Show star dust lar sleuthing lor for talent i A glutton for doing A typical actor at four L by virginia vale IF F A stranger bobs up in your town and begins asking people to take screen tests dont be surprised just blame it on jesse lasky who began making pictures way back in the early days probably youve listened to his gateway to hollywood on the air and perhaps you heard the final result of that search for movie talent the selection of rowena cook and ralph bowman as the two fortunate young people whose names will be changed to allce alice eden and john archer with the leading roles in the picture career as their first screen appearances pe arances under these names six other contestants were given contracts and the search for new faces for the screen alu probably be taken up again by some of the big producing companies about every so often this search seems like a good idea to the movie mak ers usually it Is practiced tor for a while with plenty of ballyhoo and results that are anything but spectacular ta and very little in the way of real talent is brought into the studios carrying it on with the aid of radio as mr lasky has done may be the solution certainly there are plenty of potential movie stars in our midst and all they need is a chance to make good jean parker seams seems to be the pub lies favorite actress for the roles of the heroines of gene stratton por for 1 I g WM 1 JEAN PARKER novels she appeared recently in romance of the Limber limberlost lost and ws signed recently by mono 1 gram to do her fathers daughter by the same author never a dull moment seems to be leslie howards slogan these days playing a leading role in gone with the wind enough to keep him really busy it seems so he has signed with international ter to act as associate producer on intermezzo and play the leading role as well it is scheduled to go into production early in may and he is spending his spare time on production pre plans theres an amusing story going around about sally filers ellers four year old son one that would indicate that hes losing no time in acquiring the typical actors point ofviey of fv view few lie ile made his screen debut lif in they made blade her a spy ids his mothers latest picture and when he was shown some of the rushes he demanded like any actor greedy fo for close ups wheres more shoots of me seems hard to belleve believe but major bowes capitol theater family hour hoth celebrated its week on the air recently its the oldest ot of the broadcasts and the major deserves a few bouquets for the way he ue has handled it columbia Is coming to the aid ot of all of us who have been complaining 9 about the short pictures that we have to sit it through in order to see the long ones they are preparing ng a series of six to be called fools who blade history which will ivill deal with men whose ideas really helped the human race although their contemporaries thought they were slightly 0 9 atly haywire the first will be based on the work of dr morton morion who discovered anesthesia when don ameche was in the east he went to connecticut and bought himself a house connecticut is now practically a second radio city what with practically all radio stars either buying or renting there but just when mr arteche Is going to find time to enjoy that house is a puzzling ques tion for hollywood apparently cant get along without him he bs seems to make twice as many pictures as anybody else does ODDS AND ENDS that new author Au author thorl program that thal is broadcast on friday evrA evenings ings prom promises isei to be almost ai u popular as information information please case and Inor information mation please kaj has made it practically impossible to get a dinner party pany lo together gether on tuesday evenings if theres not a radio in the dining room my aly jV name apse which recently left the air will return to take frid fred aliens place when nhen he goes goeson bocson on vacation location a 0 western newspaper union |