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Show ! STAR ! I DUST I I Movie Radio t By VIRGINIA VALE JOAN BENNETT is so homesick for the stage that she has. signed up to work with a Cape Cod stock company this summer lor a few weeks. Some of thii motion mo-tion picture producers who have planned busy summers for their players wish that she wasn't quite so thrilled at the prospect. Her infectious enthusiasm has tent hall ol Hollywood scurrying to their bosses to ask 11 they can't have leave o absence too. Bette Davis wants to go, but Warners have big plans for her. Josephine Hutchinson wants her annual fling on the stage. And Joan Crawiord and Franchot Tone are acting mighty mysterious, reading plays and time tables. Add one more picture to the current cur-rent list of. those you simply have to see. Metro-Goldwyn-r Mayer'i "Captains f Courageous" is ona 1 ol the finest pictures '"i ot all time. There :? i isn't a woman in the cast, but even the I i $, young girls who I . '-nA M think any picture I ., 4 1 without torrid love J scenes is a washout, confess that they k - - ' never even miss the Freddie romantic angle in Bartholomew &is one-11 13 a story ol the Gloucester fishing fleet in which Spencer Tracy and young Freddie Bartholomew do the finest acting ol their careers. Indeed, it is the first picture in which young Bartholomew has had a chance to show that he is not just a sweet and handsome lad with pathetic pa-thetic eyes. He is a grand actor. As soon as Ernst Lubitsch finishes directing Marlene Dietrich and Herbert Her-bert Marshall in "Angel" he is going go-ing to turn actor for a few days. Long ago when he was an actor in Germany, his great ambition was to play Napoleon, and just now it happens that Cecil De Blille Is ! searching the highways and byways ; for a man to play Napoleon in "Bno- 1 1 caneer." Lubitsch got into costume ; and make-op, presented himself to De Mille, and was hired at once, Executives at the Twentieth Cen- j tury Fox studio are disappointed I that the public hasn't made more ol , a fuss over Simone Simon, so they 1 are going to put her in a comedy and 1 see il she goes over better. They are teaming her with Jack Haley, j who made such a hit in "Wake Up and Live," in a fast-moving comedy , called "Love at Work." j j Motion picture studio officials al- ' ways change the subject when any- j one asks if their stars really sing 1 or if some singer substitutes for j them, but radio listeners can reo- : ognize their favorite voices under any circumstances. They insist that ' Buddy Clark of the Hit Parade did j Jack Haley's singing, that Virginia i Vcrrill sang for both Jean Harlow 1 and Virginia Bruce, and that In I "The Great Barnum" It was Fran- j cia White who sang for Miss Bruce. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., has decided de-cided that he likes the United States better, after alL While he was in ' England, he realized his ambition ! to become a producer, and felt so I grateful to the countrymen who , 1 backed him that he thought he would live there always. Coming ! back to Hollywood to make just one j picture, "The Prisoner of Zcnda," he found when it was finished and he was free to go back to England that he Just couldn't bear to leave j all his childhood friends. i I ! j Warner Brothers have arranged ! to borrow Miriam Hopkins for two-1 two-1 pictures and it looks as If it would keep the entire studio (;fV si ; busy for weeks find- s ? 0 j ing stories to which D J i sho won't raise "SSPl a violent objection. s 1 Scheduled to appear . j . with Errol Flynn in ' x--" 1 1 "The rerfect Sped- pv, ''' -'J , men," she flatly re- :v J 1 fused. Instead she V,-' ' i will make a tearful Ik&W... j little romance called Miriam "Episode" supported Hopkins by Ian Hunter and Charles Winninger. After that, Warners War-ners would like to have her in "Sisters" "Sis-ters" with Kay Francis. onns Axn kxds ...;, rvwcr Jursn't mvnlitm duck n'rn one in j "Ariii r'urrs," uhich is brinft filmed by ; K-K-l and fitrthtrnur h appvarn in 1 Mnrfc m-i or first tint . . , Km Murray aluiy$ dresses most conservatively conserva-tively uhen h slunes up for a bremd' cyisl, but aroumf horn hfl foes in lor lU dizziest colored unokinf jacliCIM and lowifiiiif robes . . . Motion picrttrt producers ara wiltlly enthusiastic over the intimate, curessinft Viic cf A)i iric Green whn nfiriiiunres Mrs. liooscvclt' radio program, and sine tliey bar heard that sh is young and etiaordinarilv beoutiful they art rush' ing to her u-ith contracts lor picnutK C Vontin NfWAln(r Unkm. |