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Show ! STAR 5 s DUST ! Movie Radio 5 5rBy VIRGINIA VALE PERHAPS the happiest, but certainly the most bewildered bewild-ered family in the country just now consists of Michael Kelly, his wife, and five children chil-dren who live in that part of New York City, known as the Bronx. Their twelve-year-old Tommy hai been selected to play Tom Sawyer In the Selznlck-Internatlonal film of the Mark Twain classic. Such an opportunity for a youngster young-ster would be a dramatic thunder bolt In any family, but for the Kellya It was the first good break in years. Papa Kelly has been on tha relief rolls for two years, his Jobs as Janitor Jani-tor in a school and life-guard at a beach having dwindled to nothing. Mamma Kelly has been to tha movies only three times In her 23 years of marriage. Tommy and his father ara In Hollywood now, and Michael geta a day's extra work every now and then while his son Is being groomed for stardom. K When you see Claudette Colbert In "I Met Him In Paris" you will find It tha caveat most wss-Kf, ----- utterly delightful film In many months. Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, and Robert Young romp through the picture as if they were having tha time of their lives. It is the story of a girl who hat saved for five years tor a teiP to Paris, and r ?w wn sha get. ther. loioert everything happens as it might have In a fantastic dream. A giddy novelist and a cynical cyn-ical playwright fall in love with her. For the flrat time since their marriage, mar-riage, Joel McCrea and Francea Dee will play opposite each other la the Paramount picture "Wella FarfO." Adolph Menjou and the Mrs. known to us as Verreo Teasdale will be together In Sam Goldwyn's "Marco Polo" and the one extra clause they insisted on In their contract was that the dividing wall between two dressing dress-ing rooms ahould bo taken down so that they could be together. Everybody is wondering just what Is to become of Simone Simon. After a few days' work in "Danger Lova at Work" she was taken out of tha cast and Ann Sothern substituted. The heroine was supposed to be an American girl educated In France, and Simone's heavy accent was just too much to be convincing. Twentieth-Century-Fox officials still hava faith in her, and say that when they find Just the right story for her they, will put her to work again. The dinner party that marked the end of the recent Twentleth-Cen-tury-Fox convention put on a show that Included about a million dollars' dol-lars' worth of talent. Irving Berlin aang "Remember," the Rita Broth-era Broth-era made the rafters ring with hilarious hi-larious ahout by their Impromptu foolishment, but Eddie Cantor walked off with the honors of the evening when he arrived In blond curls and baby dress and did an Imitation of Shirley Temple. Prettiest Pretti-est girls at the party were Loretta Young, who came with Merlo Ober-on's Ober-on's former fiance, David Nlven, and Alice Faye, who came with her constant beau, Tony Martin. Incidentally, Inci-dentally, Tony will be back on the radio regularly again soon. Mary Pickford Is asking $700,000 for Pickfair, because when she sells the house she will Include all the treas-1 urea that she andj Douglas Fairbanks j collected In their travels around the world. When she marries Buddy Rogers, Rog-ers, she will live In a s 1 m p 1 beach house and an bid-fashioned bid-fashioned ranch house, and wants no it i k r ! reminders of her Mary pickford former life around to haunt her. Whoever is purchaser will possess an estate at which notables no-tables of the world were entertained in the days when Mary and Doug were fllmdom's most celebrated couple. ' ODDS AND ENDS Martha Rayt gett furious when anyone refers to her as a rubber-faced comedienne, but Joan Crawford always refers to herself as Elephant Annie, because she never forgets for-gets anything . . . All the girls on the KKO lot are grateful to the costume designer, Eddie Stevenson, for making them look so elegant. Byway of show-ing show-ing their gratitude Ann Sothern, Harriet Har-riet HiUiard, Gertrud Michael end Ann Shirley got together and knitted, sewed, and bought him a t"ocr"' summer wardrobe . . . Mary Carlisle has added a pretty penny to her earn-ings earn-ings by having Ding Crosby advise her on horse-race bets. O Western Newspaper TJnloa |