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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) WHEN talk began of 50,000 airplanes a year, the American public was surprised sur-prised to learn that it takes at least five men on the ground to keep one man in the air, but the picture makers mak-ers of Hollywood considered the number rather small; you see, they use anywhere from thirty to forty persons behind the camera to keep one actor in front of it. In a scene made for "That Uncertain Un-certain Feeling," in which Merle Oberon appeared alone before the camera, there were 35 persons on the set to help her make a shot which will last 15 seconds on the screen. If you're interested, the list Included two assistant directors, a cameraman, a camera operator, two camera assistants, ten electricians, electri-cians, three carpenters, two property prop-erty men, four sound men, a painter, paint-er, a wardrobe woman, a makeup man, a body makeup woman, a hairdresser, a still photographer, a playback operator, a pianist for offstage off-stage sound and a stand-in. The thirty-fifth was Director Ernst Lubitsch. Betty Brewer's ship has really come in at last. Betty's the attrac- 2 w " " tive but not beautiful beauti-ful youngster who made such a hit in "Rangers of Fortune," For-tune," remember? She's been the bread winner for her family fam-ily of five for a year she's 13 now. Her family migrated from Joplin, Mo., to Sacramento, Calif., in a flivver, but her Betty Brewer father couldn't find work there and Betty Bet-ty began singing at conventions and banquets. She went to Hollywood, sang on the radio, lost her job and had to go on relief. She was singing on the streets for pennies when Sam Wood, the director, discovered her. Her second picture was "The Roundup"; she's working now in "Las Vegas Nights," and next will do "Two Bad Angels," and she's just signed a brand new contract with Paramount. Katharine Hepburn has had her revenge on the people who not so awfully long ago considered her "poison at the box office"; her new Metro picture, "The Philadelphia Story," topped all records for New York's huge Radio City Music Hall for the last five years. Cary Grant, James Stewart, Roland Young and Ruth Hussey give her perfect support. sup-port. Miss Hepburn evidently knew that she had a good thing when she found "The Philadelphia Story"; she is still starring In the stage version ver-sion she is part owner of the play and she is full owner of the picture, as well as its star. The success of "Teeny," Fibber McGee and Molly's little "I betcha!" girl, is no flash in the pan. Marian Jordan, who plays "Teeny" as well as "Molly," was one of radio's pioneers in adding a child's voice to her repertoire reper-toire of characters. She did her little-girl little-girl routine fully 12 years ago in Chicago Chica-go as part of Kal- tenmeyer's Kinder- Marian Jordan garten, one of radio's ra-dio's first network children shows. Fibber McGee and Molly weren't even names on a radio script until six years later, when Don Quinn, the Jordans' script writer, thought them up. If the "Quizz Kids" are among your radio favorites prepare to see them on the screen before long. They're making a series of shorts at Faramount's Long Island studios. The star performer Is sure to be that very young man, Gerard Dar-row, Dar-row, who ranks with John Kleran of "Information Please" when It comes to natural hiseiory. Don't be surprised if you happen to meet your favorite radio stars and discover that their voices sound altogether different than they do whenyou hear them on the screen or radio. Rudy Vallee, John Barry-more Barry-more and Billie Burke are outstanding outstand-ing examples of this difference in voices; theirs are all pitched lower naturally than they are when they come over the air. ODDS AND ENDS L Franchot Tone has signed up to make two pictures a year for five years for Universal. C Charles Cover co stors u ith Dcmma Durbin in "Ready far Romance -which Dcanna is. ft James Cagney and the newly u'tl Bette Davis will co-star fm - the ftrsj time in "The Bridv Came C. C Bing Crosby and Hob Hope are ing to play golf for Rrilnm. 1 hey ve announced that they wdl hngma -' ing tour in March. tc;n,cd with r " go professionals, ihe proceeds torn, to British war relief. |