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Show Star Bast 'Scarlett' at Last Daddy of Sound Delayed Honeymoon I By Virginia Vale ' THE announcement that Norma Shearer will play "Scarlett O'Hara" in "Gone With the Wind" stirred up a tempest in a teapot that is still raging. Certainly, on the face of things, it does not seem to be the type of role that she does best. "She has no southern accent naturally, so whatever she says will sound phoney," pho-ney," declare the Miriam Hopkins supporters; "She's too sweet and mild," wail the people who wanted Bette Davis to have the part. But nobody's complaining because Clark Gable is to play "Rhett Butler"; But-ler"; that role was made for him from the beginning. Robert Taylor's New York fans were numerous but not unruly when he spent a short vacation in the city recently. This time he managed to arrive and leave places without hav- Si I V- r n v., r? :, W 1 ROBERT TAYLOR ing his shirt or his shoes torn off. No- strange girls were discovered hidden in his suite at the hotel, waiting for autographs. Fans just gathered in crowds outside his hotel ho-tel and waited for him to appear. And he endeared himself to them by refusing to duck in and out by the freight entrance, and so disappoint disap-point them. Furthermore, he did what few movie stars do; came out and said quite frankly that if the fans didn't gather to see him, he'd know that he was slipping. When August Baron died a little while ago the public, in general, paid little attention to the fact. Few people had ever heard of him. Yet he was the first man to take out patents on talking pictures. He did it in 1896 and 1900, but the patents expired before he could get backing. back-ing. He died, penniless and blind, at the age of eighty-three, without ever having seen a talking picture. Richard Cromwell has learned to expect practical jokes in the movie studios where he's worked, but he "wasn't prepared until recently to encounter them in the radio world as well. He plays "Kit Marshall" in "Those We Love," and takes it pretty seriously, so when he received re-ceived a phone call one day recently, recent-ly, telling him that the rehearsal would be held an hour earlier than usual, he saw to it that he got there in plenty of time. And then he sat there for one solid hour, waiting for the rest of the cast to show up. Donald Woods, who's also in the serial, was responsible. re-sponsible. The Don Ameches were married six years ago, and at the time Don ! , promisea nis wife i a honeymoon in s Europe. They : started on it just : after Don finished fin-ished his last i broadcast of the current season, ; July 3 flew from j Hollywood t o ; New York and set sail on the Queen Mary. And they've planned a honeymoon Don Ameche vvortn waiting six years for. Radio, like every other industry, has its slang here's a bit of it, as submitted by Mark Warnow, musical musi-cal director at Columbia Broadcust-ing Broadcust-ing studios. Cliff-hanger an adventure adven-ture serial. Clientitis sponsor trouble. trou-ble. Fairy godfather easy-going sponsor. Dawn patrol early morning morn-ing broadcasting. Putty blower-trombone. blower-trombone. Wood pile xylophone. ODDS AND ENDS Walter r,mg,., has niuuiuiu-vj thai he's through with 'yifficith" actresses; he's let Sylvia Sidney and Madeleine Carroll go, and is grooming Louise. I'lutt for stardom . . . In "The Lady and the Cowboy" David Niven will day opposite Merle. Uheron, to whom his engagement was reported a year or so agomavbn just for publicity purposes . . . Miss Oberon, incidentally, has a grand scheme for dressing simply and welt; sweaters and slctris for daytime, white evening gowns at night; she buys them by the dozens . . Dickie Moore's baby sister is acting with llette Davis in "The Sisters " IS Western Newspaper U.iloii |