The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-09
f By HARLOW CHURCH NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA service Stan correspondent
 (Second of three stories)
 Hollywood, Jan. = With the consent of the customers - and the censors, of course Hollywood seems about to launch new era of glamor.
 Many of the new films of 1943 will be jammed with charm and eye appeal. Besides the bumper crop of musicals, dozens of pie lures will have predominantely feminine casts. And even the melodrainas of front-line fighting are being literally garnished with beautiful nurses, ravishing ref- ugees and alluring natives, with cabaret cuties for the furloueh sequences. ..
 Tie competition in the glamor department is going to be terrific, for fin addition to the undiminish- ed list of established actresses, hundreds of new faces and legs and curves will be battling for notice on the screen. .,.4s.,s,,.-, GALS AND MORE GALS .. .. ,.,
 One studio alone, RKO, has seven pictures such as Govern nlent Girl" Pretty Girl" "Prod- igal Women" and "Queens of BurlesqueP e-- prepared to make the best of the actor shortage and the sover-suppIy of actresses. Other films on neighboring lots will deal with girls in war plants, wives at Navy. bases, lady harvesters, female test pilots, and all the Wornen's ur1i- formed services. @.
 The gals are even moving in on, the realm of sagebrush and six guns. Jennifer Holt, daughter of Jack and sister of Tim, is about to be featured by Universal as the new queen of the westerns. And Ona Munson, who played brothel keepers ia "Gone With the Wind" and "The Shanghai Gesture, soon is to emerge at Republic as she nance in horse opera. &
 While fans are the only star makers, expert opinion here is that four young actresses are most likely to be accepted as new stars in 1943. They are Janet Blair, Susan Peters, Alexis Smith and Betty Hutton. Three already have been hailed prematurely by their ballyhoo experts as top-flight play CTS, but they also are justifying the praise. Miss Blair, for instance, IS a former band canary who was cat apulted into the title role of My Sister Eileen. Before that comedy even reached the cutting room, she was rushed into a co-starring, sing ing and dancing role in Something to Shout About. She'll certainly achieve top billing during the new year. ALEXIS IS NEW STAR
 Tall. blond Alexis Smith first drew raves in "Dive Bomber" with a tiny part which nevertheless was the feminine lead. She drew much more substantial assignments in "Gentleman Jim" and "The Adven- lures of Mark Twain. and now real stardom is in sight.
 With little experience and not even a screen test. Susan Peters, born Canadian, went into a major role iii Raudom Harvest" now has clinched her local acclaim with c better part in Assignment in Brittany"
 Betty Hutton. another blond and another band singer. fits into none of Hollywood's stellar ca tegories but may establish her own. She has 8 block-buster per- sonallty and her first top role is in star spangled Rhythm"
 The enlistment ban and the 3s' year age draft limit will keep most of the remaining male stars and leading men on the screen. But Q shortage still exists, and dozens of unknowns are sure to appear -- and probably disappear into uniform before the year is out.
 EEER0Es. EXTRAS SCARCE
 The draft permitting. Alan Ladd. the biggest And of i042. should con. tinue climbing toward the Cooper