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Show tttt 1 DUST t Movie Radio S By VIRGINIA VALE NOBODY makes excuses about being late to parties par-ties in Hollywood these days. Guests arrive all misty-eyed and glowing with enthusiasm, and the hostess knows before they explain their tardiness that they have been to see Greta Garbo in "Camille." Everyone has gone to see it not once but many times, and the greatest great-est stars agree that Greta's performance per-formance is sheer magic. When you stand up in the back of the theater where "Camille" Is playing you find yourself right in the midst cf an all-star castl Without giving her friends time to do anything in the way of tare well parties and bridal showers, Mary Pick ford quietly booked passage pas-sage to London for herself and her niece. Buddy Rogers Rog-ers took an earlier boat. If there is a lull of a few days during the production produc-tion of the picture for which he is go- ing to England, they Mry rickfori will be m a r r 1 e d then; otherwise they will wait until he has finished the picture. Before leaving Mary signed contracts with several players and technicians. She has every intention of going back to work as a picture producer about May first when they return to Hollywood. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., has been homesick for Hollywood. The film colony was surprised, though, to learn that he had persuaded United Artists to grant him leave of absence ab-sence from his important Job as producer and star in order to take an acting role of secondary importance impor-tance in Hollywood. He will play in "Prisoner of Zenda" in support of Ronald Colman and Mary Astor. , When Fred Astaire was a mere child trying out with his sister for an amateur show in St Louis, the greatest dancing stars in the world, and the darlings of International society were Vernon and Irene Castle. Now Irene CasUe McLaughlin, McLaugh-lin, widow of Vernon who lost his life as an aviator In the war, has shown up at a studio with the exciting ex-citing story of her life. Fred Astaire As-taire will Btar in it Any girl who ean make an outstanding out-standing hit In a picture in which the smoothly expert Myrna Loy and William Powell appear is not Just good, she is marvelous. That is what directors on the M. G. M. lot have been telling Dorothy McNulty ever since her appearance in "After the Thin Man" made audiences burst into spontaneous applause. In the midst of all the enthusiasm over her at the studio, everyone neglected neg-lected to make sure that she had been put under contract. She didn't mention it because nobody asked her. And Paramount slyly came along and signed her up for their pictures. . '.. Many actresses would be more than satisfied if they could sign a contract with Paramount guaranteeing guaran-teeing them four hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. But Carole Lombard insisted on adding clauses guaranteeing that Teddy Tetzlaff, her favorite camerman, would always al-ways photograph her. And that Pat Drew, 6tudio electrician who lost a leg in a plane crash, would always al-ways be employed on her pictures. Letters have poured into the Twentieth Century-Fox studios by the thousand begging beg-ging that Shirley Temple play winsome win-some little girl parts instead of the Emart-aleck, wise-beyond wise-beyond her years blues singer of recent re-cent pictures. Many of the letters came from mothers whose daughters model their behavior on Shirley Shirley's latest pic-Temple pic-Temple ture. Taking their advice to heart, the studio selected "Wee Willie Winkie" as Shirley's next picture. If she does any imitation of Alice Faye or Tony Martin singing, or of Bill Robinson dancing, it will be away from the camera. ODDS AND ENDS Not to bo outdone out-done by National Broadcasting com j pony tvhich has Minnie, tho Singing Mouse, under contract, Hollywood ha found a trio of tinging mice and is featuring them in "Tho Three Legion-naires." Legion-naires." These mice, to be different, all sing buss ... Gary Cooper and George Raft are the latest camera fiends. They hang around Bing Crosby's Cros-by's set whenever they are not working work-ing on their own, snatching candid shots of the players , . . Simone Simon takes all the jokes about her name with good humor. She had her birthday birth-day gift to John Swopo inscribed "To Swope SwoDe." e Western KewsDaoer Union, j |