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Show STAR I is DUST t Atovie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE RADIO amateurs played a big part in the preparation prepara-tion of the dramatization of Peary's dash to the pole, presented pre-sented recently. If they had not come to the rescue of the authors, Henry Lanier and Alan Bunce, it might have been a year or more before this program could have been heard. In dramatizing historical events It Is necessary to get permission of all living participants to Impersonate them on the radio, and oi Peary'i North Pole expedition Matt Henson, the negro who was tha only one to accompany him on the final dash, Capt Bob Bartlett and McMillen still survive. It was easy enough to locate Matt Henson; he was right In New York. But Bartlett and McMillen were off somewhere In tha Polar seas. Lanier and Bunce appealed to various va-rious clubs of radio amateurs and for days the short wave channels were filled with calls to the two polar po-lar exploration ships. Finally communication com-munication was established with the Bartlett and McMillen ships, and permission to go ahead with the program pro-gram obtained. -K The best picture of tha week Is "Dead End," the most breathtaking- lw.i4ramoHn rf nil stories of New York. The setting is an East river street where a millionaire apartment house Is surrounded by squalid, sinister tenement ten-ement houses. Baclt to this neighborhood comes Baby Face Martin, a hunted gangster wno naa Sylvia Sidney left ten years befora and things begin to happen. Sylvia Sidney and Joel Mc-Crea Mc-Crea play what are supposed to be the leading roles of the picture, but Humphrey Bogart as Baby Face Martin and Claire Trevor as the sweetheart he deserted, just take possession of the picture and romp away with the honors. It Is nothing new for secondary pV;iyers to steal a show. You may remember that It was In "Flying Down to Rio" In which Gene Raymond Ray-mond and Dolores del Rio were supposed to be the stars, that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers scored the knockout success that made them about the most popular young couple in the country. Fred Waring Is getting to be an industrial magnate of such proportions propor-tions that he has had to take a whole floor of an office building In New York to house his music arrangers, secretaries, contract signers, and scrap books. No sooner had he and his versatile boys worked their way East from Hollywood where they made "Varsity Show" for Warners, than he up and signed a contract to play at the Drake hotel In Chicago. -K When yon see Metro-Gotdwyn-Mayer's "Madame X," you will see a scene made under most unusual circumstances. John Beal, making voice and make-up tests when they were getting ready to produce the picture, ran through the biggest dramatio scene, largely to see if be had his lines all memorized. After Aft-er the picture was shot, some of the staff were a HtUe disappointed in the way he played the courtroom scene where he defends his mother. Then they remembered the test shots dug those out of the film vaults and substituted them for the less-spontaneous performance he gave later. K Carole Lombard is going to have such fun In her next Paramount picture, "True Confessions." Con-fessions." She plays the part of a confirmed con-firmed liar, such a habitual liar that she even confesses to a murder that she did not commit John Barrymore will support her, playing an eccentric amateur detective who falls for every false clue, and Fred Carole MacMurray will be Lombard the patient, long-suffering hero, who is the victim of her weird falsehoods. false-hoods. -K ODDS AND ENDS: Greta Garbo has become a Deanna Durbin fan . . . Gloria BlondelL, sister of Joan, will make her screen debut in "Accidents Will Happen." For a long time Warners War-ners would not give her a job because she looks so much like Joan they thought it might be confusing, but they finally gave in lest some other company com-pany take her . . . Rudy Vallee will film "Howdy Stranger" for Warners this fall. He wanted a part that would permit him to wear a stunning uniform, uni-form, but Warners convinced him tliat a cowboy suit would be just as becoming becom-ing .. . Frank Varkrr, who is a big radio favorite himself, played the rola on the limadway stage. Western Newspaper Uulon. |