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Show Star ISnsit "A" Aces Take to Air -k Strong Sound Effects A" Second Fiddle Stars Ily Virginia Vale ' PUT "Test Pilot" down as one of the pictures that you mustn't miss. Not just because the leading roles are played by Myrna Loy, Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy, with Lionel Barrymore added add-ed for good measure, or because be-cause the story is a good one, but because of the thrills contributed by the story when it takes to the air. There is a flight in a bomber for a new altitude record, there Is a power drive to test an army pursuit V , I ' 1 if - 5,1 1 x TV Spencer Tracy plane, and there's xhe Cleveland air race. Paul Mantz acted as technical tech-nical advisor for the picture, but Metro isn't saying much about that, because he was co-pilot and navigator navi-gator for Amelia Earhart, and the company didn't want to cash in on her disappearance in order to gvt more publicity for the film. Robert Taylor isn't going to be just a "pretty boy" if the studio can help it. He is scheduled for "Northwest "North-west Passage," but first he will play the part of a prize fighter in "Give and Take." Merle Oberon thought that she was being followed by hold-up men when she was in New York; she was sure that they followed her from a theater to a night club, and asked for protection. At least, that was the report it might have been just another variation of the old Idea involving an actress' being robbed of her jewels, all for the dear sake of publicity. Anyway, Miss Oberon wasn't robbed. You've heard about the struggles of the sound effects men to get just the right sound before the microphone rubbing their fingers across paper to get the sound of wind in the trees, or something ike that. Charles Atlas, "The World's Most Perfectly Developed Strong Man," appeared on Fred Allen's Al-len's program, and they wanted the sound of a telephone book's being torn in two by him. Tried everything every-thing but couldn't get it. Finally Atlas picked up a huge New York phone book, strode over to the microphone, and tore it in two and the sound was perfect! Sylvia Sidney refused to be the heroinemof "Algiers," playing opposite op-posite Charles Boyer, and Sigurd Gurie, who did so well in "Marco Polo," takes her place. It will be f , 4 ! Myrna Loy Luise Rainer interesting to see if Miss Gurie follows fol-lows in the footsteps of some of the other girls who have been second choice under such circumstances. Remember Luise Rainer, who got her chance in "Escapade" when Myrna Loy didn't want to play in it? It made her a star. Remember what happened to Rosalind Russell when she had to pinch hit in "Rendezvous" "Ren-dezvous" for that same Miss Loy? ODDS and ENDS . . . King Christian Christ-ian of Denmark is a movie fan; sees abuul eight pictures a ueek . . . Harold Lloyd is one of Hollywood's- best bowlers . . . Believe it or not. Bob Burns is learning Spanish for his role in "Tropic Holiday" . . . Deanna Dur-bin, Dur-bin, whose new picture is a honey, is the latest star to have her hand and footprints imprinted in the lobby of Grauman's Chinese theater, that mem. ory book of Hollywood's famous folk Senator Fishface may return to the air; he's been talking to sponsors in Chicago . . . On May 29th more than two score of the nation s swing bands will be heard in an outdoor concert at Randalls Island stadium, New York, conducted by Martin Block and broadcast, of course ; first time that many swingstcrs will have played together. to-gether. Western Newspaper Union. |