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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union. I 1 HERE'S never a dull moment mo-ment at Big Bear, Calif., ; these days. No sooner did 20th Century-Fox's "Brigham i Young" troupe finish work on location near there than Monogram's "Queen of the ! Yukon" moved in. j The town has just one im-jportant im-jportant street, and it's j jammed nightly with bearded extras (whose beards earn a living for them) and members of j the cast. Irene Rich, Charles Blck-; Blck-; ford, Melvln Lang, Dave O'Brien, and June Carlson are In the lineup. Melvin Lang and Dave O'Brien had to stage a fight the other day; in preparation, Bickford spent several sev-eral days teaching O'Brien how to avoid injuries. But when Director Thil Rosen called "Cut!" O'Brien fell to the ground, and the company doctor found that he had a broken rib. He'd been too much excited to remember Bickford's instruc-i instruc-i tions. ' When young players In Hollywood get discouraged they remind themselvesand them-selvesand anyone who'll listen that it takes Just one good picture to make a star. "Look at Pat O'Brien in 'Front Page'," they'll say. "Look at Cary j Grant in 'Topper' Shirley Temple ,w.v .y.-.y.y.y.;.. . . .v.v. ((VWI ; Vfr:rS It -Vtfi ' " V akaiiMAv . ' W " fiff $: ' J yy I rl'ftV 'SR..-: ? --JF :::. LflV' AiildL iffy j j J IDA LUPINO in 'Little Miss Marker' Errol Flynn in 'Captain Blood' May Robson in 'Lady for a Day.' " Another name has been added to the "Look" list it's that of Ida Lupino, who did a nice job in "The Light That Failed" and has won her spurs as a result of her "mad" scenes in Warner Brothers' "They Drive By Nfght." She'll co-star with John Garfield in "East of the River." We may have another Rogers-Astaire Rogers-Astaire picture, if RKO can find the right story for it. Fred Astaire is free-lancing at present, and Ginger is booked for three pictures, one of them being a picturization of the very popular novel, "Kitty Foyle." But some time next year they may be dancing together again. Herbert Moullon has a new Idea for screen entertainment, and he hopes you're going to like it. After six months of hard work he has 1 finished an abridged version of "Love Me Tonight," starring Maur- ice Chevalier, Jeanctte MacDonald I and Myrna Loy, and originally released re-leased in 1932. It will run just 45 minutes. Other old-time successes being considered for streamlining are I "Design for Living," "The Lives of a Rpnffnl T.nnppr ' "Nioht Aflnr Night," and "One Hour With You." Betty Ileld left the stage for Hollywood Hol-lywood a year ago; in that time she's played four big parts, so different dif-ferent from each other that she's the envy of all the other young actresses. ac-tresses. In "What a Life!" she was the nice high school girl who was Jackie Cooper's sweetheart; in "Of Mice and Men" she was the sultry, amorous young woman who attracted attract-ed Lon Chaney Jr. In "Seventeen" she was a giddy young siren, and in "Victory," her latest picture, she's warm, tender, understanding. Three years ago Ralph Edwards hitch-hiked from his home in Oakland, Oak-land, Calif., to New York for a job. A couple of weeks ago he returned to his home in a plane. These days he's so busy that, when he decided to take a six-week vacation, five other announcers had to be called in to sub for him. Six months ago he turned up as creator, director and master of ceremonies cere-monies of his own program, the hilarious hi-larious "Truth or Consequences." It was tried out on four eastern stations, sta-tions, and soon will be launched on WEAF in New York. ODDS AD EA'DS . . . CeralJine Fitzgerald returns to the screen to co-star co-star with George Haft in "South of Suez" . . . Looks as if Charlie Chaplin's "The Dictator" would be released about the middle of September . . . Susanna Foster has a gold powder box which when opened plays Fight on for U. S. C." given her by the boys of the L'niversity of Southern California's band who worked with her in "There's Magic in Music" . . . Tyrone Power tXuill do a series of pictures based on tales about Zorro, the California bandit his current one, "The Cali-fornian" Cali-fornian" is a re-make of the old Douglas Doug-las Fairbanks "The Mark of Zorro." |