| Show Star lie Rust Dust o The Thc Bat flat Again A Jane Janc Has lIeu Preference To the flitter Bitter End By fly Virginia Vale Vole THE Presidents President's son plans to give us a mystery picture pic pic- ture made ture-made made from one of th the best mystery plays ever written writ writ- ten ten ten-as as the first release of his Globe Productions Its It's The IThe Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart Rinehart Rinehart Rine- Rine hart and Avery Hopwood and has everything that a thriller should have bave It was filmed fUmed by Mary Pickford's Pickford company In 1928 1926 and done again ai as The Bat Cat Whispers In 1931 Norman Foster will direct the new version t Hard Bard on the heels beels of her scrap with Warner Brothers over her refusal refusal re te- to appear In Married Pretty and Poor Jane Bryan showed the studio that she preferred to be married married mar mar- ried Sled pretty and rich she rich she announced her engagement to Justin VT 14 7 Dart who Is general manager of a drug firm it Mickey Rooney may rank first at atthe atthe atthe the box offices of motion picture theaters in this country but In Great Britain and Ireland he comes second second sec sec- I ond with Deanna Durbin pushing him out of first place She was not among the first ten in this country If It you are devoted to the story The Light That Failed you'll like the picture version which sticks to the original even to the unhappy ending If It It its it's Ronald Colman rather rother rath roth er than the story who's who f rya t RONALD COLMAN IAN ble for your Interest in the picture you'll enjoy it hugely bugely for he gives an excellent performance So do Walter Waller lI Huston toD Dudley Dieses DIell and Ida Miss I Lu Lu- has hai had bad a hard time of It In Hollywood she was put Into parts and aDd kept there now DOW that at t last she ahe had been given a chance to show what she ahe could do with a areal areal areal real role she bad had made the most of It It Hers lIen is rather like the one in Of Human Bondage that established Dette Bette Davis as a dramatic actress Miss Lupines Lupine's performance is good lood goodenough goodenough enough to do as much for her No longer can she be thought of as II just one of those pretty blondes who are arc so 50 numerous in the picture picture picture-mak ing lag metropolis If H youre you're Interested in the present activities of former radio favorites heres here's news new of some of them Jimmy Jim my Melton Mellon is now known as II James Melton and is a concert singer Morton Downey wound up his summer summer sum awn mer engagement at the Worlds World's fair fairand fairand fairand and followed it with an equally successful successful successful suc suc- one in a Hollywood night nightclub club Sam is making money by making recordings Jessica makes occasional occa occa- atonal appearances on the air and air and when you see Travels you'll hear her ber voice Vera Van Leah Ray and Annette Henshaw have bave retired r. Gene GeDe Autry the singing screen star who ho Is Public Cowboy No 1 I heads a new western series erle from The Double Rouble M 1 Ranch ever over the Columbia Colombia network each Sunday Incidentally Incidentally In In- did you rou know that Gene was discovered by the beloved Will Rogers RogersT Rogers tore stopped slopped at a small smalltown to town In Oklahoma to forward his bis syndicated column Gene the telegraph Idle tele teIei i graph operator was singing a western west west- western ern ballad Rogers advised him to capitalize on his talents talents and and a little littlemore I more than a year ear later Gene Autry was a popular radio and recording artist z U Del Courtney who features Candid Candid Can Can- did Camera music over NBC has borrowed an In idea from the movies of in his presentation of previews his bIs forthcoming programs Before concluding his broadcasts he be plays a few bars of some lame of the new tunes to be featured on the next program Its It's a novel nove Idea and will probably be widely copied by bandleaders who dont don't hesitate to imitate their more successful brethren r ODDS S AND O ENDS The ENDS The New Neto York lork Film Critics Citi picked fic 11 tJ lIi at OJ 1939 fi s be beat t picture If Its I a more ghan lu six years YUrt since inre Cecil Ceril It If DeMille Samuel Gold Gold- try i 11 and ond run Jesse lAnky Lasky Ay began filming The Squaw Man on the rh fir fins I motion picture made la ill Hollywood Released by Western N Newspaper Unto Union |
