Show it I STAR DUST I J Movie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE ALF of Hollywood is diligently diligently diligently dili dili- H HALF gently searching for giddy comedies the sort that have made Carole Lombard and Irene Dunne outstanding stars The rest of the film colony figure that the public is going to be fed up on loony antics soon and are getting ready to delve into very serious serious serious seri seri- ous film biographies Garbo still sUll wants to do a comedy but has turned down four tour stories that the studio has bas submitted to her Kay Francis is all rill set to launch into a laugh epic Tyrone r v Power and Loretta 1 t Young have started t work on Her Masterpiece Mas Mas- fi h hop hoping o p i in n g Y y J. J that It will be as entert entertaining en en- ining as their their cur current r en t Second 4 f sl Honeymoon In the Kay Francis ical leal division there is the life o of Clara Barton in which Irene Dunne will star the life of ot Alexander Graham Bell inventor of the telephone In which Tyrone Power Pow Pow- er will be featured and the life ille of ot George Sand woman novelist which will star the dainty Annabella iC In the latest radio poll pon Charlie McCarthy l to no ones one's surprise Is voted the most popular radio star and by a wide margin too The great hit of the ventriloquists ventriloquist's dummy dummy dummy dum dum- my and the growing appeal of Betty BettyLou Lou Loa that imaginary character on the Vallee hour hoar has bas set radio sponsors sponsors sponsors spon spon- sors to looking for novelties And the next one to bid for your approval al will be a talking parrot Sketches arc all written for the bird but the feathery star itself has bas not been lo- lo lo lo- It seems that all the tryouts have been a failure anure It takes a long time to score success success success suc suc- cess in radio motion pictures and andon andon andon on the stage so it is a good idea to start at the age of eleven as Joy Hodges did She is almost twenty- twenty one now and can point with pride to the months when she sang on the radio with Ted Fio Ritos Rito's and Ozzie Nelsons Nelson's orchestras You will see her on the screen in Universals Universal's Merry Go Round of 1938 and she is playing the lead with George Cahan Cehan Cohan Co Ce- han in the outstanding Broadway hit of ot the year Id Rather Be Right which spoofs the New Deal in amiable amiable ami ami- able fashion She supported herself bersel all through her four tour years at Des DesMoines DesMoines DesMoines Moines high school by singing at revival meetings and on the radio hyou c- c When you yon see sec Carole Lombard In Nothing Sacred and Barbara in Breakfast for Two you may assume that a course in boxing Is a necessary part of every screen actress' actress training Barbara puts on gloves and goes after Herbert Herbert Herbert Her Her- bert Marshall for all she is worth pummeling and swinging until you begin to fear that Marshall will have to play masked bandit roles th the rest of his life Carole doesn't stop I for gloves or any such niceties She just goes into a slaphappy slap routine with Fredric March larch with no holds I barred iC The M-G-M M radio hour improving every week is going to be even better better bet bet- ter because it has p been decided to concentrate con con- concentrate I. I t i more on comedy Ted Healy who hasn't had a t chan chance e really to distinguish distinguish dis dis- v himself himsel In their pictures has t tJ walked off with allfie all allt t the fie hon honors rs In their radio shows All in in- inquiries inquiries about audience audience audi audio ence reaction bring a request for tor more Milton lilton Berle BerIe Healy specialties You will be getting them from now on Soon R. R K O. O will launch a radio ra dio dlo hour with Milton Berle as master master master mas mas- ter o of ceremonies probably ceremonies probably late at night so that it wont won't interfere with your going to the theater to see their pictures K ODDS AND Grand ENDS National Las has ambitious plats plans to star Tex Ritter Ken Maynard and Ruth Mix in one big Western super Western When you hear a dog barking in the radio serial Pepper Youngs Young's Family it isn't a sound sound effects man nun at work vork It is s the thc well trained trained pet of oj Jean Sothern regular regular regu lar member oj of the cast Charlie Farrell encouraged by the great comeback comeback comeback come come- back of oj his Ms former partner Janet Gaynor is s going to try a comeback too with Paramount Eleanor Holm had to swim alongside two alligators alligators alli alii gators in Tar ans Revenge Two Tico rifle marksmen stood by just in case Latest actor to want Olitia Olivia de to play opposite him in a Broadway stage play is Brian Aherne but she still says No l' l Voting will begin soon for Jar best screen performance per of oj the doe year and Charles Boyer Boer is likely to win win for Jar his portrayal al o of oj f Napoleon in Conquest Meanwhile Mean Mean- while w several radio sponsors hate have voted Nadine Conner currently subbing sub sub- bin bing for Jor Jeanette MacDonald Sunday nights the best woman singer on the die theair air m e Western Newspaper Union |