Show y yS J S 10 10 BY VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union IN TN N HOLLYWOOD apparently apparently A one of the first things a young actor has to learn is when to quit a job if staying is likely to be a bad idea For example theres there's Allan Jones He left Metro because he didn't like the kind of parts he was getting when he got them Margaret Lindsay LIndsa left War War- Warner Warner Warner ner Brothers After Alter a while they landed the romantic leads In There Theres Magic in Music 4 and now theres there's a abig abIg r c big demand for tor a t them Cary Gary ry Grant and Jean Arthur depart depart- departed ed from Paramount f and and now look at them Dick Powell and Joan Blondell left Warner Broth Broth- Brothers Margaret ers era and nice fat tat Lindsay salaries now their I Want a Divorce shows that they were right in de de- deciding decIding de- de deciding that he wasn't just a singer and she was some some- something something F Fg thing thin g more than a 7 I slap happy girL The list goes on and on and on Fred i Astaire left t I Paulette Goddard J V t left Hal Roach to become one of ot Par- Par Paramount's Paramount's Paramount's amounts amount's most pop pop- popular popular ular players Basil Rathbone gave up upa j a fat tat contract at Metro because he Allan Jones was sick of ot appearing appear appear- appearing appearing ing in drawing room comedies Marie Ma Ma- Marie Marie rie Wilson left Warners and dumb dame roles to become a sophist sophisticated sophisticated glamorous woman in Para Para- Paramount's Paramount's Paramount's mounts mount's Virginia Madeleine Carroll left Walter to star for tor Paramount Metro was perfectly willing to le let Jet Deanna Durbin go elsewhere a tact fact from which certain executives executives' will probably never recover since Joe developed her into one of most valuable stars Virginia seems to be the mos most popular state In the Union so far lar faras laras faras as movie makers are concerned What with The Howards of 01 Vir VIr- Virginia The ginia Virginia and now Vanishing Virginian which Metro has just fast purchased yon you can hardly escape it for long lon If it yon you go 0 to the movies Knox Manning one of ot the best- best known news commentators walked right into luck recently when he used a Scandinavian dialect on the air sir Director Tay Garnett and Pro Pro- Producer Producer Producer ducer Richard Rowland were trying to find a performer who could both look Jook and talk a certain role in Cheers for tor Miss Bishop Garnett Garnet happened to turn on his radio heard Manning for tor the first time time and and now the radio man will appear in sup sup- support support support port of such experienced perform perform- performers ers as Martha Scott William Gar- Gar Gargan Gargan gan Dorothy Peterson and Sterling Holloway Quite a few tew years ears ago when he was a student at Yale Beirne Lay Jr spent 50 cents to see a picture called Wings and the course ol ot of i his life lite was changed Ho He decided I to be an aviator and to write about flying That was in 1928 1923 He decided to togo toco togo go co into the air corps in those days It took longer than It does docs now but buthe buthe buthe he was finally admitted to Randolph field in 1932 and nd was graduated the next year from Kelly Then he began writing He got a lot of ot re re- rejections rejections re- re rejections but he stuck to both tying flying and writing and was on his way to fame Last year after arter hed he'd sold some soine articles cuticles on flying his book I Want Want- Wanted ed Wings Whigs appeared Paramount bought it He Be thinks that proves the truth ruth his own story offers that offers that a aman amm aman freedom and future man mm who has freedom in America can get et anything any thin he wants If it hell he'll try hard enough In New York city Doris Dudley star tar of ot the airs air's Meet Mr Meek entertained members of ot the cast at ata a party In hi her haunted house When photographers ushered them Into the room where George Weinberg mem memo member member ber of the underworld either was killed or committed suicide and asked them to pose over the spot where the non eradicable blood bloodstains bloodstains stains show one chap gasped turned green and got out as quickly and quietly a as possible He was wai Frank Readick formerly the blood- blood thirstiest villain on the air The air The Shadow I ODDS AND ENDS Cl Thue spectacular p airplane air lane crashes will liU featured ensured be in I 1 fronted anted Wings Wing but bul but no mover matter r who teems seems e nu to Ii be b. crashing Paul Manti Mantz veteran leT n stunt lUIl pilot will probably be b. the Ille lad who icho Joel don the flying lying leading ading I up to 10 the ac as c C. C You may not nol consider Peggy Pelf Dig Dig- Diggins gins ins nJ Warners Warner's rl discovery The Most Mo Beautiful eau ful Irish Iri h Girl in America but butI ilea e pretty pr Uy enough to 10 have havo I the tLe sec sea second ond and feminine lead in Footsteps in the me Dark D uk opposite Errol Flynn C. C And the m. British can hardly hardy wait wail to 10 tee see Charlie Chaplin as The Great Gre 1 |