| Show Star Stal- Dust Coy Beauty Queen k Summer Football A Gingers Ginger's Mas Ma's Career I By Virginia Vale TIMES IMES certainly have changed Miss iss Vera Dickens Dickens Dickens Dick Dick- ens of Lynchburg Va was May Queen at Randolph-Ma- Randolph con college and as a result pictures of her appeared in inthe inthe inthe the news reels Whereupon Metro offered her a screen test and possibly a contract But she wasn't at all sure that shed she'd accept said that she sho wasn't particularly interested In a movie career h At Universal they're sort of out outon outon outon on a limb When they sold the Mad Madame me Curie story rights to Metro they made a deal which r h i j Sy ti l ly I y it cl c l 5 ROBERT MONTGOMERY lERY gave them the services of Robert Roberl Montgomery James Stewart and Robert Young when they had the right stories for these three young men And tune time passes and they dont don't seem to have yet found the right stories h Maybe l you yon think Its It's summer but the the football season Is already under underway underway way in Hollywood Paramount Is filming Its yearly football picture Touchdown Army with practically practically Uc lly the same cast that last year did Hold Hol Em Navy Taking one college a year they can keep going forever at that rate Paulette Goddard is taking her career seriously at the moment She plans to go to the Cape Playhouse on Cape Cod In time to appear in French Without Tears and its it's said that Charlie Chaplin will coach her And of course if 11 the plan should be a great success and be bedone bedone bedone done in New York with her still inthe In Inthe Inthe the cast she wouldn't be at all annoyed Virginia Payne the star of the popular radio serial Ma la Perkins Perkin has all plans made for Cor her vaca vaca- tion She wants to to go to Alaska and she he wants Mrs Patia Patla Power Tyrone Powers Power's mother to o go with her Mrs Power has agreed to go The only difficulty is that Miss 1 Payne after elaborately making plans may have bave to stay home She's not like those lucky radio stars who write their own material and can just write themselves out of a sketch for Cor a few Cew weeks when they want to go away av n Ginger Rogers' Rogers mother has stepped out She was a newspaper newspaperwoman newspaperwoman newspaperwoman woman way back In the Texas days when Ginger was just a youngster who did the t r Charleston awfully awful awful- t ly well She has always stood behind be be- ti hind her talented daughter helping her along and mss h encouraging her Now she feels aY that its it's time for her to make a alife I L iJ life for lor herself hersel Mrs AIrs Lila Rogers Ginger doesn't need her now she says So she packed up and went to New York with a play Funny Man that needed a producer She also though that wasn't generally known was wason wason wason on a hunt for new talent for the screen I There are a lot of at radio stars who believe that Its It's the second profession that you follow not tho the first one that brings success Jack penny Senny enny began as a violinist Burns and Allen were tap dancers Lum and Abner were comedians before they adopted the tho characters of rural storekeepers Phil Baker was a musician and Fred Allen was a juggler way back in in the beginning ODDS AND ENDS Jean ENDS Jean Arthur has hus been shopping for a collar for a cat and arad then having to 10 explain to tha the salespeople that dial she she really wants it for fora fora a baby lynx lynx the tho Wild Dill Hickok company brought the tho lynx back from Utah and Jean wants to keep it for a apet apet pet Lionel Barrymore spends h his spare time in the tha studio designing a yacht compass campau And James Stewart Steuart has a J 16 6 mm movie camera with which hes he's been snapping everybody in You ou Cant Can't Take It ft With You John Beatis Bealis Beat Beall is breaking in a new meerschaum pipe the gift o of f Edward Eduard Robinson I 3 Western Newspaper per Union |
