Show i STARDUST STAR i i I DUST BUST i Movie Radio Radi o By VIRGINIA V VALE ALE f THE Prisoner of Zenda 1 threatens to become everybody's Iy's favorite picture Girls love it because it is tenderly tenderly ten ten- derly deny romantic boys are crazy about it because it is a thrilling adventure story and the old folks like the pomp and circumstance of the court scenes Of course the mere fact of Ronald Colmans Colman's presence presence presence pres- pres ence is enough to bring crowds to the box offices He plays a dual role arid and the only complaint is that Madeline Carroll does not play two parts too She is probably the most utterly charming heroine hero hero- i inc ine of the year year any any year ic Hollywood had a lot of surprises recently that sent all the girls scurrying out to buy g P presents Miriam rb Hopkins up and eloped with Anatol S LItvak the director t and Alice AIIce Faye and andt t Tony Martin l rushed t v of oft off to Yuma Ariz r 4 and got married fU 4 Religious differences i had caused the 4 1 breaking of at their engagement engagement en en- several Miriam times she sho b being e C i n g gHopkins gHopkins Hopkins Ca Catholic he Jewish To make matters more complicated both had anti anti- marriage clauses in their contracts with Twentieth Century The studio has forgiven thorn them but parents parents par par-j are said to be still pouting Mr T i T nr n no w groom has just finished directing I Claudett Colbert In Our Night at Warner Brothers' Brothers No Noone Noone No Noone one over there will ever forget him In a scene that took place in a market he insisted on having real geese turkeys and chickens The Thc hot sun got in its deadly work and players had great difficulty going through their scenes without holding holding hold hold- ing their noses Finally the studio had to replace the poultry every few hours but all attempts to use papier mache ones failed Mr Litvak Litvak Lit Lit- vak yak detected the imitations at once and refused to work until real ones were provided tc Claudette Colbert's good humor made a host of or friends for her anthe on an the Warner lot and everyone is sorry that she was loaned to them for only one picture One afternoon almost everyone's nerves were shattered shattered shat shat- shat- shat by the many sunny repetitions of or a scene While she was talking to Charles Boyer a dog was supposed to come in carrr carrying ng a shoe in its mouth Over and over the scene was played but the do dog never neve- came camen In n at just the right moment Finally Miss Hiss Colbert serene and fresh as asan asan an in April morning suggested that the lie director let the dog play the scene with Boyer Boer and she would tome come in on all fours carrying a shoe in her mouth iC K KEver Ever since James Cagney walked out mt of the Warner studio and rind went I t to work for Grand National w where he is as happy as can be be there have been battles between the studio studio studio stu stu- dio and andl their players Now Joan Blondell is on strike She thinks she has been working too hard and refuses to start on the new picture scheduled for her Kay Francis is trying to break her contract says that she signed It only because be be- cause they promised to give her the leading role in Our Night tight And And after all all they gave the therole therole therole role to Claudette Colbert iC K Bing Crosby's absence from his radio program still leaves a big gap gapIn gapIn gapin In Thursday nights night's but t M v it last there is lS a anew t. t picture of his to tobe new lew k be seen and heard f I while hile we wait walt for tor fornis 7 nis return to the air waves Double or L. L t u t L 1 t i J. J L is 15 W and casual and amiable amiable ami ami- able just like e all t. 1 Crosby r 0 s b y pictures Three of the thc songs vare v I J Jare are real hits hits Its Its Bing Crosby the Natural Thing to toDo toDo Do Its On On Its Its It's Off Qa and The Thc Moon 1 Got Into My Eyes Martha Rae Rayc is there w with th her frenzied buffoonery buffoonery bu- bu and Mary Carlisle makes the prettiest heroine he ever had tc K ODDS AND ENDS ENDS J since Nelson Nelson Nel Net son Eddy joined Ida Lupino and Charlie Char Char- lie McCarthy in that goofy goo spy travesty on the Sunday evening coffee hour radio radio ra ra- dio and ancl picture fans jalU have hate been begging begging beg beg- ging gins him him to play in a picture motion comedy Phillips Lord is sending out Christmas presents now nou because he lie knows he be too busy in December December De De- cember with his Gang Busters and Wethe We the People Peo He tie sent Mark Marl Warnow of the Hit III a ii J watch i with most complicated com corn Four times a da day the WorkS whiz hi around gaining hours I It came wit dill a guarantee that it would tell lell tha correct time e Western Newspaper Union |