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Show Star DDiast AVio Swedish Find U. S. Film to Rimia Third Choice Takes It v Virginia Vnlo I TNG RID BERGMAN is the . heroine of the latest publicity pub-licity build-up in Hollywood perhaps the name isn't familiar fa-miliar to you now, but if it isn t soon the fault will lie wUh David Selznick's publicity public-ity staff. For Miss Bergman is the new Swedish discovery who makes her bow to film fans in Intermezzo," with Leslie Howard. She is pretty, charming and has a ovely smile. Stockholm is her home town. Whether she is as talented as her Swedish compatriot, Greta Uarbo, remains. to be seen. "Intermezzo" is a romantic drama dealing with a world-famous musician musi-cian who has to decide between If x' v? 1 K x 1 1 & A v r I ' S ' ' i I ytAa-,J'' "i lhnilin,. a IN GRID BERGMAN home life with his family and the thrills of his life as an artist. Edna Best and John Halliday have supporting sup-porting roles. While Mr. Selznick was discovering discover-ing a Swedish actress, Russian motion mo-tion picture men were discovering an American one. Intorgkino, international inter-national film trading company for the Soviet Union, has bought Dean-na Dean-na Durbin's "One Hundred Men and a Girl" for distribution there. It is the first American picture bought for that market since 1936, when Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" and "City Lights" were purchased. William Powell may appear in "Susan and God" opposite Greer Garson, who became famous overnight over-night as a result of her appearance appear-ance in "Goodby, Mr. Chips." But tile doctors have the last say in regard to Powell's taking on this new assignment; two weeks of retakes re-takes for "The Thin Man Returns" necessitated a rest, as his health still isn't what it might be. "Drums Along the Mohawk," according ac-cording to an announcement from Twentieth Century-Fox, will be 14 reels long when it is released. Not the longest picture ever offered to the public, but the longest in Technicolor. Tech-nicolor. In case you didn't read the book, it's a swell story. It's three times and out for "My Girl Friday," the new screen version ver-sion of "Front Page." Irene Dunne was offered the lead, and refused it. Jean Arthur was offered the lead, and also refused it, which resulted in her suspension without pay for 12 weeks. (However, her contract will be extended for that same period.) The picture finally got started with Rosalind Russell in the role that the Misses Dunne and 'Arthur wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole. As a rule, when this sort of thing happens in a motion picture studio, the actress (or actor) who steps in and saves the day makes such a success that she leaps ahead several rungs on the ladder to fame. Every radio broadcast has to have a production man; his job, principally, principal-ly, is to sit in the control room and guide the progress of the show to split-second accuracy of schedule. Since radio began it's been a man's job. But CBS's "Grand Central Station" Sta-tion" is produced by a woman. She's Betzy Tuthill, from Tucson, Ariz. You girls who'd like to take on a similar job will be interested in the story of her career. After being graduated from the University of Arizona she worked with the Harvard Har-vard Film Service, editing and cutting cut-ting educational films.' Then she went to work for Irving Reis, who was directing the CBS Workshop series. se-ries. She looked after his mail, did some casting, read scripts and helped re-write them. First thing anybody knew she was in the studio, helping with production. Al Pe'arce, who added "I hope, I hope I hope" to American slang, is back on the air on Wednesday nights from 8 to 8:30 eastern standard stand-ard time, on a nation-wide hookup hook-up He has a new Gang, which includes in-cludes Billy House, the radio old-timer, old-timer, and Don Reid. a new lyric tenor who hails from Canada. ODDS AND ENDS The popular "Myrt und Marge" serial, soon to ce e-br,L e-br,L its eishlh year on the a,r can ,e into being because the rea Myrl and Marge were hit by the 1 92 ' era A . . . The new March o 7 we 1 he ,.. Flee" "I England," is a .m story o |