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Show ! STAR 1 i DUST Movie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE THE life of a motion picture pic-ture star leaves a good deal to be desired, no matter how much money or fame or fun he has. There's the little matter of the effect of the studio lights on the players' eyes, for example. ex-ample. You don't hear so much about "Klieg eyes" now as you used to, but the danger is there just the same. William Powell has had really se-rlous se-rlous trouble with his eyes of late, and Eric Blore is so careful of his that he will work only a certain number of hours a day about four or five. Can't afford to take risks, you know. Blore Is a delightful person. per-son. Has an English accent off the screen as well as on. Goes visiting on other sets in his favorite costume, cos-tume, a resplendent lounging robe and dark glasses. When motion picture actresses come to New York for the first time they usually state hjjininn-iiV ,i,-fsfi ir'imir 1 for publication that I they Just couldn't jj wait to see the sights the places 1 like Central park 1 and the aquarium, that all tourists want I to see. But in Anne I Shirley's case that I was what she did I really want to do Anne Shirley York, she was taken west when she was five, and when she took her first eastern trip not long ago she made a bee line for Central park. She drove around it in the morning, morn-ing, dashed off for lunch, and returned re-turned to walk around it in the afternoon. aft-ernoon. "Dodsworth" is a grand picture, one of those perfectly finished pictures pic-tures that Gohlwyn so often gives ns. In the making they seem to have done something to Mary As tor's voice; it is a velvety contralto. Walter Huston gives a superb per formance, of course, in spite of the fact that he played the role so often on the stage that he might be excused ex-cused for being awfull tired of it. On the RKO sets they call Helen Broderick and Ann Sothern "The Rocking Chair Twins," because the girls insist on having rocking chairs to rest in between shots, instead of those canvas-seated arm chairs with their names on the backs. And there the girls sit and rock and rock, for all the world like old ladies on country hotel porches. . Lily Pons will try anything. She is working hard on "Street Girl" at present; remember when it was made as a silent picture with Betty Compson? (Incidentally, the title is going to be changed.) But she is also al-so getting ready for appearances with the Metropolitan Opera company com-pany in New York, so she is learning learn-ing to dance. She will sing in "Coq d'Or," and will also dance. Heretofore when this opera was given, the singers sat on the sides of the stage and merely mere-ly sang, and the action was taken care of by trained dancers. Lily's role was danced by the premiere ballerina, the last time the opera was performed. Jeanette MacDonald seems to like long engagements. She was engaged to Bob Ritchie for years and years, but nothing came of It perhaps because be-cause Gene Raymond came along. Now he and she are engaged, but say that they won't be married until un-til June. John Boles has a new movie contract, con-tract, which he wouldn't sign unless it stipulated that he wouidn t nave xo sing! He has been rushing about the country mi king personal per-sonal appearances, and doing so well that he had to play return engagements almost everywhere. His delightful wife, Marcellite, J o u r-neved r-neved to New York. i7m I A ' i I ,' i I ? ' t Basil l aw i i m i1 1 : mHm planning to see him John Boies there between hops. ' Meanwhile his latest picture, "Craig's Wife," has been released. Rosalind Russell is the wife, a role which permits her to be as disagreeable dis-agreeable as she possibly can. Odds and Ends . . . Shirley Temple't getting fat.. . George Raft bet $2,000 to $3,000 that the Giants would win the World? series . . . Constance Bennett Ben-nett owns me race horses and Claud-ette Claud-ette Colbert is thinking of buying some ... Richard Cromwell is enjoy ing his vacation from the movies; he is appearing on the stage in "So Proudly We Hail," and doing very well with a difficult role . . . Robert Montgomery fairly haunted the theater the-ater where "Night Must Fair played when he was in New York; wanted to play the leading role in the screen version if Metro bought it, and they did . . . The pre-view of "The Garden of Allah" will be held on the largest commercial plane on the American service. 6 Western Ktwapaper Union. |