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Show tar Bust Picturing Thomas Edison "k Great Picture to See k O'Brien Rates Contract tly Virginia Vnle ' THERE are two new books that should greatly interest inter-est you, one if you like the movies, the other if you are interested in radio serials in , general and two in particular, particu-lar, "Pepper Young's Family" Fam-ily" and "When a Girl Marries." Mar-ries." The book for movie fans is by an i ex-motion picture actress, Patsy Ruth Miller; its title is "That Flanagan Flan-agan Girl." Patsy Ruth mada a name for herself on the screen In the days of silent movies, although she's very young to be a veteran of that era. Some of you old-timers may remember her as the girl In the Lon Chaney version of "The 'Hunchback of Notre Dame." She gave up the movies for the stage, after a while she's one of these girls who want to take a shot at everything. Simultaneously, and very successfully, she tried her hand at writing short stories. Then she went back to Hollywood and wrote scripts for the movies, also successfully. success-fully. "That Flanagan Girl" is that rare thing, a novel about Hollywood which doesn't try to get even with the place and its people by slamming slam-ming it. As for the other book, It's Elaine Sterne. Carrington's "All Things Considered," a collection of short stories that have appeared in some of our best magazines. Mrs. Car-rlngton Car-rlngton made her name as a story writer and a playwright before she ever thought of writing for radio. The life of Thomas Edison is now being turned into motion picture history. his-tory. Two pictures based on it are " being made "Young Tom Edison," with Mickey Rooney, and "Edison r j'II1' ' """ j " 1 1 l ' At -: ' : ' SPENCER TRACY the Man" with Spencer Tracy. Tracy took a trip East to familiarize himself with the famous inventor'i background he visited the Edison laboratory at Menlo Park, N. J., and then wgnt to Washington to talk with Charles Edison, son of Thomas. |
