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Show tar Bast Unimpressed Home folks Do Swell Job in England Girls Bob Preston! Hv Virginia Vnlo 1 RECENTLY returned from Sweden, a man who has been connected with the motion mo-tion picture business for some twenty-five years made a first-hand report to this column col-umn on the subject of Greta Garbo in her homeland. Her countrymen, he said, aren't tremendously impressed im-pressed by her success. They like her pictures, go in droves to see them, but they feel that of course she ought to be a success-just success-just a case of home-town girl making mak-ing good. They are inclined to resent her aloofness they feel that she ought to realize that they wouldn't dream of intruding on her privacy, and that she doesn't have to treat them as she does the movie fans of other countries. He had several photographs of her, taken in the days when she was a hat model. They were sweet, rather simpery, giving no hint of what she was to become. Apparently the best way to make really good motion pictures is to send an American picture-making unit to England to do the work. "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" is the latest example of what can be accom- ;.. -S f : i ' v. 'V ' r ! , I s U GREEK GARSON plished in that way, and it's one of the best pictures that has been released re-leased in a long time. Metro sent Its unit over, Robert Denat and Greer Garson turned in beautiful performances, Sam Wood djd a swell job of directing, and there you are! 1 Incidentally, "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" presents us with a new glamour girL Greer Garson has flaming red hair and green eyes. Men think she's gorgeous, women aren't sure whether she is really beautiful or not. This is her first picture. She came to Hollywood from England, where she had appeared on the stage and done some work in television, expecting ex-pecting to go to work at once. She spent a year in waiting to go to work. She was seriously ill, with spinal trouble. She was sent back to England, to do her first picture, and will probably prob-ably be sent back again to do her second, "The Doctor's Dilemma." Paramount thinks it has star material ma-terial in a young man named Bob Preston and the movies sadly need young men who are stellar material right now, what with three heart-smashers heart-smashers getting married practically practi-cally in a bunch! The trio, Gable, Power and Taylor, will still be tremendously tre-mendously popular, of course, but many a girl who has liked their pictures pic-tures is going to look about for an unmarried star to fill the niche in her affections left vacant by the marriage of one of them. So Paramount may offer such girls Bob Preston. He's made four pictures so far (notably "Union Pacific") but he's had stage experience, expe-rience, in the stock company launched by Tyrone Power's mother in Los Angeles. If you're a Kate Smith fan you'll have to save a different hour for her broadcasts, beginning in October. Octo-ber. When she returns from her summer vacation she'll move into the nine o'clock (Eastern Standard Time) spot on Friday nights which has been filled this year by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater. For four years she has been on at eight on Thursdays, and as she rates fifth among all shows in national popularity surveys she doesn't have to fear the other A-l shows that take the air on Thursday nights. ODDS AND ENDS-Vhen the Hen-ry Hen-ry Fondas vacationed in New York they didn-t do night clubs, didn't let the publicity department tie Henry up lor endless interviews with the pras-they pras-they just went to the theater, night alter night . Note to young singers-remember singers-remember that the metropolitan Audi-twn, Audi-twn, of the Air wiU be resumed on broth? V Jim An,eche' the -H n repc'"f Charles Bayer on durJfyW0d, ,WJW Program during Boyer's 13 weeks' vacation. . . Helen Morgan seems to have a future Hctly m he new medium . . . ,, censor, clamp down on -Lady ol the IoThoU "iedJ Mrr.RoblrT leased by Western Newspaper Unto.,, |