Evening star., 1943-12-22
They Will Pounce
Upon Gary, But
Gary Won't Mind
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

When Gary Cooper returns from
his entertainment tour of the South
Pacific, he'll find an imposing array
of producers laying for him with
offers. At least dozen pictures
have been announced as Cooper
vehicles among them, c. B.
DeMilles "Rurales," Sam Woods
"Jubal Troop" Jesse Lasky's will
Rogers Winfield Sheenan's Rick
enbacker: Story of an American"
and William Goetz's Casanova Q.
Brown"
However, it's extremely doubtful
II he'll appear in any of those
named. just before he left for the
Far East, Cooper told us that De-
Miles The Story of DR.. Wassell"
would mark his last appearance in
large-scale production for some
time. Furthermore, he wanted to
get few more comedies under his
belt. His material recently, he be-
lieves, has been too heavy and he
also feels the need of more rapid
turnover to keep his name before
the public.
Out of seven pictures in three
years, Gary has made only one
comedy. Ball of Fire" All others
have been of the epic type. For
the sake of variety and to keep from
being typed, he thinks it's important
that his next be comedy.
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Warner Bros. believe they have
new child wonder in 10-year-old
Sylvia Arslan, born in Los Angeles
and picked for tear-jerking scene
in Bette Davis current film, Mr..
Skeffngton." Seems the youngster
did her stuff with SO much power
that the cast and crew were over
whelmed. Director Vincent Sher-
man told us about 1t, as follows:
Sylvia plays the daughter of
Bette and Claude Rains. The father
and mother have separated. This is
the last night the child will have
with her father, unless she can pre-
vail on him to take her under his
care. That is the situation
"As Sylvia read her lines I realized
suddenly that was crying, My voice
became so choked I couldn't say cut
for moment or so. Then 1 looked
around. The cameraman. the script
clerk, the still man, the grips, all
had tears in their eyes After the
scene was finished every one burst
into applause as sincere as any I
have ever heard in theater.
This youngster not only will be
q great actress some day-she is
great, natural actress right now"
A new version of the gateman-
not-recognizing -the-star had Ronald
Colman for its victim last week. For
years Colman's secretary, Tommy
Turner, has driven his car for him.
One day last week, however, Turner
was i'll and Colman had to drive
himself out to his "Kismet" assign
ment at MGM.
Up to the main gate drove Col
man, to be rudely informed by the
policeman that there was no pass
for his car. He would have to park
it off the lot.
Il don't know what arrangements
Tommy Turner made" began Col
man, "but he always drove right in
and :"
"Oh," interrupted the cop, "if
you're friend Of Tommy's 60 right
ahead"
X X X
Eadie Hubener, hairdreSser at
MGM, is lowering daily around stage
30, where the elaborate water ballet
is in progress for Mr.. Coed"
Il check this place every day." said
Miss Hubener, because I want to
be right on hand when the pool is
emptied. I'm going to do bit of
salvage work"
Her object is to collect all the
precious priority hairpins lost by
the aquabelles during the process of
production. Miss Hubener estimates
somewhere between 1000 and 1900
pins have gone to the bottom.
(Releassd By the North American
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