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Show I STAR ; DUST ! Movie Radio By VIRGINIA VALE SAMUEL GOLDWYN is taking tak-ing bows again for succeeding suc-ceeding where many other motion picture producers have failed. He has made a new version of an old picture that is even better than the old one and the first "Stella Dallas" was the best picture of its year, some twelve years ago. This picture is frankly a tear-jerker, the story of a millhand's daughter daugh-ter who married a gentleman, but could never become a lady. But "Stella Dallas" was fine and courageous cou-rageous enough to see to it that her daughter had a chance to become be-come one of her father's set rather than hers. Barbara Stanwyck gives a sincere and gripping performance as Stella. If you would rather laugh than cry, Paramount and Twentieth Century-Fox are all ready for you with two mad musical extravaganzas. Par-amount's Par-amount's contribution contribu-tion is "Artists and Models" and it stars Jack Benny. Twentieth Twen-tieth Century's new one Is "You Can't Have Everything," and in it the Ritz Brothers are mad- der and merrier Mlce Faye than ever, Alice Faye sings sad songs and Don Ameche is a pleasant hero. Funny part about this picture Is that you will adore Phyllis Brooks who plays one of the most unpleasant parts you have ever seen a soubrette whom everybody In the cast loathes with good reason. K Gene Autrey sets a pace that it Is tough for other cowboys to maintain. main-tain. Now producers expect them all to sing. Buck Jones hasn't fallen for vocal lessons yet, but he has hired a heavy for his new picture, "Sudden Bill Dorn," who can warble war-ble Western ballads with the best of them. Bis name is Harold Hodge. K Anna May Wong, who will return to the screen this fall under the auspices of Paramount, playing a sort of female Charlie Chan, spent her time meanwhile playing summer sum-mer theaters in the East. At Mount Kiscb, where Frances Farmer had made a tremendous hit, Anna Mae made a decorative and charming "Princess Turandot" in a play adapted from the opera of that name. K Dorothy Day, one of the famous clothes models who worked In Walter Walt-er Wanger's "Vogues of 1938" came to New York for a brief vacation, and when she returned to Hollywood, Hol-lywood, she learned that she had a brand new name. Mervyn Le Roy, who gave her a contract to make pictures for him decided that Dorothy Doro-thy Day was not a good name because be-cause there are several actresses and two authors already using it. He is going to bill her as Vickl Lester, Les-ter, the name of the character that Janet Gaynor played in "A Star Is Born." -K When you saw "I Met Him in Paris" you must have wondered TXfVlW PrV.A . if I v - 'inn f fled from such an attractive wife as the one played by Mona Barrie. Well, she explained all when she arrived in New York recently to rehearse for a stage engagement. It seems that there were long scenes that explained their Robert Young differences, but the picture was too long, and Mona landed on the cutting room floor. She hopes for better luck In the picture that she just finished, James Cagney's "Something "Some-thing to Sing About." She plays a comedy role, a sort of female Mischa Auer, and she had so much fun doing it that she doesn't see why Grand National had to pay her a salary. -K ODDS AND ENDS -Everybody wonders if Frances Farmer's costumes in The Toast of New York" were responsible re-sponsible for the revival of bustles in' the big Paris fashions showings . Benay Venuta, whose songs are to popular on the air, got her start dancing danc-ing in the same ballet with Myrna Lay . . . Burgess Meredith used to sing in the same church choir with Lanny osj . . . Eddie Cantor eats his lunch between scenes on the set these days because he uses his regular lunch hour to dash over to the antique store he has bought to see how business is go-mg go-mg ...Ina Claire's Sunday night radio dramas on NBCs blue network are growing so popular that maybe she won t come back to make motion pictures pic-tures after all . . . Gary Cooper has bought a ranch for the old cowboys who used to work with him in Western drama, . Uecau$e ,,je bathing Bene Davis will have to stay away from the Warner studio for a month, most of tlie time m a dark-ened dark-ened room. Western Newspaper Union. |