Show I a STAR DUST p Y t-Y T a R S Movie a Radio r tf k By Ily VIRGINIA VALE VALt Vallee NCE more lnore Rudy ONCE his hys shown that he is the greatest talent scout in the radIo business Tommy RIggS the two voiced person person- personality personality personality I who has been appearing on his program the last few I weeks has made an on outstanding outstanding ing mg success and will soon have a 1 program of his own The brash little girl that Mr Riggs plays with such devastating humor promises to be as one of ot these days as is Charlie Mc- Mc McCarthy McCarthy Mc McCarthy Carthy the famous ventriloquists ventriloquist's I dummy Incidentally the people I whom Vallee started on the road I to radio success ought to get to- to together together to together gether and put on a gala program as a tribute to him It would in- in include include In Include clude such headliners as Walter O- O OKeefe Keete 0 Keele Keefe Bob Burns Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Tom Tom- Tommy Tommy Tommy my Riggs And what a program I that would belI beliC bel bet I iC c I iCI Mona Barrie is the latest screen belle to seek a change from the NewYork NewYork New wood on M York y stage While rehearsing for Virginia Vir Vir- Virginia ginia a great musical musical mu spectacle that that- that J will open the Center ll Theater in Radio City she told me mea meC C a about b ou t her last last- last and she thinks best m picture picture It is Jim Jim- JimI Jim mie I I mix Cagney's Something to Sing James Cagney About In which I Mona plays her first real comedy role She plays play n a for for- foreign foreign for foreign eign actress with a heavy accent and has a glorious time swooping through scenes in the grand man man- manner manner manner ner She says that Jimmy is just tops to work with which makes the verdIct practically unanimous iC The greatest picture of the year perhaps of many 5 y ears cars has re received re re- received a n chorus horns of or critical acclaim such a as h his never been heard be- be before be before fore It is The Life of Emile Zola ib Paul Muni 1 As crusader for forthe tile the oppressed as the most elo- elo eloquent eloquent elo eloquent quent and forceful man of his time Paul Muni gives an Inspired per per- performance performance per performance Dont Don't let the praise ol of this picture drive you away from It a faint suspicion that It may be educational but dull It offers the most exciting and thrilling evening you could spend in a theater iC c With radios radio's summer lull over soon dozens of big programs will be angling for tor your attention Irene Wicker the greatly greath beloved singing lady moves to the Mutual network ork early in October offering a series of original sketches with music Jack Benny returns to the dir air at the same time jI d Margaret I who aban abandoned abandoned abandoned a job in Texas to break breal into the movies has found that even after a career Is well starteD it still stall has as many downs as ups upi You may recall that she appealed to Carole Lombard for help and through her got a small contract with al V Well 11 ell Miss 1 played small rules roles in A Star Is Born Dorn and thEn the studio decided to g gamble on her to the extent of sending her cast ast to dramatic school for further training She appeared at the Mt l Kisco theater opposite no less lesl a per per- personage personage per than Henry Fonda ronda and pro ed conclusively that she nee needs Is Isa a lot more training training- before she n c cm play big roles sc scUp c- c cUp Up in Dennis Massachusetts Gertrude Michael appeared on the stage in a phy of early Colonial days and made a big hit hitA hitA y I A regular parade of automobIles made the long trip from New York to see her her and when she came came out on the r stage the rafters ratters rung rung with applause fi from her Broadway friends They were l saluting her courage Gertrude G r in winning a two Michae 1 year battle batUe with Serious se rious illness as well as her fine skill as an actress C c- c ODDS AID D D After DS trying tr to fo borrow henny Aenny Baker or John Pant ant u Jr r Jim Jimmy wy Steuart or Cary Gary Grant or ATlen Arlen producer of 01 Lily l Pons ns II next ext picture has finally up rip the t I search arel for or a new leading man and guen He tie tl I role to Gene Raymond alto ullO m in her last picture Jack Banns s friends are sating sal ing all the rein re Clefts in n of Artists s and Models ull ch rate about his Ius performance to show lips lum when ulen t ic he Ac returns from Ill through the tle mal ng maing mat ing of 01 the picture lee he ll Ih the director director and ob to hit in h tines and felt utterly des clu mat mal our what i in he effected would be bethe IP beI the sire flop lop of the tie ear w Joan Craw Crates lord ford tikes likes to run her pictures picture tit at home homp I rier r ier young aung niece to Ice see The TIe child d hauls h fiery time she sees Auntie AI i 0 Join ITI an in the creen John harry harry- more Harry more lucre is up tip a hilarious hon smite smite- trOll tion of oj o f I 1 I dur Bergen and arid Charlie to om amuse use his Alt friends be- be betat betic bc tic tat en scenes venes Cn 11 at the Ih e studio studio e Union unton |