Show I 1 STAR I 1 ir chak TT C HP DUST I 1 movie radio dy by VIRGINIA VALE HEN word went around WHEN athe the metro goldwyn mayer stabio tho the other day that leatrice joy gilbert thirteen year old daughter of leatrice joy and the late john gilbert was making a film test there was moro more craning of necks and rushing toward the set than there is even for garbo it if good wishes could make good actresses little miss gilbert will bo be the greatest ot of nil all back in tho the wardrobe department many a tear was shed as seamstresses who had dressed her mother and her father sewed on her costume and cameramen who had been doroted to her father begged for the chanco chance to photograph her for a long time tho the studio has owned film rights to national velvet but find a girl who was both young and ap pealing enough to play the heroine everyone hopes that little leatrice will be chosen 41 hot weather in hollywood so intense that the closed ln in sets seta of sound studios are like furnaces seems to havo have a calming eff effect act on temperament and a n d nerves ginger rogers and katherine hepburn sit together at the edge of the stage door set at studio calmly sipping tea and ds discussing the do days Ys news at twentieth ginger century fox vir ginia bruce and loretta young swap theories on child raising at columbia the staff Is dally daily more amazed to find grace moore agreeing wholeheartedly with every suggestion the director makes incidentally john ford has an effective way of squelching actors who aho want to play scenes their way instead of taking his direction it if an actor grows argumentative he lets him go ahead and play the scene his way then he rips the film out of the camera hands it to the stubborn thespian esplan th and says you can have it no one else would want to see it the daffiest daf fiest picture of the week Is super sleuth you coul dritt find better hot weather entertainment anywhere jack oakle p provides r 0 vides the laughs expertly aided by ann sothern Sol hern but it Is the story that really deserves loud cheers I 1 dont want to spoil it for you by telling too much but you wont mind knowing that it Is the story of a it n ovic star who specializes in detective roles v ann Sot herns career in the th dol drums lately because of 0 second rate pictures has suddenly picked up and no one Is happier than her close friend joan bennett if you heard ann spouting shakespeare on that best of all summer programs charlie mccarthy aided and abetted by edgar bergen you know that she has a sense of comedy that should put her up in the front ranks of high comedy with claudette colbert and carole lombard when sonja henle decided to go to norway tor for a vacation a big tars fare well luncheon was planned tor for her by tyrone power that seemed like a charming idea when it was planned and ly ti the invitations sent out but in the meantime sonja and tyrone G I 1 had a squabble and speaking they carefully selected tables at I 1 opposite ends of the sonja henle studio lunchroom and avoided speaking to each other hollywood has often giggled over parties where none of the guests were interested in meeting the guest of honor but this was the first time on record when the host and the guest of honor speaking his attentions to janet gaynor and loretta young are supposed to have caused it IL ODDS AND ENDS officials ci fals at NBC who discovered doris dari weston wid and called warner learner brothers attention to her are deligh delighted sed with iter her perform ance in the singing marine say she is the only girl who looks intelligent intel ligens while listening to other players sing ben uernie bernie is attending dramatic dram alic school in hopes hopeb of outsmarting walter winchell lVin chell in their next film joan crawford will star in iha remake re fe make ol of that aha grandest 0 of all film stories shopworn IVO rn angel which i V h le h na nancy c carroll once anc e made e ray malland n has been given claudette Cot berls lormer former dressing room and his friends are kidding hint him unmercifully about his flossy surrounding walls of blue blite mirror glass chite drowns table and thick thick thick rugs r actors insist that hey just cant do iti justice stice to more than lira tro pictures a year producers remind them hem that gene autry is the biggest biggen attraction in Inc tures nowadays partly because he is so good gond partly t makes so many pictures that audiences have no chance to hint him 0 western newspaper union |