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Show stagescreenMdio Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE IT'S the women who rule the box-office destiny of the movies, according to Hunt Stromberg, who's been making mak-ing good movies for years, and now has his own producing company. Women form a large part of the audience, says he, and also determine to what movies their men shall take them. Not that he ignores the males in his appeal to the public! "Young Widow," Wid-ow," costarring Jane RusseD and Louis Hayward, is intended to entertain en-tertain both sexes. But Stromberg likes feminine titles "Dishonored Lady" is on his list, and "Strange Woman," and his first independent picture was "Lady of Burlesque." And credit him with giving Joan Crawford, Myrna Loy and Rosalind Russell a big push toward stardom. Lovely Constance Moore, the screen star, has been given the leading - lady role of the sleuthing secretary to "Jim Lawton" in I TV CONSTANCE MOORE "Hollywood Mystery Time," Sundays Sun-days over the American network. Dennis O'Keefe plays "Lawton," a mystery-solving movie producer. Ethel Barrymore is definitely committed to making pictures now that she has signed a contract with David O. Selznick's Vanguard company. com-pany. She'll make four pictures in four years. The first will be "Some Must Watch," a mystery by Ethel Lina White, in which she will be starred with Dorothy McGuire. Her most recent picture is "None But the Lonely Heart," made for RKO last season. A honeymoon and the start of a new radio series make this an eventful event-ful summer for Carol Bruce. Carol met her bridegroom when she was filling a hotel engagement in Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, and It was love at first sight. As for the radio program, listeners lis-teners have fallen in love with it. Carol and Curt Massey are replacing replac-ing the Andrews Sisters for the summer, in "Sunday at the N-K Ranch," on the American network. Vera-Ellen, Samuel Goldwyn's "find" who makes her screen debut in "Wonder Man," the hilarious Danny Kaye musical, was once a Rockette at New York's Radio City Music Hall. She went to New York as a delegate to the Dancing Masters Mas-ters of America convention, and just stayed. Virginia Mayo might still be playing play-ing ringmistress for a horse of which her brother-in-law was playing play-ing the rear legs if Goldwyn hadn't caught the act at a night club and given her a contract. It was the "Pansy the Horse Act." Virginia's featured in "Wonder Man." When Lt. Col. James Stewart, USAAF, returns to America he'll get a jolt when he hears Dick Nelson Nel-son In the cast of CBS's "Men of Vision." Nelson's voice is a perfect ether double for Stewart's and Nelson even looks like the famous movie star. Many a girl and boy went to Hollywood Hol-lywood in the days of silent films, planning to start as an extra and zoom to stardom. In all those years, only 15 top stars came from the extras' ranks: Gary Cooper, Janet Gaynor, Fay Wray, Charles Far-rell, Far-rell, Richard Arlen, Norma Tal-madge, Tal-madge, Clark Gable, Carol Lombard, Lom-bard, Ramon Navarro and Joan Crawford among them. Only Cooper, Coop-er, Gable, Arlen and Miss Crawford are still reigning. "Others may be used to star billing," bill-ing," remarked Arthur Loft, the character actor, "but I'm becoming becom-ing accustomed to wearing my star on my chest." He plays his third sheriff role in "Along Came Jones," starring Gary Cooper and Loretta Young. ODDS AND ENDS Monty Woolley sinus "Aixs Otis Regrets" in Warner Bros.' "Nitthl and Day" the musical based. on the life of Cole I'orter. . . . Norm flerens of the airs "By Request" show has written a ionft in coliahora-lion coliahora-lion with Dorothy i,amour; he may sinK it on the. screen one of these days. ! . . . Following her hit as the fiery-tempered fiery-tempered Latin in "Week-End at th( W uldorf" l.ina Romay has been re warded with her second straight dramatic dra-matic role, as the girZ Gable loves and leaves in "7 he Strange Adv nture." . . . Bill Caraan is a busy char these days. IT hen through at Republic, he dashei to Paramount lor "Hot Cargo."1 |