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Show STAR f i DUST t Movie Radio J ! By VIRGINIA VALE TT IS a toss up whether A Madeleine Carroll or Lo-retta Lo-retta Young will be the most-exquisitely most-exquisitely dressed screen star this winter. Miss Carroll writes from Paris that she is having the time of her life selecting costumes for "The River Is Blue" which she will start making for Walter Wanger when she returns to Hollywood. Loretta Young was in New York recently buying fur coats, hats. and dresses by the score, just as if she hadn't had any new clothes in ages. Hollywood designers have Just about run out of ideas for Loretta Lo-retta for in her last four pictures she har had altogether some 80 changes of costume, and each one was supposed to Lid be a knockout. The Made,eino more extreme and Carr, bizarre clothes are, the better she likes them so she keeps designers, working overtime. You will be hearing a lot from now on about Ilona Massey, who makes her American screen debut In M-G-M's "Rosalie." Officials of the company are so delighted with her performance in a minor role that they are going to give her the title role in "Pompadour," one of the most alluring beauties in history or drama. There is one popular radio player who will have to mend her ways if she ever goes into motion pictures and most of them do sooner or later. Alice Frost of the "Big Sister" cast comes out of rehearsals with her forehead all smudged. She holds a pencil in her hand, and in a moment mo-ment of dramatic tension invariably draws the point across her forehead. -K The jinx that has dogged the footsteps foot-steps of all Hollywood players who appeared on the Broadway stage this season has at last been knocked out. Frances Farmer broke the spell. She opened recently in "Golden "Gold-en Boy," a play about a prize fighter, fight-er, and the critics went into rhapsodies rhapso-dies over her deft playing of romantic ro-mantic scenes. Radio performers develop some of the strangest hobbies, but for the present Tony Wons, the C. B. S. philosopher, is leading them all. He makes violins. He makes violins with the utmost care out of any old thing he finds lying around the house. Inspired, possibly by Bob Burns and his far famed bazooka, he his made one out of a piece of tin stovepipe and the tone to his surprise sur-prise is excellent. The battle of the two great glamorous glam-orous stars of the screen, Garbo and Deitrich, turns out to be no battle at all when you see their new pictures, pic-tures, "Conquest" and "Angel." Garbo is so far in the lead that there is just no competition at all. "Conquest" is a lavishly-produced, historically-faithful romance of the time of Napoleon, and Garbo as the lovely Countess Walewska has never nev-er been more appealing. "Angel," on the other hand, is just an inconsequential incon-sequential modern triangle story in which the camera lingers on Miss Deitrich to the exclusion of any action. ac-tion. Because of her good work in the new Fred Astaire picture, "Damsel in Distress," Joan Fontaine is going go-ing to get a strange reward. She is going to be starred in "Curtain Call," which Katherine Hepburn turned down. Don't think she minds taking this hand-me-down, though. It is a grand story. Edgar Bergen and Charlie Mc-! Mc-! Carthy will be in the cast of a new L ...... iiLLJ comedy that will feature Irene Dunne and as a result she is the envy of all Hollywood as well as the public at large. Her outstanding outstand-ing success as a comedienne in "The Awful Truth" Influenced Influ-enced Universal to postpone their biography biog-raphy of -Madame Charlie Curie and instead of McCarthy t13 story to cast her in a comedy. Thus she has established herself as a double threat actress, at home in heavy drama as well as light farce. - ODDS AND ENDS Constance Bennett Ben-nett it the envy of all the pampered $tars, because Alfalfa Sweizer of "Our Gang" comedies serenades her in his , hilariously-uncertain tenor ... Ken Murray and Ednar Bergen have eti-deny eti-deny decided that they ere In pia lures to slay because they have both bought ranches out near Al Jolson's . , . Ann Sothern's sister, Bonnie Lake, has composed a song and sold it for "Girl of the Golden West" . . . Kate Smith is toying with the idea of trying motion pictures attain. C Western Newapaper Union. i |