Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-01-12

WALT DISNEY
nursery rhyme favorites-and in
nearly every instance the casting is
perfect.
Whenever he wants to, Reginald
Denny may visit at White Lodge,
which was the girlhood home Of
Queen Mary Of England, and where
the duke of Windsor was born. The
home of British royalty for 200
years, it is the house to which the
present king, when he was duke of
York, took his bride. White Lodge
has been leased by Mrs. Reynolds
Albertini, who is Denny's sister.
incidentally Barbara Denny,
daughter of the famous Reginald,
is getting to be a big girl now. She
is breaking into the movies by being
stand-in for Heather Angel.
Jack Hollis son is also getting
somewhere in pictures. RKO has
just signed him to long-term con-
tract. His most recent pictures are
Westerns, but he's not worrying
about being typed, as he did well
in such pictures as "Gold Is Where
You Find 1t" and "Stella Dallas"
before he took to the wild West.
1t begins to look as if Gary Cooper
would never escape from playing
historical characters, once he be-
gins. At present he's making 'The
Last Frontier" but before long he'll
be playing Abraham Lincoln; he's
had photographs made, in makeup,
and is delighted with the idea of
playing the Great Emancipator (and
should be better at it than the other
movie actors who will probably
tackle it).
Meanwhile General John, about to
write his autobiography, is said to
have stated that he'd like to see
Cooper in the role Of the hero if it
is screened. AS there is little, if
any, resemblance between them, it
must be that the General has al
ways longed to look like long-leg-
ged cowboy.
Lessons in government are to be
made easy if other producers fol-
low the example set by Warner
Brothers. They're starring Pat
O'Brien in a series of two-reelers
on "What the Constitution Means to
You"
You might put Nancy Kelly down
on your list Of youngsters who will
be tOp-nOtchers in the movies by
the time another year has passed.
She's set for the only good feminine
role in "Stanley and Livingstone"
lat least, that's what this film Of
Darkest Africa is called now, but
surely it will be changed) and as
that will be one of Twentieth Gen.
tury-FOx's big numbers of 1899, her
being chosen for the part is signifi-
cant.
Another young girl who is rapidly
carving out career for herself is
Jane Warren, whom you've heard
on the Rudy Vallee hour. Rudy likes
her voice-or she wouldn't be on the
program-but thinks that the most
amazing thing about her is the fact
that she had had only about Is
months of vocal instruction, and
practices only 80 minutes day.
Any boy could do well in school
if he had chances like this. Recently
Peter Van Steeden's young son had
to prepare lesson which included
some questions about Admiral Rich
ard E. Byrd. He went to his father
for help.
Cant help you," said Van Stee-
den Sr. "But Admiral Byrd is 60
ing to be on my For Men Only
program; come to the rehearsal
with me and you can ask him those
questions.
Young Van Steeden got the high
est mark in his class the following
day; now he's wishing that his ia
Their could introduce him to George
Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and
the man who invented mathematics.
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ODDS AND ENDS-Nn Wyn, CHS
songsress, is such ping pong en-.
thusiast that she's arranged t0urna.
ment, open only to girls ,Oho are con-
nected toith radio Neal Hopkins,
,oho iUrites MBS's "Tuo on Shoe.
string" says that an intelligent blind
person is the best critic radio author
can haze q. Hopkins knous; he used
to be in charge of production of record
ed classics for the blind Richard
Arlen's going to make sir pictures
year for Universal