Show STAR i DUST I II I Movie Radio I By VIRGINIA VALE EVEN VEN better than having the circus come to town is to find Elephant Boy playing at your local motion- motion picture the theater ter one of these spring days It is a picture that defies description for volumes would be necessary to describe e the thrilling scenes of vast herds of elephants the gruesome terror of discontent discontent discontent dis dis- dis- dis content brewing among the natives of India the sturdy charm of little Sabu the year twelve-year-old Indian boy who shares stardom with the king of the elephants the magnificent blending of music music music mu mu- sic with the haunting shrieks of wild animals But with all of its other merits itis it itis itis is the warming heart-warming friendship of the boy and his elephant that makes one want to go back to see this picture again and again Robert Flaherty the explorer-director explorer who hasn't had a picture on our screens since the unforgettable Man o 0 of f fAran fAran Aran made of off the coast of Ireland went to India two years ago and is responsible for Elephant Boy K Back to roles that are hot and low down go Bette Davis and George Bancroft in their new neVi films When Warner Brothers Broth Broth- ers and Bette Davis 5 ended their 1 Ion long o n g 61 court wrangle the they Y 1 told her all was forgiven forgiven torU for tor- U 1 given and certainly t the they h e y must have havet t meant it it for tor they t have given her the i c 4 best role of her career ca ca- i. 1 ai reer rear i n Marked Bette Davis Woman G George e o 0 r g e Bancroft c com o m e eback s IS back In a Columbia picture called Racketeers In Exile which is a powerful answer answer- to those reformers reform reform- ers who said thay they just wouldn't let us have any more gangster pic pic- tures c- c For months Sol Lesser has bas been conducting a search for a Do Tarzan and at last he found one Glenn Morris lorris Olympic champion will play the role that Johnny ler made famous Johnny will Win stay with Mayer Goldwyn hoping for more civilized parts You never can tell what an actor will be asked to do down at the M M-G-M studio You'd think they'd be satisfied to have Clark Gable and Robert Taylor the romantic idols of ot half the population but never satisfied they are making the lads sing in their new pictures c- c Doris Nolan was not too pleased over her role in The Top of the Town because it seemed to her that she never had anything to do She felt that she was all but lost among the fancy sets and big musical music l numbers which just shows you that that- actors are usually wrong about what a picture will do for tor them Sam Goldwyn took one look at Top of the Town and Immediately Immediately immediately Im Im- im- im mediately started negotiations with Universal to borrow Miss Nolan for fora a prom prominent nent part in hi Dead End Meanwhile Miss Nolan had gone off on a motor trip with her sister to take a look at the cherry blossoms in Washington to dash over the skyway in Shenandoah valley and visit relatives in hi North Carolina The good news reached her en route K KAll cAU c- c All AU the studios are re-making re successes successes successes suc suc- of other oilier days having failed to find new stories that are as good P F M M-G-M has c cas a s t J M MJean Jean Harlow and 4 Jimmy Stewart i 1 in inThe n The Shopworn Ancel Angel An An- k f gel cel which was one of the best pictures ever made w Iv when h hen e n r Gary Cooper and r Nancy Carroll played it And Lily LilyPons LilyPons Pons will play Kiki Ki Kt a ki with operatic Lily LUy Pong PODS flourishes w which h i c h was not so good when Mary Pickford Pickford Pickford Pick- Pick ford played it years ago K ODDS AND ENDS Erin OBrien O'Brien Moore who was teas loas' loas so good in Black Legion is going Baing to play Nana Nona in The Tho Life o of f Emile Zola Zola a part that dozens of prominent actresses had tried out for two tivo A Day With the tile proves prove definitely that the worlds world's most famous year olds grow more charming and obstreperous every day They achieve an almost Donald rage when anyone addresses ad dresses them lem by the wrong names If When hen Ann Sothern returned to the R. R K O. O studio she found an exquisite ite crystal reindeer on her er dressing table a II gift gilt from Una Merkel who had occupied occupied pied the room during her absence Don Wilson of the Jack lack Benny program program pro pro- gram is making his picture debut in R. R K Os O.'s Missus America Albert Coifs famous Belgian portrait painter says that tie the most beautiful of all oil the film stars arc are Frances France Farmer Merle Oberon Luise Roiner Jean lean Harlow Norma Shearer and Kay Francis 0 Western Newspaper Union |