Show Stat Star Siren Again as Escape Picture Valentino's Life Lile On the Screen Map lJ By Jay Virginia Vale FOR OR the first time in a lifetime life life- l lifetime e- e time during which she has shown deep interest in motion motion motion mo mo- tion pictures the Dowager Queen Mary of Great Britain recently visited a motion picture picture picture pic pic- ture studio She was shown around his studios by Alexander Alexander Alexander Alex Alex- ander Korda and watched a group recording war songs for the picture Four Feathers She also saw two reels of ot the picture 1 Some years ago Myrna Loy rebelled rebelled re re- belled against playing siren roles She showed what she could do inthe in inthe inthe the part of a delightful wife in The Thin Man and since then she's been playing delightful wives until she's sick unto death of them too So now shell she'll turn siren again as Lady Esketh in The Rains Came the picture version of that N bs d b v v S 7 s sMYRNA y MYRNA 1 LOY very good book that everybody was reading a year or so ago After that shell she'll play another young woman wom wom- Woman woman an who is something less than perfect perfect perfect per per- when she is starred co-starred with Spencer Tracy in Sea of ot Grass in a role that will have to be considerably considerably considerably con con- rewritten i if the censors are arc to approve of it I IA A picture based on the life of Rudolph Valentino Is to reach the screen at last It is one of the five productions to be released through United Artists in 40 1939 by Edward Small Productions Inc And various various various vari vari- ous old newspaper men are waiting for it with considerable interest wondering how certain parts of ot that biography will be fixed up so that they are fit for the screen Two Texas cities Fort Worth and San Antonio took particular interest when two recent R. R K O. O pictures were released One was Douglas Corrigan's The Flying Irishman because it was was was' in San Antonio that Corrigan worked as a newsboy to support his mother after his father deserted the family Fort Worth wanted to see The Story of Vernon Castle II with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire because it was at Benbrook field Fort Worth that Cas Castle le crashed his plane to avoid colliding in mid-air mid with another Incidentally Mrs 1 Castle who acted acted acted act act- ed as technical director for the picture is very much pleased with Astaire's portrayal of her famous husband She wasn't so well satisfied satisfied satisfied satis satis- fied with the tho agile Gingers Ginger's performance per- per as his wife because as she said she couldn't imagine herself herself hersell her her- self sell as a blonde r Casting Henry Fonda in in a leading role in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell was what's known as asa asa asa a natural Fonda himself was de de- de- de lighted For when he was in high school he decided that his career in life lie would have something to do with the telephone business if ff i he had anything to say about it During g his last two years In high school he worked as a trouble troubleshooter troubleshooter troubleshooter shooter and when he got his degree degree degree de de- de- de gree from the University of Minnesota Minnesota Minne Minne- sota his thesis was on communication tion systems especially the telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone and nd telegraph It was just by accident that he worked with a Little Little Little Lit Lit- tle Theater group and finally landed In the movies The first radio program to arrange arrange arrange ar ar- ar- ar range for Cor an exhibit at the New NewYork NewYork York Worlds World's fair Is Dave Elman's Hobby Lobby A special buildIng building building build build- ing Is being erected and thousands of specimens of oC hobbies will be on display In addition Elman has lias arran arranged arranged ar ar- ar- ar ran ranged ed for tor hobbyists who have been on his programs to appear at atthe atthe atthe the exhibit and explain their hob hob- bles bies ODDS AND ENDS glamour girl girls who appear as guest stars on The Circle broadcasts usually demand that Cary Gary Grant play opposite them Isabel Sheridan stand stand-in for Joan Bennett in The Man Nan in the thc Iron Mask Mash is s Mary Pickford's COIfS cousin in A perfect piece picc o of f casting seems to be that of v Ronald Colman for far tho hero in inThe inI The lI I he e Li Light ht That Failed Warner Brothers wont won't screen John n Dillinger Outlaw after all too all too many people didn't like the idea Ding Crosby's going to flork with 75 is children in The Star Maker probably Maker probably at least one of them will become a star 0 e Western Newspaper per |