Evening star., 1943-09-06
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.


Their not-too- personal affairs:
That famous three-way battle for
top honors in 80 Proudly We Hail"
Is now scored as dead heat. Pre-
viewed this week, the Mark Sand
rich production about nurses on
Bataan reveals Claudette Colbert
the best romancer, Paulette God
dard prize comedienne and
Veronica Lake superb as trage-
dienne-which keeps all three
happy. f.. Betty Cradle, who
rushed into print a few days ago
with news of an approaching heir,
rushes right back to say that
becoming a mother won't keep her
of the screen. She expects to make
two pictures a year regularly.
Carole Lands and her husband,
Capt. Thomas c. Wallace, who is
due in this country at any minute,
will visit his mother in Venice,
Fla. Comments from a recent
sneak preview of Cry Havoc" say
Diana Lewis, pint-sized wife of
William Powell, walks off with first
honoFs. Diana has other talents,
too. Shes just finished a secret
course in sculpturing and turned
up the other day with a bust of
her husband that he raves about.
One of the surprises in Gas
light" will be Ingrid Bergman's
singing. She puts over an opera
aria from Lucia" and THE Last
Rose of Summer. Unlike profess
sional warblers, she wants to wait
until after lunch to do her stuff.
Says she can't make the grade on
an empty stomach. William
Bendix autographs personally every
one of the several hundred fan
photos he sends out weekly.
Hard to believe but true-the
entirely correct and conservative
Mr.. Ronald Colman pulling eggs
out OF donkey's ear and flowers
out of his sleeve. That's part of
his routine in "Kismet." A bona
fide magician is tutoring Colman
in the fundamentals Joe f.
Brown is building much support
for his plan whereby all top stars
would be drafted for six months
military duty year as entertainers
In camps, both here and abroad.
Joe believes stars can make three
pictures in six months, leaving the
remaining six for camp entertain
ment.
Carmen Miranda is getting along
better and after brief visit to the
studio this week said she'd be in
shape to start work on Greenwich
Village" late in the month =. Irene
Dunno seems entitled to some kind
OF a reward for the record screen
kiss of 1943. Irene kissed a fellow
exactly two minutes in a scene for
White Cliffs of Dover" The lucky
man? Eightyyear- r-old C. Aubrey
Smith, who grinned and remarked.
1T wasn't half long enough"
M-G-M is worried that its heavily
exploited Wilde twin combination
may be smashed by marriage. Lyn
plans to marry after finishing Andy
Hardy's Blonde Trouble The
groom will be Sergt James Cathcart
of the Army Air Forces, stationed
at Santa Ana. Lee, the other half,
is broken-hearted about her sisters
plans. The two have been in
separable.
Front Office boys at Goth Century,
Fox are getting jittery over the
antics OF a well-known bird named
Mr.. Stork. Mr.. Stork has been
cutting into the revenues of that
company to an extent exceeded
only by Uncle Sam - and there
seems no stopping him.
Consider the evidence.
Alice Faye says that one picture a
year will be enough for her now
that she has Alice, jr., to- look after.
Gene Tierney. waiting for her
baby, due in October, will be away
at least one year.