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J 10 I By VIRGINIA V VALE ALE INSPIRED INSPIRED by the swarm J- J of locusts in The Good Earth and the terrific storm in Goldwyn's Hurricane several picture motion producers producers producers pro pro- have set out to capture capture capture cap cap- ture high honors for staging spectacles that make your you hair stand on end Advance reports indicate that thai Twentieth Fox Century-Fox have topped all in fn the matter of spectacular destruction de de- de- de This company in filming In Old Chicago staged a fire that destroyed a sixty-acre sixty city In Inthe Inthe Inthe the midst of stampeding cattle and terror stricken crowds gas mains burst and shoot pillars of flame high into the air nr oil gushes from tanks and sets sets' the river ablaze Before this cycle of horrors catches up with our screens we should give thanks to C Carole Lombard for providing us dJ with another completely com corn f loony comedy com corn I edy True Confes Confes- Confes- Confes i. i sion No one can f j 4 play a girl who v 1 seems not quite bright with the gus gus- I 1 c t rK to lo of the beauteous Lombard and in this J she has the perfect N role for her that of Carole Carolea a girl who just C can can- Lombard not tell the truth f Radio programs that Introduce you to your neighbors both famous and obscure and act ad as community get get- get are arc getting more pop- pop alar afar every day Charles Martins Martin's Front Page News and Thrill of the Week have been renewed for Cor fora Cora a year Edgar Guests Guest's It uIt Can Be BeDone BeDone BeDone Done Bob Ripley's pro program am and nd Gabriel We uWe the People are slated for a long and successful life liCe Paul Wings Wing's Sunday morning spelling bee over NBC has a list ol ot applications yards long from Crom people people peo peo- pIe who arc are eager to test their pro prowess ess K Jean Muir was a very unhappy girl when she I left lett t Hollywood a few V weeks ago For the three years orso orso or orso so that she was under con contract to toWarner toWarner Warner Varner Brothers she had been pleading for Cor a good role in one of their big pictures but they relegated ed her 0 to dull parts in quickly- quickly made the run-of-the-mill films flIms Nowlean Now Nowlean lean Jean can rejoice that Hollywood lether let lether her go She opened in a play in London London Lon Lon- don and t two o talent sc scouts cabled Hollywood that she was the big find of Dr the year She will probably come comeback comeback comeback back with a contract calling for Cor a much bigger salary The most important member of Benny Goodmans Goodman's swing band is a woman and she doesn't play an in in- strument She holds the checkbook So while you wont won't see see her with the boys in Hollywood Hotel you youcan youcan youcan can just figure that she is there in spirit She is Ethel Goodman elder elder eld eld- eld er sister of Benny and in in the year that she has been with the band she has not only kept all accounts straight she she has mothered the boys taking care of them when they were 11 11 bullying them when they wouldn't eat their spinach or get enough sleep sympathizing with them when they were unhappy Marek Weber distinguished V Viennese Viennese Vien Vien- m. m nese orchestra leader beginning his direction of the Carnation Carnation Caroe Car- Car oe 1 nation Contented Spy Hour this month succeeds Dr Frank FrankI I r Black whose duties f leg x 1 ate as a. general musical l i director of NBC t forced him to relinquish relinquish relin relin- the baton halon j With Webers Weber's debut r Pf J as conductor The If tn v t Contented H Hour o 0 u r rs s u aJ enters upon its sevc sev sev- nth t h consecutive Marek 1 Weber e c n year on the air In Europe Weber is known as s the of light music Franz Lehar Le Le- har composer of The Merry Widow Widow Wid Wid- ow said of ot him I cannot wish for Cor a a. a better interpreter of my works than Marek Weber ODDS AND ENDS ENDS Jack Jack Benny Kenny wont won't start working on his next pic picture pic- pic lure ture for 0 a few weeks so Paramount has Iras assigned his old ld dressing room to Marlene Dietrich Jack and his hiJ radio script writers arc are no end upset because because because be be- cause that is where they do their best work Myrna Myma Loy encourages the freckles o on her face by going ab about tt in inthe inthe inthe the sun hatless hatles The Jec freckles les serve seTte asa as asa as asa a a fine disguise when she appears in public Edward Edl G. G Robinsons Robinson's new picture The Last Gangster is the best gangster film of all a Glenn Morris who stars tars in Tartans Revenge says exactly four words I in the whole hole picture picture pic pic- ture Lure Tony the stage back bootblack bootblack bootblack boot boot- black at the Ille C C. B. B S. S playhouse rouse in New NewYork NewYork York has hu Iris own olOn way of honoring Kate Smith lIe He keeps a special rag ragin ragin in ill his Ms left hip rip pocket with which he ha shines her shoes just before she goes to to the mike Bing Ding Crosby end and George Murphy entertained cd the shoppers shop shop- pers peT in a Hollywood store no end when George decided to play floorwalker floorwalker floor floor- walker and Ring fling decided to sell handkerchiefs hand hand- kerchiefs When customers bulked hag Ding threw in a song Q Western Newspaper Union |