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Show ! STAR : s DUST j J t Movie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE THE millions who have read and loved "The Adventures Ad-ventures of Tom Sawyer" will rejoice that it has been brought to the screen almost intact. A few memorable scenes of the classic of boyhood boy-hood had to be skipped, but the important ones are all there, the whitewashing of the fence, Muff Potter under suspicion of murder, Tom's startling appearance at his own funeral. Filmed In Technicolor, the tones are subdued and pleasant, making the town and all its Inhabitants of some sixty years ago look entirely entire-ly natural. There was a great to-do a year or so ago over David Selznick's country-wide search for just the right boy to play Tom. Finally, Tommy Kelly, son of a WPA worker, work-er, was found in New York. Everyone Every-one who sees the picture will surely be glad that Selznick passed up the precocious actors of Hollywood and waited until he found Tommy. For Tommy Kelly fits perfectly the character of Tom Sawyer. All Hollywood is talking abont the great change In Katharine Hepburn. The roustabout comedy that she Indulges In-dulges In for ber new picture, "Bringing Up Baby," has affected her manner Ln private life. No longer long-er Is she aloof and baoighty. No longer does she scarry away as If frightened, or very bored, when coworkers co-workers approach. Lawrence T.bbe'.t will come back to the screen if Warner Brothers have anything to say about it Tr.ey want him for "The Desert Sor.;" and he will have time to make a v i ' -V S ' Lawrence TiMrtt. picture soon, f r Grace re is c K g to replace h.:n en h s r.-,.:,- hour. Jo.in Crawford was quite v.artlrd recently when she hrrd an rarly-morning rarly-morning new, broadcast announcing announc-ing that she had left her husband. ' Kranehot Tone, and would soon Institute In-stitute divorce proceedings. She ' glanced aerov, tl,P breakfast tahlc. ' and there a, Kranehot as UMial. "Never mind, honey," he conn- I , riled, "they have hern tring to separate u for three cars. an.I I don't believe they ran do it ever." Hollywood casting directors deserve de-serve a vote ef thanks. Thev ! ae put back to work three popular no-I no-I tresses who have i been playing hookey from tl-.e screen too long. 7asu Pitt, vv as dragged out ef her kitchen, whore she ; has been busily wnt- ing a c.vkh.vk. to play opposite Victor ! Moore m "Strictly Accidental" for 1! i V i just returned from a ' ' i si -ute tour nnd very happy to bo I settling down in her new house m Beverly Hills, wa, persuaded to go to Texa, (,, ill,,, -Thl, Tl-X:1-. w ,,,, Randolph Scott nnd several hundred hun-dred long horned cattle h, support. And Claue Trevor, so we'd Iked In her radio serial wit), Pdward G Robinson, wa, cast oppos,t0 hin, m a arner Brothers picture. ' tl Ms ..,.., ,, , H,m,i- rriMcf (;,.,,-, A- -n f,-r r,.,,,1 .. ..., (,-., lev. N, ' ;,,,. '-I .'A a ,e,,, ( ;., w , An"" ' -r I r-. ..Mr, r..n,,(r, ,,;-,,., ,,, f .,,., ),,,. ,,,., on ., f,(,-r,h -,.,, , hl .I. f.,.1. I, ,-,. ,,, , . .IT ',7 '" "V'.'-.m'";;;;".' - " tie ,,., ,, ,;,,.,, .j , ;!::!.,, r;. .r..y. " foil ,,l , , , '. s , ' |