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Show Star' east kA Picture Without Men kRemembered for Another Right Up Raft's Alley By Virginia Vale ! t i HpHE Women ,' ' the movie J- version of the very successful suc-cessful play of the same name, is going to be something some-thing to see. Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell and Joan Crawford head the cast, which includes those excellent actresses, ac-tresses, Phyllis Povah and Florence Nash, and one hundred hun-dred others, all girls. Women will want to see the picture, pic-ture, if only to see the clothes-super clothes-super - special frocks have been whipped up for their benefit. One of Joan Crawford's is black velvet, split to the waistline, and worn over very tight black knickers. And men will want to see it, both to see some of our best screen actresses ac-tresses trying to outshine each other, and to see what cut-throat NORMA SHEARER battles women can get into over men. If there were any other cut-throat battles while the picture was being made little things like arguments over billing, 1 scene-stealing, and things like that the great public will never know. Roscoe Karns has played featured roles in more than 100 motion pictures, pic-tures, but is best remembered for one he didn't play, in a series of pictures in which he didn't appear. For years his friends and his fans have insisted on remembering him as the fight manager in the "Leather "Leath-er Pusher" series, in which Reginald Regi-nald Denny starred. But it was not Karns, but Hayden Stevenson, who played the fight manager. The two men don't even faintly resemble each other. Karns is mystified, but at last is resigned. Just the other day, when he arrived at the studio to work in "Everything's on Ice," an assistant cameraman hailed him with, "It's been a long time, Roscoe, since we worked in the 'Leather Pushers' together!" to-gether!" George Raft's performance in the new James Cagney picture, "Each Dawn I Die," won him a new contract con-tract and an assignment to do a remake re-make of "The Patent Leather Kid" (in which Richard Barthelmess once made a come-back,) as his first picture. pic-ture. He is to make three a year. The hero of the picture is a prizefighter, prize-fighter, which is right up the Raft alley in his days as a fighter he fought 22 professional bouts, and was knocked out seven times. ' News of radio programs that take the air in the fall is coming in regularly. regu-larly. Tommy Riggs will be back with "Quaker Party," Bob Becker will resume his dog talks, and the Screen Actors Guild show will have its old time on Sunday nights with $10,000 for each broadcast going go-ing to the Motion Picture Relief fund. Paul Whiteman's band is Alma Mater to nine men who are now leading their own orchestras, Tommy Tom-my and Jimmy Dorsey, Henry Bus-se Bus-se and Ferde Grofe among them. They were with him 10 or 11 years ago. Another member of the band at that time was Bing Crosby, who sang with the band but couldn't play; just sat holding an instrument instru-ment so that he'd look as if he belonged be-longed there. Too bad they can't all be gathered together for one more performance, with the great White-man White-man holding the baton. ODDS AND ENDS Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, preparing to take a vacation, tvere requested by their studio to spend it anyuhcre but in New York . . . The thing that people seem to remember about Alec Temple, tnn, the blind pianist, is not his superb ability as pianist and composer, but the fact that until he was nine years old he did not know that he was blind . . . Television's old enough so that two girls are arguing over uhich one has the richl to call herself "The first Lady of Television" . . . If ith lledy Lamarr's first film since "Algiers" put on the shelf and the next one having re-make trouhle, it's a question whether she's a good an investment as Hollywood thought when she made her film debut here . . . Fannie Urice feels that "Hose nf H ashinglon Square" has invaded her rights of privacy, defamed her character, charac-ter, and is an appropriation oj life ;ncv, wilhfiut permiion. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) |