The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-02

nOAA&ROUut March 1-Sonia
 Henie VIII finance Q skiing-skating
 school in chicago, and if 1t Is suc-
 cessful, she will open q string
 Van Hefin's wife, Frances Neal. ia
 quitting her Beverly Hills hat shop
 at Vans lnsistence, until after
 their baby is born-and perhaps
 permanently, Robert Taylor and
 Robert Montgomery may join for-
 ces and open Q flying school in Los
 Angeles. {. ,s Looks like Fred Mac-
 Murray will play tho late Grenn
 Miller in the fllinography of the bandleader's life q. Ginny sims Is In the New York Social Reglster: she and her husband arc listed as Mir. and Mrs. Hyatt Won Dehn, his real Danish name. ", The West Coast will soon be dotted with sum-
 mer stock theaters. Broderick Crawford and J. Carol Nalsh will operate two of them, The Swed-
 ish press backed Joan Crawford
 (hgainst their own Ingrld Berg
 man) for the Academy Award :. Remember Bill Hudson, who creat- cd a stir in objective Burma"2 He's working as Q gas station at- tendaIit. {. Robert Benchley, IT,, Is collecting his late fathers stories and bon mots, and win assemble them in book form Quentln Reynolds, the war correspondent, Is at Tucson, Arizona, hospital with q back ailment. Hal Britishers cam paigning for more food and fewer Hollywood films, are using the slo- gan: Give us eggs, not Grable's legsl" Movie Czar Eric Johns ton has done Q piece on raclnl discrimination called Hate Chal- lenges America" for the March Negro Digest Red Skeiton drove
 his tiny bantam car Into the stu- dio yesterday with the lenders all
 bent. What happened, Red?" asked Marilyn Maxwell. "Did you ever see that oil well In the middle of La Cienega Boulevard?" Queried Red. "Yes," said Marilyn. "Well,' 6rawled the actor, T didn't"
 PREVXEW NIGHTS; Pic of an unexciting weer: United Artists Young Widow" (Jane Russell Louis Hayward). A picture that should have been released during the war, but will probably stand up in this post-war era. <. GOOD: goth Century's "A Tank Tn Lon- don" (Rex Harrison Anna Neagle- Dean Jagger). Won't hurt British-
 Americans at all .Monogram'S Junior Prom" (June Preisser- Freddie Stewart). This teen-ager will really send the slick chics ... OKAY: Meet Me On Broadway" Marjorie Reynolds-Allyn Joslyn- Jinx Falkenberg). Mild entertain ment, but satisfactory, . Repub- lies california Gold Rush" (Wild Bill Elliott). Won't start any starn- pede at the box office, except among Red Ryder fans. ;. P. R. C.'S Fugitive of the Plains" Cluster Crahbe). Another Billy the Kid" opus; this one above average. .... Monograms Red Dragon" (Sid- ney Toler). Charlie Chan heads south of the border. and gets his man. BEST PERFORMANCE: Jane Russell in Young Widow" This much publicized but little known actress, shows signs of ful- filling most of the promises made
 Variety, a film trade paper, has criticized the Los Angeles police union, accusing that organization of seeking publicity through It's campaign against movie gangsters. We'll, no matter what the motive, the police are on the right track when they fight crime pictures. The police know, from bitter ex- perience, the, i'll effect such films exert on 'impressionable youngsters. Variety, if 1t really had the best interests of the movies at heart, would do better to cease such crit cizism and join the campaign to erase immortality from the screen.
 Do you remember all the publi- city about the young actress, Tony Seven? Now it seems that that vast volume of publicity got her exactly nowhere in the acting business, so she will resume her own name, June Mallard, and try again. This should be an object lesson to other ambitious girls, that publicity doesn't make a star and names do not make actresses. The only two roads to screen success are hard work and good luck. Neither can provide the opportunity. The two, combined, cannot fail to produce | B real star.
 4 newspaper story recently de- ciared that General Ike" Eisen- hover is a sucker for Western | movies. Well, General Ike" is not the only lover of rousing good horse operas. Tn fact, I'm sure the news papers use of the word sucker" was III chosen. Cowboy dramas have much to offer in the way of | last action. excitement and escape rom the deluge of sex, crime and ltunrAa GlEvac Tsua oImave aafd that