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Show ! STAR DUST ; Movie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE j TAMES CAGNEY has 1 J patched up his quarrel with Warmer Brothers and 1 Margaret Sullavan has made peace with the Universal company, which is good news to all the admirers who have missed them. Cagney will be rewarded with the very best story Warners own, the great New York stage hit "Boy Meets Girl." It Is a rollicking Btory about two loony Hollywood scenario writers, ana II all oi uag- ney' requests are ' granted, ha will have Pat O'Brien playing his partner in foolish antics. Miss Sullavan will play in "The Road to Reno." That leaves Jean Arthur tha only major attraction at-traction who is still feuding with her company, Columbia, and staying off the screen in revolt. Margaret Sullavan However, Ann Sothern has parted company with R K O and Barbara Stanwyck is suspended from the pay roll because they refused to play in a picture called "Distant Fields." Felix Knight, who sang recently on the Metropolitan auditions, is being be-ing hailed as the greatest discovery of the year, but Hollywood claims that they discovered him some two years ago. He sang the Juvenile lead In "Babes In Toyland," the Hal Roach film, and has sung In opera In the Hollywood Bowl. Motion Mo-tion picture fans will be Interested to know that thia thrilling young tenor ten-or was recently married to the daughter of Alice Joyce. "It's All Yours," the new Columbia Colum-bia film starring Madeleine Carroll and Francis Lederer, turns out to be all Mischa Auer's. Beauty and romantic interest Just cannot compete com-pete with tha utter nonsense that this tragic-faced Russian puts over so hilariously. Oil screen Mischa Auer is entertaining too, but what most impresses one on meeting him is his deep gratitude to the United States of which he is now a naturalized natural-ized citizen. Any one of a dozen voices that you hear on "Grand Central," "The Goldbergs" or "True Story" or innumerable other radio hours is apt to be a youth named Lawson Zerbe who comes from the University Univer-sity of California. He is known affectionately af-fectionately as radio's one - man stock company. Recently when he was scheduled to play six roles on one dramatic hour, he was delayed at another studio and when he finally final-ly arrived Just in the nick of time, the frantic director had sent out for six well - known actors to replace him. John Barrymore had great fun on his vacation in New York. Knowing Know-ing that he was going to portray an elderly and somewhat acid society reporter in his next Paramount picture, pic-ture, "Cafe Society," he did th fashionable night clubs and watched the jewelled set at play. Joe Penner is the radio favorite of 22,416 boys and girls between the aces of six and six- teen. Every year a survey is conducted by the Boys Athletic league among children chil-dren in playgrounds, vacation camps, and work agencies to learn their preferences prefer-ences in sports, books, movies, radio ra-dio programs, foods and hobbies which is used as a guide for educators in plan- Joe Peoner nlng their diversions. Eddia Cantor, Can-tor, The Lone Ranger, and Jack Benny were runners - up in the youngsters' election of radio favorites. favor-ites. Buck Jones proved to be the boys' favorite motion picture star, while Shirley Temple led in the girls' division. ODDS AND ENDS-Clark Gable will portray a nmt'sreel cameraman in "Too Hot to Handle" . . . Fibber Mc-Gee Mc-Gee and Molly have been engaged for another Paramount picture . . . Janet Gaynor in "The Star Wagon" will play the role that lAllian Gish is playing on the stage. Lillian was Janet's favorite motion-picture star when she was a youngster . . . Arlene Whelan, who was a manicurist before a 20th Century-Fox Century-Fox talent scout found her, will play lhe lead in "Kilnapped." A long,period of training at the studio came between the two careers . . . A practical joker put a sign on Kay Francis' lawn thai read "Open for Inspection Public Welcome." Kay claims that this drew her biggest audience to date . . . Gin-ger Gin-ger Rogers awards prizes at her parties for the best concoctions turned out at the soda fountain recently installed in her home . . . Joe E. Brown was th first Hollywood film star to put in soda fountain at home, but Joe hat flocks of children in his family to play soda jerker every day, he doesn't have to invite guests. Western Newspaper Union, |