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Show By VIRGINIA VALE Releasd by Western Newspaper Union.) HOW would you like to be introduced to a pretty girl and, two minutes, later have to throw a glass of water into her face? Barry Nelson knows how it feels to do exactly exact-ly that. The girl was Laraine Day; Nelson, discovered by Metro on the University of California campus, had to throw the water because William Seitz, directing direct-ing "China Caravan," liked the idea. Nelson wants to play tough roles; according to Spencer Tracy, he's a "sterling actor," so he should be able to. The role in "China Caravan" Cara-van" is his fourth in pictures, bul throwing that water was almost too much for him; he'd rather be tough some other way! Ann Sheridan and Madeleine Car-Toll Car-Toll probably didn't know it, but fol three weeks they ran neck and neck i. with Lana Turner in an election. The boys at Forts Hancock and Til- den were voting to choose "The Sweetheart of Harbor Defenses." Lana won the title. ' If Joan Fontaine needed to . make sure of her laurels as an actress, she's certainly accomplished it in "Susipicion," the new Alfred Hitchcock Hitch-cock thriller. Her performance is ft , , 1 . V " ' ' t V: JOAN FONTAINE superb. RKO provided an excellent cast, which includes Cary Grant, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Dame May Whit-ty, Whit-ty, Nigel Bruce and Heather Angel. You can see what an actress Miss Fontaine is, to stand out in such a cast. Clyde Cook, who has a bit part In "Suspicion," directed Hitchcock in an English film in the days before the mystery director won his spurs. Incidentally, if you read that thriller, thrill-er, "Before the Fact," don't expect this picture version to resemble it too closely. "I guess the hair-dresser just doesn't like Joan Crawford," remarked re-marked a friend of mine after seeing see-ing "When Ladies Meet." "And maybe the costume designer felt the same way," she added. Certainly Greer Garson's hair was more becomingly be-comingly done, and Iter clothes were prettier than Miss Crawford's. Bul faair-do's and clothes must be an old story to the Crawford girl, who could five a good performance if she had to wfar a sue-ar sack and have her hair shaved tight to her head. Robert Rob-ert Taylor ought to make new friends in this one, too. Rosalind Russell and her bridegroom bride-groom drove to New Orleans after their marriage, went by boat to Cuba, flew to Jacksonville and took a train to New York. After a briei stay there she had to rush back to Hollywood for wardrobe tests for "Take a Letter, Darling," in which she plays a bachelor girl. Frances Farmer, who's been co-starring with Tyrone Power in ' 'Son ol Fury," is cast as her rival. rtr Richard Arlen wants to go to China to make a picture, when he finishes "Wildcat," which he's to start about the first of the year. Says it would take about three months to shoot exteriors there, then the troupe would come home to make the rest of It. OA miniature Big Town has been built by a New Orleans man who visualized the imaginary city after listening to Edward G. Robinson's CBS show, which has been on the air for four years; he wants to giva it to Robinson, who hesitates he'd : need a special building to house it. j ODDS AMD EDS Herbert Marshall became an actttr because he couldn't add or subtract readily enough to hold a position as a clerk . . . Ilay-mond Gram Siting's vacation begins Christmas Christ-mas . . . Jerry Colonnat Allan Jones and a few buddies have the difficult task of concealing the fact that Judy Canova is a stotcatoay in their army camp in ''True to the Army" . . . Columbia Co-lumbia may finally screen its long-postponed "Life of Chopin," tcith Glenn Ford s the composer . . . The famous "Thin Man" is Hearing thinner than rer, yet Shadmo of the Thin Man" is amusing. |
