Show s star tar dust unimpressed Home flome folks do swell job in england girls bob preston illy hy virginia virginin vale I 1 DECENTLY returned from sweden a man who has been connected with the m motion 0 picture business for some twenty five years made a firsthand report to this column on the subject of greta garbo in her homeland her countrymen he said arent tremendously I 1 impressed in by her success they like her pictures go in droves to see them but they feel that of course she ought to be a success just a case of home town girl making good they are inclined to resent her aloofness they feel that she ought to realize that they dream of intruding on her privacy and that she have to treat them as she does the movie fans of other countries he had several photographs of her taken in the days when she was a hat model they were sweet rather sim pery giving no hint of what she was to become apparently the best way t to 0 make really good motion pictures is to send an american picture making unit to england to do the work goodbye mr air chips is the latest example of what can be accomplished in that way and its one of 1 4 1 I 1 J GREER GREEK GARSON the best pictures that has been released in a long time metro sent its unit over robert donat and greer garson turned in beautiful performances sam wood did a swell job of directing and there you are incidentally goodbye mr chips presents us with a new glamour girl greer garson has flaming red hair and green eyes men think ashes gorgeous women arent sure whether she is really beautiful or not this is her first picture she came to hollywood from england w where here she had appeared appear edon on the stage and done some work in television expecting to go to work at once she spent a year in waiting to go to work she was seriously ill with spin spinal al trouble she was sent back to england to do her first picture and will probably be sent back again to do her second the doctors dilemma paramount thinks it has star material ler 1 ial in a young man named bob preston and the movies sadly need young men who are stellar material right now what with three heart getting married practically in a bunch the trio gable power and taylor will still be tremendously popular of course but many a girl who has liked their pictures is going to look about for an unmarried star to fill the niche in her affections left vacant by the marriage of one of them so paramount may offer such girls bob preston hes made four pictures so far notably union pacific but lies hes had stage experience in the stock company launched by tyrone powers mother in los angeles it if youre a kate smith fan have to save a different hour for her broadcasts beginning in october when she returns from her summer vacation shell move into the nine eastern standard time spot on friday nights which has been filled this year by orson welles and his mercury theater for four years she has been on at eight on thursdays and as she rates fifth among all shows in national popularity surveys she have to fear the other al AI A I l shows that take the air on thursday nights I 1 t ODDS AND ENDS when the henry fondas vacationed in new york they didn dian t do night clubs let lei the publicity department tie co henry up lor for endless interviews with wish the press they just teen kimt to the theater night alter after night note to young singers ren remember that the metropolitan auditions of the air will be r estried on october first jim ameche am eche D dons on s brother is replacing charles boyer boyei on the hollywood playhouse program durins during boyers 13 weeks vacation helen morgan seems to hate a future in ic television levision the seems to register perfectly in the he new medium if 11 the censors clump down on lady ol of the tropics elledy lamarr robert taylor hollywood won wont A be much misch surprised released by western newspaper union |