They Tell Me That

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 23, 18 November 1938, Page 15

They Tell Me That

Our Special Correspondent, Jennifer Quentin, Gives You The Latest Hollywood Gossip

AM GOLDWYN runs Alexander Korda close as the man who is .always having. bright ideas. Latest is to star Gary Cooper as Hans Andersen, in a sereen life of the Danish fairy-tale writer entitled, ‘‘A Stranger at Home.’’ Gary will have two Scandinavian leading ladies, Sigrid Gurie and Zorina (the ballet dancer seen in ‘‘Goldwyn Follies’’). , Marlene for France ARLENE DIETRICH has just had an offer to appear in a French film. She has been offered more money to act in this picture than any other star has yet been paid for acting in a French film. A sum of 20,000 dollars has been guaranteed as her salary for this picture, which is to be based on night life in the Montmartre. Versions are to be made of it in every language. ‘Ylamour for Bette ETTE DAVIS will be "glamourised" on the screen for the first time in three years in her next picture, "Dark Victory." She will wear 27 different gowns. while portraying the role of a girl who has only 10 months to live. Script Contest . HOW would you like to have.to write a script of "Gone With the Wind" just for fun? For the past three months the motion picture scenario class at Columbia Univer sity has been working on a contest adapting the Margaret Mitchell

book to the screen. They selected the winner by comparing the students’ script. with the actual shooting script prepared by Sidney Howard. The one that came closest to it was written by Hilda Kortheuer, a New York girl. Howard was so impressed with her excellent adaptation that he sent her an autographed copy of his original script and an invitation to be his guest at the New York premiere. Now, why don’t they hold a similar contest to pick the cast of "Gone With the Wind’-and stick to it! Change of Country AS soon as Cary Grant has finished work in "Gunga Din" he’s going to England to settle his affairs there, and when he comes back to America he’s going to take out his first papers toward becoming an American citizen. Cary feels he makes his money here, his home is in this country and Hollywood has: given him his career. Come to think of it-he’s one of the few English players who has ever thought about becoming an American citizen. Blue Hair! LATEST fad in Hollywood is for tinted hair. I had heard that it was very smart for blondes-but hadn’t seen many of Hollywood’s own glamour girls going in for it until Joan Bennett showed up at a — —

party the other night, wearing a pale blue frock, and with her blonde locks tinted the exact blue shade, piled high on her head, with a little blue bow nestling in the eurls. It wouldn’t suit everyonebut Joan carried it off well. Gable Worried QLARK GABLE is wearing a worried frown just now. fiveryone is congratulating him on having won the plum role of Rhett Butler in "Gone With the Wind," but Gable is not sure that he does not envy Norma Shearer, who resigned from the picture gracefuily. The trouble is that Margaret Mitchell’s best-seller means so much to so many people that he is afraid that he may not be able to live up to their expectations and interpret the character as they have pictured it in their minds. "Frankly, I don’t see how any actor can win' with this role," he told a friend the other day, "and I’m uneasy." Star to Retire ADYS SWARTHOUT, the pocket prima donna has decided that she, too, will only make one more picture before taking up music and singing to the exclusion of all other work. No new story has yet been scheduled for Gladys, but whenever it is finished, she is going on a protracted world tour which wili include a tour of England, the Continent and Australia. Fans would be advised not to take too much notice of stars’ determination to retire, for it often seems that the lure of the arc lights and celluloid is too much for them and they return after a time, —