Pars About Stars

Chronicle (Levin), 6 March 1948, Page 6

Pars About Stars

Martha Scott has not made a Hollywood movie in ages. However, ;a ' deal is cooking for. her to play "Aunt ,Birdie^* iii "Another Part of the •Foresb'-' wibli-tFr.e'dric March. Enterpriue Productions are trying to get James Mason to star in tlieir. "Pfoud Destiny." If the studio will pay off David Rose and so settle the latter's . huge damage suit against the British actor, Mason will do it. Otherwise he keeps out of Hollywood. The rights to the current London stage hit, "Edward My Son," have been purchased by M.-G.-M. Spencer Tracy will probably get the starring role of a man who, by his ruthless pursuit of success, ruins the happiness of his family. The rumours that were spreading around Hollywood that Greer Garson'was set on doing stage plays were abruptly upended when the star was recalled from New York to start prepafa^phs|£or her new pic- •• tuife, 'Vulii ||is®|baves," a light- ./• he&i^tod ■ ;0r^eg.y, J£based on "The Nutmeg Trc'e," by Margery Sharpe. It has taken Jane Russell more than five years to get really started on her career following "The Out- ■ law" fiasco. Now filming "Palefacev with Bob Hope, she will star next in "Ro,|e in Clffiarron," -pl&ying a fema^'|$pjs%. George Bl'ent, now in- "Luxury Liner" with Jane Powell is not retiririg from th^scffeenp&s ieported. ; Hevis bookqdjin. ff3jp^rimtihl949, but .says. he wil'l rptirg to Tahiti between i assignmciits, flyihg there and livih'g on his yacht — nice life! Butch. w. Jenl^ins rmid Margaret Q3rjja^S|vhq9 arf^M\ed for the secdiSch tifeie hi M>G.lM?s "The Big City," are a little worried about just one scene — the first screen kiss for both of them. The film will be a new comedy with .music" and will feature othet . top players vin George Murphy, Robert Preston, Karin Booth, Betty Garrett ahd Lotte Lehmann. British censors frowned on bedroom sequences in Columbia's comedy "Pler Husband's Affairs," which is now showing in New Zealand. They explaine'd that a 30-year-old regulation provides. that husband and wife cannot be shown together in bed — except in twin beds at least a foot apart. Consequently a scene was turne'd down in the above-mentioned film because the twin beds were too close tbgether. " • -