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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. SOME movie stars can appear ap-pear in public without being be-ing recognized, if they choose to, but not Gary Cooper. Several times lately your correspondent, doing a spot of dog-walking, has met him striding along one of the streets of the neighborhood his New York residence is nearby. With his hands in the pockets of his dark blue overcoat, the hero ot "For Whom the Bell Tolls" marched past women out doing their marketing and nursemaids out with infants and left behind him a trail of people with their heads turned, looking after aft-er him. He's so tanned and so thin and walks so well that he'd be noticed anywhere. Incidentally, Director Sam Wood did a smart thing on the new Coop-er-Ingrid Bergman picture; not being be-ing sure how the Hays office would react to certain scenes, he shot two versions of each one one for possible possi-ble censor objections, one as Hemingway Hem-ingway wrote it. Claire Trevor thinks a red coat is Just the thing to be murdered in. When buying her own wardrobe for "Street of Chance," a murder mys- CLAIRE TREVOR tery in which she's working with Burgess Meredith, she bought a nurse's uniform, a print dress, a green suit and the significant red coat. ' Remember that old favorite, Matt Moore, one of the popular screen brothers of the movies' silent days? He s working in Metro's "Half Pint Kid" it is his first appearance at the studio since 1934. He's been doing do-ing stage work in the meantime. Pedro, a baby airplane, battles a mighty mountain in a raging blizzard bliz-zard so that the mail can go through, in one of the sequences of Walt Disney's Dis-ney's "Saludos Amigos"; this is the picture based on the three-month tour of South America made by Disney Dis-ney and a group of his artists. Donald Don-ald Duck, Goofy and a sporty parrot par-rot share honors with Pedro. RKO will release the picture early next month. Mapy Cortes and Marcy McGuire make their Hollywood debuts in "Seven Days' Leave"; keep your eye on them, for they're discoveries of producer Tim Whelan. Formerly a gag man on Harold Lloyd's pictures, pic-tures, he's acted, written scenarios and directed and he discovered Vivian Leigh, and brought to screen prominence Geraldine Fitzgerald, Laurence Olivier, Maureen O'Hara and Wendy Barrie. Bill Robinson, the 64-year-old tap dancer, returns to the screen after a four-year absence to play the leading lead-ing role in 20th Century-Fox's "Thanks, Pal," a cavalcade of Negro Ne-gro music and entertainment. Remember Re-member the delightful scenes he and Shirley Temple used to do together? Claudette Colbert's planning to raffle off a lock of Joel McCrea's hair the next time she goes to Mexico. Mex-ico. After the barber got through with him on the set of "The Palm Beach Story" one morning, she salvaged sal-vaged the lock, put it between sheets of cellophane, and announced her plans. Just why she's waiting till she goes to Mexico to do it she didn't say. After all, he's a favorite in this country too ! Franchot Tone and his wife, Jean Wallace, celebrated their first wedding wed-ding anniversary during the filming j of "True to Life," in which he stars, i The part of the celebration she'll i remember longest is the lesson in ! riding his motorcycle which he gave her. ODDS AND ENDS Veronica Lake, who died without honor in "1 Wanted Wings," dies most heroically in "So Proudly We Hail," just to even things up . . . Cecil B. DeMitle's learning to ride a motorcycle, a sight which Hollywood Holly-wood certainly never expected to see but his teacher accompanirs him . . Hob Hope gets married for the first limr on the screen in "They Got Me Covered" Cov-ered" she's a dancer, "Gloria the Glow Girl," played by Marion Marion . . . Mimi Chandler, daughter of Senator Chandler of Kentucky, has the feminine lead in "Henry Aldrich Plays Second I Fuldlc" perfect training for an nspir tnB starlet. |