Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 13, DeMotte, Jasper County, 16 February 1939 — Star Dust [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Star Dust

★ Lone Girl—lSo Complaint ★ Bob Takes It on the Chin ★ Picturing the Ancients

By Virginia Vale

NGA DIN” is one of vJ those pictures that you simply mustn’t miss. It’s spectacular, thrilling, beautifully done. Maybe it isn’t really a' woman's picture; Joan Fontaine is the only girl in the cast, and she hasn’t a really important role. But — with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Cary Grant and Victor McLaglen in the line-up, where is the woman who is going to complain because she doesn’t see lots of lovely girls in stunning clothes, or be entertained by a thrilling love story? Sam Jaffee, whom you should remember from “Lost Horizon,” has

the title role, and gives one of the best performances ever seen on a motion picture screen. Remember —you’ll regret it if you don’t see “Gunga Din”! I ' ‘U Metro is going to make a he-man out of Robert Taylor if it kills him. He takes a lot of punishment at the hands of Wallace Beery in “Stand Up and Fight” and does it so well that even the men picture-goers who have complained in the past that he was “just a pretty boy” ought to be satisfied. T* Another of those elaborate historical background is being constructed in Hollywood. This time it is for “The Man in the Iron Mask,” and John DuCasse Schulze, art director for Edward Small Productions, is drawing the plans. .He has put in months of research, until he feels more at home in the period of which Alexander Dumas wrote than in the present. There will be accurate reproductions .of the Palaces of St. Germain-en-Laye and Versailles, of the Bastille, the streets of historic Paris and several villages. Louis Hayward will have dual roles —those of King Louis XIV and his twin brother. Warren William will play “D’Artagnan,” Joseph Schildkraut will be “Colbert” (not related to Claudette of modern times). James Whale will direct, and, if you don’t mind a pun, it will be a whale of a picture.

Deanna Durbin is at last considered old enough to appear in her first romantic picture. It will be “First Love,” and Charles Boyer will be° her co-star. At present she is finishing “Three Smart Girls Grow Up.” Fred Allen.has committed himself to appearing on “Town Hall Tonight” until June, 1941, with his usual three-months vacations. He signed the new contract on Portland HofTa’s (Mrs. Allen's) birthday. His radio career began in October, 1932, and he began-with his present sponsors in 1934, Geraldine Farrar, driving into New York from her country home, turned on her radio one day and heard a tenor voice that she liked. She urged influential friends in radio to look him up—and Felix Knight was discovered. F elix turned on his radio recently, and heard a tenor voice that he liked. He found that it belonged to Vaughn Comfort, who had been engaged for one performance on “For Men Only,” and was singing at a New York night club. Felix looked him up, found that he wanted to have a career in radio, and is now doing all he can to help him. Unusual, to say the least—one tenor helping another! ODDS AIS'D F \ DS—David Selznick has announced that he mil produce “Suanee River," based on the life of Stephen Foster, uho composed so many of America's favorite songs . . . RKO has signed Joe Renner on a new contract . . . Sonja Henie, Don Ameche and' Rudy l allee will make "If hen \f inter Comes" for 20th Century-Fox . . . Metro ju.ill make two successive feature pictures based on the life of Thomas Edison . . . “The Old Maid" is to reach the screen at last, with Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins in the leading roles . . . Ginger Rogers will go dramatic again in “Little Mother" 6 Western Newspaper Union.

JOAN FONTAINE