Evening star., 1942-09-02
Diana Barrymore Almost
Struck Out, Then She Hit 1t
Ingenue Registers Solidly as
Screen Light Coincidence,
Asking Price Goes Soaring

faint idea of the ballyhoo situation
| in Southern California. MGM
has bought an original story .titlee
IF I Had Four Tires" Spirited
bidding by two other studios brought
the price up to s35,000 After
debatable performance in Eagle
Squadron, Hollywood was ready tc
pack Johns daughter Diana of
to oblivion. But she came back with
loud retort the other night when
Between Us Girls" was previewed
being unveiled as the comedienne
sensation of the year. After the
showing Warner Brothers attempted
to borrow her from Walter Wanger
Sure" said Wanger, for a hundred
thousand"
George Montgomery has fallen
heir to the male star role in Down
to the Sea in Ships" Originally a
silent movie that brought fame to
Clara Bow (then a 17-year- old Goth
Century-Fox bought it year ago
as Tyrone Power vehicle and spent
a quarter of a million filming back
grounds in Mexican waters. Mont
gomery is the only male star Zan-
uck's studio can plan ahead for these
days. He has IA dependents. most of
them living with him in a house
only a few doors from where these
words are being written.
x X x i
Enrol Flynn, whose lung and heart
condition will keep him out of ac-
tive service, is negotiating with a
newspaper syndicate and may be-
come war correspondent immedi-
ately after his current assignment
Flynn has written couple of ad-
venture books and has been an IT,
regular magazine contributor.
Ida Lupino looks good on the
set of Life Begins at $780, That's
because she has put on Is pounds
since finishing Moon Tide" Miss
Lupino, who almost never sees a
moving picture. did manage to see
that one. 'I looked at myself and
felt that everybody in the audience
was pitying me-" she said. so /
went on a non-worry and milk diet.
First thing you know I'll be known
as the fat girl of Pico boulevard" I"
In Life Begins at $780," Ida por-
trays crippled girl and wears a
shoe on her left foot that is an
inch thicker on the sole than the
one on her right foot. This throws
her back out of kilter in some way
and necessitates the occasional serv-
ices of an osteopath to keep her
going.
Clark Cables father William is
an outstanding, modest fellow in his
mld-seventies, who lives in a small
Hollywood apartment. When he
heard about Clark ehlisting he tel
ephoned and said, Good boy! Give
it to 'em. I'll be right along with
you soon as can find a blind re-
cruiting officer" Gable senior, like
his son, hates sham and show. He
refused fatty to wear a tuxedo to
the Hollywood premiere of Gone
With the Wind" and sneaked in a
side entrance. We were on the set
OF "Honky Tonk" one day when
Pop Gable turned up. 1t was his
birthday and Clark had brought him
over for his first look at a moyte
being made. Director Jack Conway
said something about Clark being
quite a lad and the old. gent re-
marked, yes, he's been a good boy:
never was spoiled: never had money
enough when he was a kid"
In addition to assiduously fol-
lowing the comic strips to famil-
larlze herself with American slang,
Ingrid Bergman, Swedish born
dramatic star, is learning 10 play
poker. Her instructors are the
truck drivers on Paramount's "For
Whom the Bell Tolls location in
the high Sierras above Sonora
Calf. All the truck drivers rate
themselves as at least Phi. Ds in
cards. MGM is considering Mrs
Mickey Rooney for role in "Du-
barry Was Lady,. Linda Ware
VINO had flash start with Binp
~O"Sy 49, " pAIId1C TWO Years dgC
without getting follow-up bid. is
now touring the night clubs. She
is still a fine singer. l.. . Remember
the Nazi flyer whom Greer Carson
finally subdued in her kitchen for
one of the most gripping scenes in
Mrs. Miniver"? His name is Hell
NUT Dantine and he's meaner than
ever In Edge of Darkness" a Nazj
story. Heroine Nancy Coleman has
plenty OF bruises to prove he puts
real punch into his actions.
This Is the Army" is being Of
tered for the air. Army relief has
turned down two buyers because
they wanted to advertise beer
Monte Woolley, who stars in 1.-THE
Pled Piper" asked Bette Davis te
be IN his party at the HOLLYWOOD
premiere. And Bette answered
oh, yes-that's the picture little
Roddy Mcdowell is in. I'd love te
go"