Show star ast dragt k scarlett at last k daddy of sound k delayed honeymoon by virginia vale HE announcement that anorma THE norma shearer will play scarlett ohara in gone with the wind stirred up a tempest in a teapot 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 declare the miriam hopkins supporters ashes too sweet and mild wail the people who wanted bette davis to have the part but nob odys complaining because clark gable is to play rhett butler that role was made for him from the begir beginning ining robert taylors new york fans were numerous but not unruly when lie he spent a short vacation in the city recently this time he managed to arrive and leave places without hav ak A ROBERT TAYLOR ing his shirt or his shoes torn off no strange girls were discovered discovered hidden in his suite at the hotel waiting for autographs fans just gathered in crowds outside his hotel 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 them furthermore he did what few movie stars do came out and said quite frankly that it if the fans gather to see him hed know that h he e was slipping i 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 a 1896 and 1900 but the patents expired before he could get backing he died penniless and blind at the age of eighty three richard cromwell has learned to expect practical jokes in the movie studios where hes worked but he 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 re a phone call one day recently 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 chos also in the serial was responsible the don were married six years ago and at the time don promised his wife E a honeymoon in europe T they h e y started on it just after don finished his last broadcast of the current season july 3 flew from hollywood t 0 new york and set sail on the queen mary and planned a honeymoon don ameche worth waiting six years for ODDS AND ENDS walter has w announced that hes through with difficult actresses hes let sylvia sidney and nd Al madeleine adeleine carroll go and is groo groom ing louise platt for stardom lit in tile the lady lay and the cowboy david niven will play opposite merle oberon to whom his engagement was reported r a year or so ago i faybe just for publicity purposes iss oberon incidentally has a grand chece for dressing simply and well sweaters ftc enter and skirts shirts for daytime white eve dozens gowns of at night she buys them by the A 0 western newspaper union |