| Show I 1 STAR J D i D U U S fia T HP 1 s I 1 movie radio J A by VIRGINIA VALE trans had hal to wait two long jle years for the marx brothers new picture A day at the races but it was well worth waiting for it is almost too funny the laughs coming in such quick succession that you are still shouting oi 0 er one comic scene when the next hits you this picture tops their previous masterpieces of hilarity by several lengths groucho is as usual the wise guy but when he goes to the race track he is a gullible custom er for chico s sales talk on tips on the races chico performs one of those piano solos that makes enough tough little boys want to b become e come piano virtuosos so they can copy his tricks and carpo is even greater than usual he talks in pantomime only at great length and it is a toss up whether his pantomime or chi co s efforts to translate it into words is funnier planned for fall is a household hints program starring zasu pitts it if she can ever stop in making a k i n g pictures long enough to appear on an air pro 1 gram regularly putting t this h is pro gram together is a job for a magician for while zasu is al ways nays a comedienne to her public at home she is just the w worlds 0 r I 1 d s greatest zasu pitts housekeeper and cook nobody could write funny lines about zasu s cook ing if they had ever sampled it and her new kitchen which she de signed herself is a model of ingenuity beauty and efficiency As you may have read zasu has been working on a cook book for the last year or two lily pens pons last broadcast of the season before leaving tor for hollywood to make the girl in the cage I 1 for was a big night for her she was elected the best dressed stat star of the radio studios an honor for merly divided between helen jepson and gladys most singers take such honors in their stride but not the volcanic and appreciative precia tive lily motion picture producers have just about given up hope of interest ing their public in shakespeare but broadcasting companies have decad ed the bard s stirring lines imes are just what the public wants john barry more mores s NBC program has proved a tremendous success since the first monday night a few weeks ago when he presented a foreshortened version of hamlet for its corn com hour columbia has signed up an impressive array of talent everybody would like to have an employer like walter he thinks that every workman ought to have three months a year in which to get away from his job his hired help are supposed to relas relax and seek new impressions but joan bennett sylvia sidney and henry fonda are all going on the stage d during aring their vacations madeleine carroll is going yachting off the coast of great britain charles boyer and pat patterson are going to france to make a picture any time henry fonda and gary cooper want to stop acting and open a traveling art ex hibit they have plenty of lucrative offers both are can did camera fans and when they have a few minutes lei sure between scenes they stroll around whatever s studio t u d 1 0 they are working in and snap pictures of players off guard they have some fine gary cooper snaps of stars snood ing in chairs of directors watching scenes with obvious disgust of romantic co stars glaring at each other between scenes but they won t sell them ODDS AND ENDS shirley temple is learning to yodel for her next picture dick powell and F franchot fone tone are just two of the many players who long to make westerns carole 1 lombard has tampered with the color of her hair to the extent of making it a deep golden blond the new color shows up better in technicolor john johr gambling who for twelve years has roused the radio audience at six forty five and bullied them into doing morning exer aises sits in an easy chair while he bellows at his audience and never takes any exercise connie boswell has her first big screen role in Colum columbia bias s its alt all yours J C nugent stage veteran is also in it which leads to a lot a of friendly arguments since the picture is being directed by his son elliot who learned his stagecraft acting in his fathers corn com ponies deanna darbins director has rigged up an old fashioned auto horn to call her from the schoolroom to the mo lion tiou picture set when lights and cameras are all ready to go a western newspaper union ih |
