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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 of "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- i - . i j t i "IMIIMl - 'ff CLAIRE TREVOR tery in which she's working with , Burgess Meredith, she bought a i nurse's uniform, a print dress, a ' green suit and the significant red coat. Remember that old favorite, Matt f 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 f the studio since. 1934. He's been do-j do-j 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 i picture based on the three-month tour of South America made by Disney Dis-ney and a group of his artists. Don- i aid Duck, Goofy and a sporty par- rot share honors with Pedro. RKO I will release the picture early next i month. ; 1 Mapy Cortes and Marcy McGuire , make their Hollywood debuts in ' "Seven Days' Leave"; keep your J eye on them, for they're discoveries of producer Tim Whelan. Formerly a gag. man on Harold Lloyd's pic-9 pic-9 tures, he's acted, written scenarios and directed and he discovered i Vivian Leigh, and brought to screen prominence Geraldine Fitzgerald, 't Laurence Olivier, Maureen O'Hara and Wendy Barrie. I BUI 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 oft a lock of Joel McCrea's 5 hair the next time she goes to Mex- ico. After the barber got through with him on the set of "The Palm Beach Story" one morning, she sal-it sal-it vaged the lock, put it between sheets of cellophane, and announced her rj plans. Just why she's waiting till she goes to Mexico to do it she didn't ti say. After all, he's a favorite in this country too! Franchot Tone and his wife, Jean Wallace, celebrated their first wed- I ding anniversary during the filming i ot "True to Life," in which he stars. I The part of the celebration she'll i remember longest is the lesson in v riding his motorcycle which he gave J, h. ODDS AND ENDS Veronica Lake, Dtdio died without honor in " If anted 'igs," dies most heroicully in "So roudly We Hail," just to even things UP - . Cecil B. DeMille's learning to r'de a motorcycle, a sight which Holly-5 Holly-5 Wood certainly never expected to see but ' his teacher accompanies him . . . 0"6 Hope gets married for the first time on the screen in "They Got Me Cov-'Z.'sne's Cov-'Z.'sne's " dancer, "Gloria the Glow played by Marion Marion . . . imi Chandler, daughter of Senator handler of Kentucky, has the feminine !" "Henry Aldrich I'lays Second '"Idle" perfect training lor an aspir-"g aspir-"g starlet. ' Since Bob Hawk's quiz show, Thanks to the Yanks," started on CBS, 156,000 cigarettes have been sent to men and women in the armed services aU over the world. t And "women" is correct; the WAACs got some too. 1 Diana Lynn, 15-year-old appearing Paramount's "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek," is a skilled plan- , and plays nothing but diflicult, cassical compositions. But she's also an excellent whistler and you should hear what she can do. |
