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Show I STAR I I DUST I Movie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE AT THE time when this is being written no general announcement has been made by Warner Brothers about Doris Wester, but watch for a flood of stories about her. She, you'll recall, is the Major Bowes amateur who made good. When she sang on his program months and months ago somebody of importance heard her, and first thing she knew she was signed up for the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Rockefel-ler Center one of the nicest and smartest of New York's night clubs. She went right on from there. Recently Re-cently she was tested for the movies, mov-ies, and it was said to be one of the most successful ever made. So she, like many others, will switch from radio to the movies. When Ginger Rogers went east on a vacation recently she made it very clear to RKO's publicity department depart-ment that she was going for fun, not to spend all her time being interviewed and posing for photographs. pho-tographs. Her last trip east was that kind of trip. So this time she has been having fun, going to thea- ters and' dancing Ginger Rogers (wouldn't you think she'd have had enough dancing to hold her for a while, when she got through with "Swing Time" with Fred Astaire?) Joan Fontaine, Olivia de Havi-land's Havi-land's younger sister, is headed for success. Jesse Lasky has signed her, and she will make her first picture in England, unless plans are changed. You girls who want to go into pictures might take a lesson from Olivia, by the way. Although she grew up in California, not so awfully aw-fully far from Hollywood, she did not tackle the movie studios. She stayed home and went to high school and worked hard with the school dramatic club and it was as a result of that dramatic club and its performances that she broke into the movies without the slightest difficulty. Do see "To Mary with Love," especially if you like Myrna Loy and Warner Baxter, the team that made such a success of "Broadway Bill." This is quite a different sort of picture, one of those young-married ones where disaster threatens the course of true love. It is very well done. frit's fr-it's a great relief to everybody that Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond have announced their engagement. en-gagement. For years and years people have expected her to marry her manager. Bob Ritchie, who has certainly guided her affairs very well. They say the blond Mr. Raymond Ray-mond looks like a young man with whom she was in love when she was on the stage, before she gave the movies a thought. When yon see "Reunion," the sec-ond sec-ond feature picture made by the famous quintuplets, you'll also hear them talking. It's being made now, with some of the same actors who appeared in "The Country Doctor." Doc-tor." And did you see that delightful news reel of the babies, "All Walking"? Walk-ing"? There has never been a more delightful scene than the one In which four of them dance, while the fifth persistently tries to stand on her head. K By the time you read this the wedding bells may have rung for T "Dlll 1 I ftl Dick Powell, though she is denying, just now, that she is going go-ing to marry him. But he has reserved re-served rooms on a boat sailing for New York, under the names of "Mr. and Mrs. Dick Powell." Her divorce becomes be-comes final before then. And she has DickTowell been making plans to go to New York. For some reason or other Hollywoodites like to deny that they're going to be married right up to the very instant when the ceremony takes place. K ODDS AXD EA'DS . . . Mac CJnrk, uhn has appeared in too jew pictures lately, replaces Dorothy Wilson as leading lady in "Wild Brian Knnt"... Ann Solhern's grandmother, uho is I eighty-three, had her first permanent ' irate Oie other day; Ann had a stnilin ! hairdresser do it, and supervised the ' operation . . . Charlie Rugcles is git-1 git-1 ing to plav a straight dramatic role in "Exclusive," and Mary Boland is go. i ma to do on in "A S(tn Comes Homey ' and then they'll join forces asain and do comedy . . . Josejihine Hutchinson is spending her vacation at her home in Connecticut, far from the excitement excite-ment of Hollyn ood . . . Dolores l) l Rio. Richard Dix and Chester Morris uill be co-starred in Columbia's "Depths Helou:" Western Newspaper t nil tl. |