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Show ; n&AJ Looking at HOLLYWOOD rO a small group in Hollywood the year 1945 means the begin-ilng begin-ilng of fame; for movieland, already al-ready jammed with stars, is plan-jing plan-jing to feature some new names in jig lights during the coming year, j There will be many surprises not in the cards at present, but from I inhere I sit on the side lines these ire the stars you'll hear from in a jig way during the coming year: Bill Eythe, at 20th, landed smack n the lap of Lady Luck. This means that the lad from ,. Mars, Pa., un- JffSfr . i ta0wn to movies - i-jA ', two years ago. ;. & A 1 j wlU be right up .: V JT I st the top in the I cast of charac- , $ ' I ters. Eythe s high . . Cttyp Lb h V Bill Eythe pressure person- alily won him the :v- . ? lead opposite Tal-'ft&ft Tal-'ft&ft lulah Bankhcad satl in "Royal Scan-j&-.'1 dal... when Pro-Lauren Pro-Lauren Bacall ducer Lubitsch saw the rushes he said, "Eythe Is the greatest star material I've run into in 20 years.". So they rushed Eythe into the lead in "Colonel Effingham's Raid." Watch his' dust in 1945. That Uncertain Something Lauren Bacall, that glamorous menace whose pussy willow face and half-mast eyes are her trademark, is familiar to every magazine reader, read-er, although she's appeared in only one picture, "To Have and Have Not," with Humphrey Bogart. So what? Warners sent her right back into double harness again with Bogie in 'The Big Sleep." She's decorative and provocative. Quite a different type is Universal Univer-sal Ella Raines. A girl with clean blue eyes and a well washed look. You saw her in "The Invisible Lady" with Franchot Tone, and again with Eddie Bracken in "The Conquering Hero." But "Tall in the Saddle," with John Wayne, really got 'em. Moody Gail Russell is Para-mount's Para-mount's ace find of the last year. Dark, mossy soft hair, eyes full of dreams, and a trick of projecting project-ing the Intangible put Gail Russell Rus-sell into a class by herself. She's v&luable, and proved it in "The Uninvited." Un-invited." Home Town Boy Type When Metro found Van Johnson they hit a rich vein of talent ore. Metro has a second Van Johnson in Tom Drake, a dark type with the same direct, homey appeal. He'll ' make the register ring at the box office. Faye Emerson has had all along what it takes to make a young star. Already she's been stepped into the lead role in "Happiness," and if she wants to keep on making pictures pic-tures she's set. Faye has real talent tal-ent as an actress, but it took a marriage to a Roosevelt to make Warners recognize it. You might keep your eye also on red - haired Lucille Bremer, M-G-M's most promising young dancer. She gets star billing in "Ziegfeld Follies." Then there's Metro's Met-ro's Gloria Dc Haven, hailed by the GI Joe as just what the doctor ordered or-dered for a soldier with the blues. Twentieth's June Haver has danced her way into star roles after 18 months' experience on the screen. Of June Allyson, another Metro baby, you might say "once seen, never forgotten." "Destination Tokyo" gave us three boys that hit the popularity target dead center James Craig, Bob Hut-ton, Hut-ton, and Dane Clark. Craig has some of the quality that put Clark Gable among our fabulous few. Hutton is a sort of composite Jimmy Stewart and Bob Walker, and Dane Clark is a natural. Never Too Young Peggy Ann Garner was the child prodigy of 1944. But Elizabeth Taylor will be in 1945. Remember "Lassie Come Home" and "White Cliffs of Dover," and a little girl with black hair and sooty Irish eyes? She played a scene with Roddy Rod-dy McDowall that made the big boys sit up and take notice. In "National Velvet" Elizabeth Taylor rides right Into your heart. You'll simply love her. You can shout and scream about the great discoveries of the year, but for my money Bob Walker tops 'em all. He has the homey, shy, sweet boyishness of your own son. The year 1945 should be a lucky and a happy one for these Hollywood Holly-wood stars. o GirZ Turn the Tables Six Goldwyn girls had so much confidence in Allan Dodd, former collegiate wrestler from Tulsa, Okla., and recently discharged from the army, that they signed him up. He had no agent, nor Influence, didn't know where his next Job waa coming from. Now Frank Ross and Mervyn Lcroy are going to use him to "The Robe," and if he clicks they will add another contract to the irU'. I'm told he's definitely dreamy and strictly swoon stuff and the picture they sent me proves it |