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Show I STAR f J DUST I J Movie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE IFYOUthoufihtDeannaDur-bin IFYOUthoufihtDeannaDur-bin a remarkably talented youngster last year when you saw her in "Three Smart Girls," you r"" will think she v .'; j 1 s nothing ' '1 short of a baby I , , C-vM genius when you see "One s . j Hundred Men ""f' 1 and a Girl." I ' i Her voice, al-j al-j " i w a y s g o o d, L.- has developed DcannaDurbln SO amazingly that she ranks with the best of screen prima donnas. Even more startling is the development of this quiet fourteen-year-old as an actress. ac-tress. She plays comedy, farce or tragedy with the deft assurance of a veteran. Supported by Stokowskl, that most brilliant of conductors, no nervous qualms weaken her voice, and in scenes with Alice Brady, Adolph Menjou, and Mischa Auer, those persistent scene stealers, she more than holds her own. RTCO has already finished the screen version of "Stage Door" with Katherine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers in the leads. The dialogue, everyone says, simply sparkles, and although Hepburn and Rogers are at their very best In It, Andrea Leeds and Lucille Ball, who play small roles, draw a big share of the enthusiastic comment. Bill Powell paused In New York briefly on his way to the Scandinavian Scandina-vian countries for a much needed vaca- !P-;4:'. . tion. He has been iz.'sZ-tf:'' j near collapse ever hj' . . 1 since the death of c j Jean Harlow, to '"-T whom he was en- I ""j 1 gaged to be mar- : 3 ried. When he comes f , j back, he and Myrna C4 'SH?"' 1 Loy will make an- jsS.. 3 other sequel to the . .- -j? 1 "Thin Man." Far ' ..-i from being tired of Myrna Loy the roles that brought them their biggest success, he says that they enjoy them more than audiences do. Very few actors enjoy success In Hollywood for more than five years, but producers never find a newcomer newcom-er who can handle Alan Hale roles. He has just signed to play Little John in the new version of "Robin Hood" with Errol Flynn. It Is the same role he played 15 years ago when Douglas Fairbanks made thr picture. It looks as if all Hollywood will be trying to congregate on the Bing Crosby set soon, for Eee Lillie, the elegant Lady Peel no less, is going to play opposite him. If you missed Bee on a recent Vallee hour, you should shed one tear at least She gave the sketch that she has done innumerable times "Two dozen double damask dinner napkins, please," and it vas even funnier than before. Maybe Eddie Cantor is awfully smart to switch his radio program from Sunday nights r y?v?':?," 4 to Wednesday, be- :f.-.-"V cause the Sunday f y. .: 1 night competition Js .-! ...,..... 5 g0ing t0 be even I 1 more fierce than I J- ' v, i usual this winter. There will be Jack I : I Benny, of course, h jj " I Phil Baker, and Joe I Penner, but in addi- I 1'' I tion there wiU be Luk.ifete&4 two big screen fa-Eddie fa-Eddie Cantor vorites with new programs Rosalind Russell and Tyrone Power. Robert Taylor had better hurry back from England if he doesn't want Tyrone to displace him as Matinee Idol Number One of the younger set. Humphrey Bogart is getting to be so popular on the screen that producers pro-ducers are toying with the idea of making a hero of him, but every time they bring up the subject, Humphrey takes to his heels and runs away. He played a smirking hero once, back in 1930, and neither audiences nor directors wanted to see him again. It wasn't until he played the murderous Duke Mantee in "Petrified Forest" that they forgave for-gave him. Since then he has specialized spe-cialized in the deepest-dyed villainy in "Black Legion" and "Bullets or Ballots." In "Dead End" he is so magnificently villainous that hero and heroine, Joel McCrea and Sylvia Sidney, have a hard time distracting distract-ing attention from him. ODDS AMD EXDS-Constance Bennett Ben-nett is going to make another goofy comedy like "Topper" as soon as she and Countess di Frnsso launch their .osmetic company . . . Erin O'Brien Moore, uho plays "A'ana" in "The Life of Entile Zola" is being boomed by thousands of admirers for the much-disputed much-disputed role of Scarlett in "Gone M ilh the U ind" H Western Newspaper Union. |