Evening star., 1939-06-01

(AriZon na), to- Shelah Graham.
which the real life toughieS of Dodge
City migrated after the cleanup of
the latter After Tombstone. the
same cast will move further west
ward yet. for City of the Angels"
which glorifies the cleaning up of
our own fair city.
Elisabeth Bergner has killed the
goose about to lay her a golden egg.
She will not appear in We Are Not
Alone" and all because she wanted
100000 for the picture; sole star
billing (above Paul Numb; an ad-
vance script to be sent to her in
England-and after her 'okay" there
must be no changes. And, as l told
you last week, there was the final
clause of job for her husband .
Hey, Elisabeth, are you sure you
haven't forgotten something?
X X X X
Paulette Goddard will have to
wait for her picture in England until
she has finished her chorus girl role
in The Women" In this we see
Paulette and Rosalind Russell in a
hair-pulling contest. Should be fun
for us . :. A new film team-Frank
Morgan and Virginia Weidler! First
picture for the couple is Henry Goes
to Arizona" about ham Vaude-
william who inherits a ranch =.
Warmers are hoping to get Jean
Arthur and James Stewart for the
Louis Bromfield story, And 1t All
Came True" but first Jimmy must
make The Man From Montana" for
Universal, not to. mention several
opuses awaiting him at Metro. And
Miss Arthur will make Arizona" for
Columbia . . John Payne is in the
news again with the lead in Kid
Nightgale," about a boxer who can
sing. 1t wouldn't be a copy-cat ver-
sion of Golden Boy" which is about
boxer who can play the fiddle,
would it?
If The Patent Leather Kid" Is
remade. George Raft, and not John
Garfield, will be starred in the for
mer Richard Barthelmess vehicle
3. by the way, since Dicks great
success in only Angels Have Wings -
he has been deluged with picture
offers. He will make an announce
ment soon regarding his future pic
ture plans. Raft, incidentally, will
go to Fox for Dance With the
Devil" The music for Stanley
and Livingstone will set Daryl
zanuck back $125,OO0. But don't
get him wrong, this is not a musi-
cal. The money is being spent to
get authentic African music as a
sort of background commentary . .
Thomas Mitchell, one of the better
actors here, supports Ronald Col
man and Ida Lupino in The Light
That Failed"
Ann Todd, the cute youngster who
played Herbert Marshall's daughter
in "zaza," will play Edna Bests
daughter in "Intermezzo," which
makes it almost legal when you con-
slider that Marshall and Miss Best
are still husband and wife in real
life g.. Freddie Bartholomew says
he is not worrying over Metros de-
clsion to drop him from star to
featured billing. Just as long as I
do a good job. that's all that mat
ters,' says Freddie. who will have
enough money saved by the end of
this year to live moderately and
| comfortably for life-barring further
lawsuits. of course.
Warmers will purify the Dead End
Kids" with angels Wash Their
Faces" which I think is very inept
title. Robert Benchley is cur
rently making How to Avoid Being
Stung by Bee" :. . Tim Holt, son
of Jack, gets his biggest break to
date with the lead opposite Ginger
Rogers in Fifth Avenue Girl" .
Ann Sheridan has been PACED for
feminine top spot with James Gag
ney in THE World Moves On"
Sam Goldwyn has had such bad
luck lately with some Of his high
priced authors that he is turning to
musicians in hopes they will be less
disappointing He has already had
Jascha Heifetz in Music School
and he is now trying to sign Rach-