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Show Niven Gets His Old Lid -k Private and Public Life Blasting a Prayer By Virginia Vale ' (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) JOAN CRAWFORD is as popular as ever, judging by the welcome that she received re-ceived from the fans when she arrived in New York not long ago for a brief vacation. She was accompanied by two dachshunds, Stinky, which is hers, and Pupschen, which belongs to her ex-husband, Franchot Tone, with whom she is on the friendliest of terms. Fetchingly dressed when she arrived, ar-rived, she rushed straight to her favorite milliner's and ordered hats all kinds of hats, rather goofy ones, the kind so many ol her fans like to have her wear. Twentieth Century-Fox is going to film the history of radio, probably next fall, with Alice Faye and Don Ameche starring in a tale that will cover the development from crystal sets to television. Did you know that that dashing hero of the films, William Powell, wore a gray suit and a sweater to his own wedding? The bride took the occasion more seriously, sar-torially; sar-torially; she wore a blue flowered print dress and a turban that DIANA LEWIS matched it. But then, she hadn't been married twice before! You'll see her before long in "Forty Little Mothers," and you may have seen her on the screen already, without knowing it; as Diana Lewis she's been just one more promising young actress. She's beautiful and talented. If the British government had been as eager to send David Niven to war as he was to go, he could have taken with him and probably would have a novel memento of Hollywood. It is the service cap which he wore in the role of a young English officer in "Dawn Patrol." Loui.s Hayward, playing the role of an English captain in one of the sequences of "My Son, My Son!", in which he has one of the top roles, drew an army cap from wardrobe. He noticed the initials "D. N." in the band, and learned that K was Niven's "Dawn Patrol" cap, so he bought it and sent it to his friend. Time was when a screen star couldn't be , sued for divorce and hope to carry on with her career. And although she planned to marry someone else as soon as she was free, she wouldn't have said so as frankly as Vivian Leigh has. It seems likely that her studio would have been just as well pleased if her husband had not chosen to sue her while "Gone With the Wind" was still at the height of its glory, but she did so well in it that the publicity regarding her private life probably won't keep the public from clamoring to see her in "Waterloo Bridge." It's not unusual to hear , a few bars of "God Bless America" in traffic jams in New York these days. People look about and stare, and if they're lucky they catch a glimpse of Kate Smith in the car whose horn startled them. A horn manufacturing manufactur-ing company gave the horn to Miss Smith as a present; the driver just presses a button, and a bit of the patriotic song that she made famous fa-mous rings out. Title to the title, "Buck Benny Rides Again," has changed hands three times. When Benny's authors, Morrow and Beloin, first used the idea it automatically became the property of the comedia, as does all their material. With characteristic generosity, Benny gave it back to the writers. Now they have sold the title to Paramount, the company for which they wrote Benny's new picture. Their favorite quotation at present is "What's in a name?" ODDS AND ENDS "Alec Templelon Time" moved from Chicago to cw York for its January 8th broadcast, prepared to stay for five weeks 7 empleton had so many concerts con-certs scheduled in lew England and ail along the . Atlantic seaboard that he'd have spent most of his lime on the way to or from Chicago if tht, switch hadn't been made. Between concerts and broadcasting he has been writing songs with jeville Fleeson, Hollywood lyricist; four of them are being published pub-lished soon by one of the big musir. j houses. |