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Show tar list Ash-Sifting Diva Jolson, Model Mayor "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 of 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 j - A - X - . i l Irene Wicker her way from one side of New York to the other when she saw 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 chef's masterpieces. Some day AI 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 about it. Since he's been their mayor he has secured for the town a jsystem of street lighting, many miles of paved streets and the promise of an up-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 "Lavinia 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. m Perhaps a wave of remakes has hit the Hollywood studios. "Beau Geste," one of Ronald Ron-ald 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 . fi.Q 2 'y I ians have wondered why some company Gary CoopeP 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 "Marco Polo"; they had to ! be taught to eat out of Sigrid Curie's hands . . . Republic has actually found a story for Gloria Swanson's attempt at a come-back usually, after companies ' signed her, they couldn't get a suitable ' story . . . HKO is grooming Mitzi Oreen for stardom, apparently . , , The ' next De Mille spectacle will be based ! on the story of the Union Pacific ... j Anna May Wong is selling her colleo twn of screen souvenirs to raise money 1 or the Chinese victims of the war with ' Japan . . . Cary Cooper plays a scene u , s?ailiacket w "Bluebeard's Eighth 1 io ; he was wearing it one day u hen the whistle blew for lunchand 1 his co-workers got a laugh by going off 1 and leavtng him in it . . . Paul Taylor, director of numerous radio choirs, de-cidt de-cidt d to be a singer when he was four, teen years old, and sang before an evangelical convention of 6,000 people the Big Sister" program, began hi, i career on the air when he was seven . . . . loan Blaine, chosen as radio's best. dressed noman. declares that her most I Za J- k brLthe ' F Black |