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Show Star Ehisf k Laiv Forces a Fake AO for Life of Child Star k U. S. Groceries to Europe By Virginia Vale 1 THERE'LL be a bit of faking fak-ing about Principal Production's Pro-duction's "Way Down South," but it's not the fault of the producer, Sol Lesser. The story of the picture is laid in Louisiana; it deals with plantation plan-tation life in pre-Civil war days. One of the high lights of the picture is a sugar cane festival, the autumn celebration celebra-tion that marks the completion comple-tion of the harvesting season. Lesser ordered a freight car of Louisiana Lou-isiana sugar cane, and thought things were all set, when the California Cali-fornia bureau of agriculture stepped in and stopped it at the border. Seems that "foreign" cane can't be brought into the state. So native cane from near Bakers-field Bakers-field will be used instead. It is neither so heavy nor so tall as the genuine Louisiana article, but the art director will take care of that. Everything else about the picture Is genuine. Bob Breen and the 50-piece 50-piece Hall Johnson choir have been s Mr " t L - - ' & BOBBY BREEN rehearsing for two weeks, so that the American Negro spiritual music mu-sic will have the true beauty and charm of the Deep South. Peggy Ann Garner, a six-year-old native of Los Angeles, won out over 100 other children in tests to find just the right child to play the part of Carole Lombard's daughter in "Memory of Love." She is inexperienced, inex-perienced, but she has charm and her tests were good, so she was signed up to appear with Miss Lombard, Lom-bard, Helen Vinson and Katherine Alexander, starting, perhaps, on the road to fame. Of course, this matter of being a movie star isn't half so much fun for a child as other children are likely to think it is. Irene Dare, (another six-year-old) who is working work-ing in "Everything on Ice," can testify tes-tify to that. She rises at 6:30 every morning, practices skating until eleven, then has a ballet lesson for an hour. After lunch she has a dramatic lesson, then another hour of skating practice, although she is an accomplished skater. Her spare time is filled with fittings for costumes cos-tumes and tests for hairdressing and make-up. Remember Aileen Pringle, you folks who went to the movies in the days of silent pictures? You'll see her again in "Girl From Nowhere," with Anne Nagel and Warren Hull. Douglas Corrigan, the wrong-way flier, won't make another picture after all, at least not for RKO. And Eddie Cantor is not to make "The Flying Yorkshireman" for that firm, after all. Both plans were just cases of misplaced enthusiasm, apparently. ap-parently. Phil Baker is probably one of the most spoiled husbands in the world. When he and his wife travel In Europe Eu-rope she takes along a supply of American groceries, because he doesn't like continental food. Another radio serial will reach the screen before so very long. It is "Hometown," heard over WLS, which stars Lulu Belle and Skyland Scotty, and will be filmed by Republic Re-public Productions. Whenever a new engineer Is assigned as-signed to the Charlie McCarthy program pro-gram he's initiated with the same gag. Don Ameche and Edgar Bergen Ber-gen pulled it on the latest recruit. They stood in front of a microphone, moving their lips but not uttering a sound, while the engineer Dearly went wild trying to find the trouble. ODDS AND ENDS The CDS Hit Parade now enjoys the highest rating in its history, and Mark Warnow's contract con-tract has been renewed first time a bandleader has been retained on that program for 26 consecutive weeks . . . Walt Disney wanted the film rights jor Maeterlinck's "Bluebird," but 20lh Century-Fox got them; Shirley Temple will be starred in the picture . . . I'at O'Brien is readying a radio show that will be somewhat like the current program pro-gram ol Edward G. Robinson . . . When lli'dy Lamarr and Robert Taylor finish fin-ish "Lady of the Tropics" they'll start "Guns and Fiddles" they seem to make an excellent co-starring team . . . Robert Montgomery leaves soon jor England, to make two pictures. Western Newspaper Union. |