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Show i 1 1 STAR 1 ' f DUST J i J Movie Radio I By VIRGINIA VALE JUST as motion picture theater the-ater managers all over the ' country are planning to abandon aban-don Bank night and lamenting lament-ing that the custom ever was started, a radio sponsor is said to be figuring on a way to adopt it. Certain legal, or rather illegal, aspects of the case have to be ironed out before be-fore it can be definitely announced, an-nounced, but present plans call for the weekly award of one thousand dollars to some listener holding the lucky number. Numbers will be printed on the package containing con-taining the sponsor's product, purchasers will mail them to the broadcast studio, and there the drawing will be held which selects the winner. Hollywood studios have always flattered themselves that they paid their performers the highest salaries In the world, but now it appears that Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, Diet-rich, and Greta Garbo are Just poor working girls in comparison to Gracie Fields, who is England's favorite favor-ite star. Twentieth 1 iww.M.iFpW Century-iox couia Tt-not Tt-not let the British f?.J'S? studios get away Dletr,cl1 with a monopoly on the best of anything, any-thing, so they have put Miss Fields under contract to make four pictures pic-tures In Hollywood. None of the pictures she has made in England have been shown here, because in them Miss Fields spoke the Lancashire Lanca-shire dialect which might as well be Czecho-Slovaklan for all Americans can make of it Over here she will deliver her lines and songs in plain English. From New York to Hollywood Gloria Swanson's loyal friends gave parties celebrating the end of ber too-long retirement from the screen, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced an-nounced recently that she was to star in "Maisie Kenyon." Now it appears that the celebrating was a little premature, because neither Gloria nor the studio is satisfied witb the story, and her plans are all up In tbe air again. The most exciting and beautiful picture ever made In Technicolor comes from England and will soon be seen In theaters throughout the country. It is "Wings of the Morning" Morn-ing" a United Artists picture. Harold Har-old Shuster went over from Hollywood Holly-wood to direct It, bur own Henry Fonda plays the lead, and John Mc-Cormack, Mc-Cormack, the Irish tenor who is adored wherever there is a phonograph, phono-graph, radio, or concert hall sings in it. As if that weren't enough, they have tossed in for good measure meas-ure authentic views of the running of the English Derby. Sylvia Sidney gets the week's award for being the best talent scout. Some time ago Marc Con-nclley Con-nclley told her about a play he was going to produce in New York and she said that she knew just the girl to play the lead in it. She bad seen a girl named Katherine Locke in a very small part in a play and she ' was sure Miss Locke would be wonderful won-derful if given a real chance. Sylvia didn't wait for Mr. Connclley to send for Miss Locke. She located her and she got the part. Eleanor Powell would like to form an alumni association of her old dancine school, but 4 JltotJ $J all the people who are eligible for membership in Hollywood Hol-lywood are much too busy making pictures to be bothered both-ered with attending meetings. There is Ginger Rogers, Buddy Bud-dy E b s e n, Ruby Keeler, and Miriam Hopkins and they Ginger Rogers are among the busiest bus-iest people out here. Eleanor herself has a little time on her hands only because she turned her ankle and has to stay at home for a few days to rest before she can go into a strenuous number for "Broadway Melody." ODDS AND ENDS-Marlene Diet-nch Diet-nch thinks that she and Carole Lombard Lom-bard look alike and both girj are delighted de-lighted . . . Miriam Hopkins has 'bought the late John Gilbert' house and it redecorating it in lovely pastel colors that best set off her blond beau-ty beau-ty . . . Paul Muni has no lurking ambition am-bition to cut in on Jack Benny's comic honors, but he did play "The Bee" on the violin for a jew friends . . . About half of the beautiful girls in Hollywood tried out for the part of Flavia in "The Prisoner of Zenda." Madleine Carroll- got it . . . Bert Wheeler is so unwilling to leave the sunahine and swank of Pulm Springs that he is commuting to llollyuood by airplane . . . a Western Newspaper Union. |