-pitals or ether or knives or inactivi- ty or even breathing through her mouth. Innumerable fans have asked me. if the impressive mansion and estate which Fredric March presents to Janet Gaynor In the course of the plot of "A Star Is Born" was especially es-pecially built for the picture. Others think they recognize it as the house once occupied by Barbara Stanwyck when she was married to Frank Fay. Neither theory is correct The house belongs to a Los Angeles real estate dealer and was merely rented by the Selznlck-International company com-pany for two days. The enterprising young Grand National Na-tional company certainly stole a march on the rest of the studios when they signed Stu Erwin to a starring contract. Since that time "Dance, Charlie, Dance" which he made for Warner Brothers has been previewed and Stu has landed right up in the thin ranks of top-notch comedians. He has finished his first picture for Grand National. It is called "Small Town Boy" and everyone every-one says it is a knockout. Ever since Myrna Loy finished "Parnell," she has been enjoying a lazy vacation at En. senada, Mexico, where a gleaming, luxurious hotel shares scenic honors with the harbor which is said to be the most beautiful in the world even more beautiful than the far-famed Bay of Naples. Her husband, hus-band, Arthur Horn- Myrna Loy blow, got away from his duties at Paramount Para-mount long enough to spend a week with her and was seized with the inspiration to write a picture set In the locale of Ensenada. Myrna hopes that she can stay on there while it is filmed but M-G-M have a crowded program ahead for her. ODDS AND ENDSA Utile boy working on the set o "Vanity Show" at Warnet Br other t come down with measles, and the uhole troupe headed by Dicfc Powell had to knock off work and watch for symptoms for two or three days... Errol Flynn brought two hon hounds back to Hollywood with hun, the only ones of their breed m America, and now everyone is wondering what these sporting dogs wi do for amusement, hunt at the Universal zoo? . . . em Arthur just cannot fix her own hair, so when the studio hairdressers went out on strike, her director Mitchell Leisen, arranged her locks or her, and very well too . . . Clark Cable and Carole Lombard Lom-bard went as cowboy and cowgirl to a recent masquerade birthday party and took the honored guest a Shel land pony as gift. 8) Weatern Newapaper Union. |