Show Star Stat Dust DustA A So Back Came Olivier OlivierA A A Chance for Stardom A Air and Screen Lure By Virginia Vale I TAURENCE NCE OLIVIER star- star rf J-rf J. tied Hol Hollywood the other day by telling a bit of unflattering unflattering unflattering truth about himself Recently imported to play I opposite Merle Oberon in Heights for Samuel Goldwyn he announced announced an an- flounced that he was fired the thelast thelast thelast last time he was in Hollywood and went home determined never to go there again After all hed he'd made a success on the stage both in London and New NewYork York York why why should he hc bother with pictures Especially if pictures wouldn't bother with him You Yon see sec he was asked to go to Hollywood five years ago to work with Greta Garbo in Queen Chris Chris- tina Una But Garbo didn't like me announced Mr l Olivier And I was kicked feed kicked fired out l lX X y oJ A LAURENCE OLIVIER Resentfully he departed But he couldn't resist Mr Goldwyn's persuasions persuasions per per- suasions backed by a handsome pay check Incidentally Heights will give us something comparatively comparative comparative- ly rare on the thc screen nowadays nowadays-a a villain who isn't an American but butis butis butis is Mr Olivier who's British as can be Foreign censorship has played hob with pictures in which the villains villains vil viI lains bins represented foreign countries the country concerned was practically practically c cally lly certain to to make a fuss saying that people would judge all of its population by that one bad example So all aU villains have had to be bc Amer Amer- Apparently Olivier can present present pre pre- sent the kind of villain the British wont won't object to h hOne One number in Fred Astaire's The Castles may be a star Its It's The Thc Girl on the Magazine l Cover Cov Cov- er cr and for Cor it Hermes Bermes Pan Fan the pictures picture's pictures picture's pic pic- tures ture's d dance nce director Is Interviewing Interview intervIew- ing 1000 girls in order to select the eight prettiest girls in Holly HoUy wood With a start like that at least one of them ought to have her name above theaters in lights before before be be- fore another year passes r To a moment to er ering ng Heights when you see the picture you'll also see great masses of what appears to be real Yorkshire York York- shire shile heather Give credit for that thatto thatto thatto to Nick Stadler who can trick Mother Moth Moth- er Nature herself That heather is made from about plain American Amer lean ican tumble weeds The bushes farthest farthest far far- from the camera were sprayed with purple sawdust st st. Lanny Ross made two guest appearances appearances ap pea ances on the CBS Hit Parade and was promptly signed up for a full year Its It's his first regular radio assignment since he broadcast from Hollywood several months ago o. h Patricia Crosby Bings Bing's fourteen fourteen- year old niece from Seattle was a visitor at one of her uncles uncle's broadcasts broadcasts broad broad- casts recently but she refused to sit in the audience She and her father and mother listened from a booth stage off because Patricia thought their presence might make Uncle Bing nervous r. John Griggs who plays the villain viI vil lain Zero Smith in the Howie Wing radio serial can have a respite respite res res- pite from playing villains if IC he wants to Sinclair Le Lewis is has offered him Wm a part In the stage play that he and Fay Tay Wray have written Griggs thinks hell he'll take the part if it Mrs Griggs can have one too i Movie I folk have something new to worry about these days Many l of them have been appearing on radio broadcasts that originate on th the Coast and liking both the experience experience ence and the pay checks In fact its it's getting so that a n movie actor is likely to feel fecI that he cant can't really be popular unless hes he's a n success on the air as well as on the screen So So every every little while up bob ru rumors rumors ru- ru mors that most of the big radio programs now aIr aired d from the thc Coa Coast t have decided to r return turn to New YorkI York I ODDS AND ENDS Getting ENDS Getting a watch natch isn't so 0 difficult us as it wed used to be if il you lice lite in New York you ou just get a place on one olle o oj of the quiz qui programs that gite give watches to winners and there you arc Dog owners swear by Bob liob Keeker's Becher s Chat Chats About Dogs aired on NBC every etuy Sunday afternoon het hes an em authority O e Western Newspaper Union |