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Show $50,000 OFFER FOR STORY PUTS DAMPER ON DEAL Sheilah Graham i HOLLYWOOD, Feb. ' I When Darryl Zanurk offered Jark Warner tM.000 for "The Roaring Nineties," bought several years ago as a vehicle ve-hicle for Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler and then dropped Mr. Warner decided to have another look at the story and aee what was so good about It To rut a short paragraph shorter, Mr. Wtrnsr will put ths picture Into production on a big scale, with Priscilla Lens In top feminine spot. "Career" la the title of the epic to feature the winners of Jesse Laskrs "Getaway to Hollywood" radio competition. As you knew, the man who Is chosen gets ths screen name, John Archer the girl, Alice Eden. The star of "Career'' is Anne lene would play a tough chorine who shoot her elderly boy-friend and escapes to Tahiti. A young detective. de-tective. Errol Flynn. la sent to get her. He does, and spends 10 years on a desert Island with Marlane, A better title for thla film might be "Having Wonderful Time." Ffcrenoe Ktce Htare Florence Rica, tha daughter af Sport Writer Grantland Rica, plays a sports-loving daughter In Metro's "Ths Kid from Texas" Dennis- O'Keefe. her gentleman friend in the picture, appears aa a polo player. In real life, MUa Rice Is not a sports fan at least that'a what aha told me. Another switch-around In "Each Dawn I Die." James Cagney will play tha framed reporter and not Jeffrey Lynn. And George Raft takes the tough role thst Cagney r ..: - , aV . mavisf Marlene TMelrirh, all set la sign with Warner Brothers, has asked for Errol Flynn for her leading man. Marlene also wanta to maks "Ona Way Passage" In which Kay Francla and William Powell appeared ap-peared several yeara ago. Tha studio, stu-dio, howsver, wants hsr to star In "The Changeling," In which Mar- l iv3 Mariana Dietrich , . . Wanh: (I) Errol Ffynn for har loading man; (2) to iter in "Ona Way Patten." was to have played. The. report persists thai-Albert Leaker, adverttaing and publicity expert, will soon ba appointed to an Important position In the Haya office. of-fice. The new Mrs. Leaker DoHe Kenyon has by no means abandoned aban-doned her acreen career, and la currently cur-rently atudylng scripts with a view to making mora Important films than in tha past fsw yeara . Aileen Prlngle remember her will have a smsll part In "The Hardys Rids High," starring tha on and only Mlckay Rooney not to mention Lewis Stone, who I aa much responsible for the success of this series aa Master Rooney . . . 'Tenderloin" about tha sinking of the Titanic and a New York policeman police-man (a atrange combination! has Fred MacMurray and Dorothy La-mour La-mour heading tha cast. Capra Waits aa Cooper The title for Frank Capra'a next Columbia production I back to "Mr. Smith Goee to Washington "and he will wait until he geta Gary Cooper for the title role . . . First picture on Joan Crawford's production schedule Is "Glamor GirL" It Is about time someone used thla title for a picture . . . Signs of srtivity in ths direction of Milisa Korjus, whose first and last Hollywood picture pic-ture was "Tha Great Walts." She will probably atar In "New Moon" (a remake of the 1J0 production with Grace Moore and l-awranca Tibbettl. And aha will play the title role In "Madame Pompadour," which sounds liks a natural for her type of looks. |