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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) MICHELE MORGAN, the French actress who will make her American film debut de-but in RKO's "Joan of Paris, will take to the South Seas in her second picture. That is, she will unless some new twist of world affairs makes the South Seas undesirable as a background for a picture. pic-ture. Nowadays, so many changes have had to be made in a hurry in so many scripts that motion picture executives are prepared for anything. any-thing. Anyway, Miss Morgan is slated to do "Challenge to the Night" a South Seas romance. Madeleine Carroll has had to do a bit of plan-changing herself. She was determined to go back to England, Eng-land, you know; had got a year's leave of absence and was set to go home and entertain troops or do anything else that would be useful. As soon as "My Favorite Blonde" was finished she'd be on her way. But our entrance into the war has changed all that; she'll stay here, and probably play a lead role in "Her Perfect Mate." Metro's writers seem to be turning turn-ing Robert Taylor into a tough guy, making him discard his gentlemanly gentleman-ly ways for two guns and a swag- I lis. : ' JJf .... . ROBERT TAYLOR ger. He was a vicious killer in "Billy the Kid," and in "Johnny Eager" he emerges again as a cruel gangland leader. Even slugs Lana Turner! "Dumbo," Walt Disney's latest feature, has been voted one of the ten best pictures of the year in a nation-wide poll of junior film critics, crit-ics, conducted by the National Board of Review. "The Little Foxes" and "Citizen Kane" were also included. Paramount's going to make "Wake Island" an all-star picture; it is being written by W. R. Burnett, author of "Little Caesar" and "High Sierra," and was suggested, of course, by the gallant fight put np by the marines on the tiny Pacific Pa-cific outpost. Dorothy Lamour has 60 new spring hats! She won them the California Millinery guild voted her America's Best Hatted Girl, and donated do-nated the bonnets as a reward. Maybe they just wanted to make sure that she wouldn't join the hat-less hat-less brigade, that's giving the nation's na-tion's milliners so much to worry about. Come weal, come woe, Edward Small goes right on filming those swashbuckling tales of Dumas.' The latest, "The Corsican .Brothers," with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. playing both of them, was given its first showing at Washington, D. C, with practically everybody of importance impor-tance on the invitation list. Elizabeth Wayne, the Mutual chain's young American representative represent-ative in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, In-dies, is the envy of many veteran newsmen and broadcasters. After being on the air only seven months, she suddenly found herself in a most important spot. She's a free lance journalist, and was writing for local Batavian newspapers when the Dutch radio chain, Nirom, asked her to broadcast to America. Since then she has been heard regularly regu-larly over Mutual. From now on you're likely to hear any of 14 dialects in any language, spoken by anyone from 18 to 80, on . the "Joyce Jordan Girl Interne" radio serial. The reason is the fact that Luis Van Rooten has joined the cast He's been signed to play a straight role, but how in the world can a script writer resist making use of his amazing talents as an imitator? ODDS AND ENDSI'at O'Brien and Brian Donlevy are teamed in Columbia's Co-lumbia's "Trinidad," with Janet Blair makini; her screen siniiiK debutshe teas the vocalist with the late Hal Kemp's dance band A ;, rm;(, paper reports that Gene Autrv has risen to second place in national 'film ,,,,. lunty . "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" will soon be released, and "Tarzan Aaainst the W orld" has gm(! into pro-dnctum pro-dnctum Lew Ayres has ,;. up that idea of muhing a picture in China naturally; he'll mahe "Finners at the indow" nc, forsahiuK Dr. Kildara, stethoscope. |