Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 46, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 October 1939 — Star Dust [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Star Dust

★ Cooper Plays Soldier ★ Joan Fontaine Has W ay ★ Try Musical Picture

By Virginia Vale

WAR pictures of all varieties are on their way to your neighborhood theater or one near it. Some are new, some are old. Those of us who were going to movies during the last war will recognize; in some everything but the actors as products of the past. However, with sound, and new people going through the motions, no doubt they’ll seem new enough. “The Road Back” is to be reissued by Universal, with the scenes that were deleted when the picture was made in 1937 because of an official request that they jbe omitted, in a desire not to anfioy Germany. It looks as if Gary Cooper as well reconcile himself to wearing a uniform whenever he steps in front of a camera. His current picture, “The Real Glory,” presents him as an American lieutenant in the medical corps, way back in 19(|6. He’ll begin work shortly in “Blackout Over Europe.” w r hich deajls with air raids in the present war]. Andrea Leeds has announced hCr engagement, and not to an actoir. It’s to be hoped that marriage won’t mean her giving up her career; she has come so fast in so short a time.

Rising to fame with a scream in “Stage Door,” she’s gone right along; in “The Real Glory” she gives an excellent performance. j| The March of Time is stepping into the full-length feature field with “The Ramparts We Watch,” based : on the book by Major George Field - j ing Eliot. According to the announcement, it “brings to the screen a new production idea in feature pictures with a realistic plot that carries a terrific impact in view of the events in Europe today.” Work started about the middle of Septem- | ber in New' London, Conn., and the picture will have no connection with the regular March of Time issues. Many a girl would like to know Joan Fontaine’s formula for getting what she wants. She does it every time. She married Brian Ahearne, causing several young actresses in New York and points west to gnaw the woodwork in rage. -Now she’s slated for the lead in “Rebecca,” for which many tests were made and many wires were pulled. Olivia de Hayiland’s younger sister seems to be doing all right for herself, while Olivia goes right along, looking perfectly beautiful in costume pictures and confining romance to the screen. * . .M. Maybe those spectacular musical pictures will return to the screen, if you show that you like them. “On your toes,” with Zorina, will act as a thermometer; if audience approval shows that the temperature is right, there’ll be more like it. Grace Moore may do one called “Say It With Music,” incorporating incidents from her own life and a lot of Irving Berlin’s music. Incidentally, Miss Moore once again proved herself the darling of the ship news reporters, when she returned from Europe recently; she always makes a statement that makes the headlines, whether she’s sailing away or sailing home. This time she was going to .rush back to France and join an ambulance corps —after she finished engagements to sing in concert and opera, etc. Johnny Green, who used to wave the baton for Columbia pictures, and does now for the Johnny Presents programs on the air, has proved that he is a serious composer. He has finished a concerto, “Music for Elizabeth,” which Jose Iturbi (that veteran of the Bing Crosby hour) will introduce at Carnegie Hall this season. “Elizabeth” happens to be Mrs. Johnny Green as well as Betty Furness of the films. i_ ODDS ASD tA L)S—Kaye Kayser refused recently to play ‘*Over There," feels that all marches and military music should be barred in this country at present . . . Raymond Raige is collecting voice recordings of dignitaries and statesmen involved in the current crisis . . . Grade Allens been indulging in a shopping splurge, buying frocks to wear before the microphone . . . But Beatrice Kay , of “ Columbia’s Gay Nineties Revue" just digs into her greataunts' trunks; she came up with a pair of red cotton stockings with lace inserts the other afternoon. (Released by Western Newspaper Union. 1

ANDREA LEEDS