Show I 1 af STAR I 1 j DUST movie 0 radio by VIRGINIA VALE HE millions who have tread THE read and loved the adventures of tom sawyer will rejoice that it has been brought to the screen almost intact A few mp memorable morable scenes of the classic of boyhood had to be skipped but the important ones are all there the whitewashing of the fence muff potter under suspicion of murder toms startling appearance at his own funeral filmed in technicolor the tones are subdued and pleasant in making liking the town and all its inhabitants ill a ta of some s 0 me sixty years ye ago 0 look entirely natural there was a great todo to do a year or so ago over david helmicks Selz Sel nicks micks countrywide country wide search for or just the right boy to play tom finally tommy kelly son ot ol a worker was found in new york everyone who sees the picture will surely be glad that passed up the precocious actors ot of hollywood and waited until he found tommy for tommy kelly fits perfectly the lie eh character 11 facter of tom sawyer 0 t all hollywood Is talking about the great change in katharine hepburn the roustabout comedy that she indulges in for her new picture bringing up baby has affected her manner in private life no longer Is fit she aloof and haughty no longer does she scurry away as it if frightened or very bored when coworkers approach lawrence tibbett will come back to the screen if warner brothers have anything to say about it the they want him for the desert song and he will have time to make a V A lawrence tibbett picture soon tor for grace moore is go ing to replace him on his radio hour OL fc joan crawford was quite startled recently when she heard an early morning ing news broadcast announcing that she had left her husband franchot tone and would soon institute divorce proceedings she glanced across the breakfast table and there was franchot as usual il never mind honey he coun selled they have been trying to separate us for three years and I 1 dont believe they can do it ever hollywood casting directors de serve a vote of thanks they have put back to work three popular ac tresses who have hae a been playing hookey from the screen too long zasu pitts was i dragged out ot of her 51 kitchen where she has been busily writ ing a cookbook to play opposite victor moore in st strictly accidental jim for R K 0 joan bennett zasu pitts pg just returned from a stage tour and very happy to be settling down in her new house in leverly beverly hills was persuaded to go to texas to mm film the texan with randolph scott and several hun dred long horned cattle in support and claire trevor so well liked in her fier radio serial with edward G robinson was cast opposite him in a warner wamer brothers picture ODDS AND ENDS bad man alan oj 01 brimstone revived wallace beereys car career er which has hai been under a cloud of 0 soso so 1 0 so 10 pictures lately latel ay iy he will follow 11 that 1 up 3 with a sequel bad man from arizona amona peter van Ste steeden edess re ceitel bened congratulatory telegrams irom from leveral erd new york university professors on the fourteenth anniversary of 01 h his ts radio debut it teems seems that in 1934 they excused him irom from his classes one day so he could audition joy for a radio program he has been on the air air ever since martha tilton who sinus sings with benny cooymans goodmans Good mans tuesday night swin swing 9 school did the song numbers that joyce compton appeared to be singing inthe in the film the awful truth when you see thi the Col goldwyn dwyn follies you noumay may think that andrea leeds is is singing but your old friend virginia merrul of the radio really recorded hose song numbers e rs aw A torn N union |