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Show A' ! STAR ! DUST t Movie Radio $ By VIRGINIA VALE UNCLE SAM is the producer pro-ducer of "The River," regarded by many as the greatest of current motion pictures, and one of the greatest motion pictures of all time. Specifically, "The River" was produced for the Farm Security administration administra-tion by Pare Lorentz, a former form-er New York film reviewer, who for the past two years has been turning down big-mohey big-mohey offers from Hollywood in favor of working for the government. "This Is the story of the Mississippi, Mis-sissippi, where it comes from, where It goes, what it has meant to us, and what it has cost us," the beautiful beau-tiful voice of Thomas Chalmers intones in-tones as the picture starts. From then on in magnificently photographed photo-graphed scenes we are shown an epic. The Mississippi rising in rebellion re-bellion is far more stirring and majestic ma-jestic than all the actors you have ever seen in imaginary crises. Months ago David Selznick and Paulette Goddard, who sometimes answers to the name of Mrs. Charles Chaplin, Indulged in a bitter bit-ter argument Friends reported that Paulette expected to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind," Mr. Selznick replied crisply that she was not even being Paulette Goddard considered for it, and Paulette was so upset she said she wouldn't play it even if he begged her to. Now they have patched up their troubles, she has signed a contract and both admit that if her tests are satisfactory she'll play the role. Kate Smith had a guest star on her program who cost her almost as much as the sponsor. The guest star was Hortense OdJum, who took over a failing store a few years ago and built it into one of the greatest sources of women's fashions. Kate doesn't have much time for shopping, shop-ping, and she was so Impressed by Mrs. Odium's talk that she gave lavish orders for her spring wardrobe ward-robe then and there. Peter Lorre, the sinister "Mr. Moto" of Twentieth Century-Fox films is never the victim of practical prac-tical jokes in Hollywood. Folks out there know he always strikes back. When he was leaving London for America, his director had a big dray horse delivered to him at th last minute as a parting gift. Mr. Lorre sent the horse to a friend's farm, then arranged to have three hundred singing canaries delivered to the director at three in the morning. morn-ing. Norma Shearer has never forgotten forgot-ten Die stars whose pictures thrilled her when she was just getting started in pictures fifteen years ago. She gave the names of some fifty players to the casting director of her "Marie Antoinette" An-toinette" and asked that they should be given roles. It was hard to locate many of them, for in re- Wla ' V ; 1 cent years n a r a Norma luck, poverty, and Shearer despondency had dogged their footsteps, but now they are all happily at work. ODDS AXD ESDSflctwecn cfnoi of "Ireland in the Shy" the cast are-nadrd are-nadrd Toby Doolan u iih "Sice Work if You Can Get It" because for Uvo days he did nothing but lie still on the floor uhile a cinema coroner and his assistants pronounced Doolan dead . . . Warner Brothers are going to feature Olivia de tlavilland and Anita Louise in "Studio Club" which they hope will be as great a picture as H K O's "Stage Door' ... I'ick and Vatt radio comedians, come-dians, are going to make motion pictures pic-tures for He pub lie . . . Although pretty busy condurting the Mngic Key and Friday nifiht concert hourst Frank filack found time to stock his one hundred hun-dred and eighteen acre Pennsylvania farm and now he is actually making money from his prize live stock and chicken. & Western Newspaper Union, |