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Show ! STAR ! I DUST t $ Movie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE THATdiscussion about who will get the leads in the picture version of "Gone With the Wind" is still raging. One faction insists that the coveted roles were simply made for Miriam Hopkins and Clark Gable. Then a rumor sprang up to the effect that everything was settled; Talullah Bank-head Bank-head and Ronald Colman were to play them. Usually those discussions peter out with the parts being given to people no one had even thought of. Sometimes the public is asked to make suggestions, and the mail comes in by the ton, demanding a popular favorite in at least one role; if there are enough requests some attention is paid to them. They do say that Ruth Chatterton is none too happy over the ending of "Girls' Dormito-ry" Dormito-ry" Originally it f" H had a quite differ- 1 ent one, with Miss fSKS- Chatterton winning I the hero, Herbert L Marshall, when he f 's2r r realized that little I Simone Simon was V and that he had merely been infatu-fc infatu-fc - - - ' ated with her. Simone But things h a p-Simon p-Simon pened. The little Simone, it seems, has a way of getting what she wants, off the screen as well as on. So a new ending was the result. Another of those delightfully nonsensical non-sensical pictures and an exciting one, too is "Manhattan Madness," with Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea. They seem to have a special talent at Columbia for turning out this brand of entertainment. Jeanette MacDonald is going to have to work awfully hard before she is free to marry Gene Raymond and go off on her honeymoon and she insists that that marriage is going to take place June 17th. Before Be-fore that time she is to do three operatic roles "Manon Lescaut," "The Firefly" and "Maytime." And as she likes to give a concert occasionally, oc-casionally, that makes it hard. Incidentally, we hear that she was asking a tremendous price for radio appearances, until she was reminded re-minded that, though she's well known to movie goers, folks who don't bother much about movies don't know her so well. But that may be Just a rumor. -K Phillips Lord, who writes and directs di-rects two of the popular radio programs, pro-grams, "Gang Busters" and "We, the People," doesn't listen to the more exciting broadcasts when he's just listening for entertainment. He likes Frank Black's music and Edgar Ed-gar Guest's "Welcome Valley." Margaret Sullavan has never had a very high idea of her own achievements achieve-ments as an actress. She's even been accused of false modesty, because be-cause of the things she has said about her own performances. But she has proved what she meant by abandoning pictures, temporarily, and going into a stage play in New York. Says she's going to learn to act, something which can't be done in Hollywood. Miriam Hopkins annoyed newspaper news-paper and magazine interviewers, we hear, when she was in New York on JT'X& " x her way back to Hoi- sr ' 1 lywood from Eng- land. Made appoint- y ' ments with them for f Q, a certain day, and f ,4 then went out early i )t in the morning and ;4 "ej3?"- just didn't come jA ' back. And Rosalind --V Russell, annoyed one sSf J? of the more impor-tant impor-tant fan magazine Miriam editors by not being Hopkins at all co-operative about an interview. So if you don't see much about either of them in your favorite magazine, you'll know why. ODDS AND ENDS . . . It's reported that Clark Cable's ex-wife will marry one of the East's social headlinert . . . you hear that Elton Thomas wrote "The Adventures of Marco Polo,' which Gary Cooper will do, remember that that's the pen name used by Douglas Fairbanks . . . The romance between Merle Oberon and David Niven i is still blazing . . . Florence Eldridge, j Fredric March's wife, who was "Queen i Elizabeth' in "Mary of Scotland," has abandoned the movies for a return to the stage . . . Which will, no doult, be the best way to get her what she wants in the movies . . . Bene Davis may have lost that legal decision to ' Warner Brothers, so that she cant make pictures in England but rcmem-I rcmem-I ber, Belle likes to fwht . . . Talk 1 among radio folks is that Jack Benny , needs a new script writer, this year's programs not being up to the standard j established by the old ones. 6 Western N cu .ajicr Union. |