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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ACTORS usually dread working with children on the stage or in pictures because be-cause children, like animals, invariably "steal" scenes. One cut gesture, one little smile from a child can make an Academy Award winner look like a piece of furniture, so far as audiences are concerned. con-cerned. Nevertheless the members of the j cast of "Shepherd of the Hills" wei I delighted to have four-year-old Viri-ta Viri-ta Campbell in their midst while they were on location in the San Bernardino mountains. On location hours are usually very long, the rule being to shoot from daybreak to sunset sun-set to take full advantage of the natural light. Which means that actors, ac-tors, stars and all, get up at 5:30 or thereabouts. But in the eyes of the state labor law Virita is an infant, so she can't start to work until 8 a. m. Conse-quently Conse-quently the actors who worked with j her got two extra hours of sleep! every morning. They brought pres- j sure to bear on Director Henry Hathaway to extend her part so that it would last for the entire six weeks, j Deanna Durbin's new picture, . "Spring Parade," is a honey, chief- ; ly because she, S. Z. Sakall and I Henry Stephenson are in it. The; 'story is just another of those Old j Vienna things, but Henry Koster did a good job of directing, the entire f . ' ' : j DEANNA DIRBIN ! cast it includes Allyn Joslyn. Rei- nald Denny. Robert Cumminfs and i Franklin Par.gborn is good, and there are some lovely new songs, j The grown-up Dcanr.a is charrr.ir.s ' and sings beautifully, of course ar.a as the setting is what o'.d Vicr.ni always al-ways is in the n-.ovics. she $:nss an j arrangement of the "Blue Danube." Practically all the men stsrs in t Hollywood were fired from perfectly i good jobs before U-.cy turned to the movies. Preston Foster suspects that Nelson Fcdy got the cr.e he lost. Foster was working on a Philadelphia Philadel-phia newspaper, sell. eg classified advertising. He got extra jobs s.rg-1 s.rg-1 ing in the chorus and in minor roles in the La Scala Opera com.rany. One day the boss dropped in at a matinee, mati-nee, nnd there was Foster f.fg.rg I when lie should have been out selling sell-ing ndvcrt'.su-g! i Meanwhile Nelson Fddy xrai 1 workins a a nhipping clerk for an i Iron works company In tbo iamc rlly. He had a habll of bursting Into aonc when he was xorkinx hard. The foreman couldn't stand II. so he fired the nlngrr. tho ; promptly jot a Job on the rhiladrV-i rhiladrV-i phla paper that hadn't appreciated j Koslcr'a singing the Job was cll- Ing rlassilicd advertising. Robert Taylor was washing the , Inside of a windshield in a tcrvice j station in IVairicc. Neb., when the i rag slipped out of his band and into ' hc lap cf a lady. He fled, not wait-' wait-' loi: to be tired Or.c of the nicest stories ever told ' about Hollywood has ns its hero the late taoviT Jones, author of many a j successful movie scenario. Some years m:o be and bis wife, iwho were childless, went to The j .'iadli in Ohicago. to adept one. l'l'.e superintendent shewed them 1 hundreds of babies. "How about that one"" asked Jones, pomiing to a child with eiosse,t eves. "Thnt poor baby," s.ii,) the superintendent, super-intendent, "lie's been here longer tlin any of the othcts. Nobodv wants bun." "We'll take him." said Jones Today the child, nfler being g.y. en cveiy advantage of luci.eal tiealment, is stnugM rved. An J lluee yeais ai:o (he Joneses tud little girl of their own. the popularity of a rmtl,, program nil be Jinked .v II, ( ,!,-, tat Ins, or by (lie ,,,1,-r II, UeU t li bread, asl, ,i hig. Ihei 'rr not .op povod lo be ,.,l. t, ,,,,., bin Iheie l a well ..igaiii.ed ti,.i,,i f ileal, polile niiiig no o w li ,, people going Ini,, II,,. broad, a( li Hu ll evil a Hi ket,. e si i 1 1, v- "Musieal meil, an" Is now ,,, lop laid,, I,(KS will, (,. ,!., renulat, (.poiwoieil shows; t j, t, cl bring end. 1 i, Uel lo !,, caiiliil'a liisl .to:(l,a( bioiithl , til go Sell |
