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Show I Star .IDii.st Yesterday $ Ghosts Vocal Tragedies Fred and Ginger i siy Virginia Vnle ! i t rANT to see what kind of VY role Clark Gable drew in his early days of making pictures? Then you'll have to go to "Painted Desert," recently made by RKO-Radio with George O'Brien, originally origi-nally filmed by RKO-Pathe i in 1930. Lee Shumway plays the villain originally played by Gable. By way of delving Into the past again all the still existing sets that CLARK GABLE were used for pictures made by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Fair-banks were demolished the other day. Some of them were nearly 20 years old. They'll make room for a getting for the next Goldwyn production, pro-duction, "The Last Frontier." Pity Carole Lombard. When her pal, Alice Marble, our No. 1 woman tennis player, was winning the Eastern Grass Courts championship at Rye, N. Y., Carole had to depend de-pend on daily telegrams to Inform her of her friend's progress, because be-cause the matches weren't broadcast broad-cast Luckily for her the last one was played on Sunday the strain of trying to work while It was going on would have been terrific! The latest fashion news Is to the effect that soon the girls will be wearing adaptations of the styles of 1304 the reason being that Claud-ette Claud-ette Colbert will soon be seen in "Zaza," and that the clothes she wears in the picture are so fetching that everybody's going to want clothes like hers. Felix Knight, the young tenor who's being heard more and more often on the air, is going to keep right on until autumn with his nation-wide program that is heard Fridays Fri-days from 6:00 to 6:15, EDST, over NBC's red network. One of the things he gets excited about, between be-tween broadcasts, is the number of young people whose voices are being be-ing ruined because they're going to teachers who aren't really good. Says he knows any number of boys and girls in California," where he used to live, who would be successes suc-cesses if only they were properly taught. But he can't tell them how to go about finding really good teachers says that he just happened to be lucky. 5K If you happen to be In New York and want to see some of your favorite fa-vorite radio stars when they're off duty, the place for yon to go Is the drugstore in the building where the NBC studios are located. Visiting movie folks and stage stars haunt the restaurants, but for some reason i the radio start turn like homing pig- I eons to that drug store. Did you happen to be listening to the radio while the music from carerree," the the new Rogers-Astaire Rogers-Astaire picture, i was broadcast i with Irving Ber-j Ber-j lin, its author, in I the studio? It's ; nice music, and ! apparently it's I also a nice picturebut pic-turebut still the ; rumors grow and I grow, to the ef-; ef-; feet that Astaire i wants a new . . , . j dancing partner, Frd Astaire ; and Ginger wants a new leading man. I ODDS AMD ENDS Fred Ibbetl, a iHiran in the field of radio produc-I produc-I fim, declare, that his lino of work otfrrt the greatest opportunities to j young newcomers of any phase of in- d'tury . T yrone Vowcr had a lot of I fun on his trip East-one of hit en-I en-I Wrmrnts being for luncheon tDilh I Madiie hians . . . Madge., incidentally, "as jnllen for the new fad of painting h'-r - frnxer nails uhite . . . Remember Julie Haydon, who left the stage for the movies, and couldn't get anywhere : m the movies, and now is a terrific hit j n the stage? . . . Well, the movie pro-f'r-rs are after her ay.in-can't see how it happened that she just never got any nd parts uhen she uas in Holly ; . . . -Four's a Croud' k a pretty , - pirture; better put it on your list. I W esti-rn Newspaper Union. |