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Show T-vAVID WAYNE, who reaches U new heights in Columbia's "M", always wanted to be a dramatic actor, but made his mark as the comic leprechaun in "Finian's Rainbow" and was stuck with comedy. He went straight from college into a Shakespearean Repor-tory Repor-tory company, got small parts on Broadway, spent some time in the British and U. S. armies, i-v' ? DAVID WAYNE then returned to the stage. "Portrait "Por-trait of Jennie" was his first film, then came "Adam's Rib". That role as the murderer in "M" was just what he had been looking for, and some folks say that his performance per-formance is one of the best dramatic drama-tic jobs ever to come out of Hollywood. Holly-wood. John Wayne, not content with being be-ing No. 1 box office star, has conferred con-ferred with Mexican officials on plans for filming "The Alamo", with himself as star, producer and director. He is now in Ireland, working in "The Quiet Man", which John Ford is directing. Maureen O'Hara, Mildred Natwick, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, andArthur Shields appear with him. Republic Pictures lists "The Quiet Man" as one of 12 of its new films; they all sound good. Richard Tregaskis, the war correspondent, went to Indonesia Indo-nesia to do research for "Fair Wind to Java": "Hoodlum Empire" Em-pire" will be based on Bob Considine's racketeering expose and the Kefauver committee bearings. "Iron Master" tells of the discovery of iron ore in Minnesota. Ralph Locke, who plays the kindly, kind-ly, philosophic "Papa David" on "Life Can Be Beautiful", is an expert sailor; living on Upper Manhattan Man-hattan near the East River, he has two sail boats, has sailed alone clear to Maine. |