Show star dust tells all lit in good taste they stick stich to typo br ezra ara r for or example J 1 by Virgi virginia silla ajile JHEN a wife tells all or 1 WHEN almost all its bound to be interesting especially especial ily it if she is the wife of a famous actor in charles laughton and I 1 mrs laughton well known in hr her own right as elsa lanchester has written a delightful book which tells a great deal about herself more about her husband and quite a bit about other people and sho she has done it cleverly and in the pest best ol of taste which Is unusual laughton had made a success on the english stage before hollywood heard of him in tact fact it took an appen appearance rance on the stage in new york to make the movie moguls clamor tor him ills his performance in the private lives of henry the eighth as Il henry lenry introduced him to t the he american public and made americans exclaim in amazement that at last the english had turn turned ed out a good picture many of our american movie actors could take ft a up tip from laughton from the first he be refused to bo be ty typed ped hed play ft a pickpocket successfully and immediately held hed have a lot of offers to play pick pockets ue he would refuse them because he want to be stamped with that one kind of role forever we wa have james cagney doing the same thing over and over in angels with dirty faces hes a 1 79 tough guy again but then when he be broke away from that characterization 00 in boy M meets e e ts girl it such a success was it in the great waltz we have aulse rain or er yes ashes an american just aulse rainer got her citizenship papers and wrote a poem about it doing what she did in the great bleg fold and the big city crying through smiles or smiling through tears whichever way you like to put it in the Pow boy and the lady we have gary cooper coope r playing the stern ste rn man of the plains as usual but lets be patriotic and avoid the suggestion that perhaps these american actors cant do anything else M ll 11 douglas corrigan throw threw a bombshell when he came out with the truth about the salary hes really getting tor for the flying irishman just less than had said he was being paid its going to be embarrassing it other movie folk follow his example you might mark down jane warren as the latest of the rudy vallee discoveries shots been jane warren only since lie fie first heard beard her sing and she was signed up for the movies before that she was earleyne schools it looks as it if shed soon be another of the stars v who we were re launched by vallee if the truth about ezra stone were generally known the young folk of this country would probably loathe his name mothers would be saying to their sons of course you have time to do it just look at ezra stone t atone stone you know has been beem for some time one of the stars lit in what hat a life one of new yorks hit bit shows and has been appearing on kate smiths radio show as well lie ho Is also being considered for a featured role in screen version of what n r life which involves making acs a and seeing people three mornings morning a week he fie teaches dramatics at the academy of allied arts the other day somebody asked him why he take on a milk route to fill up his spare time incidentally ezra is just 20 lanny ross Is another young man who been afraid of hard work lanny christened launcelot patrick ross appeared in vaudeville when he was two lie he worked his way through yale studied law at columbia and got into radio by singing with a quarts quartet at NBC then he combined the movies with radio began giving concert sand now hes putting in his summers on the stage planning to do straight dramatic drama tic roles in new york before long ODDS AND ENDS al 11 goodman Co odman conductor conduct er ol of the illis hit parade does irom from a fox 1011 trot to a landan fandango while he es s conducting for years joel mccrea has to tell fell cecil li DeA demille lille that thas he used to deliver newspapers at as the directors home he got his chance when he appeared re cantly on Def Dc Milles filles radio pro and cecil 11 remembered him don ameche had a haircut lor for ages age hes he s getting ready to play DAr during tag nun non in the movies frances lanaford has sung practically every hit song 0 01 re recent ant ars frs on jf the raili radio but lit when slip she sings lor for irie friends di she sues goes buck to in night and day brhen dark clark anble appler app lIr 5 on the lit rudo it means a vr for tin the police lorce force they rope of off the alle alleys in the dae rear 0 af she he Is dit allu ater to keep ip e crowd buck Z western v e stern newspaper union |