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Show ! STAR 5 i DUST J t Movie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE ONCE more Rudy Vallee has shown thaf he is the greatest talent scout in the radio business.. Tommy . Riggs, the two-voiced personality person-ality who has been appearing on his program the last few weeks has made an outstanding outstand-ing success and will soon have a program of his own. The brash little girl that Mr. Riggs plays with such devastating humor promises to be as popular one of these days as is Charlie McCarthy, Mc-Carthy, the famous ventriloquist's dummy. Incidentally, the people whom Vallee started on the road to radio success ought to get together to-gether and put on a gala program as a tribute to him. It would include in-clude such headliners as Walter O'-Keefe, O'-Keefe, Bob Burns, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, and Tommy Tom-my Riggs. And what a program that would be! Mona Barrie is the latest screen belle to seek a change from Holly- It '""'K! . , , . I he i iB wood on the New York stage. While rehearsing, for "Virginia," "Vir-ginia," a great musical mu-sical spectacle that will open the Center Theater In Radio City, she told me about her last and she thinks best picture. It is Jim-mie Jim-mie Cagney's "Something to Sing James Cagney About," in which Mona plays her first real comedy role. She plays a foreign for-eign actress with a heavy accent and has a glorious time swooping through scenes in the grand manner. man-ner. She says that Jimmy is just tops to work with, which makes the verdict practically unanimous. The greatest picture of the year, perhaps of many years, has re-reived re-reived a chorus of criticat acclaim such as has never been heard before. be-fore. It is "The Life of Emile Zola" with Paul Muni. As crusader for the oppressed, as the most eloquent elo-quent and forceful man of his time, Paul Muni gives an inspired performance. per-formance. Don't let the praise of this picture drive you away from it with a faint suspicion that it may be educational, but dull. It offers the most exciting and thrilling evening you could spend in a theater. With radio's summer lull over soon dozens of big programs will be angling for your attention. Irene Wicker, the greatly-beloved singing lady, moves to the Mutual network early in October offering a series of original sketches with music. Jack Benny returns to the air at the same time. Margaret Tallichet, who abandoned aban-doned a newspaper job in Texas to break into the movies, has found that even after a career is well started, it still has as many downs as ups. You may recall that she appealed to Carole Lombard for help and through her got a small contract with Selznick-Internation-al. Well, Miss Tallichet played small roles in "A Star Is Born" and then the studio decided to gamble on her to the extent of sending her east to dramatic school for further training. She appeared at the Mt. Kisco theater opposite no less a personage per-sonage than Henry Fonda and proved conclusively that she needs a lot more training before she can play big roles. Up in Dennis, Massachusetts, Gertrude Michael appeared on the stage in a play of early Colonial days and made a big hit. A regular parade of automobiles ntade the long trip from New York to see her, and when she came out on the stage the rafters rung with applause from her Broadway friends. They were Bdiuiing ner courage , in u,;;., Gertrude m winning a two- mfii.oi year battle with se- Mlehael rious illness as weU as her fine skill as an actress. ODDS A'D F.NDS After trying to borrow Kenny Uuker, or John I'ayne, or Jimmy Stewart, or Gary Grant, or Utck Arlvn, the producer of Lily Font' next jclure has finally given up the search for a new leading man and given the role to Gene Raymond who played in her last picture . . . Jack Uenny'i friends are saving all the re-uetvs re-uetvs of "Artists and Models" which rave about his performance to show him when he returns from Europe. All through the making of the picture he quarreled with the director and objected ob-jected to his lines and felt utterly dismal dis-mal over what he expected would be the flop of the year . . . Joan Crawford Craw-ford likes to run her pictures at home for her young niece Ui see. The child houls every time she sees Auntie Joan on the screen . . . John Barry-more Barry-more is working up a hilarious imitation imita-tion of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy to amuse hi friends between be-tween scenes at the studio. Western Newaoaoer Uniaa. |
