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When he was 17, Donald joined the Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne company, appearing nrst witn nis mentors in "idiot ueiignt." "ine Taming of the Shrew," "Sea Gull" and "Amphitryon 2Wr also were plays he did with the Lunts. With Many Stars. Since dissolving his association with the Lunts he has acted with such great ladies of the stage as Lrcth is a chrrcrtcr bright carmrl ClIFTSH WEBB JOAN BENNETT ROBERT CUKmmSS EOMUNO SWENR 'witkJOM IL0N0EU 6161 fUtEAU censy rD Qcs ilo HI tiofcJ Helen Hayes, Ethel Barrymore, Eva LeGallienne. Katina Paxinou and Jarmilla Novotna. His performance in "Bright Boy" won nim the New York Drama Critics' award for the most promising actor of 1946.

At the beginning of his theatrical career Donald's stage friends thought he should take a new name. But what name? The late Alexander Woollcott came up with a bright idea at a party one night. Everybody think up a name, write it on a slip of paper and put it in a hat. Donald was blindfolded and told to take a slip from the hat. The slip he pulled out of a hat bore his own name, Donald Buka, put in as a gag by Woollcott.

That settled the renaming business and Donald says he couldn't have been more pleased. Research Story In Many Lines "Research Ranch, latest of the Screenliner short subjects issued by RKO Pathe, brings to the screen the story of the Southwest Research Institute, which special, izes in ideas. Located on the Essar Ranch five miles from San Antonio, it engages in research activities on a non-profit basis. Cancer, fungi, general and micro photography are being studied; engines, fuels and lubricants are tested, and extensive work is be ing done on grazing, crop improve- who cd is reel dzzzb. PI) i mil This unusually good-looking' young actor has been playing in pictures since 1943.

but he is not yet well known to movie xans De-cause his appearances have been few and far between. His first was in "Watch on the Rhine," in which he played Bette Davis' oldest son. Last year he. was seen in "Street With No Name," recently in "Between Midnight and Dawn." In both these films he played gangsters and, being a good actor, he played the roles well. But he wasn't the star in either film and not enough fans remembered the name of the actor who portrayed the bad man.

In "Vendetta," Donald plays opposite Faith Domergue, Howard Hughes' new feminine star. This film is an adaptation of Prosper Merimee's "Colomba," a novel of love and retribution in post- Napoleonic Corsica. He has the role of Pardino, political outlaw who is enamored of the girl, Colomba. Girls Should Like Him. Two to one, I'll wager, that after eeing Donald as the dashing Cor-sican in "Vendetta" the movie pub-lie will be Donald Buka conscious.

To be helpful I will tell you something of his personality and background. About the size of Tyrone Power, a little taller and slimmer, perhaps, Donald has black hair, blue eyes and clean-cut features. Of Czech llzrry lh yev STARTS 1 1) O.U a tfii who piiio of his ccnctHsaVif Dawaa s.n with n-snay. All Iho men sho hnews hr.sw il ico except PcJ crJy Ixcows whsfs in techs. Tfceso fhrco co to nho yc3Tsay-a ccptivctin, pcrfcttly wcexfcl tacca i IT WAS S4 BROADWAYS ViY BIGGEST s' i iir ii iiM-, IT To SYLVAN SIMON GEORGE CUKOS Opn 9:45 A.M.

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