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Show tar Bust That Awkward Gap Greta Garbo Charms Connie on Her Feet! I II" Virginia Vale THE bugaboo that haunts all child actors has swooped down on Bobby Breen he has reached that in-between age when there's nothing to do but retire from the screen for a few years, until the awkward age is over. Young Breen's voice is changing, chang-ing, and Sol Lesser, who has him under contract, doesn't want to risk its being injured and has decreed de-creed a rest So "Escape to Paradise," made for Principal Productions, may be his last picture for a while. He'll go to military school and study drama until he Is ready to face the cameras cam-eras again. Sometimes the screen's young people bridge the gap from kid pictures pic-tures to grown-up ones without taking tak-ing time off. Deanna Durbin did. "First Love" will show you how charming she Is as a young very L v.v . .y.AMJ . j I. ... ....... I DEA.NNA DURBIN young lady. In private life she's all set to marry Vaughn Paul as soon as she's legally of age. And Jane Withers and Edith Fellows kept 1 right on acting, very successfully. For those who don't do It, the awkward awk-ward age is a tragedy. They have years of drawing down huge salaries, sala-ries, then suddenly the money stops, and all that they can do is to wait and face the prospect of not being able to score a second success, when they are ready to work again. Edward Small plans to bring to the screen a number of the world's greatest stories, but so far he seems to have found a gold mine in the works of Alexandre Dumas, and the other great writers will have to wait until he gets around to them. Small ; rang the bell with "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Man in the Iron Mask," and now he announces an-nounces that he's going to screen 'The Corsican Brothers." the principal prin-cipal characters of which are a pair of Siamese twins. It seems safe to predict that even people who haven't liked Greta Garbo Gar-bo In her other pictures will be delighted de-lighted with her In "Ninotchka." It's a delightful comedy, perfectly directed di-rected by Ernst Lubitsch, presenting a Garbo who is an enchanting comedienne. come-dienne. Melvyn Douglas and Ina Claire give excellent performances, the rest of the cast is good. It's grand news that Connie Bos-well Bos-well is walking once more. The gallant gal-lant little star of radio and movies was crippled in an accident when she was a child, and for years she went everywhere In a wheel chair. People wanted to stand np and cheer when she arrived at a football game or a theater It put new heart into them, to see how gallantly she carried car-ried on In spite of what, to most of ns, would be an unconquerable handicap. With her sisters, Martha and Vet, she made a name for herself on the stage and on the air. Since her sisters sis-ters married, a few years ago, she has continued by herself, and has made a new record for a woman singer In the number of her recordings record-ings that have been sold. She can walk now only a few steps, it's true, but a few steps mean a lot when you haven't been walking at all. She can swim, and ride a horse. First thing you know, she'll be dancing. Arlene Harris, the "Human Chatterbox" Chat-terbox" of the air, had a handicap to overcome, too, but she was too young at the time to realize it For the first three years of her life she didn't talk; when her parents consulted con-sulted physicians they learned that she was deaf as well. A trip to Vienna and an operation cured the deafness, and from then on she could talk. "I've been making mak-ing up for lost time ever since," she says and the way she chatters on the Al Pearce programs every Wednesday Wed-nesday night proves it. ODDS AD F.DS-al Tinney, producer of "Youth it. Age," says that most of the applications to appear on his program come from elderly people peo-ple .. . Felix Knight's November con 'TM took him to Virginia, Maine, Horida and Connecticut, with hit Thursday night broadcasts from New York forcing him to hurry home between be-tween times. Released by Western Newspaper Union.) |