Show Star Stal- Dust Ost DustA A Chorus Gene Autry A Discover Nancy Kelly k Gary Cooper Merchant 1 By fly R Virginia Vale Valo SINCE S INCE quizzes are so popular popular popular lar these days heres here's one for you movie The amusement you get out of it if any will be your only re re- re- re ward war warI 1 I. What motion picture actor gets the most fan mall almost man almost more letters each week than either Shirley Temple or Clark Gable 2 What motion picture star is the most popular one now making westerns Hes He's just about as popular as any star making any kind of pictures I 3 What That star who according to owners of theaters In villages and arid small cities draws good audiences when other better publicized stars fan fall to do so receives but a picture when stars getting far ar larger Jarger salaries draw many many thou thou- thousands thousands thousands sands more 4 What star star but but what's the use when you know by now that the an an- answer answer to all the questions is Gene Autry Republics Republic's singing cowboy Exhibitors In the smaller cities have been much smarter apparently than the ones In the big towns where Autry was concerned They've shown his pictures for some years and made money on them The big towns haven't discovered him yet et his pictures arent aren't shown In the big movie palaces of the land He lIe used to be a telegrapher for a railway later he played the guitar and sang ballads for various small radio stations Republic engaged him to make westerns and imme Immo- immediately immediately he be was a success now some of or tho the other motion picture com corn companies companIes panics would like to get at him Wm away from that studio and cant can't do it U. His latest picture is Rhythm of ot the Saddle his next will be West Western ern cnn Jamboree Nancy Kelly thinks Its It's pretty fun tun- funny tunny ny fly that Hollywood discovered her after she made Submarine Patrol Patro as she already had 52 pictures to her credit was for a time the best- best known actress on the radio and had bad made an outstanding success on the NANCY KELLY New York stage And she is just seventeen Her career started when at the age of 01 three she won a healthy baby contest That resulted In hi her becoming a photographers' photographers model Then she made pictures in the East EasL When she acted In The Great Gatsby with Warner Baxter be he used to Introduce her as my future leading lady They're both under contract now to Twentieth Century- Century Fox so maybe be he was just a little bit previous about making a per per- perfectly perfectly perfectly good prophecy While he was working In The Cowboy and the Lady Gary Cooper designed a saddle The man who made it for him bun had orders for oth oth- others others ers ens like it before he finished the Ute first one so they're going Into partner partner- partnership partnership partnership ship to market the Gary Cooper saddle Lucille Manners has always thought shed she'd like to make a name for lor herself on the concert stage Now she's bad had grand offers from South A America and Australia AustralIa and and cant can't accept them because of or her radio commitments When Alan DeavItt who plays the Ute part of Wong the Oriental Oriental servant servant servant ant in This Day Is Ours answers the phone at home he protects himself from telephonic wast time ers ens by answering in the Ute dialect that he uses on the air The other day dayI I Templeton Fox and Jay Jostyn were lunching with him and he heI I didn't want to be disturbed So when he had to answer the phone he resorted to his usual trick Velly I solly soly Missa Deavitt no home he I said I Then he almost collapsed For the theman theman theman man at the other end of the wire had said Well VelI Im I'm just in town for the day and I wanted to repay the Ute fifty dollars I borrowed from him two years ago go and then hung up ODDS AND AAD ENDS Priscilla Large Lane is iJ cray crazy about the ic number seven Jeven wears a little gold one on her coat coal lapels has haJ hasU hasit U it embroidered on all aU her tier clothes for luck Wonder if anyone has told laid her that thaI Lina Lilla went wen I in heavily for sevens years ears ago ugo on rings bracelets etc Its It's rumored that Constance Bennett Uennett doesn't doesn intend to 10 be the he Mar Marquise quise de la Falaise much longer ire We the People maintains a large largo field organization to 10 call upon people who apply to go on all the ic program and look into their stories e 0 Western Newspaper Union S 4 |