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Show ! STAR l ! DUST I J JViovie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE WHENEVER a crowd of actors, producers, directors, di-rectors, and writers get together to-gether in Hollywood, the most exciting arguments take place over questions that can never really be settled. Just the other night in the Brown Derby restaurant a group got to discussing who is the most talked-of man in pictures just now and the arguments grew so vehement, an innocent bystander by-stander might suspect that a riot was being planned. Instead, In-stead, it was just a general tossing of verbal bouquets. Several people think Robert Montgomery Mont-gomery is the man of the hour. He recently pepped up his somewhat wilting career by jumping from roles of society playboys to that of the maniac killer In "Night Must Fall." Other nominations for the man of the hour were David Selznick, because he produced "A Star Is Born," and Darryl Zannuck became he has made his pictures stand for a guarantee of hilarious entertainment. Not since the days of the Tal-madge Tal-madge sisters long ago, have film fans had the fun of watching sisters "''''V climb to fame a s J T ' screen rivals. Now ' f i everyone is arguing r ' ' about the respective talents of Olivia de ; Haviland and Joan i i Fontaine. They are sisters, you know. ' And although Olivia C had a big start, ap- , pearing in four Warner Brothers Olivia pictures before Joan de Haviland went to work at RKO, there are many who think that by this time next year, Joan will be well in the lead. -ternary Livingstone, who has played such a big part in the success of the Jack Benny radio programs, Is thinking very seriously of taking part in a Paramount picture starring Buddy Rogers, and Shirley Ross. It is a serious decision, because it entails en-tails having an operation on her nose and Mary does not like hospitals hos-pitals or ether or knives or Inactivity Inactivi-ty or even breathing through her mouth. Innumerable fans have asked me if the impressive mansion and estate which Fredric March presents to Janet Gaynor In the course of the plot of "A Star Is Born" was especially es-pecially built for the picture. Others think they recognize it as the house once occupied by Barbara Stanwyck when she was married to Frank Fay. Neither theory is correct The house belongs to a Los Angeles real estate dealer and was merely rented by the Selznick-International company com-pany for two days. The enterprising young Grand National Na-tional company certainly stole a march on the rest of the studios when they signed Stu Erwin to a starring contract. Since that time "Dance, Charlie, Dance" which he made for Warner Brothers has been previewed and Stu has landed right up in the thin ranks of top-notch comedians. He has finished his first picture for Grand National. It is called "Small Town Boy" and everyone every-one says it is a knockout. -K Ever since Myrna Loy finished "Parnell," she has been enjoying a lazy vacation at En-VJ&r En-VJ&r 'I senada, Mexico, vV'sV " - J where a gleaming, 5 f 1 luxurious hotel f i shares scenic honors ljV Hwlth the harbor 4 which is said to be t the most beautiful in th.e world even -aismi,. I more beautiful than , 4 the far-famed Bay of 1 NaPles- Her hus-L hus-L band, Arthur Horn- Myrna Loy blow- 8ot away from his duties at Paramount Para-mount long enough to spend a week with her and was seized with the inspiration to write a picture set in the locale of Ensenada. Myrna hopes that she can stay on there while it is filmed but M-G-M have a crowded program ahead for her. ODDS AND ENDS A little boy working on the set oj "Varsity Show" at Warner Brothers came down with measles, and the whole troupe headed by Dick Powell had to knock off work and watch for symptoms for two or three days . . . Errol Flynn brought two lion hounds back to Hollywood with him, the only ones of their breed in America, and now everyone it wondering what these sporting dogs will do for amusement, hunt at the Universal zoo? . . . Jean Arthur just cannot fix her own hair, so when the studio hairdressers went out on strike, her director, Mitchell Leisen, arranged her locks for her, and very well too . . . Clark Gable and Carole Lombard Lom-bard went as cowboy and cowgirl to a recent masquerade birthday party and took the honored guest a Shetf land pony as gift. Western Newspaper Union. |