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Show 1 I STAR l DUST $ J Movie Radio J By VIRGINIA VALE "DETTE DAVIS is still try-ing try-ing to live up to the reputation repu-tation she made for herself by her performance in "Of Human Bondage," and in "Jezebel" she does pretty well. Furthermore, she shows as much courage in playing the heroine as she did in that other success for once again she has a decidedly unsympathetic unsym-pathetic role. "Jezebel" is a good picture, with a good cast, and an assortment of Southern accents that's something to hear. It's the first of a collection of Civil war pictures or rather, pictures pic-tures with a Civil war background which will include "The Unvan-quished," Unvan-quished," and "Action in Aquila" as well as "Gone With the Wind," provided pro-vided they ever get around to making mak-ing that last one! Remember all the to-do about whether Paulette Goddard would or would not land the role of "Scarlett" in that same "Gone With the Wind?" Well, after signing a long-term long-term contract with David Selznick she was assigned to a co-starring role with Janet Gaynor In "The Young in Heart," which ought to make a depightful picture. And, speaking of the talented Janet, discussions dis-cussions of those Academy awards I - ; ; I -V ' N -, i ' t I I iv- vT1 - 1 L " 'J Janet Gaynor still echo from the hills about Hollywood. Holly-wood. Lots of people thought the little Gaynor ought to receive one of the awards for her performance In "A Star Is Born." In fact, they got pretty sentimental about it, because she won the Academy award for the year's best performance way back in 1927, for her work in "Seventh Heaven." You'll certainly want to see Dean-na Dean-na Durbin in "Mad About Music." There you have a plot, a delightful one, perfectly suited to the talents of the youthful star, and with a grand part for Herbert Marshall which he handles expertly. In fact, it's a grand picture all the way through, with the young Deanna singing a popular number, "I Love to Whistle," as beautifully as she does Gounod's "Ave Maria." Graham McNamee celebrates 15 years of broadcasting, this spring, though he feels perfectly certain that he hasn't been at it that long. But it actually was 15 years ago that he went into the office of a New York station looking for a job. He's been busy ever since hasn't been without a commercial program since they first were put on the air. Peter van Steeden is having a lot of fun with a new recording device. When his friends telephone him, he records their voices, and then telephones tele-phones them later and plays the record back to them. It's funny, the way that radio audiences are classified. For instance, in-stance, Haven MacQuarrie's "Do You Want to Be an Actor?" program pro-gram was considered just right for an automobile company that wanted to plug the sales of used cars the program was said to have strong middle-class appeal. ODDS and EXDS . . . That new Tim and Irene show is going great guns . . . May be one of the most popular radio programs oj its kind before long . . . Jane Withers has a new trailer which she uses as a dressing room . . . Slan Laurel had to get a new derby for "Swiss Miss"; the one he'd been using for twelve years fell to places . . . How'd you like to earn your living by supplying bugs, butterflies and insects in-sects to a motion picture studio? A man in Hollywood does it . . . Radio's Voice of Experience was an automo. bile salesman for thirty days, before he became the Voice of Experience, and averaged a sale a day . . . If you hear Mary Livingston getting mixed up in her lines on that Jack Benny broadcast broad-cast you'll know that she had something some-thing to eat; usually she doesn't eat at all on Sundays until the program's over . . . For one scene in "Holiday" Katherine Hepburn had to run up a fifty-two step stairway; she did it nine times in succession . . . And was Cary Grant glad that the script arranged to have him walk. Western Newspaper Union. |