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Show ! STAR ! DUST ! J Movie Radio By VIRGINIA VALE RESULTS of the annual election of radio favorites, favor-ites, with two hundred and fifty-two radio-column editors edi-tors casting the votes, brought joy to the hearts of Hollywood Holly-wood studios, for film favorites favor-ites proved to be the outstanding out-standing radio favorites too. Paramount is leading the cheering cheer-ing for their Jack Benny, for the fourth consecutive year, won tha vote for best comedian and best program pro-gram on the air. Bing Crosby was elected best singer of popular songs. Bob Burns ran third among comedians, comedi-ans, and that was no small achievement. achieve-ment. Benny and Fred Allen had the first two places, and there were no less than ten or twelve famous stage comedians competing for third. M-G-M's Nelson Eddy was ranked first among classical singers, sing-ers, and Universal's Deanna Dur-bin Dur-bin best of all the newcomers to radio. Twentieth Century's Tony Martin made a good showing, getting get-ting third place among singers of popular songs. And RKO's Lily Pons took second place among singers sing-ers of classical music. Interview etiquette Is next in Importance Im-portance to romance manners in Hollywood. Whenever When-ever asked their opinion on the greatest great-est actor on the screen, players are supposed to mention j someone under contract con-tract to their own studio. Pat O'Brien just won't play according ac-cording to that rule. He thinks Spencer Tracy is by all odds the best actor on Pat O'Brien the screen and insists in-sists on saying so. That delights M-G-M, but it is not so pleasant for Warner Brothers to whom Pat Is under contract. When M-G-M cast Robert Taylor In "Camille," it was with the hope that the incomparable Garbo would make him forget all others, but when the last scene was shot, young Taylor was still calling her "Miss Garbo." Next he was cast opposite Jean Harlow, and studio folks slyly intimated that the huge boxes of flowers she received on the set every ev-ery morning probably came from him. M-G-M even sent Taylor to Washington, D. C, to attend the President's birthday ball with Jean. And all to no avail. He still thinks Barbara Stanwyck is the grandest girl in the world. Hal Roach isn't content with keeping keep-ing audiences giggling at his two-reel two-reel comedies. He has sent for Constance Bennett, dragging her back from her long vacation in New York, and started production on a big feature picture. It is to be a drawing-room comedy, very smart, swift, and swanky. It must be that he heard Constance in that broadcast of "Private Lives" that convinced everyone she had a real flair for high comedy. When you see Eddie Robinson and Bette Davis in "Kid Galahad" take a good look at the handsome giant who plays the heavyweight champion. cham-pion. That is Bill naade, one of the most extraordinary characters the studios have ever found. Not so long ago he was a steel worker in New York, and very proud of his job. A theatrical producer came along and got him to play on the stage in a short-lived play called "Iron Men." When that closed Warner War-ner Brothers sent for him. Margot Grahame is proudly displaying dis-playing a new ring to her friends i y I ' $ these days. It is made up of linked hearts of sapphires and diamonds and was once the property prop-erty of Sarah Bernhardt. Bern-hardt. Bernhardt gave it to Ellen Terry Ter-ry as a tribute to that great lady's artistry on the stage. Ellen Terry left it to her daugh- Margot ter - In - law, Julia Grahame Neilson, who gave it to an English actress, ac-tress, Mary Glynne. Mary Glynne passed it on to her protegee who is Margot Grahame. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Charles Dover is the most envied leading man in Hollywood, for in rapid succession in his next jour pictures he will play opposite Garbo, then Sylvia Sidney, Ginger Rogers, and Claudetle Colbert , . . Between "Show Uoul" broadcasts, Lanny Ross is giving concerts of classical class-ical songs. Eddie Robinson is asking for more pleasant roles on the screen, becaii'g his three-year-old son is already al-ready a moviegoer and he doesn't want to antagonize him . . . Helen Jepson did not sign that contract with Grand National ajtrr all; she signed to make pictures with Sam Goldwyn instead . . Latest word from London is that the British people like Zasu I'ills best ; of all the American stars who have gone there to make pictures. Q Western Newspaper Union. |