f Fook ve ve oe oe oe oe oe oo ok ok ok ee ok STAR DUST Movie + Radio %%% By VIRGINIA VALE xa% 320 20 20 20 2 20 2 2 2 2 2 220 20 20 2 2 20 20 2 2 2 2% EN word went around the | Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer studio the other day that Lea- trice Joy Gilbert, thirteen-year- old daughter of Leatrice Joy and the late John Gilbert, was making a film test, there was more craning of necks there is even for Garbo. If good wishes could make good the greatest of all. Back in the was shed as seamstresses who had dressed her mother and her father sewed on her costume, and camera- men who had been devoted to her father begged for the chance to photograph her. For a long time the studio has owned film rights to “National Velvet,” but couldn’t find a girl who was both young and ap- pealing enough to play the heroine. Everyone hopes that little Leatrice will be chosen. meen Yh ums Hot weather in Hollywood so in- tense that the closed-in sets of sound studios are like fur- naces seems to have a calming effect on temperament and nerves. Ginger Rog- ers and Katherine Hepburn sit togeth- er at the edge of the “Stage Door’ set at RKO studio, calmly sipping tea and dis- cussing the day's news. At Twentieth Century - Fox, Vir- ginia Bruce and Loretta Young swap theories on child-raising. At Colum- bia, the staff is daily more amazed to find Grace Moore agreeing whole- heartedly with every suggestion the director makes. Incidentally, John Ford has an effective way of squelching actors who want to play scenes their way instead of taking his direction. If an actor grows ar- gumentative, he lets him go ahead and play the scene his way. Then ke rips the film out of the camera, hands it to the stubborn thespian and says, ‘“You can have it. No one else would want to see it.” an Ginger Rogers The daffiest picture of the week is REKO's “Super Sleuth.” You couldn't find better hot-weather en- tertainment anywhere. Jack Oakie provides the laughs, expertly aided by Ann Sothern, but it is the story that really deserves loud cheers. 1 don’t want to spoil it for you Wy telling too much, but you wen't mind knowing that it is the story of a movie star who specializes in de- tective roles. aan Ann Sothern’s career, in the dol- drums lately because of second- rate pictures, has suddenly picked up and no one is happier than her close friend, Joan Bennett. If you eard Ann spouting Shakespeare on that best of all summer programs, Charlie McCarthy aided and abetted by Edgar Bergen, you know that she has a sense of comedy that should put her up in the front ranks of high comedy with Claudette Colbert and Carole Lombard. wns I cnn When Sonja Henie decided to go to Norway for a vacation a big fare- well luncheon was planned for her by Tyrone Power. That seemed like a charming idea when it was planned and the invitations sent out, but in the mean- time Sonja and Ty- rone had a squabble and weren't speak- ing. They carefully selected tables at opposite ends of the Sonja Heine studio lunchroom and avoided speaking to each other. Hollywood has often giggled over parties where none of the guests were interested in meeting the guest of honor, but this was the first time on record when the host and the guest of honor weren't speaking. His attentions to Janet Gaynor and Lor- etta Young are supposed to have caused it. Ep We ODDS AND ENDS—Officials at NBL who discovered Doris Weston and called Warner Brothers’ attention to her are de- lighted with her performance in “The Singing Marine,” say she is the only girl who looks intelligent while listening to other players sing . . . Ben Bernie is at tending dramatic school in hopes of out smarting Walter Winchell in their next film . . . Joan Crawford will star in the re-malke of that grandest of all film stories, « “Shopworn Angel,” which Nancy Carroll once made . .. Ray Milland has been given Claudette Colbert's former dressing room and his friends are kidding him unmerci- fully about his flossy sur ings, walls of blue mirror glass, white dressing table, and thick, thick rugs . . . Whenever actors insist that they just can’t do justice to more than two pictures a year, producers remind them that Gene Autry is the big. est attraction in pictures nowadays, partly ccuuse he is so good, partly because he makes so many pictures that audiences have no chance to forget him. © Western Newspaper Union AY DURING midsummer when a