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Show ... THEATRE COMMENT ... COMING ATTRACTIONS - a a 1 ' uuuuuuuMMMN( Cinderella's story .is still tops in Hollywood's real-life ocreenplays. Most-talked-about girl in Hollywood Holly-wood today is the latest to experience ex-perience the Cinderella story that has had so many re-takes in cinema ci-nema history. She is Gloria Jean, 12-year-old Ltur from Scanton, Pennsylvania, who still can't believe that she is a star, after two years in Hollywood Holly-wood and after appearing in three pictures. Important Picture Gloria's most rocent Universal film is "A Little Bit of Heaven," Jce Pasternak production coming Friday and Saturday to the Isis theatre, with Robert Stack, Hugh, Herbert, C. Aubrey Smith, Stuart Erwin and Nan Grey in leading supporting roles. Gloria's career, since she came to Hollywood an unknown, is a typical Cinderella story. During her first year in films the Scranton girl, who had never been more than 250 miles away - horn home, traveled more than 16.000 miles on personal appearance tours. On her return to Scranton for he world premiere of her debut film, The Under-Pup," Gloria was greeted by 80,000 people. Favorite at White House At the President's Birthday Ball 1 in Washington, D. C, Gloria met and became a favorite of the President Presi-dent and the First Lady. Bing Crosby, Deanna Durbin, Marlene Dietrich and many other stars, formerly Gloria's remote idols are now her friends. And above all she has achieved screen stardom, having been established estab-lished as a stellar figure by "The Under-Pup" and havng co-starred with Bing Crosby in "If I Had My Way." |