| Show STAR I I DUST nus T Movie e a Radio Dy VIRGINIA VALE THE great experiment of ofa a Fred Astaire picture without Ginger Rogers is now up for public approval and first reports promise that it will triumph at the box office Damsel in Distress hasn't the effervescent Ginger but it has that most blithe of din din- wits Gracie Oracle Allen and her solemn George Burns The setting letting of this thi giddy ridd tuneful I story Is England where Astaire as a. asa asa a shy matinee maUnee idol becomes romantically ly entangled with a pee peers peer's r daughter I t. t played by the ingratiating ingra Joan Fen Fan taine The story doesn't get in the way of the dancing and Astaire has haa nevI never never nev nev- I er danced with such luch breathtaking skill before Fred Astaire When you see lee him and Gracie romping through a carnival engaging in dizzy diz dis zy antics on treadmills revolving barrels barrell and in front of those crazy mirrors that distort reflections you will wonder why Grades Gracie amazing talent as a dancer has been overlooked overlooked over over- looked so long iC The Ion long delay In making another aDother feature picture with the Blouse Dionne quintuplets has bas at last been explained explained ex ex- explained by Twentieth Fox Century officials The They have been beeD waiting for lor the little girls to learn IcarD English figuring that audiences cant can't be counted on to study French Just In order to understand the little cher abs i r ric iC Waves of dissatisfaction spread through Hollywood Honywood like an epidemic every once in n a while and lately producers have been having their troubles pacifying pouting stars tars Laretta Loretta Loretta Lo- Lo retta Young has decided that she doesn't want to make any more pictures pic pie tures tunes with Tyrone Power for a awhile while Not that she doesn't like him She does but she thinks that the public tires of seeing the same couple on the screen In picture after picture Ginger Rogers has hu served notice on R. 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O that in addition to her salary she he wants a share of the profits of pictures she app appears appears ara in Fred Astaire and Katherine Hepburn lIep Hep burn both share in the profits of theirs Dorothy Lamour has rebelled against wearing native dress dren in pic pie tures tunes Wants to be clothed lire like a civilized lady And Wayne Morris wants no more build up as a handsome hand hand- some ome youth iC Wallace Wanace Ford Is one of 01 the screen creeD players over whom the night first audience audience au au- at a Of Mice and Men cheered la tat New York recently Even EveD U If the pIa play runs all aU year however Wally WaDy figures that his fans out ont through the country wont won't forget forret him for lor before belore going Into the play pIa he completed the as a. yet unreleased Swing It Sailor for Grand National National Na Na- lions and three pictures in Eng land iC- iC Jack Holt Is rounding out his twentieth year as an actor and his hi eighteenth as al a mo mo- tion-picture tion star tar No other performer has enjoyed outstanding popularity m more o 0 r e ethan ethan than half halt as aa long III as II ashe ashe I he has and Hollywood Holly wood producers will tell teU you that he Is I just as 81 popular with them as with the I public Whether he heis heis is assigned to horses I or top hats Jack Is Jack Dolt bit always amiable and I if a story seems thin he be figures ItIs it itis itis is up to him to give a performance that will wID build it up Some of the young oun players supporting him in Columbia's Columbia Under Suspicion asked him recently how he got lot his I start and then shuddered a bit as II ashe ashe he told them that he be rode a horse horle I over a thirty five foot cliff cM into swirling swirl swirl- I ing fag rapids L I ODDS AND Marlene ENDS n. n Dietrich Diet Did rich shed hed her wan toon and bored manner in a II New Neu York nih night dub club and joined the crowd She could coin be at as I sensational in to comedy at as I Irene Ire Dunne Dunn it is if il the she only oly would but the she wont won't Ballroom dancing dancin bore boru Fred Allaire until Benny Goodman starts playing and then he h. Jut Just cant can't tit alt still Hill Derry Deny l Jaynes mu youthful ul sensation of 0 the Chicago Jo opera will play ploy Nor Norma ma Shearer old role rote In Student Prince when M M-G-M M C M films film it is a again arain ain at as I t a must cal co coWhen When Dick Vowel stopped over In Chicago o between train trains m a group roup ol o fa font fans surprised him by pro pre tenting sensing ham Jum with their aulo autographed phed photos photo Spencer Tracy will tend send out au hit his Christmas cards from Ireland Fathers Fathe of 0 twins twin are the th only eligible for most moil I rive live club dull Membership to so far lar con consists lII of 0 Bin Ding Crosby Laurence lurence Tibbett Charles Charlet Starrett and Richard Dix Die Girls Gir do dont don't want to be cat catt in the th next nez M Hauch Mauch uch ta ln u picture because their favorite p pet t. t ere are 11 white mice mlee The Th Voice Vole of oJ Experience will be broadcast co to aHo beginning De D. December I. 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