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Show Star Uiiist "Ar Ash-Sifting Diva k Jolson, Model Mayor fc "Beau Geste" Again - By Virginia Vale CHARLOTTE LANSING, whose lovely soprano voice you must have heard over NBC, has become an ashes-sifter. When she's not singing, she's sifting ashes in Princeton, N. J., and holding her breath. ! You see, her home burned to the ground in January, just after she had collected all her worldly goods under one roof. And she had about $4,000 worth oi Jewels in the house. Hence the ashes sifting. She estimates that she has gone through about two tons of ashes up to date, and she has found rings and pins which she values at $2,000. Irene Wicker, radio's Singing Lady, accidentally cut down the high cost of living the other day. She was walking in Central park on ft Itllllllll is v xp h will V i Irene Wicker her way from one side of New York to the other when she saw a tiny patch of chives. She dug them up, went home, chopped them up with cottage cheese and ate them. And the friend who'd asked her to luncheon in one of the town's smartest smart-est hotels worried all afternoon because be-cause Irene had no appetite for the chefs masterpieces. Some day Al Jolson may abandon radio and the screen, but there's one job he'll always have, if the inhabitants inhabi-tants of Encino, Calif., have anything any-thing to say abont it. Since he's been their mayor he has secured for the town a system of street lighting, many miles of paved streets and the promise of an op-to-date fire department. Rochelle Hudson is making the most of her vacation. She has taken an apartment in New York and is seeing the town as if she'd never seen it before. The town's appreciating appre-ciating her too; New York university univer-sity made her "Queen of the Prom." Olivia de Haviland avoided reporters report-ers when she sailed recently from New York for England, by using the name "Lavlnla Halliday." She also gave her friends something to think about, before she left, by intimating intimat-ing that she was going abroad to see ' someone quite special that someone being her fiance, according to good authority, who is a foreigner and has a title. Perhaps a wave of remakes has hit the Hollywood studios. "Beau Geste," one of Ron- aid Colman's most beloved pictures, is to reach the screen again, with Gary Cooper in the title role. If you have any old favorites that you'd like to see screened with new actors, why not write the studios about them? Many fans have wondered G cooper why some company hasn't done a remake of '"The Copperhead." Cop-perhead." As a silent years ago starring Lionel Barrymore, it is remembered re-membered as one of the most effective ef-fective pictures of the time. ODDS AND ENDS Trained carp appear in "Mono Polo"; they had to be taught to eat out of Sigrid Gurie's hands ... Republic hat actually found a story for Gloria Swanson't attempt at a come-back usually, after companies signed her, they couldn't get a suitable story . . . RKO is grooming Mitzi Green for stardom, apparently . . . The next Do Mille spectacle will be based on the story of the Union Pacific . . . Anna May Wong is selling her collection collec-tion of screen souvenirs to raise money for the Chinese victims of the war with Japan . . . Gory Cooper plays a scene in a strait jacket in "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife"; he was wearing it one day when the whistle blew for lunch and his co-workers got a laugh by going off and leaving him in it . . . Paul Taylor, director of numerous radio choirs, decided de-cided to be a singer when he was fourteen four-teen years old, and sang befor an evangelical convention of 6,000 peoplt . . . Thirteen-year-old Junior O'Day, of the "Big Sister" program, began his career on the air when he was seven ... Joan Blaine, chosen as radio's best-dressed best-dressed woman, declares that her most fashionable hat is made from an old one of her brother's . . . Frank Black and his wife have adopted a baby boy, c) Western Newsoaoer Union. |