Show S I Studios Studio Those hoseR Rope Cowboy and in Flickers Profits With Horse Operas By y PAUL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD INS Even from this distance you can guess that moving dust cloud on the western horizon is the beginning of the bIggest biggest biggest big bIg- gest cow drama and horse opera drive ever staged by the ranches of the cinema country Therell There'll be more and and guitar along the celluloid trail during the 1941 42 season than have been heard since Cecil DeMille first turned a crank on The Squaw Man Of course westerns have been doing mighty well all along Never before have there been so many big cowboy and flickers flickers flickers flick flick- ers on the schedules of the major studios and with so many topflIght topflight top top- flight stars who dont don't know the difference between a cantle and a canter Imagine Alice Faye playing Belle Starr and not looking startled when a gun goes off Or Bette Davis as Jane drawling Dont I go fer yore arns bub I gotta bead on yore gizzard Those characters will be bc the title roles In n two future epics Of course cours a lot of stars cam came cam up from westerns Clark Gable made his first hit in The Painted Desert Desert Desert Des Des- ert In 1930 Arizona Bound and Nevada pointed the way for Gary Cooper Richard Dix now generally generally generally gen gen- thought of as always having been a guy of the great open spaces really won film fame In InThe InThe InThe The Redskin It was a western Stagecoach that took John Wayne out of quickies to the big league Joel McCrea never was more than a leading man until he joined Wells Fargo Randolph S Scott ott first attracted attracted attracted at at- attention in The Last Roundup and still does does' his best I work in frontier pictures Bob Taylor had been pleading for a western for a long time before before before be be- fore Metro gave him the bang bang- bang assignment as Billy BlUy the Kid Kidi i in lit a color saga of the same name now in its last days of shooting Howard Hughes returns to movie movie- making with a called The Outlaw which also is about the Kid Warner Brothers will keep a couple of million dollars worth of frontier drama In production continually continually continually con con- with tour four films on the schedule this spring Bad Men of Missouri Calamity Jane Janc Montana Montana Montana Mon tana based on the war of the copper kings and They Died With Their Boots On which has been taken off Jimmy Cagney's slate and given to Errol Enrol Flynn Frank Lloyd who now is producing producing producing ing and directing The Lady From Cheyenne with a somewhat startled star star- tied Loretta Young in the lead Is preparing a thriller of appropriate size to be called Texas In Pioneer Pioneer Pio Plo neer Woman Barbara will be seen as a year old relic telling in flashbacks almost the i whole history of the west as she encountered it I i I I T S 9 iS r Joel McCrea Never more than leading man until Wells Fargo |