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Show Star Bust Television Their Chance Old Stories Retold Dolls Hobby of Ripley I ify Virginia Vale JUST as radio gave a break to many old-time vaudeville vaude-ville actors, television is likely like-ly to offer new opportunities to theatrical and motion picture pic-ture performers whose fortunes for-tunes have hit the skids of recent years. A young radio executive remarked gloomily the other day that Radio City seemed to be all full of theatrical the-atrical agents, all of a sudden, sud-den, the lot of them very busy with candidates for television acts. Like the talkies and radio, this new form of entertainment will probably go through that horrible first stage when anything goes. And the children chil-dren of today will be the television stars of tomorrow. Two of the big current pictures, "Only Angels Have Wings" and "Union Pacific," are going to make you feel right at home as they unfold un-fold on the screen. You know their plots by heart. Yet the pictures are so well done that the staleness of the plots doesn't Interfere with the enjoyment of them. Richard Barthelmess, back on the screen after a long absence, appears ap-pears in the Howard Hughes aviation avia-tion picture as one of those tight- if if A ' ; S ' I :. - t j. j RICHARD BARTHELMESS lipped aviators who sternly carry on when their best pals have been shot down this time Ecuador is the scene of the story, and the excellent cast includes Jean Arthur, Cary Grant and Thomas Mitchell. It's a thriller. "Union Pacific" is one of Cecil B. DeMille's best, with Barbara Stanwyck Stan-wyck and Joel McCrea. Here is melodrama at its best, with brawls in old-time saloons and Indian fights and here also is a thrilling tale of the building of a railroad. James Stewart has star rating at Metro at last, after deserving It for lo, this long time. His first stellar appearance will be in "The Shop Around the Corner," with Margaret Sullavan. w Louis Hayward and his wife, Ida Lupino, finally broke away from Hollywood Hol-lywood for a honeymoon; they were married last winter, but "The Man in the Iron Mask" kept him boey. They selected New York for their belated trip. Lee Tracy's next will be "The Spellbinder," with Barbara Read appearing as his leading lady. That old adage should be rewritten, rewrit-ten, to read "There's no rest for a radio star." Vicente Gomez, the guitarist, gui-tarist, is starred in the Broadway production, "Mexicana." After performances per-formances he rushes to the night club where he appears he's through at 2 a. m. And his radio schedule calls for appearances at nine in the morning. I- Bob "Believe It or Not" Ripley isn't like most professionals; he doesn't keep a scrap book because, he remarked recently, he's estimated estimat-ed thai if he'd kept clippings from all the newspapers in which his cartoons car-toons alone have appeared, they would require an average-sized house. But he has a collection to which he doesn't begrudge plenty of room. It consists of more than 500 dolls which were gathered in 200 different dif-ferent countries. He has been offered a small fortune for the collection, but won't sell even part of It. Phil Baker popularized the word "stooge" in vaudeville and radio, but hasn't the faintest notion of where he got it or what it comes from. ODDS AM) ENDS The day Paul Wum was signed to do "The Life of hmile .ola' on the air he was bitten by a stray dog-whn probably thought that Muni was to air "The Story of l oms Pasteur" . . . So oj n0 time, in buying the screen rights to the p ay that uon this year's Pulitzer prize, Our ln . l(inp in tpchnicolor u ill i ' " 'Tf h'' vision, it trusts rr Ipisr. li" - i "cm . . . li enter J an men conductor o ,P ,!lt,tinwre ' "hestra (,md Ann . ' J anger to compose and conduct a al score ,r "Winter Carnival' o;"cZ:ll!T"u,h srndu'te' and leased by Western New.pap.r Unlon.l |