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Show . . Star BBenstt A Bright Star k In Religious Field Ar Those DeZurik Sisters Uy Virginia Vale SEVERAL young players attained fame on the screen during the year of 1939, none of them more rapidly rap-idly or deservingly than Louis Hayward. A little more than a year ago his name was practically unknown to movie fans, although al-though he had appeared on the stage both in England and New York, and had given ex-! ex-! cellent performances in supporting j roles in several films. He was about ! ready to chuck Hollywood and go back to the stage when Edward j Small gave him a starring role in "The Duke of West Point." Next Ill-IB IIBlili 6iM:iilllSilM i ' ' ---w. - 5 LOUIS HAYWARD he was co-starred in "The Man In the Iron Mask" with Joan Bennett-he Bennett-he played twins in that one and now he is playing "Oliver Essex" in "My Son, My Son" and looking ahead to "Monte Cristo." In "My Son, My Son" he has to go through four dinner scenes. Being Be-ing a canny lad, he took up the matter of food with Director Charles Vidor, who agreed to order Hay-ward's Hay-ward's favorite dish for the four meals fried chicken. I wonder if the manager of your local movie theater was as clever as mine was. The other day he sent me a little card, in a little envelope as I opened it I wondered won-dered which of my friends had had a baby. The card read "Mr. and Mrs. Thin Man proudly announce the birth of a baby boy. Come and see the whole family at the Stamford Stam-ford theater starting Thursday." Across the bottom of the card was a brief advertisement for a shop that sells baby clothes. We're about to have a new cycle In pictures a cycle of religious pictures. pic-tures. Cecil B. DeMille will make "Queen of Queens" for Paramount. Twentieth Century - Fox recently bought "The Great Commandment," which was made by Cathedral Films, and will make it over. EKO may give us a film version of "Father "Fa-ther Malachy's Miracle," and Twentieth Twen-tieth Century-Fox may do "The First Legion." If the first of these to be released is a success, the smaller companies will lose no time In scheduling religious pictures of their own. Why doesn't somebody re-do "Earthbound"? "Mexican Spitfire" made such a good pre-view impression that its stars, Lupe Velez and Leon Errol, have been signed to make three more pictures together. Caroline and Mary DeZurik, the two sisters whom you often hear on the National Barn Dance program, just happened into becoming singers. sing-ers. They lived on a farm in Royal-ton, Royal-ton, Minn. One day they were singing sing-ing as they did the housework, and Mary Jane picked up a guitar that her brother had recently bought and began plunking on it as an accompaniment accom-paniment They found that they sang well together, and stuck to it. A short time later they won an amateur contest in Royalton, and were sent to St. Cleud, Minn., to enter another an-other contest. It was there that radio talent scouts heard them and started them on their way. Caroline was jusi 15 then, and Mary Jane was two years older. Now they are both expert puitar players, though it's Mary Jane who plays when they sing on the air. When Charles Laughton was a guest recently on the "Screen Guild Theater" he upset radio tradition and startled Producer Jne Hill by memorizing his script Hill wouldn't believe that he had die it which seems odd, in view cf the fact that Laughton has been on the stage and in the movies for years. Just to humor the producer, Laughtrn brought the script to the broadcast with him and referred to it once. onns .4n F.ns "Grand n:cr return In thp air in nnunry . . . Jnan r.lnnrlrll and Ihck Vmr'H (Vr. nnd Wrs., yon kn'Ht I ui!l pru!n!ly muhr n pir'nre t"nrthcr in tlie tprins . . V,"U 7 rmit, C7,'S rrporr, cnntrilntlrd tun I 5eri irr tn thp lluv Srntin for thrir first mot ic did a running commentary tin it. inclcascd by Wos-.ern Newspaper Union. 1 |