Evening star., 1934-12-07

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illuminated with talented screen play
erS whom you may or may not know,
it may not be amiSs to remind you
what has happened during the past
season and why this list seems slightly
cockeyed. Louise Beaver, for instance,
few months ago, was merely husky,
duSky maid of all work, featured in
any film which needed coal-black
charmer in the pantry or kitchen. Joe
Penner was wrestling with his duck"
propaganda on vaudeville stages and
over a vastly appreCiative air" Francis
Lederer was playing Autumn Crocus"
to pleasantly surprised San Francisco
audiences. Loretta Young had skipped
away from Warner Bros. and was
awaiting a new career as a free-lance
player Aud Dick Powell was wishing
that they would let him act as well
as something which the Warner
Bros. allow him to do in Filtration
Walk"
The signs for these players being all
Tor the better, it seems logical to sup
pose that others will have prosperous
new season. Thus we hope for some
thing better than The Painted Veil"
for Garbo-something M-G-M ap-
parently has if it does right by Anna
Karenina." We hope that Katherine
Hepburn will knock them for a row in
THE Little Minister"-a deed which
should calm those Barrie fanatics who
have already begun to write in and
say that Miss Hepburn cannot possibly
do the Minister" justice.
We hope that the RK-O color
production of Becky Sharp" (Which
Dickens did not write) will make
all other studios experiment with
color until they have a process that
is right. We hope that Alice Brady
will be given the role she deserves,
and that Jean Harlow will no longer
be banned from England. We hope
that the public will not allow Bebe
Daniels and Ben Lyon to slip from
under their noses, and that "Ro-
berta" will be as good as The Gay
Divorce" thus putting Fred Astaire
in the winner class. We hope that
Norma Shearer will stop breathing
so loudly in all her pictures, and
that some one will come along and
throw Katharine Cornell in film
production of her Broadway venture
of Romeo and Juliet" We hope
that Rochelle Hudson (now in "Imi-
tation of Life'D will be given a
further opportunity to prove that
she IS a young actress who has
great possibilities and that more
people will &c and see Tarzan.
We hope that the LuntS will do
another film and that Noel Coward
will write it. We hope that the
Marx brothers will stop hiding away
in Manhattan and will continue to
be as crazy as they always have been
and are. We hope that Paul MUM
will crash through with a really great
film, something which he hasn't been
allowed to do since he immortalized
that chain-gang saga, and that Bar
bara Stanwyck will not try to do
another Lost Lady"
We hope that Bob Montgomery will
lind another "Hideout" and when he
does that he sees to it that it gets a
better name. We hope that Ketti
Gall1an will not play again in Marie
Gallante" and that Tallulah Bankhead
will return to the films in something
that doesn't smack of an infirmary
We hope that Jesse Lasky makes
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it on another production, such as ZOO
in Budapest" and that Director Van
Dyke isn't having too much of a head
ache with censor trouble in his For
saking All Others" We hope that
Joan Crawford will not do another
Chained" and that Una Merkel will
one of these days be starred in her
own right.
We hope that only very few people
see Student Tour and that M.-G.-M
films a musical" which is really
worthy of M.-G.-M. We hope that
Johnny Arledge gets another role as
good as the one he has in Filtration
Walk" and that Mae West will not do
another Belle of the Nineties." We
hope that Marion Davies does a version
of "The Barretts of Wimpole Street"
just to get it out of her system, and
that Busby Berkeley arranges a dance