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Show ! STAR I I DUST I Movie Radio By VIRGINIA VALE HELEN VINSON returned from Europe looking prettier pret-tier than ever, dressed in a smart brown suit, carrying a sable scarf, and trying to stove off the inquiries of newspaper men about whether or not she Is going to marry Fred Perry, the Englishman who Is amateur tennis champion of the world. He went down the bay to meet her, couldn't wait till her ship docked to see her. They went Into a huddle, but apparently didn't decide de-cide to announce their engagement at ence. Pity a poor movie star who can't even make up her mind to marry a man or not to marry n;mwithout having a crowd of reporters re-porters right on her heels I Miss Vinson wouldn't say yes, and wouldn't say no ; she just asked for time. But she'll be at Forest Hills when Perry defends his title, and maybe she'll make "an announcement announce-ment after that's over. -K Madge Evans returned on the same boat with the lovely Vinson, with nothing of special importance to say. By the way, other girls might take a lesson from her. When she was staging her come-back she Etudied with a famous . dancing teacher In New York, day after day; she knew that Just being pretty isnt enough. Nowadays a girl has to stand well, walk well, do everything well, In fact, or she wakes up to' find that some other pretty girl has stepped into the role 6he wanted. ' Bela Lugosi, "The Vampire," and his wife are new arrivals in New York, and nobody'd ever suspect, just meeting him - ln everyday clothes and without make-up,-that he can be such a blood-chiller, on the. screen. ' , And, speaking of thrillers, "China Seas" certainly offers plenty of excitement ex-citement A storm at sea, an attack by pirates, Wallace Beery ln the role of villain and a torture scene that makes timid females look away. It seems as If, since "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" brought, money rolling into box offices all over the country, no picture is complete com-plete without a torture scene. Remember Morton Downey, who not so awfully long ago' was one of radio's headliners? He's backing a new restaurant res-taurant a chop house, no less and stage, screen and radio folk are flock'' ing to it, while Downey and his wife, the pretty Barbara Bennett, sit back and hope the place will be a success. Since Jack Dempsey has made such a success of the eating place that bears his name, (and don't go there, my children, unless you're prepared to spend plenty!) everybody's yearning to open a restaurant. Robert Montgomery may have started something. Since he returned re-turned from Europe he's been seen about ln a green hat and a good, bright green it Is, too. A well-known well-known hat manufacturer Is turning them out In purple, blue and red as well, and the first thing we know all Hollywood may be wearing hats In these vivid hues. Maybe It's all a plot on the part of the hat makers; mak-ers; Holly started the rage for going go-ing hatless, and perhaps this scheme will break It up. It's had the men who make hats for other men pretty worried. X Norma Shearer certainly startled a lot of people when she arrived ln New York a few days ago. She didn't try to duck the newspaper reporters and camera men (so many stars pretend to, you know and how annoyed they are If they succeed!) suc-ceed!) but just got off the train as if she'd been any other young woman wom-an arriving with her husband. Looking very pretty, Indeed, she crossed the station, got Into a car and drove away. v People who were waiting to see her and get her autograph were so surprised that, by the time they'd caught their breath, Norma was on her way. They might have known that she'd behave like that; she's always perfectly natural. X Katherlne nepburn has been going go-ing places around Hollywood, and thanks to the boyish hnlrcut she got for "Sylvia Scarlett'' and the boyish clothes she's been wearing to go with It Innocent bystanders have been thinking that she was Just one more good looking boy. -X ODDS AND F.MDS . . . fTill Rogers carried a special insurance policy for $2,500,000 . . . Shirley TemU seems to have switched her affections from James Dunn to John Holes; he's her ; leading man in "Curley Top" and she'll hate him i;i!m in "Tim Littlest Rebel" ... jVn Dans is Hoing to appear opmtsito Leslie Howard apnin, in "The Tetriicd finest," the screen version of his latest iliifio play . . . Pi'7 linker has been chttsen lo take the broaileasling spot left vacant by II ill Rogers' death. At fo.000 a week, tlley say. O Wofltarn NowniiniMir Union. |