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Show ! STAR 1 I DUST j S Movie RaJio J By VIRGINIA VALE LITTLE did Jack Benny know what he was letting himself in for when he decided decid-ed to go to New York for a few weeks and do his broadcasting broad-casting from there. So many requests for tickets came in, and from very important people too, that the largest studio at Radio City wasn't anywhere near big enough to hold them. So, National Broadcasting company com-pany bad to rent the biggest ballroom ball-room of the Waldorf-Astoria and send the Benny broadcast out from there. Jack Is one of those big, affable, patient fellows who can remember re-member practically everybody he ever met, and he has met thousands in his years of vaudeville, musical musi-cal comedy, pictures, and radio. First results of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts awards are beginning be-ginning to be no- ticed at the studios. Luise Rainer, whose performance In "The Great Zleg-feld" Zleg-feld" was voted best of the year, has been given a five-year five-year contract by Metro Goldwyn-Mayer. Goldwyn-Mayer. Paul Muni, who got the year's award for the best we actor for his work in Paul Muni "The Story of Louis Pasteur," evidently figures that ha won't be out of a job for a long time, so he is talking to contractors about building extensive dog kennels ken-nels at his house. Someone has given him a valuable schnauzer, and he is shopping around for some other dogs. For the fifth successive year Walt Disney won the award for best cartoon, car-toon, Mickey Mouse in "Country Cousin" being the one singled out as the best of the year. Yon will have a chance soon to see all of the Disney winners in one evening, as United Artists Is going to combine com-bine the prize-winning comedies of the past five years, calling them the Walt Disney Revue. Edgar Bergen, the ventriloquist who has become such a favorite on the Rudy Vallee radio hour, has joined the wonderful array of comics, com-ics, opera singers, and dancers that Sam Goldwyn has lined up for his Goldwyn Follies. Bergen's skill as a ventriloquist was developed when he was just a youngster. He liked to play jokes on his mother, making mak-ing strange voices call to her from various parts of the room. Later he worked his way through Northwestern Northwest-ern university giving shows at college col-lege parties. Apparently Sam Goldwyn won't be happy until he signs up simply everyone of note in the entertainment entertain-ment world for his Follies company. Over in London he has put Vera Zorina, sensationally successful young ballerina, under contract You may have seen her in person, for last year and the year before she toured the United States, playing play-ing in one hundred and ten cities with the Monte Carlo ballet company. com-pany. She won't just dance in Goldwyn pictures, but will be groomed as a dramatic player. Jane Withers Just dares any kidnaper kid-naper to come around her house threatening her now. In addition to her usual bodyguard, body-guard, a Texas Ranger who looks as if he could rout an army , single-handed, single-handed, her father is usually around, and he has been sworn in as a deputy depu-ty sheriff, complete with guns. Further- Jane Withers more. ere Is an electric signal beside be-side her bed which rings a bell in all the police stations near Beverly Hills. Everybody is betting that the mischievous Jane will never be sole to resist pushing the button just once, just to see the police come dashing to her rescue. ODDS AND ENDS: Janet Caynor tlippfd out of Hollywood and went to New York for a vacation, and now she lay she won't come back until sht can play in a comedy . . . Skippy, iht famous wire-haired terrier whom you know as Asta in "The Thin Man" pic-lures, pic-lures, has biff part in the R-K-O pic- lure, China fassage , . . Joan Crawford Craw-ford has launched a new style, wearing wear-ing old-fashioned bead bracelets that match the color and design of her print dresses . . . Sonja He.nie cancelled can-celled the rest of her personal appearance appear-ance tour and hurried back to Hollywood Holly-wood to make pictures. Maybe the rumor that Tyrone I'ower was rushing other girls had something to do with her impatience to return . , . Bobby Breen i.1 going to star in a new radio serial called "The Singing Kid" for National Broadcasting . . . Another protram to watch for it Paramounl's Sunday morning hour that will be ttaged at the studio. 6 Wei tern Newspaper Union. |