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Show stagescreenMdio By VIRGINIA VALK (Released by Western Newapuper Union.) ERNEST LUDITSCII recently re-cently signed a contract with 20th-century Fox that promises us something special spe-cial in the way of movies. lie will choose and direct his own stories. So we'll have the celebrated Lubitsch touch applied ap-plied to tales that he feels are particularly suitable. He has one more picture to do for United Artists before he starts out on his new contract. con-tract. Merle Oberon says that she knows It's silly, but she can't help being affected by the roles she plays. For Instance, after a day of "Wuthering Heights" she'd go home and cry herself to sleep, because she was so depressed. "In 'The Cowboy and the Lady' I was somewhat of a spoiled brat and I had to watch myself to keep from being as demanding off the screen as I was on," Miss Oberon continued. With a good many innocent bystanders by-standers the efTect was Just the reverse. re-verse. After they saw "Wuthering ... ' . r ... '" r . - (tf MERLE OBERON Heights" they rushed out and demanded de-manded more pictures as good as that one, but "The Cowboy and the Lady" sent them weeping to their corners because it was so bad. Anyway, Miss Oberon jumped at the chance to play a modern, witty young wife in "That Uncertain Feeling," Feel-ing," opposite Melvyn Douglas, because be-cause she felt that it had something very special for her a chance to be just herself. It's a Lubitsch picture. Martha Scott won a horse iD a raffle the other day it cost her all of a dollar, and it's called Red Ember. Em-ber. Then the producer of "They Dare Not Love," In which she is co-starred with George Brent, saw the horse and announced that it was exactly what he needed for William Holden to ride in "Texas," which he is also producing. So Red Ember Em-ber was signed up, and will earn $25 a day when he works. If, when you see Margaret Hayes' face on the screen, it looks familiar, it will be because you've seen it before. She was a model for New York artists and photographers, and a well known one, before she went to Hollywood, and her name in those days was Dana Dale. She has the second leading feminine role in "The Night of January 16th," supporting sup-porting Ellen Drew and Robert Preston, and look for her in "Skylark," "Sky-lark," with Claudette Colbert Rio Rita has had quite a career during the last two years as a band leader, singer and dancer; she's appeared ap-peared on Broadway and at theaters throughout the United States. Paramount Para-mount signed her Dp to appear as the tropical rival of Dorothy La-mour La-mour in "Aloma of the South Seas" and promptly changed her name to Rita Shaw! It was a case of necessity, though. Metro's just bought the screen rights to the musical, "Rio Rita," from RKO and will give us a new version of it. It's simple enough to make a fortune for-tune these days. First, you write a play that's a success on Broadway; second, you sell it to the movies. Recently Paramount paid $285,000 for "Lady in the Dark," in which Gertrude Lawrence gives a superb performance Irene Dunne is probably prob-ably the only motion picture actress who could handle it Columbia liked "My Sister Eileen," an amusing play, well enough to buy it for $225,000. William Holden's dispute with Paramount was settled very satisfactorily; satis-factorily; he got a new, seven-year optional contract, at double his former salary. You'll see him before be-fore long starring in Columbia's "Texas." ODDS AND ENDS George Tobias sets a new record by playing in foul Warner Bros.' films at the same time . . . Abbott and Costello hate signed up to make four more comedies fot Universal . . . Metro's acquired quite a menagerie 200 deer and 12 bears for "The Yearling" . . . Basil Rath-bone, Rath-bone, star of "The Mad Doctor" is collecting discarded surgical instruments instru-ments from doctors and surgical supply sup-ply hnuses sends them to England, where there's a shortage . . . Somebody's Some-body's started a rumor that Metro trill co-star Greta Garbo and Mickey Rooney, uhich seems too fantastic even for H ollywood |
