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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE AFTER seeing talented Deborah Kerr's fine performance per-formance in the thrilling "The Adventuress" it is easily understandable un-derstandable why Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cast her opposite op-posite Clark Gable in "The Hucksters". Garbo, Dietrich, Berg-an Berg-an now Kerr, who already rates rit;ht along with them. "The Adventuress," Adven-turess," a J. Arthur Rank production produc-tion released by Eagle-Lion, is delightful. de-lightful. Sometimes it's a thriller worthy of Hitchcock, sometimes it's wonderful comedy. The castj of course, is excellent; the scenery Lr.. NhJtAa Sii DEBORAH KERR - Ireland, the Isle of Man is beautiful. beau-tiful. And Miss Kerr, who has the courage to look plain as well as very beautiful, gives a performance to be enjoyed, and better, to be remembered. Jean Hersholt, the kindly "Dr. Christian" of the CBS Wednesday night show, got his first movie Job in Hollywood in 1915 not because he could act, but because he owned a dress suit, tuxedo, spats, derby and cane. He received ail of $15 a week. The cast of "This Is Hollywood." numbering close to 30 of the film Capitol's top people, converged on Salt Lake City for the recent premiere pre-miere of "Ramrod" via all modern methods of transporation. Some went by plane, some by train, others by automobile. The reason for splitting the group was to make certain that a talent nucleus would be on hand no matter what the weather happened to be. Bryan Foy will personally supervise super-vise "Red Stallion," which may outclass out-class "Smokey" and "Thunder-head," "Thunder-head," produced under Ills super-vision super-vision at 20th Century-Fox. There'll be animal battle scenes that have never before been attempted In a a picture. Richard Benedict, who plays the bouncer In Columbia's "The Guilt of Janet Ames," Is really Joseph Sclurba. an Italian. He got his start by hanging around East Coast studios stu-dios as a youngster. One day Al Christie, looking over a crowd of prospective extras, singled him out and asked if he spoke Spanish. "SI, buono," said Richard, in his best Italian, and they gave him the part. Michael Woulfe, fashion creator under contract to William Cagncy, says he's rapidly going nuts. At RKO he's designing clothes for Laralne Day and Judith Anderson for 'Tycoon"; at Eagle-Lion he's dressing Sylvia Sidney and Ann Richards for "Love From a Stranger." Stran-ger." and at U I he's whipping up frocks for Ava Gardner for "Singapore." "Singa-pore." Ran up a taxi bill of $107.15 in no time at all, dashing from one studio to another. So he decided to learn to drive, and on his first day as a motorist was hauled in by a cop for improper parking. Radio announcer Don Wilson has been signed as narrator for scenes In Columbia'! "The Corpse Came C.O.D." George Drrnt, Joan Blond- ell and Adele Jergens have the leading lead-ing roles In the thriller about a series of murders with a Hollywood studio background. Seven years Isn't too long to wait for a honeymoon, according to Robert Mitchum and his wife. They decided when they were married to wait till he was a star, and then honeymoon In New York, where he grew up. She'd never been there. His movie career was well under way when the war Interrupted it; "The Locket" starred him and they headed for New York and he bought her a locket, because that made it possible. y ODDS ASD F.SDS-Tachary Scott it tomimed spring it really here; hit daughter Waterly, 10, has poison oak pmioning. . . . So lets than 50 or-unnd or-unnd neus photographers hate snapped candid shntt of Ann Sheridan trotheling 4 htdtprtad, . . . Mall ( '?"'!' l"Kol of IJte,- and radio i "man u ith ihe perfect diction," overcame the handicap of stuttering, and so altered hit plans for earning a lit tlihond from radio engineer to radio actor. . . . Donald O'Connor, tomedian on the Cinny Simms thou; it l'l 21. A he's a father and hat 4 hi of retponiihiUtiet hml he still eats Ltktmo pies dm ing reheanalsf |