Show star dust A that awkward gap A greta garbo charms A connie on her feet sly by virginia vale HE bugaboo that haunts T THE all child actors has swoop swooped ed down on bobby breen h he e has reached that in between age when theres nothing to do but retire from the screen for a few years until the awkward age is over young breens voice is changing and sol lesser who has him under contract want to risk its being injured and has decreed a rest so escape to paradise made for principal productions may be his last picture for a while heu hell go to military school and study drama until he is ready to face the cameras again sometimes the screens young people bridge the gap from kid pictures to grownup grown up ones without taking time off deanna durbin did first love will show you how charming she is as a young very T DEANNA DURBIN young lady in private life ashes all set to marry vaughn paul as soon as ashes legally of age and jane withers and edith fellows kept right on acting very successfully for those who dont do it the awkward age is a tragedy they have years of drawing down huge salaries then suddenly the money stops and all that they can do is to wait and face the prospect of not being able to score a second success when they are ready to work again edward small plans to bring to the screen a number of the worlds greatest stories but so far he seems to have found a gold mine in the works of alexandre alexandra dumas and the other great writers will have to wait until he gets around to them small rang the bell with the count of monte cristo and the man in in the iron mask and now he announces that hes hs going to screen the corsican brothers the principal in characters of which are a pair of siamese twins X it seems safe to predict that even people who liked greta garbo in her other pictures will be delighted with her in ninotchka its a delightful comedy perfectly directed by ernst lubitsch presenting a garbo who is an enchanting comedienne melvyn douglas and ina claire give excellent performances the rest of the cast is good its grand news that connie boswell is walking once more the gallant little star of radio and movies was crippled in an accident when she was a child and tor for years she went everywhere in a wheel chair people wanted to stand up and cheer when she arrived at a football game or a theater it if put new heart into them to see how gallantly she carried on in spite ol of what to most of us would be an unconquerable handicap with her sisters martha and vet she made a name for herself on the stage and on the air since her sisters married a few years ago she has continued by herself and has r made ade a new record for a woman singer in the number of her recordings that have been sold she can walk now only a few steps ste Ps its true but a few steps mean a lot when you been walking at all she can swim and ride a horse first thing you know shell be dancing arlene harris the human chatterbox of the air had a handicap to overcome too but she was too young at the time to realize it for the first three years of her life she talk when her parents consulted physicians they learned that tha t she was deaf as well A to vienna and an operate operation on cured the deafness and from then on n she could talk ive been making up for lost time ever since a she he says say sand and the way she chatters on the at al pearce programs every wednesday night ni ht proves it ODDS AND ENDS cal tinn ey producer 0 of youth vs vi age afe says say I 1 that hat most 01 ol the ille applications to appear car on an his in program come from elder elderly hupf y people felix knights knight s november concerts look in ok him to crim rr im ginio maine alaine florida and connecticut his thursday night ni g it broadcast from fram neto york forcing forcin g him to go hurry home hom e between times released by western newspaper union |