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Show FILM LOVE TEMPO QUICKENS AS HEROINES GO WOOING Sbeilah Graham HOLLYWOOD, Jan. ItWoman ara doing th proposing la pteturee. Of eouree, they bava alwaya dona It In raal Ufa (sometimes ao non-eecretly non-eecretly that only tha man la In ttaa dark). But, until recently, tha movlaa prafarrad to daplct tha lady aa waiting baahfully for tha man of har eholea to pop tha quaatlon. To (at back to tha movies. Ka cant and futura fllma to ahow worn an chaalnf man Includa "Ounge Din," In which Joan Fontaine follow! fol-low! Douglas Fairbanks Jr. all ovar India, (P. Z. 8ha doaa not (at him.) Wandy Barria haa better luck with Chaatar Morrla In "Pacific Liner." Har Job of nuraa and his aa ahlp'a doctor gtvss har svsry chanca to follow through and atampada him to matrimony. - l I1"' " i ii mpfiiw'Mii hi l - ' v v' i' ' ' - 'i j I '-.-- ' , . . ' : . Medelcina Carrel . . One af many aetrauaa in currant crop of qat-your-man picfuras. Here la a strange something-Madeleine something-Madeleine Carroll, who la ao blond and ao beautiful, actually has to voice the marriage proposal In Parsmount's aoon-to-ba released "Cafe Society." The man la Fred MacMurray, who. In real life, also happena to be very bashful where the determined sex Is concerned. Bette Davis, who chased after Henry Fonda to the moet shameful shame-ful degree In "Jeaebal," la mora diplomatic, but Juat aa ruthleas, with George Brent In "Dark Victory." Bette discovers that the "other woman," Geraldlne Fltsgerald, has been to sec Mr. Brent She is naturally nat-urally jealous and cunningly leade Brent to declare hla' love for her by telling him that the girls wsre on the point of fighting over btm. This Is one swell way to flatter the mala ego. Then . Is- something about two femalea fighting over him that makaa - a man sprout imaginary feathers and awoon with rapture. (I know what I'm talking talk-ing about I bad three yeara of writing a daily lovj column and the tales I was told!) One of theee daye I am going to ask Jack Benny whether he proposed pro-posed ta wife Mary Livingstone or vice veraa. In tha moviee, he is typed aa the man who leaves the fatal question, ta the women be loves. In his current "Artists and V.dela Abroad," Jack loves Joan Bennett, but hasn't courage enough to tell her so. Naturally, Joan Isn't stymied by thla and makes Mr. Benny an honest man. In his previous "Artists and Models," Gail Patrick posee all the love questions ques-tions to Jack, who doaa his bit by making tha .ight responses. You woull think that Hedy Lamarr La-marr merely had to look at a man kid want after Melvyn Douglas In "That Certain Age" would have been very funny If It weren't so cad. There la nothing ehy about Dick Powell In private Ufa, and I have It on the beet authority that he was tha proposer of tha Powell-Blondell Powell-Blondell match. But the camera must make bim bashful or something, some-thing, beoauae, In "Cowboy -From Brooklyn, -'riactlla Lane extracts his love confessions; In "Hard to Gat" Olivia da HavUland bluntly aeke him ta marry her. In "Sing Baby 8lng," Dick was pursued across ths continent by the determined de-termined Alloa Fay a. with those beautiful brown ayes ef hers ta have blm babbling proposals all aver the place. But it didn't work aut thla way In "Algiers." Hedy did a fine Job of hunting Cbarlee Boyer after aha caught his unspoken eigne! of interest. Even then ehe did not get blm for keepe. And Merle Oberon, In The Cowboy Cow-boy and the Lady!" Really, Merle. I was poetlvely embarraesed tha way you went after Gary Cooper In that "blind-date" aequence. If anything, I thought It was overdone, over-done, but It netted you the gorgeous Gary's love and his name wbsn you followed blm to that boat Geta Her Man Jean Arthur, Who Is usually a modeet girl on the screen and waits patiantly for tha man to propose, le currently shadowing Cary Grant In "Plane Number 4." In thla picture, pic-ture, Mr. Grant haa no uss for women, but like msny a similar flash and blood character, enda by throwing up the aponge to the female fe-male who la determined to get him. Even little Deanna Durbin la not Immune from the current get-your-man tidal wave. The way the poor |