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Show Star ist Seal Steals Show & Tyrone Power Leads I k Infant Publishers I Ily Virginia Vale TT BEGINS to look as if the -- various actresses who refused re-fused to play the heroine in "Spawn of the North" were smart girls. They probably remembered that it's dangerous danger-ous to work in a picture with a clever animal, because nine times out of ten the animal ani-mal steals the picture. Mention "Spawn of the North," to someone who has seen it, and he or she won't reply: "Wasn't the battle between the salmon fisher and the pirates exciting?" or exclaim ex-claim over the icebergs or the salmon run or the excellent performances per-formances of John Barrymore and Lynne Overman. Not if he or she runs true to form. The exclamation exclama-tion points will all be for the trained seal, Slicker. Slicker deserves the enthusiasm, and his owner and trainer deserves the good break that he gets through Slicker's performance. He is H. W. Winston, a veteran of vaudeville; vaude-ville; he and his trained seals, on one of their tours cf Europe, played a command performance for British royalty. Another animal who became a star overnight is the terrier who played "Asta" In "The Thin Man." He'll appear with Constance Bennett Ben-nett in "Topper Takes a Trip," sort of sequel to "Topper." In fact, he'll replace Cary Grant, in a way. Grant is too busy and too expensive for the new "Topper" picture, so the dog will be Miss Bennett's companion com-panion in this one. Tyrone Power Is gathering bouquets bou-quets from those who know about band leaders for his performance in If h, ?;a ; jl 4 - ' i ' L - W ' ; s TYRONE POWER "Alexander's Ragtime Band." A little group of musicians was discussing dis-cussing it recently, and they said that he Wasn't merely standing up there and waving a baton, as movie stars whose role require them to turn band leader usually do. They maintained that he was actually leading the band. Incidentally, Paul Wing, whose "Spelling Bee," impressively sponsored, spon-sored, goes out on a nation-wide hook-up at 5:45 Sunday afternoons, has an effective way of taking radio-acting radio-acting apart and putting It together again for those who want to act in broadcasts. Mr. Wing takes a play one that he wrote some years ago, when he was well known as a playwright and rehearses the aspiring acton in it as it would be done on the stage; then he coaches them in it as it would be done in a broadcasting broadcast-ing studio, bringing out the many differences in technique. Elaine Carrlngton was put gently but firmly in her place recently by her son and daughter (Robert, aged ten, and Patricia, aged fourteen). Mrs. Carrington, In case you don't know, is one of radio's most suc cessful writers; for years she has ' done the script for "Pepper Young's Family," which is broadcast on two nation-wide hook-ups, on Monday and Friday mornings and afternoons. after-noons. She made her name as brilliant short story writer before she took to radio, selling to the biggest big-gest magazines. But Patricia and Robert are now publishing a magazine, "The Jolly Roger," (at their mother's expense), and getting contributions from friends and family. The only stories that they've Insisted on having rewritten, re-written, (and they didn't like even the re-written versions too well,) are those by the famous Elaine I Carrington! ODDS AND ENDS Two of radio's most promising young singers. Maris-Louise Maris-Louise Quevli and Felix Young, have just recorded an album of Jerome Kern's music . . . The "Alice in Wonderland" skating sequence in Sonja Henie's new picture, "My Lucky Star" makes the picture worth seeing; the rest of it isn't quite up to her usual standard . . . Don't miss "You Can't Take It With You"; in tome respects re-spects it's belter than the stage ver sion Uiat Neto Park raved overt I 0 Western Newspaper Union. |