Show Star Stal- Dust DustA A Real Star Starters What a Stand In Is Jon Hall May Go Native Dy By Virginia inia ValeT Vale Valo A T THE studios of Metron Metro- Metro n Mayer Goldwyn-Mayer there is renewed interest in the filming filming filming film film- ing of Pocahontas if if if they do they predict that early American history will come comein comein in for its rightful share of the spotlight They've selected that continental glamour girl Hedy LaMarr to play the part of the Indian girl Pocahontas who captured the heart of ot Capt John Smith w when n she whom no entreaty could prevail got his head in her r 4 r a we t i f HEDY DEDY LA MARK MARIt arms and laid her own upon his to save him from death when he was captured by her father ather Powhatan and was about to have his brains beaten out You probably know any number of people who claim that they gave this or that motion picture star the push that started him rum or her on the road rand to fame and fortune All too frequently those starters star-starters actually actual actual- ly had nothing to do with the persons person's persons person's persons person's per per- sons son's success There are two men who can shine in reflected glory if it they want to but they're so busy shining in their own glory that they cant can't be both both- ered One is a well known tailor in Hollywood Eddie Schmidt Adolphe Menton lenjou went to when him him when ho first tackled Hollywood He knew the value of good clothes but bat bathe buthe buthe he hadn't any money He wanted to make a n. bargain If Eddie Schmidt would make him six sl suits and trust him for them hed he'd tell everybody where he got the clothes That wardrobe was the thing that turned the balance in lenjou's l favor Cavor The other star-maker star is Sardi who owns the famous restaurant in New York where screen and stage players eat every day in the week Not so very long ago William Gargan Gargan Gar- Gar gan was was stoney broke He hadn't had a stage engagement for ten months his wife was in the hospital But he had to be seen in Sardis Sardi's so that the theatrical world would know that he was still about Sardi had noticed him and had faith in him He lie invited the young actor to eat at his expense also to entertain anyone who was important to him The investment came to about altogether Leslie Howard Howard How How- ard was influential in helping Gargan Gargan Gar- Gar gan to make a tremendous success in the stage version of The Animal Kingdom Hollywood dangled a contract and contract and Gargan was set Both lenjou l and Gargan paid their backers' backers bills the first moment that they had the mone money Isabelle Sheridan Mary Pickford's Pickford's Pickford's Pick- Pick fords ford's cousin is in the movies yet not in them them and and she has no desire to step before a camera She's a stand stand-in which stand which means that she wears a stars star's costumes and stands patiently while lighting Is tried out on her and the camera cameraman cameraman man figures what he wants She's stood in for Constance Cummins Merle Oberon Virginia Bruce Sally I Eilers Ehlers Joan Blondell and various other actresses At present she's doing it for Joan Blondell in Hal Roach's The Housekeepers Housekeeper's Daughter Daughter Daugh Daugh- ter ter Looks as if it Jon Hall would go on playing native of the South Seas for forthe forthe forthe the rest of his screen career u Hurricane Hurricane Hur ur- ur started him you may recall recall recall re re- re- re call and Edward Smalls Small's South of Pago Pago will keep up the good work s 1 Bette Davis Davis' performance in The TheOld TheOld TheOld Old Maid is so good that people who've never liked her on the screen before are now admitting that the girl Cirl can enn act And Warner Brothers' Brothers plans for screening The Miracle have been speeded up and put into production after three years of discussion discussion discussion dis dis- dis- dis and preliminary work Miss Davis will have the coveted role of the Nun ODDS AND ENDS Sol Lesser is allowing Principal Productions employees employees em emm an extra half ball hour for or lunch on condition that they'll play ton during their additional time on ort the courts across the street from front h his offices at International After Ir trying trying try try- ing for a year pear car Charles Correll of oj Amos and ami Andy has taught laught r. r his s dog to roll over Irene Dunne thought you ou this public wouldn't like Tier her ai as the hard boiled heroine of 0 Front Page Pane so the part parI i it is being ig re written Released R by Western Newspaper Union |