Show w wr wr wS r r S E By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union OW would you like to be HOW H introduced to a pretty girl and two minutes later have to throw a glass of water f into her face Barry Nelson knows how it feels to do exact exact- exactly exactly ly Iy that The was girl Laraine Day Nelson discovered by Metro on the University of California campus had to throw the water because William Seitz directing direct- direct directIng directing I Ing China Caravan liked the Idea Nelson wants to play tough roles according to Spencer Tracy hes he's a asterling I sterling actor so he hc should be beable beable able to The Thc role In China Cara Cara- Caravan Caravan Caravan I van is his fourth in pictures but throwing that water was almost too I much for him hed he'd rather be tough some other way r. Ann Sheridan and Madeleine Madelcine Car Car- Carroll Carroll Carroll roll probably didn't know It but for three weeks they ran neck and neck with Lana Turner in an election The boys at Forts Hancock and Til- Til Tilden Tilden Tilden den were voting to choose The Thc Sweetheart of Harbor Defenses Lana won the title I If It Joan Fontaine needed to make sure of her laurels as an all actress she's certainly accomplished it In n I the new Alfred Hitchcock Hitch Hitch- Hitchcock HitchI Hitchcoc I cock coc thriller Her performance is iso o I I I I k b bs bf bg f I IJ s J g gd i Ii I d a 9 t t 0 i v H I 1 JOAN FONTAINE p provided an excellent cast which Includes Gary Cary Grant Sir Cedric Hardwicke Dame May Whit Whit- Whitty Whitty ty Nigel Bruce and Heather Angel You can see what an actress Miss Fontaine is to stand out in such a cast Clyde Clyde Cook who has a bit part in Suspicion directed Hitchcock in inan inan an English film Aim in the thc days before G the mystery director won his spurs I Incidentally if it you read that thrill- thrill I er cr Before the t Fact dont don't expect I t this ibis picture version to resemble it too closely I guess the thc dresser hair resser Just doesn't like Joan Crawford re re- remarked remarked re- re remarked marked a friend of mine after alter see see- seeing seeIng ing When Ladies Meet And maybe the costume designer felt the thc same way nay she added Certainly Greer Carsons Carson's hair was more be be- becomingly becomingly done and her clothes were I prettier than Miss Crawfords Out But ut hair dos and clothes must be an old story to the Crawford girl who could give a good performance if Ir she had to wear a sugar sack and ha e her I halt shaved sha tight to her head Rob Rob- Robert Robert I ert crt Ta Taylor Talor lor ought to make new friends In this one too loo I f. u Rosalind Russell and her bride bride- bridegroom bridegroom bridegroom groom drove to New Orleans after I their marriage went by boat to to toe toe e Cuba flew to Jacksonville and took tooka a train to New York After a brief stay there she had to rush back to Hollywood for tor wardrobe wardrobe tests for or Take a Letter Darling in which she plays a bachelor girL Frances Farmer who's been starring co-starring with e Power In Son of Fury Is cast as her rival Richard Arlen wants to go to China to make a picture when he finishes Wildcat which hes he's to start about the first of the year Says it would take about three months to shoot exteriors there then the troupe would come home borne to tomake tomake tomake make the rest of it A miniature Big Town has been built by a New Orleans man who I visualized the imaginary city after listening to Edward G G. Robinsons Robinson's CBS CDS show which has been on the theair theair theair I air for four tour years he wants to give give it to Robinson who hesitates hesitates hesitates-he'd hed he'd need Deed a special building to house it It ODDS AND ENDS became an actor because became lie couldn't couldn add odd or tub subtract tract readily enough to hold holda a position at as a clerk Raymond Cram Gram Swings Swing's vacation location begins begin Christ Christ- Chr Christmas Jt mat mas Jerry Colonna Allan Jones Jonet nd d a few buddies have hale the difficult tk sk of o f concealing the tile fact Jact that Judy anoLa anoia is n a stowaway in their army cy p in in True to the tle Army Co Co- Cobia Cou CoIs u Is' bia bin may finally screen its long post long pott- pott pinned med Life Li of o f Chopin with Glenn Glen Glennford Clemford ford as at the composer The famous Thin Man Alan is is wearing thinner than r ever eter yet Shadow of 01 the tiie Thin Man Mall Manit Manis it is amusing |