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Show " I STAR : I DUST ! Movie Radio $ By VIRGINIA VALE TOAN BENNETT is so J homesick for the stage that she has signed up to work with a Cape Cod stock company this summer for a few weeks. Some of the motion mo-tion picture producers who have planned busy summers j for their players wish that j she wasn't quite so thrilled at the prospect. Her Infectious enthusiasm has sent half of Hollywood scurrying to their bosses to ask If they can't have leave of absence too. Eette Davis wants to go, but Warners j have big plans for her. Josephine I Hutchinson wants her annual fling 1 on the stage. And Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone are acting ; mighty mysterious, reading plays . and time tables. I Add one more picture to the cur- i rent list of those you simply have to , r- . --T r-""1 -:.i LU see. I.Ietro-Goldwyn- I Mayer's "Captains ; Courageous" Is one of the finest pictures j of all time. There ! Isn't a woman In the ; cast, but even the young girls who j think any picture j without torrid love : scenes is a washout, confess that they . never even miss the ! Freddie romantic ar.S:e Ln . Bartholomew U'ls or'e- 11 U a ''or of the Gloucester fishing fleet In which Spencer Tracy and young Freddie Bartholomew do the finest acting of their careen. Indeed, It Is the first picture In which young Bartholomew has had a chance to show tat he is not J-st a sweet and handsome lad with pathetic pa-thetic eyes. He is a grand actcr. As soon as r.riut Lubltsch CnUhcs directing Marlcne Dietrich and Herbert Her-bert larshall in "Anjcl" he Is coins; co-ins; to turn actor for ss few dart. I.onj ago whrn he tvis an actor In Germany, his t;rct ambition was to play Napoleon, and Jut now It happrni that Cecil De Mllle Is searching the hljhwajs and bywsys for a man to plajr Napoleon In 'Buc-canrrr." 'Buc-canrrr." I.uMtsrh lot Into costume and mate-up, presented himself to !) Mille, and was hired at once. Executives st the Twentieth Century Cen-tury lx studio, are duap; o'.r.tcd t'.at l.'.o public h.in't rr.ndo ntcre cf a fuss over S.r.-.rr.e Suv.cn. so they arc g.-'.ng to put her In a comedy and lee if she goes over tetter. They are teaming her with Jack Ka'.ev. w!-.o made such a hit In "V.'.-ke l"p and Live." in a fast-tr.cvlr.g co::.cJy called "Love at Work." Motion picture studio ofTlrtali al-chance al-chance the auhject nhen anyone any-one n-.k If their stars really inj or If omo slnjrer suhtilutrs for them, hut radio listeners can reo-orulze reo-orulze their favorite voices under any circumstance. They Insist that rttiddy Clark of the Hit Parade did Jack Haley's slnclnr, that Virginia Verrill sane for hoth Jean Harlow and Virginia llruce. and that In "The CIreat Harnum" It was I'ran-cla I'ran-cla While who sane for M i i Douins Fairhai-kj, Jr., h.-, de- elded that ho likes the Vnltcd States hotter, after a'.L While ho was i:i I'liftland. lie rcal!.-ed l-.is an-.bition , to becon-.o a producer, and fc'.t so Krnteful to t!:e coui-.trymen who , backed him thnt ho t'houi:h.l he ; would live there always. CVvr.ir.i: j back to Hollywood to tnake Ju! one picture, "Tho Trisoncr of :c:-.da." ; ha found when It was finished find , ho was free to go back to I n land that he Just couldn't bear to leave I nil his childhood friends. j Warner llrolhcrs Itnvo arr.in,;ed to borrow Miriam lioj-kins for two rlclurcs nnd It looks ns If It would keep tha cnllro studio busy for weeks find-Inn find-Inn stories to which sho won't raise a violent objection. Scheduled ' nri'car Willi Krrol l'lynn In "Tho revfeet 8ecl-ivtrn." 8ecl-ivtrn." sho flatly refused. re-fused. Instond she will luaka a tearful r 1 , , . s -4 Ullln roinanca called ... , i,',,i i .. . Mli lam i pisodo supported ., , , 1 h.v Ian llunler and ,I",,h'," j Charles Wlnnln,:er. Afier that. Wsr- ners would like to hnv. her In "SI.. tors" will, Kay Krancis. i 1 ' ' 1 yotf rrmrr r'" ."'"J-ori ,l,k, a onr, . ..y..v, ,,;,. ifrl ..,,..,.. j j''""'" -ohe,J m1 . i ."' ",'""' " i.e. V,a i V We. , N. .,..,,. ,.(.,;, |