Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-01-07
BY INEZ GERHARD

AIl1d OlSIl Is 81 pISIIy NW1Jli
honey y-blonde hair and gray-blue
eyes, and so talented that she
should never have left the
screen. Fortunately her husband,
Eugene Frenke, persuaded her to
appear in his first independent
production, Lets Live Little. ="
She has the second lead in the
Robert Cummings-Hedy Lamar
comedy. S m u e G o d w y n
brought Miss Sten to this coun-
/ try after she had made a brilli-
ant reputation on the stage and
screen in Europe. Mana" her
first American picture, establish
ed her here, but after making
several more she retired in 1914.
There's the girl who should play
the lead in Madame Bovary!'
Just how a Miss America is
picked will be shown in goth
Century-Fox's Movietone short,
Fair of Face and Form" with
this years winner, Be Be Shopp,
and four runners-up appearing
under Vyvyan Donners direc-
ton.
Art Linkletter says his House
Party" cast will be learning their
ABCs when the program moves
to that network January 3 after
four nears on CHS. Art is still
Ichuckling over the time when
one of his school-children guests
said she wanted to be a cowgirl,
explaining that a cowgirl differs
from a cowboy in that she cares
for lady COWS!
4 X
Ingrid Bergman has a film
the general public will never
see. 1t is the story of the MAX
ing of "Joan of Arc" The
principals of the Is nm.
movie are her cO-stars. When
ever she was not before the
cameras she got hers out and
went to work. Her interest in
photography dates from her
Stockholm childhood when
her father photographed her
birthday parties.
4 X
Colleen Gray will make her
stage debut opposite Richard
Hart, in Leaf and Bough." Hart
was rushed to Hollywood when
starring in Dark of the Moon y
and given a long-term contract.
You saw him in Green Dolphin
Street and Desire Me-" But the
movies proved a disappointing
medium for him, as for so many
stage actors-the first time at
least.
Women school teachers have
usually been shown on the
screen rs plain, bleak spinsters
for far too long. RKO has done
something about it. In "The Boy
with Green Hair" Barbara Hale,
former model, plays a teacher.
4 4 Il
Jane and Peter Fonda, Hen
rvs offspring, are going to
make lot of money They are
among the hackers of "Anne
of the Thousand Days." the
new play in which Rex Harri-
son, as Henry VIII, has scored
such terrific success. The
play is one of the best that
has opened in New York in a
long time and will probably
run indefinitely.
X II
Sabu, now in Columbia's
Song of India" has written his
own storyof the Indian Jungle,
The Return of the Elephant
Boy" and will make it in the
locale where he did Elephant
Boy" 1t will be done on a colos-
sal scale, in color. Sabu says he
can probably make the picture
In India for about one-fifth of
what 1T would cost here.
X 4
Though he's not connected
with I'VE, the People," CHS pro-
ducer Ed Coates was the busiest
man at a recent rehearsal and
broadcast. His regular assign
ments include such programs as
The F. B. |. at Peace and War"
and the New York Philharmonic.
But I'VE, the People" was i'm
portant because of guest on the
program - Dorothy Kristen, his
wife.
X r 4
ODDS AND ENDSMGiI STRAIT
ton Jr., head ON 'The Great Gil
dersleeUe" in a Uariety of roles,
has been cast for q featured part
in 10th Centtry-For's "Mr. Bel
Uedere Goes to College" j
Lionel Bdrrymore's mayor OF
the TotOn," once on CHS but