Show star aff dust ut S t k fame a handicap k comeback come back at seven gang 0 Ks marlene by matir virginia L vale F THE public likes lon IF chaney jr in of mice and men hes going to be one of the happiest young men in hollywood for hes severely handicapped in trying to carve a career for himself As the son of a famous father he is expected to be better than average what would be success for domebo somebody dy else is just a passing grade for him he tried out for the lead in the hunchback of notre dame and realize how lucky he was not to get it until he saw a revival of the film recently it made me realize more sharply than ever how good my father was he remarked and what a tough time anybody will have trying to live up to the part anything I 1 might have done would have been a pale carbon copy yet he had the courage to fa I 1 LON CHANEY JR JK try to get that role which many people consider one of the greatest screen performances his father ever gave lon jr is hoping that as lennie in of mice and men he can take a long stride forward on the path that leads to success as great as his fathers hollywood was all interest when lillian gisli gish began making tests for triumph over pain the prospect of her bein being p co starred in it with ronald col colman man made the towns older inhabitants look way back to the days when lillian went to italy to screen the white sister with a young english actor appeared only on the stage booked to be her leading man that engagement put ronald colman into the movies to stay but lulian lillian abandoned the screen for the stage a few years later and now a whole new generation of movie goers will have to get acquainted quain ted with her if she returns to it baby leroy at the ripe old age of seven is staging a comeback H he e used to be the infant who nearly drove W C fields mad remember hes lonnie leroy now and will make his return in the biscuit eater a story about a bird dog and two small boys part of the picture will be made at the bird dog trials in georgia charlie chaplins long awaited satire on dictators sound so awfully subtle if its really true that in the picture two of them are known as adenoid hinkly and casolini Ga but subtle or not its sure to be funny it looks as it if marlene dietrich has decided to be herself she stays around when ashes not in front ot of the cameras in idestra destry rides hides again instead of retiring to her dressing room and the rest of the cast has decided that ashes really re regular ular in the course of the picture she has a battle with one of the other girls which makes one wonder if that fight between paulette goddard and rosalind russell in in the women has started a cycle remember what happened when jimmy cag cagney n ey squashed a grapefruit in a girls face the popular pro program gaarn for alee alec templeton the blind pianist is heard on monday nights over NBC after running for years as a play and then being made into a picture irish rose may land on the he air as a serial where it will probably run on forever and ever in some of those serials practically nothing happens because so much of the time is taken up by the announcer no trying to whip up interest in what may take place the next da day Y at that rate irish nose R ose c could run forever |