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Show A ! STAR I I BUST j J- IVlovie Itaoio 5 By VIRGINIA VALE ApHE Prisoner of Zenda" 1 threatens to become everybody's favorite picture. Girls love it because it is tenderly ten-derly romantic, boys are crazy about it because it is a thrilling adventure story, and the old folks like the pornp and circumstance of the court scenes. Of course, the mere fact of Ronald Colman's presence pres-ence is enough to bring crowds to the box offices. He plays a dual role and the only complaint is that Madeline Carroll does not play two parts too. She is probably the most utterly charming heroine hero-ine of the year any year. Hollywood had a lot of surprises recently that sent all the girls scurrying out to buy I f j presents. Miriam Hopkins up and eloped with Anatol Litvak, the director, and Alice Faye and Tony Martin rushed off to Yuma, Ariz., and got married. Religious differences had caused the breaking of their engagement en-gagement several Miriam times, she being Hopkins Catholic, he Jewish. To make matters more complicated both had anti-marriage anti-marriage clauses in their contracts with Twentieth Century-Fox. The studio has forgiven them, but parents par-ents are said to be still pouting. Mr. Litvak, Mis3 Hopkins' new groom, has just finished directing Claudette Colbert in "Tonight's Our Night," at Warner Brothers'. No one over there will ever forget him. In a scene that took place in a market he insisted on having real geese, turkeys, and chickens. The j hot sun. got in its deadly work and players had great difficulty going through their scenes without holding hold-ing their noses. Finally the studio had to replace the poultry every few hours, but all attempts to use papier mache ones failed. Mr. Litvak Lit-vak detected the imitations at once and refused to work until real ones were provided. Claudette Colbert's good humor made a host of friends for her on the Warner lot and everyone is sorry that she was loaned to them Tor only one picture. One afternoon almost everyone's nerves were shattered shat-tered by the many repetitions of a scene. While she was talking to Charles Rover, a dog was supposed to come in carrying a shoe in its mouth. Over and over the srene was played, but the dog never came in at just the right moment. Finally Miss Colbert, serene and fresh as n April morning, snsRcstod th..t the director let the dog play the scene with Coyer and she would tome in on ail fours carrying a ihoc in her mouth! Ever since James C.igney walked out of the Warner studio and went to work for Grand National where he is as happy as can be, there nave been battles between the sui-.iio sui-.iio and their players. Now Joan Blondell is on strike. S'.ie thinks she has been working too hard and refuses to start on the new picture scheduled for her. Kay Francis is trying to break her contract . . . says that she signed It only because be-cause they promised to give her the reading role in "Tonight's Our Night." And, after nil. they gave the role to Claudette Colbert F.ing Crosby's absence from Vs radio program still leaves 11 big gap in Thursday night's jntevtainnient, but it last tliere Is a new picture of his to be seen and heard vliilo we wait for nis return to the nir ivavcs. "Houblo or Nothing" is pleasant mid casual and amiable, ami-able, Just like all Crosby pictures, l'lu'co of the songs lire real hits It 9 ,. , the Natural Thinj: to Do," "It's On- lt's OlT," and "The Moon (.'.ot Into My Kyos." Martini Kayo Is there with her tten.-.ied buffoonery, buf-foonery, mid Mary Carlisle makes Uie prettiest heroine ho ever had. onus An i;ms i rcr si Yen (e- son ' y join fri i .iimiio mul C.luir-ie C.luir-ie f '111 (i v in fml kiiv . Uin i'Ui oil lit .Smiiuy crriiiuK t't'ijcp iiuir, ru-Wio ru-Wio unit pii liini iiim hum (xvn Ik-h-iii.S him (1) iiiv in 11 iiini.xi 'irliii 1' cmmi'v . . . 'hii(M l.imi n 5,.ji,iii9 nm" (.lit i.s.oiiH.i iiii'n;. niMi', htH iiiMii hii Aiiiiiii hi- will hii Mo hioy in l I'ciihcr li ill hit (,'im.; iiivr,., t ,ii "II 11, 1111 'iii;ii'." s,.,i ,1urA II mil, in: i ll' if 'lllllli' g K in, h rci ji iiiiki i iim- (iiV.ifi'if imiinii. f iinr nuin ,1 ,,n ii iiiii irhiij 111 mini, unwiinii hum a. ( inin' niih (i jihii.imii',. (h.il 11 iiimii li'rrr irlt lie nirn'il lunr. it) W'9loru Mwi.imi Uivloii. |