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Show Star Bust Pick of the I'eto Crop Tone Takes Up V. V. "k Kerrigan Still Leaving I lly Virginia Vale I TF YOU don't believe that A "Motion pictures are your , best entertainment," but that I only really good pictures can ! come under that heading, you'll be interested (I think) in knowing which ones an expert ex-pert has selected as the best of the new crop. The expert is W. G. Van Schmus, managing director of the Radio City Music Hall, in New York. Mr. Van Schmus is on a spot, always. Visitors to New York, as well as natives, na-tives, troop to his theater. He can't let them go away saying that the show was good but why In the world did he select that picture to go with it! Ushering in the new year with "Topper Takes a Trip," co-starring Constance Bennett and Roland Young, he picked "There's That Woman Again," (Melvyn Douglas and Virginia Bruce), to follow it Then "Trade Winds," (Frederic March and Joan Bennett), "The Great Man Votes," (John Barry-more, Barry-more, Virginia Wcldler), "Gunga Din," (Cary Grant, Victor McLag-len, McLag-len, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), "Made for Each Other," (co-starring Carole Car-ole Lombard and James Stewart), "Love Affair," (with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer), and "Stage Coach" (with Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carra-dine, Carra-dine, and Louise Piatt). Each film is scheduled for a week's run. The theater accommodates accommo-dates an audience of more than 6,000 persons; the picture is shown five times a day. It has to be good, you seel Franchot Tone bobs up all over New York these days; leaving Hollywood Hol-lywood certainly didn't mean leaving leav-ing the limelight. He Is appearing on the stage in a new play, doing a i lit v h r y I I ? Ci , k J " FRANCHOT TONE bit of radio work, and recently shared honors with Abe Lyman and Dick Foran as a celebrity at the first of the International Casino's "Sunday Night Informals," dedicated dedicat-ed to celebrities. When J. Rl. Kerrigan arrived In Hollywood eight years ago he said that he'd stay long enough to play the film role he'd been engaged for and then he'd go back to Ireland. He was then one of the Abbey play ers. He's still in Hollywood, (a role In "The Great Man Votes" was the most recent bait), and still thinks that, as soon as be can get away, be'll go back to Ireland. Edward Small is In favor of giving giv-ing new people a chance in his pictures. pic-tures. It was he who brought Robert Dfcnat to this country to appear in "The Count of Monte Cristo," and recently he made Louis Hayward a star in "The Duke of West Point." In his current production, "King of the Turf," starring Adolphe Men-Jou, Men-Jou, it's 15-year-old Roger Daniel who gets the big break. With radio and stage tempting movie stars to . lose interest in motion picture-making, picture-making, it's a wise producer who can spot talent and cultivate it and put it under contract! By the way, in "The Duke of West Point" you'll see some old-timers-Mary MacLaren, William Bakewell and Kenneth Harlan. All of the music that Frank R. White, organist on Dr. William L. Stidger's "Getting the Most Out of Life" program, writes for the Stid-ger Stid-ger hymns must stand up under Mrs. White's "24 hour test." When he writes a new hymn tune Mrs. White plays it twice on the organ. or-gan. Then if she's able to play ft from memory the next day White feels sure that the public will remember re-member the tune without any effort. ef-fort. But does he make allowances for the fact that Mrs. White probably prob-ably has an unusual memory? ODDS ASD ESDSJom Fontaine can claim to be one girl in a thousand; the cast 0 "Gunga Din" numhert about IflOO, and she's the lone female in it , . . Gabriel Heatter has a private telephone tele-phone number but this host of "W e, the People" gives it to so many friends that I if might as well be in the phone book . . . Lum and Abner frequently tele- phone former neighbors in Arkansas in : order to keep the right vocal inflections ! for their radio work . . . Richard llinu j ber's commitments for this year in- j elude three different programs on the three different networks for three different dif-ferent sponsors. Western Newspaper Union. |