Show STAR i DUST DUS T I IJ J M. M Movie OVle R Radio a J. J 10 J By VIRGINIA VALE B BETTE ETTE DAVIS is still trying trying trying try try- ing to live up to o the reputation reputation tation she made for herself by her performance in Of Human Bondage and in J Jezebel she does pretty well Furthermore she shows as much courage In playing the heroine as she shedid shedid shedid did in that t other success success for for once again she has bas a decidedly unsympathetic unsympathetic unsympathetic pathetic role Jezebel is a good picture with witha a good cast and an assortment of Southern accents that's something to hear Its It's the first of a collection of Civil war pictures pictures pictures-or or rather pictures pic- pic pic pictures tures with a Civil war background background- which will include The Unvanquished qui shed and Action in Aquila as aswell aswell aswell well as Gone With the Wind Vind provided provided provided pro pro- vided they ever get around to mak malt malting making making ing that last one h Remember all the to-do to about I whether Paulette Goddard rd would or would not land the role of Scarlett in im that same Gone With the Wind Well after signing a long long- term contract with David she was assigned to a starring co-starring role with Janet Gaynor Ga in The Young in Hears which ought to tomake tomake tomake make a picture And speaking of the talented Janet discussions discussions discussions dis dis- dis- dis of those Academy awards 3 b k a q 4 4 w 1 f f F Janet Gaynor Ganor still echo from the hills about Holly Holly- wood Lots of people thought the little Gaynor ought to receive one of the awards for her performance InA In InA inA A Star Is Born In fact they got pretty sentimental about it because she won the Academy a award for the years year's best performance way back in 1927 for her work ork in Seventh Heaven You'll certainly want to see Deanna Dean Dean- na Durbin in Mad l About Music There you have a plot a delightful one perfectly suited to the talents of the youthful star and with nith a grand part for Cor Herbert Marshall which he handles expertly e In fact its it's a grand picture all the thc way through with the young Deanna singing a popular number I HI Love Loveto to Whistle as beautifully as she does docs Gounod's Ave HAve Maria l Graham McNamee celebrates 15 years of broadcasting this spring though he feels perfectly pertain certain that he hc hasn't been at it that long But it actually was 15 years ears ago ngo that he went into the office of a aNew aNew aNew New York station looking for a job Hes He's been busy ever since since since-hasn't hasn't been without a commercial program since they first were put on the air 7 Peter van yan Steeden is having a lot lotof lotof lotof of fun with a new recording device When his friends telephone him he records their voices and then telephones telephones telephones tele tele- phones them later laten and plays the record back to them Its It's funny the way that radio audiences are classified For instance instance in instance in- in stance Haven MacQuarrie's Do You Want to Be an Actor program program program pro pro- gram was considered just right for foran foran foran an automobile company that wanted to plug the sales of used cars the cars the program was said to have strong middle class appeaL ODDS and ENDS That new Tim and Irene sumo show is going great guns guns' May be one of the he most popular radio programs of its kind before be long Jane Withers has a new trailer which she uses wes as a dressing room Stan Laurel had to get Het a new derby for Swiss Miss the one hed he'd been using for twelve years fell to pieces Howd How'd you like to fa earn your living by supplying bugs butterflies butter and insects insects in in- sects to fa a motion p picture tUle studio Anon A Aman Aman man non in Hollywood does it Radios Radio's Voice of Experience was an automo bile salesman for thirty days before he became become the Voice of Experience and averaged a sale a day i If f you hear Mary Livingston getting mixed up in her lines on that Jack Benny Denny broadcast broadcast broad broad- cast you'll know that she had something something something some some- thing to cat eat usually she doesn't eat cat atall atall at atall all on Sundays until the programs program's m over For one scene in Holiday Katherine Hepburn had laad to run up a two fifty-two step stairway she did it nine times in succession And wa was Cary Gary Grant glad lad that the script arranged d to have him walk walT Western Newspaper Union |