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Show A- j ! STAR ! I DUST J J Movie Radio : By VIRGINIA VALE DEANNA DURBIN will do a playon Broadway early in the spring if all the experts concerned with her upbringing upbring-ing agree that it won't be too much of a strain on her. Any decision aflecting her welfare wel-fare has to bo pondered over by her mother, her r manager, her vocal teacher, and the i physician at Universal Univer-sal studios and they are all a little reluctant re-luctant about adding any further public appearances to her already very public life. Until recently, ; Deanna could go i light-heartedly about her work at motion-picture motion-picture and radio studios, but lately such crowds have fullowed her wherever she went that it is a source of worry to everyone. All the tumult and hysterical shouting over Fred Allen's return to his radio program does. not mean that Walter O'Kecfe Is being neglected neglect-ed or forgotten. O'Keefe so endeared en-deared himself to radio listeners while lie was substituting for Fred Allen that he could have walked right into another big program, but he demanded a vacation first. When a young newcomer to the ! screen steals most of the glory away from two enormously-popular stars, you can expect to see her in bigger and better parts right away. So, when you see Loretta Y'oung and I Tyrone Power in "Second Honeymoon," Honey-moon," be all ready to clap hands for Marjorie Weaver who is the outstanding out-standing hit of this gay and giddy comedy. When the picture was previewed, pre-viewed, Marjorie was all set to go j back home to Louisville, Kentucky, t to make personal appearances with i the picture, but so great was the audience response to her performance, perform-ance, the trip was called oil. Warner Brothers' directors have decided that they just cannot stand the strain of wondering whether j their handsome heroes will be able to come to work on Monday morning, morn-ing, so they have sent out some pretty stringent orders about what is not to be done over week-ends, or any other time. Fernand Gravet j has had to give up steeplechase riding. rid-ing. George Brent and Errol Flynn cannot pilot their planes. Out of the hundreds of young actresses ac-tresses who daily apply for work , at New Y'ork radio producers' of- fices, the majority specialize in one type of characterization only. In j trying to explain how slim their chance is of getting anywhere, many j radio producers point to Helen j Claire of the cast of "Aunt Jenny's , Real Life Stories." on CBS. A typical typ-ical week's work for Miss Claire called for her to play the Serpent in "Methuselah," the character of Adelina Patti at the ages of sixteen and forty-one, a hillbilly girl, and . Alice in "Alice in Wonderland." Kussel Glcason thought the Twentieth Twen-tieth Century-Fox studio was kid- j ding him when they toH him he had ' been cast in "Love on a Budget." He had just announced his engagement and was taking a keen interest in all bankroll-stretching theories. But very seriously, he had. been east for a role in this latest of the Jones family scries. By far the gayest and most delightful de-lightful of the new pictures is "It's Love I'm After," ' I i : j f Deanna Durbin featuring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Da-vis, and Olivia de Havilland. It does not sound new, be- ; cause it is that old, old story of the matinee idol, the spitfire leading woman wom-an who is in love with him, and the moonstruck young Leslie Howard woman who blind'y adores him. What is new is the refreshing, witty treatment treat-ment the story has been given. Never Nev-er before have the three featured players been so deft, ODDS (.YD E DS Gertrude Berg teas juirly snowed under with flowers recently when she rounded out eight years as author, producer and star oj "I he Goldbergs." Players love to work with her, she is so patient, so helpful, so like the compassionate Molly she plays . . . Dolores Costello makes her comeback to the screen in "Girls on Probation and according to fellow u-orkers it is a brilliant comeback . . . James Stewart gets the grand role opposite op-posite Joan Crawford in "Shopworn Angel." Gary Cooper played it in the version made years ago . . . George Raft is determined to be a director some day, so he has agreed to work as an apprentice in various technical departments of the studio in order to learn the business thoroughly. lie can only do it when he is not ucting. oj course, so he is asking Paramount to give him nice, long vacations between pictures . . . John llrirrymnre is going to make another Bulldog Drummond piciure. Western Newspaper Union. |