Show Star St.- Dust t Ar A If Second Abe Abc Lincoln Ar Kenny Wins Protesters lAr Bob Dob Burns Burns' Ready Make L ny ray I Virginia lnla Vale ale I EVEN after the many portrayals of Abraham Lincoln that we have had on onstage onstage onstage stage and screen Henry Fonda Tonda has given us in Young Mr Lincoln one that hat is different He could have lave w walked through the part because by nature he had been fitted to play it It would have lave been no effort at all for him to look like Lincoln with witha a little help from the makeup makeup make make- up man But he gives such a superb per that he ha seems really to toI tobe tobe be Lincoln COln as a young man he Is I o r i iY ii ir r i Y HENRY FONDA shrewd and tender and kind not yet marked for greatness and for or tragedy There are other excellent per per- In the picture notably those contributed by Alice Brady Donald Meek and Richard Crom well Put Young Mr Lincoln high on your list of the pictures that you must be sure to seer see r Kenny Baker of radio fame has won new laurels for himself on the screen When it was announced that he would play Nanki Poo Inthe in inthe inthe the version of screen The Mikado there were loud protests from the wool the Gilbert and Sullivan Sullivan Sulli Sulli- van fans What they demanded would a crooner do with the role Hed He'd be horrible they declared in contrast with Martyn Green Sydney Sydney Sydney Syd Syd- ney Granville and the other members members members mem mem- bers of the celebrated DOyly Car Carte Opera company who have concentrated concentrated concen concen- for years on Gilbert and Sullivan Sul Sui- livan products I Now they're acclaiming him Its It's no surprise to the rest of the cast After Arter he be sang his first selection A Wandering Minstrel I they realized realised how bow good he was Elizabeth Bergner Bergsner Bergs Berg ner who was working on a neighboring neighboring neigh neigh- boring set let behind screens promptly prompt prompt- ly gave orders that the screens were to come down and work on her set let was to stop every time that Baker sang lang And those who protested that be was a crooner now agree with Victor the director who Insisted on having Baker Daker that thai the lads lad's not a crooner at all aU but buta a lyric tenor ilE t David Niven may have lost out In private life when Merle Oberon became became be be- came Mrs Alexander Korda but buthel buthe's buthe's hes he's doing all right In his professional professional professional career Assigned to appear In Whose Wife opposite Loretta Young its it's stated by the producers that he be has the most Important characterization of his screen ca reer reel Whose Wife Is an original screen screen play by Gene Towne am and Graham Baker and Tay Garnett will wiD direct it with it-with with those three top tops involved Its It's got to be good Bob Burns Bums has a method all his own for preparing his material for those Thursday night broadcasts He lIe doesn't have a word ready a at rehearsal time time just just runs through the spots with the guest stars and Bing Crosby and rehearses his bazooka solo After the rehearsal he be goes oes to a dressing room armed with his pipe and tobacco pouch Two hours later later later lat lat- er hes he's ready Ills script consists of 01 a few key words Jol jotted Jolted ed down on onIbe the Ibe back of an caret envell or or a scrap of paper things paper thing like Ilk tout ant Boo lloa mousetrap or y yc automobile automo automo- bile to remind him of what he be want wants to ay say Probably that the reason for at least part of the In Informality informality Ins in- formality of that program some program some something thing that a gr eat eal many maDY pe people are striving to Inject Into other r broadcasts broadcasts broad broad- casts without marked success to so far ODDS AND ENDS lit ENDS In The Sun SUit Net Never Sets Sett Douglas f Fairbanks Jr Ir huu an till ol semblance t to t Clark Cable John Garfield Car field ob j d to so 0 to fo making an on more mare pictures picture that ha George Ceorge Raj nul Ru will r replace pl him in Years Yean rJ in Sing Sing loon Joan Crau ord Crau ford hum hasna gi given up the idea idra o of doing a musical play on un ay Si Sigrid rid GUI Cui Curie it will well make UHf two pictures picture a year lr L tar n I Jut for file fire years yean eor rem m u er her in in Algiers r. r ReU Released Md by bl Wen Newspaper |