Evening star., 1943-03-14
HOLLYWOOD

1oLI WoOD.
Filmland's not too personal
affairs:
A change in academy award plans
looms certain for next year. Last
weeks long -winded, dreary festivi-
ties are still the topic for unfavor-
able discussion around the lots.
Many advance a suggestion that the
academy turn over all plans for the
dinner to board of expert theater
men. It's sad commentary on the
No. show business that it falters
so woefully when it comes to putting
on its own show Deanna Durbin
will have Is changes of costume in
her next picture, Hers to Hold"
Fourteen of them are to be designed
by Adrian. The 18th will be the
Official WPB war workers jumper . i.
Happy marriage dept: The Neil
Hamiltons che was the sleek hand
some of late silent days. are cele-
brating their Goth anniversary. And
Neil, like so many of the other old
time leads, is ee-deep in a come
back-Via RKO :. Those jungle
elephant pictures might just as
we'll fold up for the duration: Sabu
has just been reclassif1ed la.
Another casting surprise finds
sophisticated, well-tailored Herbert
Marshall playing tweedy, old COL
lege professor in faculty row. at
MGM. In one scene. Marshall, one
OF Hollywood's most dignified. un-
bending actors, does lively Utter
bug number. Later he goes on a
binge and with hair tumbling over
his eyes joins an orchestra to pull
at a bull fiddle, Marshall apparently
has no taste for the role. but he's
doing what he's told This will
probably be my finish" he COM
mented sourly.
mo Escape From 'Dood It."
Red Shelton comes up with a
smart idea for army camp enter
tainment. He's authored book Of
Jokes, gag routines, skits, etc. which
is planned to make any rookie an
accomplished "emcee." Red has
titled it You Can Dood 1t" and
will furnish copies to individual
servicemen or camps on request
that is when Uncle Sam has off,
cially okayed 1t Albert Coates,
famed European symphony conduc-
tor, received nerve-tingling intro
duction to the ways of movie-mak-
ing this week While scoring a
Tschaikowsky number for Russia"
on a big MGM sound stage, lamp
high in the rafters broke loose and
dropped onto the podium. It missed
the conductor by just few inches.
Dr.. Coates pulled himself together,
peered up and said, "Ah. critic,
eh?" Bonita Granville will
come back from two months of per-
sonal appearances as the biggest
star on the RKO lot. Since her de-
parture to tour with "Hitlers Chill
dren," the picture has piled up such
staggering crosses that exhibitors
are demanding Granville starring
pictures at once. Almost yesterday
Bonita was a comparative Holly
wood nonentity.
Most generous gesture ever dis
played by an Academy award-win-
ming star was contained in page
ad taken by James Cagney in Holly
wood Daily Variety. following his
''best actor" triumph for Yankee
Doodle Dandy"
In potent little paragraphs Cagney
lauded each person Importantly con-
nected with the project behind the
scenes, winding up with this splen-
did tribute to his brother:
Il take great pride-family pride"
in the fact that the producer of
the picture was my brother, Will
liam Cagney. Bill conceived the
story of George M. Cohan for ME
and produced an entertaining pic
ture to remind all Americans that
we are not ashamed to be patriotic
and loyal to our flag"
You'd have to scratch HOLLYWOOD
UP and down to find a nicer pair of
fellows than Jim and Bill Cagney.
What Need Cosmetics.
It's an old paradox that the bus
drivers wife rides street cars, the
butchers wife is vegetarian, the
furrier's wife wears cloth coats and
the shoemaker's wife has holes in