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Show Star HDust Thriller in Remaking Puppets in Preview Courageous Martha! I By Virginia Vale IF YOU remember "Dawn Patrol" as it was first made, be sure to go to the new version that is being whipped up by Warner Brothers. Broth-ers. There'll be the same excellent ex-cellent story, but we're promised prom-ised that it will be twice as thrilling if that's possible because of improved methods of picture making. A flying field has been laid out, the Marne sector has been duplicated, duplicat-ed, a British cast has been collected, collect-ed, because it is a picture of the Royal Flying corps Errol Flynn, David Niven, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Barry Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles, among others. Ten planes of the war period have been purchased, equipped with modern engines and two types of machine guns; they'll be crashed or burned during the making of the picture. I'm hoping that there'll be one certain improvement, and that's in the story. If you remember the original, with Dick Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., it ended with Barthelmess flying over enemy country, doing practically as much damage as an entire army might have. It was preposterous, and came very near spoiling a fine picture. It's interesting, this time of year, to see what programs the big sponsors spon-sors have lined up. Here's a sample ' ?S v. : -$Ms&.... ; UNA MERKEL of what one of the big oil companies will offer you, if you'll just switch the dial to the right station at the right time: Adolphe Menjou as master of ceremonies, Una MerkeL Jane Froman, Charlie Ruggles, Kenny Baker, Dave Broekman's 35 piece orchestra and a mixed choir of 20. There'll be film stars as guest artists each week. Watch for the traveling marionette mario-nette show which Metro will be sending send-ing about the country for the next three years, as advertising for "Marie Antoinette." The stage is 15 feet long, and the equipment includes in-cludes a curtain, spotlights and sound apparatus. There is a replica of a studio set on one side; on the other, on the stage, seven scenes from the picture will be performed by the marionettes, with actual voice recordings of the actors. There are 23 puppets, each two feet tall, resembling Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, and the other principals. It's settled that there will be a sequel to "Hurricane," now that ' jy ! Samuel Goldwyn has put through a deal to borrow Dorothy Lamour for it He hasn't announced whether wheth-er he'll try to find a sequel for the hurricane itself. Incidentally it's rumored that there's a hurricane hurri-cane in the midst of Miss Lamour's emotional life Dorothy Lamour these days. Martha Raye's young sister, Mel-odye Mel-odye Raye, (your comment on the name is as good as mine!) has arrived ar-rived in Hollywood. She hasn't had any experience as a singer or a dancer or an actress, but Martha thinks she has talent, and is going to try to get her into the movies. What courage! When you can't swing a cat by the tail in Hollywood Holly-wood without hitting the sister or brother, cousin or aunt of somebody who made good in pictures, and depended de-pended on that relative's success to help them in getting a foothold. ODDS AND ENDS . . . The most expensive radio programs on the air are those of Major Bowes, Jack Benny, Ben-ny, Fred Waring's orchestra, George Burns and Grade Allen, Eddie Cantor, Can-tor, Metro, the new Max Reinhardt variety show and Charlie McCarthy . . . Metro won't begin screening 'Northwest Passage'' until next spring, because of early snows in the mountains moun-tains . , . Which means that about 2,000 men won't get six weeks' work that they'd have had otherwise. Western Newspaper Union. |