Show I I STAR STARDUST t. t DUST t Movie vie ove Radio ao By VIRGINIA V VALE ALE IT JT WILL be a long time beL before be be- L fore radio and motion picture pie pic ture executives forget the abdication abdication ab ab- ab of King ex-King Edward VIII of England The radio speech he made just before he left England was so moving moving ing that everybody is trying to arrange a regular program program pro pro- gram that will win have tenth one-tenth of its appeal On all sides they have haye been hearIng hearing hear hear- ing tag of how strongly it affected its hearers And the movie people would give practically anything for tor fora tora a story hall half as dramatic and thrilling thrilling thrill thrill- ing lag as the one they followed so eagerly ea ca- ca- ca gerly In lit the newspapers Of course they'd like to film a picture based on the real story but that's for for- bidden tc Janet Gaynor is going to freelance freelance freelance free free- lance after being under contract to toone toone toone one company for so long She is now 4 making A Star Is IsBorn Born on the Selz- Selz z nick because AA lot t she h Ilk liked d h her er par part t 1 r o V from the moment y she read rend it So she's J going to go on Selecting selectIng selecting se se- her 0 own w n roles with roles with the consent consent con con- nies sen sent t that a of f th the happen e companies companies compa compa- to Y t v. v be making the p pic- pic c- c Janet Gaynor tures and she's crazy about the idea Her worshiping worship worship- ing public should be too tc Bing Crosby's radio programs al always always always al- al ways have such a casual air that they sound as if it they were being made up on the spur of the mo mo- ment meat As a matter of fact they're written by the ace man of one of our biggest advertising agencies Which all goes to show that it takes experts to make people sound nat nat- ural iC The new version of Seventh Heaven is coming along fine with Simone Simon in the role that made Janet Gaynor famous Camous overnight and James Stewart in Charlie Farrells Farrell's Farroll's Far Far- rolls roll's place Henry King who directed directed di die Lloyds of London which you'll want to see is wielding the megaphone iC Speaking of Lloyds of London brings up the fact that his work in that picture made a star of young Tyrone Power son of the famous old actor of ot that name Twentieth Century Fox is giving the young man a stellar part in Love Is News with Loretta Young playing opposite him He had bad a hard inird time tune getting started being his fathers father's son wasn't the help yond you'd think i it might be Now hes he's on his way iC fr frOne One of our ace directors returned from England recently after completing completing com a very successful picture and announced that hed he'd never gc get over on one thing that happened to him win In Hollywood he is accustomed accustomed tomed to discussing the rewriting of a scene with the author who is working on the picture and having said author promptly leap to a typewriter type writer and dash off the new version In England he was working with witha a well-known well woman writer They would discuss the changes that bad hac to be made Then she would ge get into into her car and go to her country home A week or so later she would return with the new version of ot the tho scene perfectly written At At first the tha director nearly went mad eventually ally he wondered why everybody didn't work vork that wa way tc Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone are the most recent recruits to the Broadway stage stage stage- that is they are i if lr i they can find just 1 i and lh 1 the right play t. t 1 it its it's S rumored t th that h a at t they have and nd i if ift t I t the studio will let m i 1 them have leave eave of oft t tt t absence It has been 1 L no secret that the am ambitious bt 1 J Joan 0 a at n a t i wanted to try the J e L. L d stage some day she once danced on it it Joan and n now w sh she wants Crawford to act But she wanted to wait till she felt ready for tor it and has always insisted that her husband must act net with her because because be be- cause shed she'd lack confidence 1 if he heI didn't And as 35 he made quite a reputation reputation reputation rep rep- for himself before he went to Hollywood the change wont won't be hard for him iC ODDS AND ENDS Shirley Sidney Temples Temple's father Jollier has lies abandoned the she banking business and wul become an agent for actors Now hell he'll have hate to 10 spend M his time trying tring to find somebody somebody some some- body who'll be as successful success on the screen as Shirley Shirle is William Powell appear with without ut his Fats at tache-at at his request in request in The Last of Mrs First time in 15 years that hes he's done it If you I listen to Jack Henn Kenny's Bennys radio programs youve you've heard Kenny Daher You Youcan Youcan Youcan can tee see as I well ll as hear him in En The King and amI the Chorus Girl Carola Carda Lombards Lombard's new picture hen I-hen its it's finished fin fin- hell he'll do two songs O C Western Newspaper Union |