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Show lar list Hollywood Modistes Amazing Women Private Radio Jokes It j Virginia Vale 1 CAROLE LOMBARD and Clark Gable really ought to go into the dressmaking ! business. They co-operated Ion a sports jacket which Alice Marble, the United States' Number One woman ! tennis player, will wear when ' she steps out on the courts of i Wimbledon, England, to battle bat-tle for a championship. Carole designed the jacket, (she's ! Alice Marble's best friend) and : Clark had his tailor make it. It's a knockout. And Alice, tall, blonde and pretty, will wear it. Remember "Dawn Tatrol," In which Richard Barthclmess starred, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., after ; pleading and fighting for the role, olayed the second lead so ably that I - U ERROL FLYNN he stole the picture and proved him- self a good actor? Well, it's to be j made again, with Errol Flynn, Pat-: Pat-: ric Knowles and Basil Rathbone in the leading roles. Claudette Colbert, who recently got home from that European vacation, vaca-tion, likes simple clothes but listen i to the description of the dress recent-! recent-! ly designed for her by Travis Ban-! Ban-! ton, one of moviedom's ace design-! design-! ers. It's frilly, it's frothy; it's of white organza, covered with a printed print-ed pattern of cherries in black. The skirt is shirred and full, the neckline neck-line is outlined by a flounce, with wider flounces forming the sleeves. Sounds anything but simplel Alice Brady has had years on the stage and years in the movies, but when you hear her on the radio you may be sure that she is nervous. The microphone simply scares her into such a state of nerves that the pages of her script have to be pasted past-ed on cardboard, to keep them from rattling. Encouraged by its success In building Ginger Rogers up as a dramatic dra-matic star, RKO is going to try to do the same thing with Ruby Kee-ler, Kee-ler, the dancer who Is Mrs. Al Jol-son Jol-son in private life. You'll pee the first results of the new campaign in "Mother Carey's Chickens." With Fay Bainter and Ralph Morgan also in the cast, the girl will have to act or be utterly swamped. Bob Ripley has' discovered, in his search for "Believe It Or Nots," that it is three and two-thirds times as easy for a man to become an amazing person as it is for a woman to do so. He finds that amazing women are just as interesting as men, but rarer. The only reason he can give is that they don't have as much chance to distinguish themselves them-selves as men do. The first thing any of us know, someone is going to form an organi- zation to protest against radio programs pro-grams which are awfully amusing to the audience in the broadcasting studio, but pretty dull to those who just tune in, and can't see what is going on. Eddie Cantor Is one of the worst offenders. offend-ers. After all, radio ra-dio is supposed to beheard, notseen. And I Kddie Cantor more than one instance in which a listener, at home, swore never to buy the sponsor's product because it was so annoying to hear the laughter and not know what was funny. "WW ,1V) f.-A7S-'uramHl may '"""'.v V"r" ' -x.im,,li! and launch an " ohyw m (, . . . Sllln Luurvl mul "'J lunswn bride. ,, jmlrth wed. 'K vr,m,my . . . frank lllavh save, ' sMm, r,,m (Jf(,,Kr pl and . V ; 'V' ll-hich keep I ofl,ce filled with both friend, and rf- -if fa Arrnl "f Marco no ie i ' I'""! U radio b not to Western Newspaper Union. |