News of the Stars

* Humphrey Bogart, star of the picture "Passage to Marseille," is joining his wife Lauren Bacall and Clifton Young in acting in the picture "Dark Passage."

* One of the American film companies is at work on a new version of the film "Lord Jim," which first appeared on the silver screen in 1925.

* Frank Sinatra, the famous singer nicknamed the Voice of America, has bought an airplane for his private travels. It is known of him that he heads a committee recently formed to collect subscriptions for the fight against the deadly disease of cancer.

* The director Howard Hawks is now producing a picture entitled "Red River," acted by John Wayne and Walter Brennan.

* The actress Joan Fontaine and William Dozier have formed a film company.

* Archie Mayo is taking on the role of Rudolph Valentino, the onetime idol of women, in a film about the life of this great actor of the silent-film era.

* The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company has announced that it will shortly bring the life story of the musician Robert Schumann and his wife Clara to the silver screen under the title "Love Story." It is worth mentioning that it had previously given this picture the name "Song of Love." The stars are Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, and Robert Walker.

* Otto Preminger, director of the picture "Laura," is at work directing the story "The Black Forest," in which the star Maureen O'Hara, of the gleaming red hair, plays the leading role.