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Show Star SPust "k That Awkward Gap "At Greta Garbo Charms k Connie on Her Feet! ' Ry Virginia Vale ' THE bugaboo that haunts all child actors has swooped down on Bobby Breen he has reached that in-between age when there's nothing to do but retire from the screen for a few years, until the awkward age is over. Young Breen's voice is changing, chang-ing, and Sol Lesser, who has him under contract, doesn't want to risk its being injured and has decreed de-creed a rest. So "Escape to Paradise," made for Principal Productions, may be his last picture for a while. He'll go to military school and study drama until he is ready to face the cameras cam-eras again. Sometimes the screen's young people bridge the gap from kid pictures pic-tures to grown-up ones without taking tak-ing time off. Deanna Durbin did. "First Love" will show you how charming she is as a young very DEANNA DURBIN young lady. In private life she's all set to marry Vaughn Paul as soon as she's legally of age. And Jane Withers and Edith Fellows kept right on acting, very successfully. For those who don't do it, the awkward awk-ward age is a tragedy. They have years of drawing down huge salaries, sala-ries, then suddenly the money stops, and all that they can do is to wait and face the prospect of not being able to score a second success, when they are ready to work again. m Edward Small plans to bring to the screen a number of the world's greatest stories, but so far he seems to have found a gold mine In the works of Alexandre Dumas, and the other great writers will have to wait until he gets around to them. Small rang the bell with "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Man in the Iron Mask," and now he announces an-nounces that he's going to screen "The Corsican Brothers," the principal prin-cipal characters of which are a pair of Siamese twins. It seems safe to predict that even people who haven't liked Greta Garbo Gar-bo in her other pictures will be delighted de-lighted with her in "Ninotchka." It's a delightful comedy, perfectly directed di-rected by Ernst Lubitsch, presenting a Garbo who is an enchanting comedienne. come-dienne. Melvyn Douglas and Ina Claire give excellent performances, the rest of the cast is good. It's grand news that Connie Bos-well Bos-well is walking once more. The gallant gal-lant little star of radio and movies was crippled In an accident when she was a child, and for years she went everywhere in a wheel chair. People wanted to stand np and cheer when she arrived at a fooalI game or a theater it put new heart into them, to see how gallantly she carried car-ried on in spife of what, to most of us, would be an unconquerable : handicap. With her sisters, Martha and Vet, she made a name for herself on the stage and on the air. Since her sisters sis-ters married, a few years ago, she has continued by herself, and has made a new record for a woman singer in the number of her recordings record-ings that have been sold. She can walk now only a few steps, it's true, but a few steps mean a lot when you haven't been walking at all. She can swim, and 'ride a horse. First thing you know, she'll be dancing. Arlene Harris, the "Human Chatterbox" Chat-terbox" of the arr, had a handicap to overcome, too, but she was too young at the time to realize it For ! the first three years of her life she 'didn't talk; when her parents consulted con-sulted physicians they learned that she wa3 deaf as well. A trip to Vienna and an operation cured the deafness, and from (hen on she could talk. "I've been making mak-ing up for lost time ever since," she says and the way she chatters on the Al Pearce programs every Wednesday Wed-nesday night proves it. ODDS AP F.y)SCnl Tinnry, producer nf "Youth vs. Age." says thai most ol the applications In appear on his program come from elderly people peo-ple . Felix Knight's November concerts con-certs took him to Virginia. Maine. Horidn and Connecticut, with a. Thursday night broadcasts from A'-u-York forcing him to hurry home he-tircen he-tircen limes. iReleased by Western Newspaper Union.) |