Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-15
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cant beat Maria Montez, and
sometimes, I think yog can't even
tie her. The other day in New
York La Montez was being fcted
by a group of exhibitors.
Il want you boys 10 keep on
buying more and more Universal
Pictures. quothe the charmer
from the valley lot You want
Universal 70 get a lot Of credit,
don't YOU said one OF the boys.
NO said Maria, ! want a
raise
Such honesty deserves some KIND
OF reward, 20 while Maria con-
tlnues 10 prove Why gentlemen
prefer brunetteS on her merry tour
the boys back homo are readylng
her most torrid movie 20 date.
Raiders of the Desert rs N1e
opus in mind for her and Sahu. the
same duo who made Arabian
Nights And lest YOU get any
ideas that Marias obvious charms
viii be wasted IN war opus, let
me quickly explain that the movie
is closer 10 the story Of The
Sheik" than 10 anything happen
ing politically IN North Africa to-
day The only shots that will be
fired will be Maria in Silhouette.
AGAIN WITH BETTE
IT'S PAUL all right who will
play mir. Skeffington." hut not
Paul NUM-. The charming Paul
Henreid, whose "Now Noyager"
IL his best American perform
ance. will again support Bette
Davis. and between you and me
and no one else I liked him so
much better In that picture than
I did In "Casablancs," possibly
because Humphrey Bogart and
Ingrid Bergman are 50 vivid and
all important he has less OPP
portunity.
Paul was very pleasing, mind
you. but not as outstanding and
romanticslly attractive as he |
was In "Now Voyager."
IN MOTHERS STEPS
LEATRICE GILBERT (Mrs.
Francis Michael Carney, 10 you)
telephoned TO tell me that she is
signing term contract with
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Fitting
that Leatrice should go TO the
studio where her father, the late
Jack Gilbert, once reigned as king.
When Leatrice was Is years old
her mother. the former Leatrice
JOY, took her 10 that same studio
10 be tested for National Velvet"
but nothing came of it. Now she
is grown up-So grown UP that
she told me she is to be given
grownup roles similar to the ones
the late Lilyan Tashman used TO
play.
/ will he a clothes horse" she
said. land Irene will design
clothes for me- The bridegroom
OF young Leatrice is junior
reader in the M-G-M reading de-
partment.
CAREER WOMAN
THAT AMAZING woman,
Cobina Wright ST., who can al
ways he depended upon to do
the unexpected, Is making her
screen debut. She has been
signed by Producers Releasing
Corporation for danger, Women
at Work" for Mary Boland
type of character.
She goes before the camera
for the first time within the
next two weeks. Airline Judge,
Mabel Todd and Patsy Kelly are
also I'm the cast. Cobina Sr.'s
big moment Ii actually a we'll
known army man now overseas
and not Rex st. Cyr, who Is her
most frequent escort about town.
Cobina Wright Jr. IL In San
Francisco waiting until her hus-
hand, Palmer Beaudette, Is
ordered overseas.
CHATTER IN HOLLYWOOD
NO LESS than 20 pictures of
Brian Aherne encircling a pierced
red heart were draped around the
mirror in Joan Fontaine's dressing
room at Twentieth.
rs this to impress me ?" / asked
Joan who was giggling like a
school girl.
No" she said, Brian tele-
phcned he was coming 10 see me
so the proper boys thought IL would
be a joke 10 fix up my room in
valentine fashion with Mrs. Brian
Aherne on the door
Hwy tOlivia de Haviland) was
here earlier today" she told me-
land brought me first edition of
Jane Eyre II is so old that
Charlotte Bronte used the pen
nsne of Curra Bell. her early
nom de plume. All the Bronte
giils used the name Bell Emily
was Ellis Bell and Anne Acton
Bell"
4 LINE OR TWO
GUESS AGAIN IN you think
the studio wardrobe depart
ments are crying their eyes out
about the shoe rationing. When
the temperamental darIings,
who used 10 send shoes back
million times for just the
-"exnctn coior Of thrir gowns, try