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Show By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Weitern Newspaper Union.) CUSANNA FOSTER, the 16-O 16-O year-old who sings C above ! high C, has appeared in two ! pictures, is being co-starred for the first time in Para-mount's Para-mount's "Glamour Boy." Jackie Cooper is her leading man, and thrilled her half to death recently when he came on the set with a huge box for her. It was a present, said he. The box contained set-chair you know, one of those special chairs with a canvas back-rest that stars always have, with their names painted across the back. Susanna took one look at it and burst into tears. Her name had been spelled wrong! Not until a sign-painter had fixed it did she really feel like a star. Joan Blondell and Binnle Barnes discovered a new wty of reducing; in "Three Girls About Town" they had to drag Walter Soderling around from one room to another, through hallways and down fire escapes. Each girl promptly lost five pounds, and it seemed likely that they'd be mere shadows by the Joan Blondell 'me the picture was finished. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, the loss of weight began to show on the film. So the director, Sam BischofT, had a dummy head made, with a face like Soderling's; now the girls are dummy-dragging. It does seem as If the young people peo-ple of Hungary would be too much upset at the moment to think of forming a fan club. But one Joseph Hamor wrote to Virginia Weldler recently, from Budapest, to tell her a Virginia Weldler club had been formed. The members wear badges bearing her picture, and are obliged to learn English. Virginia's honorary hono-rary president. Corp. James Stewart showed his family around the Metro lot the other oth-er day; Mr. and Mrs. Stewart and their daughters, Mary and Virginia, visited the sets of "Honky-Tonk" and "Smilin' Through" and had a chat with Clark Gable.. Laraine Day has been going on and on as Nurse Mary In the Kit-dare Kit-dare series the latest is "Dr. Kll-dare's Kll-dare's Wedding Day" but she has the most Important role of her career ca-reer In "The New York Story," with Edward G. Robinson, Edward Arnold Ar-nold and Marsha Hunt. RKO Radio received a nice communication com-munication not long ago; it was a letter from Maj. Gen. E. S. Adams, adjutant general of the United States army, saying that 'Parachute 'Para-chute Battalion" is "the most satisfactory satis-factory army picture produced to date." Remember "Rugglcs of Red Gap," in which Charles Laughton recited the Gettysburg Gettys-burg address so effectively ef-fectively that he's been In demand to do it ever since? It's been re-issued, which is good news for everybody who missed this hilarious hilari-ous comedy the first time out, as well as for those who want to see it twice. ' 1 Charles In Warner Bros.' Laughton "The Maltese Falcon" Humphrey Bogart plays his first detective role sort of a relief fr6m gangsters. So he can play love scenes. He has one with Mary Astor that was a change for both of them; gangsters can't have true loves, under the producers' code, and as for Mary, she said that the last time she'd been really kissed was in "The Prisoner of Zenda." Speaking of the beautiful Miss Astor, As-tor, she certainly stacked up laurels for herself in "The Great Lie," playing opposite Bette Davis. If you want to realize what excellent character char-acter portrayals the girls gave, see the picture on a double bill with one of those phony B pictures that Hollywood Holly-wood turns out. Those who loathe the commercials mixed into their radio programs will hail with delight the announcement that the FFC has granted a permit to Muzak Inc., to build a station in New York that will carry absolutely abso-lutely no advertising. ODDS AD E!DS-Margaret Lindsay's Lind-say's sinned to appear in four more of Columbia's Kllery Quern pictures . . . Victor McLaren ended hi personal appearance ap-pearance tour because "The Marines Are Ready" was ready . . . Jack ISenny I uill make "The Widow Wouldn't Weep" for Warners uhen he returns I from his vacation in September . . . I Richard Travis, cast opposite Bvtle I Davis in "The Man Who Came to Dinner," Din-ner," owes his big chance to her recommendation recom-mendation after seeing his test . . . Bob Hope's bad sunburn held up "Louisiana "Louisi-ana Purchase" . . . ZaSu Pitts will flutter har hands in RKO's "Week End for Three" ... |