| Show Star Stale Dust y C Its It's a o Western Resten Year fa Watch Cagney Go Got fa Sleeping Producers I fly Dy y lr Virginia Volts I THIS begins to look more moreA A and more mote like a Western year so far as the movies are concerned Glorified Westerns these new ones will be with the big studios offering you good casts stories and sets with A l directors handling the whole thing Walter will tempt you soon with Stage Coach starring staring Claire Trevor and John Wayne Louise Platt Halt John Carradine Carradine Carra Carra- a dine Donald Meek George Bancroft Dancroft 3 r Thomas Mitchell lam and Andy Devine with John Ford as director The picture u was shot at Kern- Kern vile Calif and the story is one of 01 those things In which an i odd assortment of Claire ciare Trevor characters Is thrown together under unusual circum circum- stances borrowed JohnWayne John JohnWayne JohnWayne Wayne from Republic at no small cost incidentally It was John Ford who discovered Wayne some seven years ago when the young man was working as a prop boy Cecil B. B DeMille gives you Union Pacific history from a movie angle angle angle an an- gle but history for all that thaI Darryl Zanuck contributes Jesse James which if It even faintly resembles I the stage play of that name recently recently recently re re- re- re done In New York should make you cheer I And you'll see James Cagney in Oklahoma Kid by courtesy of Warner Brothers It Itis Itis r is said that his characterization characterization characterization char char- Is based on B Billy illy the Kid and that's interest- interest Ing Years ago before be be- Hollywood fore fore had whipped up Interest In young Mr Cagney Cagney Cagney Cag Cag- ney he was just one onex x more of New Yorks York's actors doing pretty u. u well but wanting to James Cagney do better beller Mary McCall McCall McCall Mc- Mc Call Jr now one of Hollywoods Hollywood's best scenario writers learned that one of the major companies companies companies com com- was about to do a picture based on the life and adventures of Billy the Kid and she and her husband husband husband hus hus- band did all they could to persuade the governing powers that Cagney a friend of theirs was just the boy for the pa part rl lie He didn't get It II Hollywood didn't know him which was their bad luck Now he has his hb chance Speaking of actors who arent aren't appreciated appreciated appreciated ap ap- brings up the young woman woman wom wom- an known professionally as Elsa Lanchester and otherwise as Mrs Charles Laughton If U you meet a motion picture producer kicking himself around the block you'll know that she Is the reason For The Beachcomber made by Laughton Langhton Independently with the two In leading roles had no more than begun Its showing in New York In la late December than everyone began to rave about Elsa Lanchester's Lancaster's performance She had everything And Hollywood when she was there with her husband rave gave her no chance to do anything but tho the bride in The Bride of Frankenstein and a couple of 01 bits Better Detter see The Beachcomber when It comes your way It Is being mentioned as a. one of ot the best of ot the year t Not a few of cur our best movie stars are envying Joan Blondell and Dick Powell these days For since they broke with Warner Brothers they can accept those tempting radio off offers of of- I f fers fens that they used to turn down regretfully because the studio wouldn't let them accept 4 Jack Haley Maley was busy enough to suit him Mm before The Wizard of Oz Oz came into his life We what with doubling doubling dou dou- bling In movies and radio Now he hees figures es that hell he'll have to spend exactly exactly exactly ex ex- one month out of the next three on making makin up for his role of I The Th e Tin Woodman In the screen version of the Frank Baum story three hours a day da to put up make-up on three to take it oft oft days altogether n Lawrence Tibbett Is preparing to commute from New York to Holly wood and back again this thil winter whiter lies lie's been signed for that new radio program known program known generally as The Tho Carole Lombard Cary Grant program pro pro- gram but gram but be he is la also scheduled for lor frequent appearances at the Metro letro- Metropolitan politan Opera House where he be Is Isone isone one ODe of the biggest draws So he be will tilt rot back and tort forth with practically no spare pare time except while hUe hes he's flitting rotting i ODDS AND ENDS Charlie Chaplin Choplin says 14 that thai ht he positively will talk lalk in hit his new picture which will be a II burlesque on the hitter Hitler dictatorship II U h he hemak mak makes the Ih picture u IU at II he hll he has tome some other theres there's danger that ha the tu lu- scene will have Ine changed to so 0 completely com coin that thai it till be ancient history Loretta Lorelta Youngs Young's oun sister litter Ann AIn has hat an important role rale in ill Monogram Sky k first fir of 01 a II tenet series ol o tit six Tailspin Tommy lea lure tt U Western Newspaper Unto 1 |
