Show Star Stale StarA A Tracing Resemblances For the Cause of Art ft Indians Indicate Above Par By Virginia Vale 1 ENE MARKEY the G GENE Century Fox Century Fox producer may have thought that Metro made a mistake when it abandoned I Take This Woman Worn Wom an as Hedy LaMarr's second second sec see ond made American-made picture Certainly he liked the idea of taking that woman to be his lawful wedded wife Oddly enough theres there's a strong resemblance ce between between between be be- tween the new Mrs Markcy Marker and the first one Joan Bennett as Joan appears appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears in her brunette wig vig in Trade Winds And therell there'll probably be a resemblance in the setting of Trade Winds and the next picture in which Hedy LaMarr stars stars Lady Lady of or the Tropics in which Robert Taylor Talor will vill be her leading man This business of ot tracing resemblances resemblances resemblances can go on and on forever Old timers can try to find one between between be be- tween the glamorous Hedy edy and find that F SI v r 5 S HEDY EDY LA MARK MARE glamour girl of an earlier day Barbara Barbara Bar- Bar bara jara LaMarr surely there couldn't have lave been a thought of Barbara inthe in inthe inthe the mind of the person who suggested suggest suggest- ed LaMarr when the lovely Viennese Viennese Vien Vien- nese riese Mrs Markey was choosing a name for her American careen Believe it or not Merle Oberon had lad her face washed with kerosene the he other day clay The same thing happened happened happened hap hap- to Laurence Oliver and David Niven and all in the cause of art Not that the makeup man had anything against them Kerosene when mixed with paraffin and heated heated heated heat heat- ed slightly provides a quick-drying quick spray which dries drics white so that he who gets sprayed looks as if frost had appeared on hair eyebrows and eyelashes With the cops and robbers cycle waning motion picture producers are certainly taking to playing cowboys cowboys cow- cow boys and Indians in a great big way Paramount has three big westerns scheduled for this spring and summer sum sum- mer mer Geronimo Buffalo Bill Billand Billand Billand and The Lives of a Texas Ranger a sequel to Texas Ranger Theres There's going to be a premium on Indians in the Hollywood studios first thing anybody knows 71 Muriel Wilson formerly known as Mary Lou on radios radio's Showboat program recently received a gift gilt that hat moved her to tears It is a crocheted tablecloth depicting depleting a scene from Showboat and was designed and made by a blind woman j Theres There's a man in California who if he could be granted the wish nearest nearest nearest near near- est his heart would ask that Cecil B. B DeMille decide to broadcast a play with a good wind storm in it The man is Charlie Forsyth sound effects expert who officiates on Mr DeMille's Radio Theater and he has two dozen new wind records that he wants to use During the recent California windstorms he worked all I night making records of ot the wind whistling through cracks in his garage and through the shrubbery around his house They are the first authentic wind records Forsyth has been able to make and he wont won't be I happy until he uses them I h Lanny Ross celebrated his tenth anniversary on the air by giving a luncheon to which he invited all the theother theother other oilIer men who have been on the air all for ten years or more and suggesting suggesting suggest U ing that they form a club Everybody Everybody Every Ever I body was delighted with the Idea but since then Lanny has sometimes wished that hed he'd never thought up the plan He has been deluged with letters of protest from women all aU allover allover over the country and the only way out oot was to form an auxiliary I Five years ago Shirley Ross made her screen debut as a bit player in ina a picture starring Lee Tracy Imagine what a thrill it was for her when she was en engaged caged to appear as his leading lady on a Silver Theater broadcast 1 ODDS AND ENDS ENDS After After lots his Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day evening broadcasts Felix Knight makes a bee line tine for an Armenian restaurant restaurant res tea and a plate of shish kebab I At rehearsals Kate Kaie Smith disrupts the themen then men in the band by feeding them ham WIn WInI burgers Be sure to see Stagecoach I it it will probably prove to be one of the ten tm best bat pictures released this year 0 Western Newspaper Union I |