Show STAR STARDUST i I DUST 1 Movie Radio a io By VIRGINIA VALE ACH year the Paramount E EACH company can be counted on to present a thrilling panorama panorama panorama pan pan- orama of American history in the making and this year they offer Wells Fargo which in many ways tops an all previous efforts even last years year's Plainsman for sheer excitement The adventure heroism and romance romance romance ro ro- ro- ro mance of developing coast to coast transportation hasY has Y the breathless sweep I. I r i of fiction doubly stirring because we wet t know it is based on fact Joel McCrae f j and nd Frances Frances Dee are lre the principals in the interwoven romance and Bob Burns steps out of character to play a stalwart of the early West Wesl Bet- Bet ter send the children Joel McCrae early to see this one they will want to stay all day And they'll learn a lot of American history in a painless and ent entertaining entertain entertain- ing fashion Greta Garbo stole quietly away from rom Hollywood without even saying saying saying say say- ing good-by good to her closest friends and sailed away to Sweden to stay indefinitely Her contract with Goldwyn Metro calls cans for only only only on on- ly one more picture and It Is likely that she sho will make that one In England Metro Mayer Metro Mayer Goldwyn etro-Goldwyn- ayer want Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man Bradley narrator on the CBS Sunday Evening hour from Chicago Chicago Chi CM- cago to go into motion pictures but Mr Bradley is reluctant to take a chance so they have bave arranged what is probably the most comprehensive series of tests ever given a per per- former For one whole month Bradley Bradley Bradley Brad Brad- ley will make daily dally film tests in New York flying back to Chicago weekly for his S Sunday evening stint A new combination of talent Is putting putting put pat ting over the On Broadway program program program pro pro- pro pro- gram heard over NBC Don Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son known to radio listeners as the comic Professor Is writing writing writing writ writ- ing the program and the leading player Is Alice Allce Frost of the Big Sister cast Fredric March and his wife Florence Eldridge are running into so much excitement on their stage tour they are half tempted to write a n scenario around their adventures Recently the company became frantic frantic frantic fran fran- tic when one of the leading actors became ill just before a perform perform- ance That persuasive Freddie March who really should have been beena a salesman talked Kay Johnson the film player into tackling the role after a brief rehearsal Miss iss Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son was traveling with the company company company com com- pany to be near her husband John Cromwell who directed the play playas as asa asa a sort of vacation from directing spectacular pictures like The Prisoner Prisoner Prisoner Pris Pris- oner of Zenda Anyone in Hollywood will tell you that a picture motion star is lucky if he can hold on to his popularity for five years One of the lucky exceptions is Richard Dix Db who has hos just signed one w of the biggest contracts contracts contracts con con- tracts of his life after aft aft- rr 7 s er fifteen years of tt t l uninterrupted j t larit larity R. 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O plan to make a big West- West era ern spec spectacle t ac 1 e something some some- 1 t. t thing on the order Richard of Cimarron bis his biggest success Like Jack Holt HoIt another veteran he gets better with age Ethel Merman could have signed a picture motion contract any time during the past four years but the popular blues singer preferred to tomake tomake tomake make just one picture every year or orso orso orso so and then rush off oft to New York and forget about it In Happy Landing however she is so well photographed and her voice so so beautifully beautifully beau beau- recorded that she has succumbed succumbed succumbed suc suc- to Twentieth Century Fox Century Fox blandishments and will make pictures pic plc tures regularly for them from now on on Ethel whose perfect phrasing has made her many a composers composer's favorite singer thus adds one more chapter to an inspiring career She was a stenographer and a speedy one who used to get occasional engagements engagements engagements en en- to sing at parties Taking a n chance she went into a small night club at very low salary and within a few weeks had hod a contract to make Warner shorts ODDS AND Sonja ENDS Henie Henia has haJ organized an ice carnival company that will ivill tour several cities while chile she waits nails for tho tha scenario of oj her next picture picture pic plc- ture lure to be written Jessica e sica Drag Drag- is being tempted by motion picture pic plc cure turc offers again Nobody can read Fred Allens Allen's scripts but the comic him him- I self elf Ills His writing is microscopic Maureen hurried back from England to play with Norma Shearer in Marie Antoinette fd e Western Newspaper Union |