Show Star Stale Dust Tells All In Good Taste if They Stick to 10 Typo Type k Ezra For Ezra For Example I fly By Virginia ole WHEN a wife tells all all or or V V almost all its all Its It's bound to tobe tobe tobe be interesting Especially if she is the wife of a famous actor In Charles Laughton and I 1 Mrs Laughton well known cnown in her own right as Elsa Lanchester has written a delightful book which tells a great deal about herself more about bout her husband and quite a bit about bout other people And she has done It cleverly and In the best of taste aste which Is unusual Laughton had made a success on the English stage before Hollywood heard of him in fact it took an appearance on the stage In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York to make the movie moguls clamor for him Ills His performance in The Private Lives of Henry the Eighth as Henry Introduced him to the American public and made Americans exclaim in amazement amaze ment that at last the English had turned out a good picture 1 Many of our American movie acors actors actors ac- ac tors ors could take a tip Up from Laugh Laugh- ton on From the first he be refused to tobe tobe tobe be typed lied Bed play a pickpocket successfully and Immediately hed he'd have a lot of offers to play pick pick- pockets lie He would refuse them because because because be be- cause he didn't want to be stamped with that one kind of role forever We have James Cagney doing the same thing over and over in Angels Angels An gels With Dirty r- r Faces hes he's a i 1 tough guy again But Dut then when he broke away y from that characterization characterization char char- in Boy Doy M Meets e e t s r Girl It wasn't such a success k was it In The Great Waltz we have Luise Rainer Rain Rain- J Y i fi j 1 er yes she's an I. I American Just Luise Rainer got her citizenship citizenship citizen citizen- ship papers and wrote a poem about it it- it doing what she did in The Great feld and The Big City crying through smiles or smiling through tears whichever way you like to put it In The Cowboy and the Lady we have Gary Cooper playIng play play- Ing lag the stern stem man of the plains as usual But Dut lets let's be patriotic and avoid the suggestion that perhaps these American actors cant can't do anything else Douglas Corrigan threw a bombshell bombshell bomb bomb- shell when he came out with the truth about the salary hes he's really getting for The Flying Irishman just just less th than n had said he was being paid Its It's going to be embarrassing if other movie folk follow his example i 1 You might mark down Jane Warren Warren War War- ren rca as the latest of the Rudy Vallee discoveries She's been Jane JaDe Warren Warren War War- ren only since he first heard her hersing hersing hersing sing and anti she was signed up ap for the tte movies before that she was Earleyne Earleyne Ear- Ear leyne Ierne Schools It looks as If shed she'd soon be another of the stars who were 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 tons Of course you have time to do it Just look at Ezra Stone Stone you yon OB know has been for some time Ume one of the stars ID in What a Life one of New Yorks York's hit bit shows and has been appearing on Kate Smiths Smith's radio show how as well He lie Is also being considered for tor a featured role In Paramount's Paramount screen version of What a Life LUe which involves Involves Involves In in- making tests and seeing peo pee pIe Three mornings a week he be teaches dramatics at the Academy of Allied Arti Arts The other da day somebody somebody somebody some some- body asked him why he didn't take on 00 a milk route to fill mi up bin bis spare time Incidentally Ezra Eira Is b just 20 Lanny Ross is another young man who hasn't been afraid of hard work Lanny Lanny christened christened Launcelot Patrick Ross appeared Ross appeared in vaudeville vaudeville vaude vaude- ville vile when he was two He lie worked hI his his- way through Yale studied law at Columbia and got into radio by singing with a quartet at NBC Then he combined the movies with radio began giving concerts concerts and and now hes he's putting in his summers on the stage planning to do straight dramatic roles in New Yo York before long ODDS AND ENDS M ENIS-M Al Goodman conductor of 01 the lug IIi due does everything from Irom a lu fox ox trot to 10 a fandango go 80 he hes he's I conducting For years yean Joel Juel McCrea hat hu wanted to so 0 tell lell Cert Cecil 8 U. DeMille DeMill that tha he used to 10 deliver newspapers at of the Ih director home he got goi hi hit chance when he appeared recently re reo on DeMili radio program program- and Cecil O. O remembered him him DonAmeche Don Ameche hasn't had a haircut for lor ages aget h. h lie het getting ein ready to so play IOU nan nan nan- in the movies movie Frances Lang Lan lord ford has hat swig tung pr practically every nery hit hii tang song of 01 reci recent years iUri on 1111 al the lite radio but bu IthrA ithem the she sings for friends friendt the she goes oe bock bark to 10 toNight Night Nishi and lay Day When Clark Gable Cable appears on the he radio it if meana means mean a problem for lor the police force ir 7 They Ther rope off 00 the alleys in ill the rear rea of 01 th the th lII ser th-ser ter er to So keep the She crated rj back 9 c Wt rn Newspaper r Union |