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Show Star 'Iftust Sleuthing for Talent A Glutton for Doing Typical Actor at F our I My Virginia Vale IF A stranger bobs up in your town and begins asking people to take screen tests, don't be surprised; just blame it on Jesse Lasky, who began making pictures way back in the early days. Probably you've listened to his "Gateway "Gate-way to Hollywood" on the air, and perhaps you heard the final result of that search for movie talent the selection of Rowena Cook and Ralph Bowman as the two fortunate young people whose names will be changed to "Alice Eden" and "John Archer," with the leading roles in the picture, "Career," as their first screen appearances ap-pearances under these names. Six other contestants were given contracts, and the search for new faces for the screen will probably be taken up again by some of the big producing companies. About every so often this search seems like a good idea to the movie-makers; usually it is practiced for a while, with plenty of ballyhoo and results that are anything but spectacular, spec-tacular, and very little in the way I of real talent is brought into the I studios. Carrying it on with the aid of radio, as Mr. Lasky has done, may be the solution. Certainly there are plenty of potential movie stars in our midst, and all they need is a chance to make good. Jean Parker seems to be the pub. lie's favorite actress for the roles of the heroines of Gene Stratton For- JEAN PARKER ter's novels. She appeared recently in "Romance of the Limberlost," and was signed recently by Monogram Mono-gram to do "Her Father's Daughter," Daugh-ter," by the same author. "Never a dull moment" seems to be Leslie Howard's slogan these days. Playing a leading role in "Gone With the Wind" isn't enough to keep him really busy, it seems, so he has signed with Selznick International In-ternational to act as associate producer pro-ducer on "Intermezzo" and play the leading role as well. It is scheduled to go into production early in May, and he is spending his spare time on pre-production plans. There's an amusing story going around about Sally tilers' four-year-old son, one that would indicate indi-cate that he's losing no time in acquiring the typical actor's point of view. He made his screen debut in "They Made Her a Spy," his mother's latest picture. And when he was shown some of the rushes he demanded, like any actor greedy for close-ups, "Where's more shoots of me?" Seems hard to believe, but Major Bowes' "Capitol Theater Family Hour" celebrated its 852nd week on the air recently. It's the oldest of the broadcasts, and the Major deserves de-serves a few bouquets for the way he has handled it. ODDS .7 f:DS-Ihat new "Author! "Au-thor! Author!" program thul is broadcast broad-cast on Friday evenings promises to be almost as popular as "Information I'lease" . . . And "Injormutiqn Please" has made it practically impossible to get a dinner party together on Tuesday Tues-day evenings if there's nol a radio in the dining room . . . "What's My Name?" u hich recently left the air, will return to take Fred Allen's place |