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Show Star DDnsl Andrea Steps Along Lone Ranger Craze All-Age Shaggers By Virginia Vale J ANDREA LEEDS has been stepping right along since she did so well in a minor role in "Stage "Door." She went on to do well in "Gold-wyn "Gold-wyn Follies," is working now in "Letter of Introduction." and will play opposite Joel McCrea in a picture called, so far, "Youth Takes a Fling." Which all goes to show that she was right when she refused to go on as just one more contract player. She felt that she wasn't getting f - ? , V , ' ; " Andrea Leeds anywhere, you'll remember, and got out of her contract, and all Hollywood Holly-wood said she was crazy, as she had Just one performance to her credit at that time. And then "Stage Door" and all the opportunity in the worldl The "Lone Ranger" craze is growing every day. The actor who plays the "Ranger" in the screen serial may go on a personal appearance appear-ance tonr. National Broadcasting company has arranged for transcription tran-scription rights of the radio program pro-gram for the South, Canada and Australia at present it's heard on a 42-station tie-up three times a week. There's talk of a circus stunt and of a cartoon strip for the newspapers. news-papers. And the country will be flooded with books, cowboy suits, chewing gum, sweaters, and all the other merchandise that can be used in profitable tie-ups. Charlie Chaplin's latest discovery, Dorothy Cummingore, has been given giv-en a contract by Warner Brothers, and you'll see her first in "Three Girls on Broadway." The picture business being a bit slew at the moment, picture stars are doing quite a lot of vacationing. Miriam Hopkins and her husband, Anatole Litvak, the director, are at her charming little house in New York. Fredric March expected to have to cut his New York vacation short, and then got word that he might stay on indefinitely. Madeleine Made-leine Carroll and Wendy Barrie are among the toasts of New York. Bing Crosby can continue with his present radio sponsors for ten years it ha want to. It's T !' 1 ' said the advertising agency involved 1 wonld like him to I sign an agreement for that length of time, with the usual year to year options. op-tions. His present contract still has i eight months to run. Of all the Hollywood 4 folks who have gone . on the air, Bing has Bme Crosby been tte most gu0. cessful and shows no sign of diminishing dimin-ishing popularity. Benny Goodman recently gave his second concert in Boston, before packed bouse; as in Carnegie Hall, in New York, the first thing anybody any-body knew the younger set in the crowd was out in the aisles beginning be-ginning to "shag." An usher hurried hur-ried forward to stop them, whereupon where-upon a conservative looking, middle- nA aantlaman ctiMinM the Usher. Seems he'd decided to learn the "shag" and thought that was as good a place as any to begin. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Paul Muni seems to be all set to do 'The Life of William Tell" . . . When Frank Lloyd directs "If I Were King," with Ronald Colman, Frank's daughter. Alma, will play "Colette" . . . Joe Fennel's new picture, "Go Chase Yourself," is his best one yet . . . Walt Disney divided $50,000 among the people who helped him to make "Snow White" . . . Max Baer is coaching Robert Taylor for "Knock Out" . . . The objection to Shirley Temple's making personal appearances ap-pearances has been that she was too young to appear behind the footlights . . . But Mary Pickford began when she was five, and it didn't seem to hurt her any . . . In "Four Men and a Prayer" you'll see Richard Greene, recently arrived ar-rived from England, who, it is said, will be groomed for stardom . . . Now it's announced that Maude Adams' movie tests were o successful that she will not appear in "The Young in Heart," I but in a production giving more scope! to her talents. I Western Newspaper Union. |