Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-04-06

Enemies"
TITLES Punctured Romance"
which was made more than 20 years
ago by Mack Sennett, will be shown
at the San Francisco and New York
Worlds fairs. Members of the cast
include Charles Chaplin, Mabel Nor
mand, Marie Dressler. Edgar Ken
needy, Chester Conklin and Slim
Summerville. Ann Sothern gets
the top role in Dark Dame" which
was once upon a time scheduled for
another blond-Jean Harlow. T..
Roland Young joins the cast of
Heaven On Shoestring" at Para
mount. Little Tommy Kelly
Remember him in Adventures of
Tom Sawyer?D gets a new career
start in Angels Making Music" the
title for the Sam Goldwyn epic star
ring Jascha Heifetz. Randolph
Scott will be a gentleman of the law
and John Carradine the usual villain
in Frontier Marshal"
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When Columbia remakes The
Front Page" you will see Cary Grant
in the role formerly portrayed by
Pat OBrien &. Donald Crisp adds
to his 999 roles with part in The
Real Glory" starring Gary Cooper
Ida Lupino is happy over her
part in The Light That Failed"
which gives her welcome re-entry
into picture making That old
Khyber Pass will appear in yet an
other NOVELETTE, Khyber Rifles
with Richard Greene and Victor
McLaglen . Edward G.. Robinson
gets The Life of DR.. Ehrlich," orig
inally on Paul Muni's schedule . =.
Johnny Apollo" stars Tyrone Pow
er All, now they're talking 6.
Rosalind Russell is shouting "Ho-
sannah" because Metro gave her the
second meanie role in The Wom-
en-" Joan Crawford has the first
Strange how all the incest movie
maidenS want to be vixens on the.
screen.
Every one is laughing at Barbara
Stanwycks inscription on the saddle
she recently presented to Robert
Taylor-"To my dear Bob. Because
you love horses-and I love you!"
'the exclamation mark is mine) =.
jeanette Macdonald is a tremen-
dous success on her concert tour,
beating the records set by her sing
ing partner. Nelson Eddy :. Merle
Oberon, who admits she is poor in
spite of her four figure weekly SAL
airy, made the financial mistake of
being domiciled in England as well
as the United States. which means.
Of course, she must pay income tax
to both countries. Madeleine Car
roll is much smarter. She has
turned down all offers to make pic
lures in England, or to own a house
there and so pays taxes only to this
country -. That big diamond ring
on the third finger of Annabella's
left hand was placed there by her
first husband-and not Tyrone
Power.
Unemployment note. Two thou
sand workers were put off the Metro
pay roll last week Production at
the moment is low. with lots of
distress among the lower pay
bracket of workers. Says Olivia
de Havilland, Warmers signed me
as an actress-then took four years
to forget it." David Niven,
who at one time or another has
escorted all the front ranking
glamour girls. received his first re-
fusal yesterday, when he asked Gin
ger Rogers for an evening date
L never go out when making a
picture" Ginger informed him. And
thus was stillborn beautiful pub
licity romance. David and Ginger
are currently co-starring in Little
Mother") Two things that
are taboo in conversation with
Dorothy Lamour-sarongs and ba-
bies-because Dorothy has had too
much of one and too little of the
other. This was the year she was
supposed to have taken time out
to be a mother)
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Douglas Fairbanks, jr., and Mar
lene Dietrich are spatting-Which
leaves Doug wide open for a pub
licity romance with Virginia Field,
with whom he has already been
linked by wide-awake studio pub
licists >. R-K-O Radio is sending
frantic messages to John Barry
more. He is wanted for two pic
lures. But Elaine Barrie has no
intention of allowing John to leave
New York until she has played a
leading part with him in a play.
Elaine's role in Midnight" can
best be described as flash" And
she believes that her only chance
in pictures is to make a success
first in a play.