Show star dust the bat again jane has preference k to the bitter end by virginia vale 1 I tto THE HE presidents son plans to give us a mystery picture made from one of the best mystery plays ever written as the first release of his globe productions its the bat by mary roberts rinehart and avery hopwood and has everything that a thriller should have it was filmed by mary Pick fords company in 1926 and done again as the bat whispers in 1931 norman foster will direct the new version hard on the heels ot of her scrap with ith warner brothers over her refusal to appear in married pretty and poor jane bryan showed the studio that she preferred to be married pretty and rich she announced her engagement to justin W dart who is general manager of a drug firm if you are devoted to the story the light that failed like the picture version which sticks to the original even to the unhappy ending if its ronald colman rather than the story chos response 91 1 11 1 p 4 Z X RONALD COLMAN ble f for or your interest in the picture enjoy it hugely for he gives an excellent performance so do walter huston dudley digges and ida lupino miss lupino has had a hard time of it in hollywood she was put into parts and kept there now that at last she had bad been given a chance to show what she could do with a real role she had made the most of it hers is rather like the one in of human bondage that established bette davis as a dramatic actress miss lupinos performance is good enough to do as much tor for her no longer can she be thought of as just one of those pretty blondes who are so numerous in the picture mak ing metropolis it if youre interested in the present activities of former radio favorites heres news of some of them jimmy melton is now known as james melton and is a concert singer morton downey wound up his surri summer engagement at the worlds fair and followed it with an equally successful one in a hollywood night club sam is making money by making recordings jessica Drag onnette makes occasional appearances on the air and when yo you u see Gul livers travels hear her voice vera van lean leah ray and annette henshaw hensha have r retired 1 I 1 ODDS AND ENDS the new york film critics picked Wu Wit heights as best picture Ws its a little more than twenty six years since cecil B demille samuel gold cold wyn and jesse lasky began filming the squaw man alan the first motion picture made in hollywood released by western newspaper union |