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Show ! STAR f ! DUST ! Movie Radio By VIRGINIA VALE WHEN word went around the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio the other day that Leatrice Joy Gilbert, thirteen-year-old daughter of Leatrice Joy and the late John Gilbert, was making a film test, there was more craning of necks and rushing toward the set than there is even for Garbo. If good wishes could make good actresses little Miss Gilbert will be the greatest of all. Back ln the wardrobe department many a tear was shed as seamstresses who had dressed her mother and her father sewed on her costume, and camera- men who had been devoted to her father begged for the chance to photograph her. For a long time the studio has owned film rights to "National Velvet," but couldn't find a girl who was both young and appealing ap-pealing enough to play the heroine. Everyone hopes that little Leatrice will be chosen. Hot weather in Hollywood so Intense In-tense that the closed-ln sets of sound h ' " 'si studios are like fur. naces seems to have a calming effect on temperament and nerves. Ginger Rogers Rog-ers and Katherine Hepburn sit together togeth-er at the edge of the "Stage Door" set at RKO studio, calmly sipping tea and discussing dis-cussing the day's news. At Twentieth Century - Fox, Vlr- Rogers ginia Bruce and Loretta Young swap theories on child-raising. At Columbia, Colum-bia, the staff is daily more amazed to find Grace Moore agreeing wholeheartedly whole-heartedly with every suggestion tha director makes. Incidentally, John Ford has an effective way ol squelching actors who want to play scenes their way Instead of taking his direction. If an actor grows argumentative, ar-gumentative, he lets him go ahead and play the scene his way. Then he rips the film out of the camera, hands it to the stubborn thespian and says, "You can have it. No one else would want to see it." The dafflest picture of the wecR Is RKO's "Super Sleuth." You couldn't find better hot-weather entertainment en-tertainment anywhere. Jack Oakie provides the laughs, expertly aided by Ann Sothern, but it is the story that really deserves loud cheers. 1 don't want to spoil it for you bj telling too much, but you won'l mind knowing that it Is the story oi a movie star who specializes in detective de-tective roles. Ann Sothern's career, ln the dol-drums dol-drums lately because of second-rate second-rate pictures, has suddenly picked up and no one is happier than hei close friend, Joan Bennett. If you heard Ann spouting Shakespeare on that best of all summer programs, Charlie McCarthy aided and abetted by Edgar Bergen, you know that she has a sense or comeay tnai snouia put her up ln the front ranks oi high comedy with Claudette Colbert and Carole Lombard. When Sonja Henie decided to go tn Norway for a vacation a big fare- iiilii IIIIl m mmm I : t-'f-r 1 well luncheon was ; planned for her by Tyrone Power. That seemed like a charming idea when it was planned and the invitations sent out, but in the meantime mean-time Sonja and Tyrone Ty-rone had a squabble and weren't speaking. speak-ing. They carefully selected tables at opposite ends of the studio lunchroom Sonja Henie and avoided speaking to each other. Hollywood has often giggled over parties where none of the guests were interested in meeting the guest of honor, but this was the first time on record when the host and the guest of honor weren't speaking. His attentions to Janet Gaynor and Loretta Lor-etta Young are supposed to have caused it. ODDS AND ENDSOIT'cinls at N11C uho discovered Doris Weston and called Warner Brothers' attention to her are delighted with her perform, once in "The Singing Marine," sny she is the only girl who looks intelligent while listening to other players sing . . Ben Bernie is attending dramatic school in hopes of outsmarting Walter ff'inchell in their next film . . . Joan Crawford will star in the remake of that grandest oj all film stories, "Shopworn "Shop-worn Anxcl," which Nancy Carroll once made . . . Ray Milland has been given Claudette Colbert's former dressing dress-ing room and his friends are kidding him unmercifully about his flossy surroundings, sur-roundings, walls of blue mirror glass, white dressing table, and thick, thick rugs . . Whenexer actors insist that they just can't do justice to more than two pictures a year, producers remind them that Gene Autry is the biggest attraction in pictures nowadays, partly because, he is so good, partly because he makes so many pictures that audiences audi-ences have no chance to forget him. Western Newspaper Union. |